Almost one in five near-death experiences are not peaceful suggestions of heaven. In a wide-ranging and far from gloomy look at the other near-death experience, Nancy Evans Bush gives the first comprehensive look at a fascinating but neglected topic: NDEs and deathbed visions of fear, emptiness, and even hell.

A wonderfully readable book, grounded in thirty years of experience and research, Dancing is packed with first-person accounts, engrossing discussion and factual answers to a myriad of questions, both religious and secular, with practical suggestions for integrating such an experience or encountering one as a caregiver. Here are ways of thinking about the subject that will be new to many readers. What becomes evident is that to see these only as a terrible threat about death is largely to miss their point.

absolutely enthrallingliterary, adventurous, incisive, informative and smart one of the strongest, most thought-provoking books on the paranormal I've ever seen.

~Steve Volk

Fringe-ology

The book is an outstanding piece of work. It is a wonderfully comprehensive and rich history of what can be known and what might be considered about NDEs [and] bursts with anecdote and commentary, reinforcing for the reader that there is always another way to see things.

~ Wayne Rollins, MDiv, PhD

Soul and Psyche, Jung and the Bible, and other titles

Dancing Past the Dark is what we have all been waiting for a must for any experiencer ofany type of encounter with the numinous.

~ P. M. H. Atwater, LHD
Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of the Story

A valuable contribution to the NDE literature and engagingly written. It needs to be seen and read by the wider public.

J. Harold Ellens, MDiv, PhD

Nancy Evans Bush holds a Masters Degree in Pastoral Ministry and Spirituality from St. Joseph University, Connecticut. She was Executive Director and later President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and a member of its Board of Directors for many years. She is considered the world expert on distressing NDEs.