Book Description
Forensic pathologist Janis Amatuzio first began recording the stories told to her by patients, police officers, and other doctors because she felt that no one spoke for the dead. She believed the real experience of death - namely, the spiritual and otherworldly experiences of those near death and their loved ones - was ignored by the medical professionals, who thought of death as simply the cessation of breath. She knew there was more. From the first experience of a patient in her care dying to the miraculous "appearances" of loved ones after death, she began recording these experiences, knowing that they would bring comfort to anyone who has suffered the loss of someone they love. Written by a scientist in approachable, nonjudgmental language for anyone who has lost someone they love, this book offers stories that can't be explained in purely physical terms.
Customer Reviews:
Forever Ours.......2007-09-14
As soon as we are born, we are all on a path towards death. It's the one great certainty. We don't know for sure if we are going to find love, get a great job, or have children but we know unequivocally that we all will die. With that said, death is generally something that both fascinates us and causes great anxiety. Despite that everyone has an opinion, no one knows for sure what happens after this life is over. Death is probably the world's greatest mystery.
Forever Ours looks at death from an interesting perspective. The author is a forensic pathologist. Part of her job is to talk to the deceased person's relatives and give them information about the cause of death. The author seems like a very caring, empathetic individual who realizes that how she handles each situation is far more important that simply getting a job done. I think it is for this reason that so many patients, relatives, and colleagues have opened up to her about their experiences: about living, about death, about life after death, and about life after the death of a loved one.
Forever Ours is a very insightful book that I would highly recommend to everyone.
Yawn.......2007-06-28
Both books of hers are OK, I guess. It seemed to me that both books pretty much stated the same stuff, nothing different. I was looking forward to more on the scene stories.....oh well, she was great on CTC....
A comfort.......2007-01-30
This book was so comforting to read. I bought it for myself, but I think it would be a great gift for someone going through a loss of someone close to them. The book doesn't make judgements, it just talks about real life people experiencing life and beyond.
Profoundly moving book about what it means to live life.......2006-09-23
This is a profoundly moving book by a sensitive and caring author that will definitely bring tears to your eyes. It's a beautifully written book that provides true stories of love, compassion, and enduring love through living and dying; an inspiring read not to be missed!
I really liked this book and wanted more..........2006-07-07
The short chapters make this an easy book to pick up and read. It was also a quick read. It is a book I will return to again and again. I have met Dr. Janis Amatuzio and she is a captivating speaker. The subject matter was very interesting and also personally comforting. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars, is that I wish it was longer.
Book Description
P.M.H. Atwater was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, and died in Boise, Idaho. Yes, the author of this book died- three times to be exact. Since those experiences, she has traveled, studied, spoken and written about what happened to her and others when they died. Considered an authority on death, near death, and the afterlife, Atwater has written a book that gives details and deep insights into what really happens when you die and what it truly means. She also explores such mysteries as heaven and hell, the souls' existence after death, the power of prayer, and delves into the truths and myths about death that may shed new light on the real truth about life and living.
Customer Reviews:
NDE.......2007-08-11
Near death experience.....I would like a clear diffenition of these words.Four years ago I died in a horse riding accident, it is recorded that I was dead (not near death) for at least 28 minutes....When I had recovered enough, in 9 months, I went on an expedition to find others that had experienced what I had....I ask others that had claimed to have died what was the nature of their experience, without first revealing mine. In all the people I had spoken with and emailed I only found 2 persons that could accuratly describe what the other side is like.....complete with the feelings, sights, music, smells,....As all of us are different, and we are the sum of all of our own experiences....then each one of us has a different experience????? I keep focused on my quest, but I did not find this book of help to me.
a must read.......2007-03-22
This is the best book I have read on NDEs. Could be very helpful for those who fear death.
Review from "Venture Inward Magazine".......2006-12-09
"Long-time professional researcher and recognized authority on the near-death phenomenon, P.M.H.Atwater is amply qualified to interpret and analyze the many detailed accounts from people of all ages and levels of society. Her conclusions, deeply insightful and convincing, build a non-denominational and cross-cultural basis for the science of death, near-death, and the after-life. She creates a credible and useful picture of the soul - its nature, scope, qualities, and its role in one's life and death. Heaven and hell are explored within the many "energetic" levels of reality in and out of the earth plane.Some of the information will startle and fascinate those readers new to this realm: aborted twins, who have "grown up" on the other side, showing up to greet the near-death experiencer; encountering a future child; reliving one's conception, with the attendant knowledge of choosing the most suitable genes for one's life purpose.
Much of the information will comfort and relieve those with a fear of dying and the afterlife. To this end, a listing of groups, projects, music, and videos is full of helpful contacts, including a groundbreaking presentation, "As You Die," available in various formats, to guide a loved one through the process in peace.
The candid sharing of her three deaths makes this Atwater's most personal, heartfelt, and valuable book yet." ...as it appeared in the
Sept/Oct '04 issue of "Venture Inward Magazine" by Susan Lendvay
Where's the beef?.......2005-06-28
What is the afterlife like? That's what I want to know. I want to read anything that will tell me.
This book leaves me wanting a lot more. It touches on the question, but doesn't give enough substance.
It tells us that there are a dozen heavens, a dozen hells, and many realms that are finer than heaven. That is the closest it comes to telling us what the afterlife is like. But that is clearly not enough.
How do you know there are a dozen hells? Describe each one. Make us feel what it is like to be there. The same for the heavens. Make each one of them real for us. Make them so real that we will be able to recognize which one suits us best. It's too easy to say there are a dozen of them. That means nothing to me. It's just words without a real connection.
And if there are a dozen of them, what makes you think that you will see your loved ones in the one you are going to. They may just as well be in another one.
We're told that there are eleven levels in the afterlife. The ninth is "the end of manifest vibratory creation". The tenth is "the void, nonvibratory or pure consciousness". The eleventh, the highest, is "full at-one-ment and entry into states of consciousness beyond human comprehension".
Tell me something. Is this supposed to mean something to me? What the hell is the end of manifest vibratory creation? Do you understand what I'm saying? This book is throwing words at me, and they don't mean anything to me. I want to feel and understand this.
And don't start telling me it is beyond human comprehension. You are writing a book to be read by humans. We comprehend things. Make us feel it. Get beyond occult-speak and make it a real and meaningful experience for us.
The problem seems to be that the author really doesn't know, and the thousands of people she interviewed really don't know, what the afterlife is like. But with thousands of interviews with people who have been there, I would hope for more, and I would expect more.
Contrast this book with the first two books by Michael Newton, called Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls. Those books are full of detail on the afterlife. There is so much more "meat and potatoes" in those two books. They fill you up a lot better.
My biggest problem with the Michael Newton books is that nobody else wrote a book corroborating his findings. Detail is there in abundance. I'm waiting for one of his proteges to write a book that expands on his, and gives us a lot of new material.
The Newton books also make me feel more empowered. They make the afterlife seem like a place where we actually have some control over what happens. It's a place I can't wait to arrive at and enjoy. As for the afterlife in We Live Forever, it feels too impersonal and unsatisfying to me. I didn't even get one good view of one of the heavens. Why would it be meaningful to me to be told that there are 12 of them, and I don't know what any one of them is like.
The really frustrating part of it is that I don't think the author knows either. If she does, what do I have to do to get her to tell me? If she knows a lot more than she revealed in this book, I feel like shouting at her that she really has to consult with me before writing any more books, because she is missing the boat.
If she really knows something, her next book would be a hundred times better than this one if it is simply an interview with me questioning her. I'd bring her out, and elicit the important information. That's why this book leaves me unsatisfied.
Are doctors in America really like this?.......2005-06-05
I bought this book after reading the wonderful reviews by some excellent reviewers and felt sure that this book would enlighten me as to the mystery of death. Forgive me, P. Atwater, but I found the beginning of the book so hard to believe, that I couldn't take the rest seriously enough. Perhaps the book 'After Death Then What' - also recommended by a highly respected reviewer would have been a better place for me to start.
For instance, when Atwater explains the circumstances of her three deaths, she relates how she miscarried and severely hemorrhaged in the bathroom, which precipitated her first death upon the bathroom floor. She then comes back to life, struggles five blocks to the doctor's office where she collapses in his office. The doctor apparently doesn't even look at her chart and, while laughing uproariously at the fact that she'd been taken advantage of and raped, injects her in the right thigh with an unknown drug to stop the bleeding and sends her home.
Now, I have very little faith in doctors and constantly question their conclusions, but never have I heard of a doctor who would laugh in the face of a collapsed hemorrhaging woman and then just send her back out to her car to drive home alone. And if this did happen, why did Atwater not haul him over the coals for malpractice?
The second death occurs as a result of a blood clot forming in her right thigh, causing the 'worst case of phlebitis (the doctor) had ever heard of, let alone seen. He kept saying "There's no way you can be alive" ". However, he, too, just sends her home with a prescription of 'dangerous drugs'. Thus follows a second death from a burst blood clot which Atwater manages to return from unaided.
The third death is the result of the rejection of the man who had raped her coming back to ask her forgiveness (which Atwater gives), and then refusing to listen to her relate the experiences of her previous two deaths. Apparently, the "emotional blow of being refused was at the core of death number three" She is brought back to life by her son, who sits opposite her and 'talks' her back to life. No physical intervention such as mouth to mouth resuscitation etc. - just talks. Later, 'several physicians' verify that if her son had called for medics, Atwater would have gone too far to be resuscitated.
There appears to have been no medical verification at any time that any of these deaths actually occurred. I'm not suggesting that Atwater is making things up, just that perhaps she may have left her body and had an astral experience that may or may not have been actual death. Three times returning from 'death' with no help is quite extraordinary, as most medical people will verify after working hard to bring someone back who has 'died' on the operating table.
At this point, I put the book down and forced myself to read the rest later. Yes, there are some very good points raised, but I'm afraid that I wasn't convinced - much as I would like to be.
Book Description
"Then came Neil Freer (who) undertook a different kind of mind-boggling task. If all that I had concluded was true, he said, what does it all mean not to the human race and the planet in general -- what does it mean to the individuals, to each one of us? He titles his new book God Games. But, if all the above is the Truth, it is not a game." Zecharia Sitchin (From the Introduction). This new book by Neil Freer, author of Breaking the Godspell, outlines the human evolutionary scenario far into the future. We are a genetically-engineered race with a dual racial heritage. Our half-Terran, half-alien genes place us on an accelerated, unique evolutionary path, already eagerly emerging from racial adolescence. Freer describes what's in store for us as this dawning genetic enlightenment reveals the new human and the racial maturity of a new planetary civilization on the horizon. We all can contribute to our racial future as we evolve from a slave species to far beyond what we could previously even imagine. The godspell broken, we new humans will create our own realities and play our own "god games." Once we understand our true genetic history we will eventually move beyond the gods, religion, linear consciousness and even death. The subtitle. What do you do forever?, inspires us to contemplate how things like four-dimensional consciousness, the realization of a Law of Everything and the option of immortality will enable the new human to determine his own evolutionary path. It is quite possible that great thinkers in the future will look back on this book, in particular, as being the one which opened the door to our full evolutionary potential and a new paradigm. Neil Freer is a brilliantphilosopher focused on the freedom of the individual and what it means to be truly human. This book will make you think in new and different ways. Accept the challenge of God Games and you will be greatly rewarded.
Customer Reviews:
Good thought experiment........2007-05-20
Even if one doesn't accept the alien-astronaut theories of Sitchin, this book still has great value in that it encourages examination of our assumptions about the world, life, and self. Read it as a fantastic thought experiment and you won't be disappointed.
I subtracted one star not for the content, but for the quality of the book itself. Keep a small tube of glue handy, the book will probably come apart at some point. Sadly, this is the case with all the books I have purchased from this publisher.
Excellent Message in a High-Level Book.......2006-10-31
God Games carries an excellent message for all mankind. Although the reading is "heavy" it is worth taking the time to complete the book. Several other reviewers have given the 4-5 star rating which I believe it deserves. Take your time and explore the message embedded within the language of the book. The author is very intellient and this comes across in his writing style. The book is best suited to those who are willing to take the time to learn new mind-expanding concepts and ideas contained within the book.
excellent variant perspective.......2005-11-12
A very tough read but if you can weather the storm there are some excellent different perspective views.One for example is the analogy used for consciousness of a reptile the reptile can percieve and react but it does not as far as we can tell grasp its cosmological enviornment, determine its relationship to it, consciously attempt to alteritslef or even the nature of its enviornment, we can determine its range of actions and responses.etc on page 254. then the "i ching" "the book of changes" and the book of tao" the author uses many cross refrences to make crucial points its almost like the hale alexandria site in book form very good book you just have too be intelligent to read it and patient.
God Games - What do you do forever.......2003-01-16
I bought this book thinking that it really would reveal what God does with his/her unlimited time. First of all, the author has a very difficult writing style. His ideas just don't come across well. Secondly, throughout the entire book, the author argues the validity of his prior book, "Breaking the Godspell", in a rather paranoid style. Now for the real kickers. The author says that vision is gained on LSD drugs, since it is a "valid" mind expander. He also states that LSD, or "drug users" will RE-INVENT our future. I have a problem with the concept that illegal users of illicit "entertainment" drugs will reinvent the future of any race of beings, let alone anticipate (instead of re-invent) their own future.
The reader gets the feeling that the author has a lot more to say about drug use and abuse and has little to say about the purported topic of his book "God Games, What do you do forever?" No research is apparent on the author's part on the transparent subject allegedly the topic of his book.
Save yourself the frustration, and read something else instead.
A Milestone Work.......2002-04-27
Mr. Freer, in this work, deserves five stars simply for his courage in making public the mental leaps all persons who have braved the profound yet shattering implications of Sitchin's theories are forced to face. Most reader's of Sitchin's works continue the evolution his unveiling of our amnesia inspires, by seeking further clues in the past. Not so Mr. Freer; he takes us on a three part journey, past present and future, the whole way imparting responsibility for our own design. Yes it is difficult to struggle through parts; profound insights demand depth of explaination. This book, these leaps, are not for the lazy who prefer sit-com, short attention spam, spoon fed mental pablum; it is written for minds that will and do shape the future - Futants! Self referencing, humanist, no longer puppets of religious indoctrination living out guilt paradigms toward an absent God; Futancy is human at its purest and most unabashed. Mr. Freer points us toward our destiny as gods in our own right. If Mr. Sitchin taught us that our God in all his faces is but rumour of powerful, dominating ET's who abandoned us in the distant past, Mr. Freer provokes us to throw off Their yoke forever and take back our planet, take back our past, but mostly to create a future for ourselves, for our children, where we as a bicameral species learns how to Live Forever.
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Brothers Forever: An Unexpected Journey Beyond Death
Joseph Gallenberger
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Thoughtful & compassionate view of a life passage.......1997-04-17
Joe Gallenberger gives us a thoughtful and compassionate view of what it is like to live with and go through the suicide of a family member. He shows the emotions of himself and his family very vividly as they go through the stages of living with a person who has suicidal tendencies, and dealing with the aftermath of death, putting it all into perspective. This is a most insightful view of everyone involved and I highly recommend it for anyone who has lived through the death of a loved one. It is the perfect present to give to people who have experienced a sudden death of a friend or family member. I have given many copies as gifts to friends in need and shall continue to do so. Joe Gallenberger has created a gift for all of us and I am grateful!
Gari Carter(GariCarter@aol.com)
Open and honest accounting of a deeply personal experience!.......1997-03-19
The author is so nakedly truthful about this intimate experience of life and death, one can't help feeling connected with him and his family. A great book for anyone seeking solace in a similar situation. Courageously written and elegantly presented
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Forever in the Past
Lilian Roberts Finlay
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What do our possessions really do for us? Are all men created equal? How do I fulfill the commandment to love G-d? Is competition healthy for kids? In this profoundly inspiring collection of Torah essays, Rabbi Boruch Leff addresses these questions and more. With a practical, down-to-earth approach inspired by the author's beloved mentor, HaRav Yaakov Weinberg, zt"l, who served as rosh hayeshivah of Yeshivas Ner Yisrael in Baltimore. Originally presented through weekly e-mails and on the website aish.com, these articles run the gamut of real-life issues and challenges that every Jewish person faces today.
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Guideposts Condensed books. A hardcover book that includes these stories:
The Forever Feast by Dr. Paul Brand, Unstuck by Carolyn Koons, STorm At Daybreak by B.J. Hoff, and Harvest From A Small Vineyard by Caryl Porter.
Book Description
In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.
Everyday Italian is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-watering—perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what you’re in the mood for—whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, you’ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrées (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisù—plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.
What’s more, Everyday Italian is organized according to what type of food you want tonight—whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sauté for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetables—whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. That’s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and that’s what Giada De Laurentiis offers here—the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent .......2007-10-01
This book is Excellent - Simple & Has Plenty to choose from & if you like Italian food this book makes it simpler. Great, Simple, Tasty receipes.
EXCELLENT.......2007-09-13
This book is easy to follow and all the recipes I've tried so far have been excellent. I highly recommend this book.
Cook'in Italian.......2007-09-02
The reviews of this book varied from praise of the recipes to complaints about Giada's cleavage. If you can bring yourself to read the recipes you will find it a worthwhile purchase.
Bad recipe book.......2007-08-26
too many pictures of GIADA. She must be in love with herself!@!!!!!
too few pictures of the recipes.
too few recipes.
lame pictures on lemons and basil.
structure of table of content/index poor.
Save your money, GO TO AN Italian restaurant, at least you can get 1 or 2 good entres.
You can't eat enough Italian.......2007-08-25
This book had very easy to follow instructions. The results were tasty and disappeared fast. It was written as if Giada was recounting the recipes herself as if you were watching her on television.
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