Amazon Practicing Conscious Living and Dying Category:  Spirituality Publisher: O Books ISBN-10:  184694077X Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 224 Copyright: Jan 25, 2008 ISBN-13: 9781846940774 A collection of inspirational true life stories and illuminating texts that illustrate how coming to terms with the inevitability of death enables the individual to live life with a sense of purpose and meaning, as a celebration of existence An uplifting collection of spiritually illuminating texts and powerful thought-provoking real life stories, showing death as an integral part of life. Thses touching observations of closeness to someone who is in the dying process, and personal accounts of near-death experience and after-death communication, illustrate how coming to terms with the inevitability of death is actually a life-affirming experience. These emotionally evocative and inspirational experiences address timeless questions and help expand our limited awareness of consciousness. They demonstrate how each of the individuals concerned has come to understand that death teaches us that the preciousness of life must be lived with a sense of purpose and meaning, as a celebration of existence. Even ardent skeptics will be impressed by the excellent first hand accounts that provide evidence for the continuum of consciousness beyond death of the physical body.             Excerpt The individual who has been touched by the profoundness of death either through and NDE, after-death communication, or through observing or participating in another's dying process, can be expanded into an awareness of life being lived beyond the constriction of the small or ego-based self. With this new appreciation of the truth, the profound insights lead to an understanding of the connection of all beings. Rather than trying to ignore or escape from the reality of physical death, the individual uses is it as a reminder of the preciousness of life.

Practicing Conscious Living and Dying
I am captured by the style in which this book is written. Counterbalanced within each section is a series of personal stories of real people. The style serves the book well as the subject of conscious living and dying cradles in the notion of "continuum," the ever-lastingness of what we can know and experience. Highly recommended.
P.M.H Atwater, Near-Death Researcher and author of nine books on her findings.

Practicing Conscious Living and Dying
This is a glorious book. It is an antidote to the fear of death, the bugaboo that as terrorized humans since time immemorial. Practicing Conscious Living and Dying raises the power of story to its most majestic purpose, that of helping people live richer, fuller, more meaningful lives.
Larry Dossey, MD. Author of The Extraordinary Power of Ordinary Things.

Practicing Conscious Living and Dying
Death, it has been said, is the supreme teacher, and this beautiful and deeply moving book certainly exemplifies the adage. In it, you will meet about twenty people whose lives were profoundly touched - and immeasurably enriched - by an encounter with death, either through a near-death experience, after-death communication or the death of a loved one. The stories you will find here are not just consolatory; they are inspiring and instructive, and some will cause you to weep or marvel. This is a book that should find, and deserves, a wide and grateful audience.
Kenneth Ring, Author of Lessons from the Light.