Description: "The Buddha in Hell! What kind of sense is that?" Questions raised by troubling inner experiences anchor the book, respecting both religion and science in the age of a Hubble universe. A reader says, "Your first book was a life raft for my soul. Hope I'll make it to safety with your next book." Here it is. The Buddha in Hell and Other Alarms.
Brief description: Nancy Evans Bush, MA, President Emerita of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), has for almost forty years been a voice for the substantial minority of near-death experiencers who encounter fear, guilt, and even terror rather than heavenly realms. A long-time editor of the IANDS magazine, Vital Signs, and author of the first study of children's NDEs and numerous articles for the Journal of Near-Death Studies and other publications, she is the author of Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences and The Buddha in Hell and Other Alarms: Distressing and Hellish Near-Death Experience in Perspective. She holds a BA in English from SUNY (Albany) and an MA in Pastoral Ministry from St. Joseph University (Connecticut). The mother of three adult children and grandmother of seven, she is now semi-retired and lives in coastal North Carolina, USA.
Review Quotes: What pre-publication readers are saying: - "Fantastic. Very eloquent and interesting." - "Lucid, articulate, and pithy" - "In the wake of all the mainstream 'Heavenly tourism' pablum, this book should get plenty of attention. It will be one of only two books of its kind. Both written by the same author. - "I have PTSD, and know others (some veterans and some not), and while this book is written with NDErs in mind, I can't tell you how much this has helped me." - "...triggered the reaction, 'She sure got that right.' Well done." What readers and reviewers said about Dancing Past the Dark: - "Absolutely enthralling- literary, adventurous, incisive, informative and smart..."Steve Volk, journalist and author - "This superbly written book situates near-death experiences (NDEs), and particularly distressing ones, within the larger contexts of image, symbol, and mystical experience. When seen in this way the distressing NDE becomes transformed from fear and dread into an opportunity for personal growth and spiritual exploration. Once I started into it I couldn't put it down. MommaG (Amazon review) - "What we have all been waiting for. Masterful...a must for any experiencer. P.M.H.Atwater, NDE researcher and author - "An outstanding piece of work," Wayne Rollins, MDiv, PhD, theologian, Jungian scholar, author