Dancing Past the Dark

Distressing Near-Death Experiences

Ma Nancy Evans Bush, Bruce Greyson

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English

Nancy Evans Bush
20 March 2020

Sociology: death & dying; Medicine; Astral projection & out-of-body experiences; Unexplained phenomena & the paranormal

Almost one in every five near-death experiences (NDEs) is not a visit to heaven. Some are marked by alarm, emptiness, threat, guilt, or even the terror of hell or psychosis. How to understand them? Here is a book that gives readers more to go on than old wives' tales and medieval theological images.

Dancing Past the Dark is a comprehensive overview of near-death experiences in general and disturbing NDEs in particular, presented by an author who knows her topic both from the inside, as one who had a reality-shattering NDE, and from her role as administrator and participant in the early decades of near-death research.

Nancy Evans Bush, MA, President Emerita of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, brings ways of thinking about death, dying, and suffering that will be new to many readers.

All NDEs, she says, even the most painful, have astonishing potential to enrich and clarify life here and now. She remains straightforward about the profound difficulty in this type of NDE and knows first-hand the pressing need for information:

What do they mean? Are they real? What does science say, or religion? NDEs change lives, but to what extent can they be believed?

She presents such research findings as exist about these NDEs and explains why the study data are so sparse. She interweaves thoughtful scholarship, common questions, conventional wisdom, and anecdotal bits from the early years of near-death studies. From reporting data she moves on to opinion, including the diversity and perpetual changing of ideas about an afterlife. She looks at the impact and range of cultural influences and religion. She devotes a chapter to approaches to recovery following such a PTSD-promoting experience. An appendix is made up of first-person accounts of deeply distressing NDEs.

The book covers a lot of ground, yet is engagingly written, as one reviewer said. It is not about Evans Bush or her NDE, though she details her own experience; rather, it is a fact-filled overview of the struggle for understanding.

Overall, the book presents a compelling case that to see these events only as messages about death or an afterlife is largely to miss their point.

Author Anne Rice (Interview with the Vampire) posted to her blog readers about Dancing Past the Dark: I want to once again draw your attention to this brilliant book. Put aside whatever you think you know about NDEs and read this...

I cannot reccoment it enough.

By: Ma Nancy Evans Bush
Foreword by: Bruce Greyson
Imprint: Nancy Evans Bush
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9780985191726
ISBN 10: 0985191724
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 20 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A leading researcher of distressing NDEs for four decades and an experiencer herself, Nancy Evans Bush, MA, is President Emerita of IANDS, the International Association for Near-Death Studies. A teacher, author, and grandmother of seven, she lives with her partner on a salt marsh in coastal North Carolina. Bruce Greyson, MD, a founder of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, is Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Division of Perceptual Studies. Former Editor, Journal of Near-Death Studies

Reviews for Dancing Past the Dark: Distressing Near-Death Experiences

Anne Rice (Interview with the Vampire) on her blog: I want to once again draw your attention to this brilliant book. Put aside whatever you think you know about NDEs and read this...I cannot recommend it enough. Steve Volk (Fringe-ology): (A)bsolutely enthralling--literary, adventurous, incisive, informative and smart...one of the strongest, most thought-provoking books on the paranormal I've ever seen. Bruce Greyson, MD (from the Foreword): Dancing Past the Dark is the first comprehensive look at these experiences and how we regard them...More importantly, this book is the first effective guide to understanding, living with, and learning from these experiences P.M.H. Atwater (The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences) Dancing Past the Dark is what we have all been waiting for...a must for any experiencer of any type of encounter with the numinous. Wayne Rollins, MDiv, PhD (Soul and Psyche) ...a wonderfully comprehensive and rich history of what can be known and what might be considered about NDEs...bursts with anecdote and commentary, reinforcing for the reader that there is always another way to see things. J. Harold Ellens, MDiv, PhD (Psychology and the Bible 4 vols) ...a valuable contribution to the NDE literature and engagingly written. It needs to be seen and read by the wider public.