Opening book details…
Can I read At Heaven's Door : What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better on EtoBox?
At Heaven's Door : What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better by William J. Peters, Michael Kinsella is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.
What is At Heaven's Door : What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better about?
A groundbreaking, authoritative exploration#8212;rich with powerful personal stories and convincing research#8212;of the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their journey into the afterlife. In 2000, end-of-life therapist William Peters was volunteering at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco when he had an extraordinary experience as he was reading aloud to a patient: he suddenly felt himself floating in midair, completely out of his body. The patient, who was also aloft, looked at him and smiled. The next moment, Peters felt himself return to his body...but the patient never regained consciousness and died. Perplexed and stunned by what had happened, Peters began searching for other people who'd shared similar experiences. He would spend the next twenty years gathering and meticulously categorizing their stories to identify key patterns and features of what is now known as the "shared crossing" experience. The similarities, which cut across continents and cultures and include awe-inspiring visual and sensory effects, and powerful emotional after-effects, were impossible to ignore. Long whispered about in the hospice and medical communities, these extraordin
Who reads At Heaven's Door : What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better?
It is typically read by readers building habits, skills, productivity or wellbeing.
Common subject areas: self-improvement, productivity, wellness.
- Author
- William J. Peters, Michael Kinsella
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781982150464
- Category
- self-help
- Subjects
- Religion, Body Mind & Spirit, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (214 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
More by William J. Peters, Michael Kinsella
Browse all works by William J. Peters, Michael Kinsella
Similar books
- Diary of a Death Doula : 25 Lessons the Dying Teach Us About the Afterlife — Debra Diamond Ph. D. (2019)
- The Five Invitations : Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully — Frank Ostaseski (2017)
- Opening Heaven's Door : What the Dying Are Trying to Say About Where They're Going — Patricia Pearson (2014)
- Living and Dying Well — Lewis Petrinovich (auth.) (1996)
- What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living — Diane R. Button (2025)
- The Welcome Visitor : Living Well, Dying Well — John Humphrys with Sarah Jarvis (2009)
