Embraced by the Light

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Summary: Transforming Experience
Review: This book highlights the transformation that occurs at true NDEs, and the psychic phenomena that often accompanies experiencers is shown clearly here. I think this book together with Psychic Gifts Tools to Connect by Dr. Snow (another NDE experiencer) make some of the best reading on transformation from NDEs that I have ever read. Both also highlight how the choices we make here in our lives ripple on through to our death experience, and how we can connect to our higher selves and each other, and fine tune powerful spiritual abilities, right here on earth. We all have much to gain from reading these accounts.

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Summary: Cashing in on Grief?
Review: Most people who read this book have it handed to them after the death of a loved one. For me it was my wife's father. She read it and found it to be a great comfort and she wanted me to read it too. I was skeptical but for her sake, I read it. I am a slow reader but this thing is so full of fluff I got through it in just over two hours. Religion is a great comfort to people in times of personal grief and I realize this book has helped many people to cope with death. But religion is also one of the few career fields, along with politics, where you can turn bull---- into money. It is plainly obvious that this whole thing is made up.

She never says why she was in the hospital. What caused her near-death experience? Explaining this might have given the story a little more credibility, but for the author, none of this was relevant. The only reason for writing the book was to tell the miracle story. Most NDEs last only a few minutes. This one was long enough for a feature-length film, and she seems to have total recall of every little detail. How could she have survived such a lengthy near-death experience? She crammed a lot of material into the four or five minutes that a person can survive such an ordeal.

Pardon me for being skeptical of a book that clearly has helped so many people in their darkest hour. Maybe the author is sincerely trying to use her writing skills to help people cope with death. But on the other hand, if there is a heaven and if she is trying to cash in on the grief of others, she'll need more than a good line of bull---- when she meets her maker for real.

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Summary: Should be on every Enlightened NDE shelf!
Review: This book Embraced by the Light by Betty Eadie is one of the books to be on any NDE experiencer's bookshelf, even if it is simply for the early historical basis and the "warm fuzzy" feeling that her eloquent writing invokes in the reader. The Light of love and the Light of God felt and seen at the NDEs is something I myself experienced eight years ago. This book, Dannion Brinkley's book Saved by the Light, and Tiffany Snow's book Psychic Gifts Tools to Connect and any of Raymond Moody's books, are a welcome and necessary part of any curious visitor to the near-death experience, and I would also suggest reading all the information complied by IANDS.

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Summary: Should be on every bookshelf of NDE experiences
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This book Embraced by the Light by Betty Eadie is one of the books to be on any NDE experiencer's bookshelf, even if it is simply for the early historical basis and the "warm fuzzy" feeling that her eloquent writing invokes in the reader. The Light of love and the Light of God felt and seen at the NDEs is something I myself experienced eight years ago. This book, Dannion Brinkley's book Saved by the Light, and Tiffany Snow's book Psychic Gifts Tools to Connect and any of Raymond Moody's books, are a welcome and necessary part of any curious visitor to the near-death experience, and I would also suggest reading all the information complied by IANDS.


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Summary: A worthy and kind FICTIONAL interpretation of an account.
Review: What goes against my conviction of her account is her ability to remember such precise and defined details years after it actually happened. How many of us can remember what we dreamed last week, or last night for that matter? And, how conscious are we of that experience - whether it were reality or a creation of the conditioned mind? Her interpretation was too detailed, but again, most importantly, too consciously focused to be dismised as an unconscious creation of the mind.

I'm sure she meant well by painting a picture of the afterlife for people who have lost loved ones in the past. But credibility of remembrance of details after such a long time - and - with the conscious of the unconscious is just not believable in the reality of mind.

Read this fictional account for entertainment, but don't believe everything you read; just like this post. Make up your own mind.

In the end, it is really just a question of faith in her experience.

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Summary: One of many books which give the same message
Review: I consider myself an ordinary, logical and self-confident individual at my forty. I live in the US, but I was born and raised in far East. I do not belong to any churches nor religious groups, but I do believe in God (or higher supeior power). I picked this book up to kill my time when I was visiting my in-laws on our vacation. I always had a question about life after death, so I have been reading books, articles or anything that touches the topic here in America and back in Japan. My conclusion and answer to my question is that there is another life after death without our bodies, and that death is nothing to fear. No matter how alone we must feel in this life, our souls are closer to our friends and family in the way we don't even realize. I cannot explain or have no ability to prove my answer. Spirit world does exist according to all those people who experienced near death or came back from their deaths. What I most got out of this book was for us to really live everyday life with appreciations for things we have--both tangible and intangible, love one another, help ones who's in need, and learn and grow together while we are here. That is the message I received from her book as well as all other readings I've done. I feel that this kind of book is not there to be reviewed or analyzed the intentions of being published, but there to be available for those who are seeking an answer to thier questions about lives at thier own level. Easy to read book.

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Summary: Allright.
Review: I don't know what to title this. I read the book because my mother told me about it. She sounds so much like a Mormon it isn't funny. That's the way I see it now after having read other NDE accounts from various religious backgrounds. There is no way to verify NDE's aside from finding things that coincide with one another. So, as a story it is helpful in overcoming grief, affirming Jesus as a loving being, Heaven as a wonderful place. I give it four stars because I find it well written. However, I find it nothing more than a spiritual pipe dream. The fact that everything is decided upon and agreed upon in Heaven is the kind of fuzzy feeling yarn that I was weaned on. But in sad reality, life is just life and can be entirely confusing. I do have a strong conviction in spirituality, though.

Betty Eadie I believe is in her best efforts to write this book. I don't think the intent is to make a buck. But, I don't think any of us can give a definite answer to the afterlife if there is one.