Book description
From the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying comes an inspiring account of a life well-lived with compassion and service.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD, is the woman who has transformed the way the world thinks about death and dying. Beginning with the groundbreaking publication of the classic psychological…
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The author, a towering figure in 20th Century psychiatry, found herself typecast as an iconoclast with her blockbuster book On Death and Dying, crystallizing the stages of grief.
In The Wheel of Life, she squares the circle with a mind-blowing account of how she went from peace-inducing, medical truth-teller to voyager to the other side of the veil. It was as though the universe thanked her for her sacrifice with visitations from an ex-patient’s ghost, a Spirit Guide, and a garden fairy before a harrowing night that runs a chill up your spine.
As someone tantalized by Near-Death…
From Chip's list on coming-of-age books that take me back to my own adolescence.
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