About this episode
This week the I am reading from Dr. Christopher Kerr's book 'Experiences of the Dying: Evidence of Survival of Human Consciousness' and 'Extraterrestrial Visitations: True Accounts of UFO Contact' by Preston Dennett. Dr Christopher Kerr's book 'Death is But a Dream: Hope and Meaning at Life's End'. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery. Bio Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD, is the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Executive Officer for Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Chris earned his MD as well as a PhD in Neurobiology. Dr. Kerr received numerous awards throughout training that recognized his clinical performance, as well as his success as an educator and scientist. Chris’s background in research has evolved from bench science toward the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside, specifically patients’ dreams and visions at the end of life. Although medically ignored, these near-universal experiences often provide comfort and meaning, as well as insight into the life led and the death anticipated. To date, the research team at Hospice & Palliative Care Buffalo has published multiple studies on this topic and documented over 1,500 end-of-life events, many of which are videotaped. This work was the subject of Chris’s TEDx Buffalo Talk, which has been viewed approximately 3 million times and has been the subject of reports on BBC and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Scientific American Mind, Huffington Post and Psychology Today. It will also be featured in an upcoming Netflix production and a public television documentary film to be released nationally in early 2021. Dr. Kerr’s work was also published by Penguin Random House earlier this year in a book called Death Is But a Dream, which is now being released in multiple languages. https://www.amazon.com/Death-But-Dream-Finding-Meaning-ebook/dp/B07SRQC373/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1613916946&sr=8-1 https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/kerr-experiences-dying.pdf https://www.drchristopherkerr.com/ Preston Dennett about his book 'Extraterrestrial Visitations: True Accounts of UFO Contact'. This book represents the cutting edge of UFO research, with ten new and original firsthand accounts of very close encounters with UFOs and aliens. The majority of these cases come from fully conscious recall rather than memories retrieved through hypnosis. Face-to-face confrontations, missing-time, onboard UFO experiences -- these accounts show what it’s like to have direct contact with beings from beyond Earth. Chapter One: Four teenagers are confronted with a UFO and experience missing time, each of them recalling different portions of what actually happened. Chapter Two: A young girl has a very close encounter with a UFO, and years later, both she and her son are visited by an entity her son calls “The Bony Crab Monster.” Chapter Three: When a local farmer reports UFOs over his farm, two friends go to check it out and end up being followed home by UFOs. One of them is struck by a beam of light, beginning an ordeal that haunts him for the rest of his life. Chapter Four: After visiting a person who “channels” ETs, a young woman asks to go onboard the ETs spaceship. In a classic case of “Be Careful What You Ask For,” the woman discovers that she has invited the aliens into her life. Chapter Five: A married couple who both have a history of encounters visit Sedona, Arizona and come upon a UFO landed alongside the road. Both are taken onboard and experience an adventure that will leave them forever changed. Chapter Six: A psychologist crashes her motorcycle on a remote highway late at night. Stranded and alone, her ETs show up again and rescue her in a very unusual way. Chapter Seven: A mother and two sons experience six hours of missing time after a UFO encounter late at night. Years later, as an adult, one of her sons suddenly recalls everything that happened on that fateful night. Chapter Eight: A woman is enjoying a quiet night at home when she is visited by a gray-type extraterrestrial who communicates with her through automatic writing, relaying profound messages both personal and for all of humankind. Chapter Nine: Two young boys experience missing time on Catalina Island. Later one of them recalls what happened: he was taken to what appears to be an underground alien base. Chapter Ten: An office-worker and her friends take a spontaneous trip to Area 51 in the Nevada Desert and see UFOs for the first time. She is later taken onboard a craft and undergoes one of the most bizarre contacts on record. Ten cases, each told in the witnesses’ own words, each providing fascinating insights into the nature and origin of these strange visitors to our planet. Fully illustrated by award-winning artist, Kesara, this book will change the way you view extraterrestrials and the UFO phenomenon. Preston's Biography Preston Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in 1986 when he discovered that his family, friends and co-workers were having dramatic unexplained encounters. Since then, he has interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of paranormal phenomena. He is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of 29 books and more than 100 articles on UFOs and the paranormal. Several of his books have been Amazon UFO bestsellers. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines including Fate, Atlantis Rising, MUFON UFO Journal, Nexus, Paranormal Magazine, UFO Magazine, Phenomena Magazine, Mysteries Magazine, Ufologist and others. His writing has been translated into several different languages including German, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Icelandic. He has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including Midnight in the Desert with Art Bell, Coast-to-Coast and also the History Channel’s Deep Sea UFOs and UFO Hunters. His research has been presented in the LA Times, the LA Daily News, the Dallas Morning News and other newspapers. He has taught classes on various paranormal subjects and lectures across the United States. https://prestondennett.weebly.com/ https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/ https://www.patreon.com/pastlivespodcast https://www.patreon.com/alienufopodcast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/our-paranormal-afterlife-finding-proof-of-life-after-death--5220623/support . https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/ https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.