Words at the Threshold | Free Book
A person’s end-of-life words often take on an eerie significance, giving tantalizing clues about the ultimate fate of the human soul. Until now, however, no author has systematically studied end-of-life communication by using examples from ordinary people. When her father became terminally ill with cancer, author Lisa Smartt began transcribing his conversations and noticed that his personality underwent inexplicable changes. Smartt’s father, once a skeptical man with a secular worldview, developed a deeply spiritual outlook in his final days — a change reflected in his language. Baffled and intrigued, Smartt began to investigate what other people have said while nearing death, collecting more than one hundred case studies through interviews and transcripts. In this groundbreaking and insightful book, Smartt shows how the language of the dying can point the way to a transcendent world beyond our own.
In The Press
“With Words at the Threshold, Lisa Smartt has given the world
of near death studies a fresh new path for research. Deeply moving and
meticulously researched, this book offers a feast of fresh information
about communications with the other side that may take place at the
time of death. This is an insightful book worth reading.”
—
Paul Perry, coauthor of Glimpses of Eternity
“Rarely can we say a book has the ability to profoundly
affect the way we live and think, but Words at the Threshold is
truly such a book. The research is impeccable, and the insights that
Lisa Smartt gives us into the realm of the threshold open doors of
perception that help us understand what it is to be part of the human
experience.”
— Michael Wayne, PhD, LAc, author of
The Quantum Revolution and producer and host of
Interviews with the Leading Edge
“Words at the Threshold
is a treasure trove of experience and insight around the last words
spoken by the dying, as revealed through the mind of a linguist,
proposing that birth and death are different facets of the same
process, that both are essential in the cycle of life, and that our
soul connections do not end with death. The words of the dying provide
some of the most salient clues as to how we can best live our lives on
earth.”
— Eben Alexander, MD, neurosurgeon and author of
Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven
“Words at the Threshold
marks a new era in the understanding of the process of dying. Lisa
Smartt’s work has profound psychological, spiritual, and clinical
implications for the care of terminally ill patients and their
families. And I believe that her work also opens unexplored pathways
for the genuinely rational investigation of human kind’s deepest
mystery: the prospect of life after death.”
— from the foreword
by Raymond Moody Jr., MD, PhD, author of Life After Life
“Lisa Smartt gently invites us to listen to the
utterances of the dying with an inner ear attuned to another kind of
reality. She charts how the dying use eerily familiar metaphors,
symbols, time loops, and more to express their expanded, nonlinear
experiences. In so doing, Smartt affords us a precious glimpse of
their inner worlds as they linger at the threshold of death. Through
her linguistic analysis of ‘nonsense’ on the lips of the dying, the
underlying creativity and purpose of final words are revealed.
Words at the Threshold is a significant step toward
transforming the current views of dying from a process of failure into
a process of ever-deepening meaning and wonder.”
—
Julia Assante, PhD, author of The Last Frontier
“The many suggestions about engaging loved ones as they
die and the cogent advice on ways to provide a more peaceful passing
give the volume considerable value.”
—
Booklist
“Books like
Words at the Threshold by Lisa Smartt only come along every now
and again and when they do they shine out as publications that
genuinely break new ground and greatly expand our understanding of the
mysteries of life and death. Highly recommended as an essential
read.”
— Spirituality Today
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