AFTERWORD

Neale Donald Walsch

The nature of spiritually transformative experiences is varied indeed. While I have never had an NDE such as those explored in this remarkable book, I have had three out-of-body experiences in my life – and I was intrigued to find that the accounts of NDEs here vary little from my most wondrous OBE, which has been included on these pages.

The narratives of others here also match in many ways the messages about life following our Continuation Day that I have received in dialogues I have published under the title Conversations with God. So I am doubly motivated to encourage you to let yourself hold closely the information you have found here.

Among the many special experiences in my life, I had the honour of working on the personal staff of Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a physician and psychiatrist, who may have done more than any other single individual to alter our understanding of death and our embracing of it as a natural and joyous part of life. Elisabeth said to those of us around her a hundred times: “Death does not exist. When you are no longer afraid of dying, you are not afraid of living.”

The book you are holding in your hands can do more to release humanity from its fear of dying than any book in recent memory. If you found the Conversations with God material helpful to you in your life, or if you are familiar with any of the writings of one of my life’s most wonderful mentors, Dr Ross, I am sure you have experienced these personal chronicles to be timely and powerful confirmations, coming from many separate sources, of what you may expect in that which we have come to call the afterlife – as well as of the reality and nature of God.

In Conversations with God – Book 4: Awaken the Species (2017, Watkins), humans everywhere are invited to self-select to be among those who commit to moving forward their own individual evolution by sharing the stories of their journey in a way that serves to awaken the entire species to who and what all human beings really are (Individuations of Divinity). The others who agreed to place their personal testimonies in this exceptional collection have done just that, offering us first-hand details of what surely must be their most intimate and sacred life experience. In doing so, they have played their part in that mission, awakening us all to what William Shakespeare meant when he wrote: “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

I asked God in the dialogue found in Home with God in a Life That Never Ends to define death. In reply, She said: “Death is a process of re-identification.” Before that moment I never thought of it in quite that way. Now, the contributors here have placed an exclamation point at the end of God’s sentence. What they have shared on these pages can bring comfort and clarity, peace and a deep assurance of Deity’s goodness, a direct witnessing of His unconditional love for us, and an affirmation of the absolute safety in our never again fearing the end of this physical life.

For those who are dying, for those who have loved ones approaching death, and for those who have died and come back to life and wonder if they are alone in what they experienced, I can’t imagine a greater gift. I know that thousands who read this book will be grateful to Penny Sartori and Kelly Walsh for placing it before us. They, too, have self-selected, and we are the better for it.