It may sound bold to say, but nearly every major “main event” of a near-death experience has already been documented — from the moment of leaving the body to the familiar words, it is not your time, you must go back. Many who have crossed over describe that otherworldly realm as heaven. And if heaven exists, it does not change with time. So what is left to learn about the NDE?
The Crossover Experience goes looking in the places nobody reads closely: the subtler dimensions of the near-death experience, the details easily lost behind the headline events. Within those nuances sit remarkable clues about what NDEs are actually communicating. Often it is what goes unseen that tells us the most.
The book walks through one hundred of the most extraordinary near-death experiences ever recorded, drawn from a review of more than four thousand firsthand accounts. Three researchers read them from three directions — a cardiologist who ran the most comprehensive prospective NDE study ever published, a historian of religion who has traced the afterlife across cultures and centuries, and a documentary filmmaker who has spent his career among firsthand testimony.
What emerges is a case that consciousness is not manufactured by the brain: that we are far more than the physical world we perceive, that we are not our bodies, and that death is not an ending but a transition into a wider existence. A bonus section takes the question further still, into the intersection of modern quantum physics and the near-death experience.
All testimonials appear as they were recounted. Run-on sentences, cut-off sentences, and idiosyncratic word choice have been left intact so that each person keeps their own voice.
“The Crossover Experience takes you on an amazing, exploratory journey through the world of NDEs. This compelling evidence of the afterlife offers glimpses of the otherworld realm, bringing comfort and hope, along with changing your views on life and death.”
— Anita Moorjani, New York Times best-selling author of Dying to Be Me
“As they take a deeper look at death, they give life more meaning. And with more meaning to life, we can discover more direction, more connection, more compassion, and more hope. Their amazing work takes the fear out of dying.”
— Jeffery Olsen, near-death experiencer and best-selling author of Knowing
“A unique, insightful, and rewarding look at the “scientific wrinkle” near-death experiences present.”
— Alex Tsakiris, Skeptiko
A world-renowned cardiologist and medical expert on near-death experiences. He published the most comprehensive prospective study of NDEs in the British medical journal The Lancet, and is the author of Consciousness Beyond Life. In 2006 the president of India awarded him the lifetime achievement award at the World Congress on Clinical and Preventive Cardiology in New Delhi.
The leading authority on near-death experiences and the afterlife across cultures and throughout history. He is the author of Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and was previously Perrott-Warrick Researcher at the University of Oxford’s Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion.
