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Summary: Read about life
Review: After I read this book,I know more about death and dying.But what really attract me?I think it's the writer-Elisabeth Kubler Ross-herself.This book is just like a autobiography of herself.Tell us all about her family and her school life.Let us not only know more about what is death and dying but why and how she would like to devote herself to study thanatology.Everyone should read it,because it is really a book about life itself.
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Summary: Look up , little mouse, the eagle is flying
Review: Come out of your dark holes, little mouse.
Fear not, little mouse, don`t you always fear that much .
Look up, for the sky is high.
Look up ,for the eagle is flying.
Look up, little mouse, and learn the secret
of souls both humble and great.
Learn awe.
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Summary: Love to Elisabeth from Linda
Review: Dear Elisabeth, how can I possibly show the gratitude that I feel in my heart for you. Your books were so helpful to me as I searched for information to help me understand this natural part of our life, our transition that we alone must take on our own terms if left alone to accomplish this. I sincerely appreciate your sharing your personal life story that guides us through how you would possibly know everything you are able to share with us now. Your lifes work is so important and I hope that many people will have the interest to understand what you share. My son Jason's transition was so beautiful, as things happened around us, that our family feels that we are supposed to share this experience of Jason's transition to Heaven to give others hope and that is our intention. Everything has happened to make this wish come true! I know that you have been especially blessed by the time you spent with dying children because they all have a message to share with us if we only listen. Respecting the wishes of a person as they go through the experience of death is very important and if they express wishes please "go with the flow" even if it disturbs you, because after all, is it not their desires that are of utmost importance at this time? Dying with dignity should be the goal surrounded by love and compassion. Please listen and let the process take you to a place of Grace that God provides us for our faith. Our faith may be different from yours but that is ok. We experienced detachment by surrendering our hearts to the process of, which God is in charge, for Jason's return journey back home to God, and received Gods Grace for our faith. Lovingly we went through the experience of Jasons transition to Heaven and our family experienced "the peace that passes understanding" with a light so bright that we knew we were held in Gods heart the whole time. With Jesus always in my heart I share His message of unconditional love to all. Jason and I knew that what you believe is true Elisabeth...that when our body can no longer sustain life that our body releases our soul at that time...our Butterfly and that is exactly what happened... as Jason's watch beeps a greeting to share his approval of what I've just shared. Love from Jason in Heaven and Linda on earth
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Summary: A Perennial collection, by a wonderful lady
Review: Death is not a cognizable feeling, it is an esoteric truth and can only be understood by those who have had such an experience, otherwise it is abstrusely difficult to know the feeling. The novel is the most sincere, honest, and revelatory psychological treatment of the epoch to come out after a long time.There are catechisms handed to all students but there are never a single statement mentioning of life after death in a positive way and when there is a positive way of after life there are conditions attached to it. Pray, and please the God, speak truth and God will be pleased, do this, do that and in certain prescribed manners - only then will you be able to head towards the heaven, which is the only positive representation of after death experience. The frescoes on the ceilings of any church are designed keeping these facts in mind. It has even become preterlegal to speak in such manner in some countries. There are countries where you are forced to pray. People do not pray for God, but merely for the government to lead a clean life. These were the thoughts, which encircled me after reading this perennial document. Dr. Ross is definitely a very learned lady and the way she has described the four stages of human life is amazing. The way she divided her book into four segments is absolutely tremendous. Her real life experiences and the day-to-day dealings with patients are so self inductive that they leads us to the situations, which we were never aware of. Honestly I never looked at the patients like that before after I read her book. She is such a gentle human. I would definitely recommend you all to read this book and get enlightened. This is a book on her life experience but through her there is so much for us to learn. This is one of the greatest books I have ever gone through. And I do hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Happy Reading!
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Summary: what falls through the sieve will be very useful.
Review: I believe that anything Dr. Kubler-Ross has written is worthy of our attention, and this autobiographical book is no exception. I just finished it today... found it very thought-provoking overall. However, this particular one needs to be read more CRITICALLY than her others, and I don't mean "skeptically" in a negative sense so much as simply "requiring careful judgment"... especially the last third of the book. In this latter section, the author really gets specific about her experiences with "channeling the other side" and outlines her concept of her own "cosmic consciousness." I tried to be as enlightened and open as possible, and yet found that I could just not buy into everything she had experienced and was teaching others to experience. I am referring mainly to her ongoing relationships with disembodied spirits, her ability to conjure them up at will, and (maybe most remarkably) their apparent ability to physically manifest themselves (as in, writing things down on a piece of paper in response to her questions). She refers to these spirit-friends as her "spooks" and by her own admission at one point she even attributes the collapse of her otherwise successful marriage to her profound belief in these entities. Many people felt she had lost her marbles. She admits that a few of the experiences were proved to be the hoax of her Californian spiritual instructor, whom she calls "B". Also, throughout the last half of the book is an underlying allusion to her belief in re-incarnation. For the first half of the book I could think of so many people I would have recommended it to, but then it suddenly arrived at a place where I think a reader has to be very selective, or adept at SIFTING through to their own concept of truth. Very critical. Be aware of that if you intend to give this book as a gift to someone. I agree thoroughly with the core principles of what can rightfully be called Kubler-Ross's thanatology. I agree with her that death does not exist in the traditional sense, and that life in a physical body represents a very short span of one's total existence. That at the moment of death human beings maintain an awareness and can still make observations, have thoughts, be free of pain, and that all of this has nothing to do with psychopathology. That those who pass from life into death are simply passing into "a different wavelength than the rest of us." I agree that our body "imprisons our soul the way a cocoon encloses the future butterfly, and when the time is right we can let go of it." She says that the butterfly is then free to return "home to God... which is a place where we are never alone, where we continue to grow and to sing and to dance, where we are with those we loved, and where we are surrounded with more love than we can ever imagine." I wish that this last sentiment was more emphasized in the book, rather than appearing in the next to last page. Because it seems inconsistent to me that if the spirits return home to God (which I firmly believe), then what are we to make of the ones that were roaming around in the elevators, appearing in the author's bed, and in the flower-garden etc.? Maybe we should just leave those sort of spirits alone instead of trying to make them our pals? Hey, our lives ARE definitely going someplace! Life is indeed a sort of "wheel". But God, and God alone, is at the wheel.
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Summary: Typical Kubler-Ross courage is between every line.
Review: I first saw and heard Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on public tv in the mid 70's; I was fascinated with her and with her work from that first introduction. This writing of her life was a must read for me personally and I was engrossed from cover to cover. Though I was a little surprised to read about her involvement with channelers (something I personally can't accept), her writing about it as part of her own life was not a turnoff to me. She has a very good point, as she says many times in her book, that we should be open to all things and not rule out happenings as being within the realm of possibility. When EKR speaks or writes about death and dying the listener/reader does not feel great sadness. She was granted the gift of passing on to others an understanding of death as a natural and very important part of living, to be dealt with with dignity and compassion. With this book, as with everything I've ever read or heard by her, EKR has helped me to understand just a little more about how to live life to the fullest. This world is better by far for having been influenced by her wisdom.
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Summary: I think of Dr. Ross over strong black coffee
Review: I have just finished reading her book, Wheel Of Life, and recommend it highly. It is her autobiography in which she pulls no punches as per her beliefs and recounts her life of service to the dying. It is written with simplicity, passion, humanitarian concern and Love. A significant portion of "Wheel of Life" does deal with near death experiences, out of body experiences, after death communications and messages from Jesus. But the truly remarkable aspect of the book are not these fantastic, sensational paranormal accounts, rather what shines brightest is the measure of unconditional Love she has shown to the suffering throughout her life. Her long record of helping terminally ill patients cope and grow in death through unconditional Love and significant self sacriifice gives those paranormal claims a degree of crediblity that otherwise might not exist. Every morning as I sit savoring my strong, black coffee, I think of Dr. Ross' lesson of Love.
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Summary: I think of Dr. Ross over strong black coffee
Review: I have just finished reading her book, Wheel Of Life, and recommend it highly. It is her autobiography in which she pulls no punches as per her beliefs and recounts her life of service to the dying. It is written with simplicity, passion, humanitarian concern and Love. A significant portion of "Wheel of Life" does deal with near death experiences, out of body experiences, after death communications and messages from Jesus. But the truly remarkable aspect of the book are not these fantastic, sensational paranormal accounts, rather what shines brightest is the measure of unconditional Love she has shown to the suffering throughout her life. Her long record of helping terminally ill patients cope and grow in death through unconditional Love and significant self sacriifice gives those paranormal claims a degree of crediblity that otherwise might not exist. Every morning as I sit savoring my strong, black coffee, I think of Dr. Ross' lesson of Love.
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Summary: Truly Enlightening
Review: I have spent the last year coming to terms with the terminal illness and recent death of a family member. This book was enlightening for me. It helped me deal with the emotions and anger I had bottled up inside. It also gave me great insight into my loved one's feelings during the dying process. I only wish I had read the book prior to their death. It was comforting to read much of what the author said
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Summary: A book that makes you think about and appreciate life.
Review: I just turned 25, and have been a fan of Kubler-Ross...I was so affected by this book. I have told everyone that I know to read it, although, unfortunately, people my age don't think they should be thinking of dying yet. Little do they know that by learning about dying, we learn how to live.
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