One Last Hug Before I Go: The Mystery and Meaning of Deathbed Visions [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Evidence of survival comes to us in different ways -- near-death experiences, mediumship, past-life regression, and astral travel being the most often cited in recent years. However, the Death Bed Vision (DBV) is one that is equally strong and not so fully explored in recent publications.

Sir William Barrett of England wrote the best-known book ("Death-Bed Visions")on this subject in 1926. But before him, astronomer Camille Flammarion's 1922 book offered a comprehensive report on DBVs. In 1977, Osis and Haraldsson researched the subject and reported on it. Now, Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon brings us up to date. She cites many of the best case studies of Barrett, Flammarion, and Osis, but add her own interesting, intriguing and informative research, including several personal experiences that are very convincing.

DBVs inlcude reports of the dying seeing deceased loved ones waiting for them as well as glimpses of the "other side," reports by bedside witnesses who have observed spirits in waiting, and other witnesses, including doctors and nurses, who have seen the spirit body leave the earthly shell.

The non-spiritually-challenged should also find this book very helpful and reinforcing. It will give them some indication as to what to expect or look for when friends or relatives prepare to cross over, and, of course, what they can look for when it is their time to graduate to the realms of higher vibration.

Having read several hundred metaphysical books, I'd have to put this in the Top 10. I intend to give copies to my two daughters, both registered nurses. For anyone who notes that all of my Amazon reviews are five-star, I should comment that I don't do a review unless I think the book rates five stars. This one rates more than five stars, but the rating system doesn't allow for more. If you don't read this one, it's your loss.

This book honors the experiences of those who have sat beside the bed and, most importantly, of those _in_ the bed. It reports the variety of visions, dreams, serendipities, and expected or unexpected occurrences that attend dying. It normalizes the events many of us are skittish about acknowledging, much less discussing. In doing so, it offers a significant amount of consolation both for the things we have seen and for the individual encounter with death that awaits each of us.

It is possible that some readers of particularly fundamentalist religious persuasions would take offense at some of the ideas examined here. To them I say only that with this book, as with anything in life, it's best to take what you find useful and to leave the rest behind. As a person of deep religious faith and convictions, I can truthfully say that I found nothing here that would cause me to contravene my religion's beliefs and practices. On the contrary, this book causes a deep gratitude to rise in me for the gift of faith and for the healing presence of love.

This book is written in a way that it maintains the interest of the existing "Believer" and captures the interest of the curious and perhaps skeptic. Every reader can relate to some witnessed event in this book. Perhaps not aware of what may have taking place at the time....now enlightened.

I found this refreshingly real and hard to put down Especially in comparison to other popular books about the afterlife that had a commercial edge and were almost trying to "sell" a belief.

Dr. Carla has an impressive fan club of people like myself that respect her for her Spiritual insight and general wisdom of well being. I actually reccommend all of her books. She's pretty multi-tasked!