New York + London. Penguin-Arkana.//Lao Tse Press, to be republished. http://www.laotse.com.

(from the back cover)

Arnold Mindell’s ground-breaking work with comatose patients offers a new direction in the study of near-death experiences and psychotherapy. Dr. Mindell argues that people in a metabolic coma are human beings in an altered state of consciousness which may be an important and meaningful experience for them. Like a mythical hero who ventures into the unknown and returns with a divine message, he shows by means of case histories that many comatose patients who have revived (and many cases of metabolic coma do revive) report experiences of prophetic insight, ecstasy, and self-knowledge.

The author demonstrates his techniques for communicating with the comatose patient through verbatim bedside reports, theoretical discussion, and practical exercises based on process-oriented psychology, a Jungian-derived therapy that he developed using dreamwork and bodywork in the 1970s. Based on evidence that the comatose person is able to communicate with others, the author argues that such patients can often make conscious, rational decisions, thus adding a new dimension to ethical and legal debates about near-death conditions.

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Note: Aspects of this book appeared internationally on stage, produced by the London based “Improbable Theatre”, in 2001. NBC’s TV “Unsolved Mysteries” aired comments from this book in 2002, and December of 2003.Comment from Stephen and Ondrea Levine

” We cannot recommend this book highly enough.”