I’m a palliative care physician,” explains Christopher Kerr, “and all my patients are dying. Yet there is a strong light in this darkness of death. Indeed, many patients have end-of-life experiences: dreams or visions. They help them stay or reconnect with the love they have given and received, and with the relationships they cherished. End-of-life

For 12 years, Dr Patrick Theillier was in charge of the Lourdes Medical Examinations Office. In his book “Lourdes, Terre de guérisons”, he testifies that healings do indeed take place at Lourdes, and in large numbers. The international medical committee responsible for examining healings reported by pilgrims has recognized that over 7,200 cases in total

Are we judged after we die? Will we be punished if the balance of our actions isn’t right? Accounts of near-death experiences are unanimous in their answer: “No, under no circumstances.” We accept this fairly easily when it comes to “ordinary” people. But it’s harder to believe when we think of those we consider “truly”

In her book Contactsspontanésavec undéfunt, Swiss psychiatrist Evelyn Elsaesser shares hundreds of accounts of subjective experience of contact with the deceased, or VSCD. For me, this is further proof that death is not the end of life, but the passage into another state. Here are a few extracts from his book. What is a VSCD?

Nancy Rynes had a particularly rich Near-Death Experience. She had many exchanges on the meaning of life – the present and the next – with the spiritual being who accompanied her throughout her NDE. Here are some extracts from his book Awakenings from the Light. Love is the very structure of the universe. I didn’t

Finding inner Joy is not a matter of a few hours a week. This must be your deepest desire, and it must fill your whole life. So said Brother Anandamoy in 1996, a monk from the Self-Realization Fellowship, the community created by Paramahansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi). Here are some extracts from

Centuries ago, the Indian sage Patanjali wrote the “yoga sutras”. This book describes the purpose of yoga: to find inner joy through union with the divine. It also explains how to achieve it. In many ways, these teachings echo the lessons we can learn from Near-Death Experiences. There are countless commentaries on this fundamental work.