Beyond the Light: What Isn't Being Said about Near Death Experience Book

Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Melvin Morse xvii

Part I Aspects of Near-Death

1 The Near-Death Phenomenon 3

2 Initial Experience 21

3 Unpleasant and/or Hell-like Experience 27

4 Pleasant and/or Heaven-like Experience 46

5 Transcendent Experience 64

6 Near-Death-like Experience 83

7 Anomalies 96

Part II Aftereffects and Implications of Near-Death

8 Psychological Aftereffects 117

9 Physiological Aftereffects 129

10 The Light of Enlightenment 142

11 Brain/Mind 160

12 Revelations 180

13 Making the Adjustment 191

14 Let's Get Personal 207

Announcement of Special Research Fund 216

Part III Steps Beyond

Appendix I Spiritual Emergence/Emergencies 219

Appendix II Research Methodology 239

Appendix III Resource Suggestions 248

Notes 281