Imagine experiencing death in an automobile accident and then returning to life in the body. Then imagine having no sense of how that could be possible. This was Melissa Farrell’s experience in 1964 when she was in her 20s. Raymond Moody had not yet written his bestselling book “Life After Life,” which brought the near-death experience and its familiar stages—leaving the body, becoming boundless awareness seeming beyond time and space, overhearing “impossible” conversations, travel through a tunnel, encounter with vast radiant light—to popular attention. Oprah had not yet interviewed Moody or Kenneth Ring or any other researchers who would help translate the profound images of NDEs and normalize the experience for many thousands of individuals who had returned to life in a body after experiencing clinical death.
“Twelve Years in Alaska” is a deeply personal account of one woman’s experience with mortality and her subsequent years spent in the stunning beauty of Alaska where her encounter with dead continued to “download” as she integrated the realm she had experienced Beyond with the challenges of living an everyday life Right Here. A rare beauty of this short and compelling memoir is the author’s unique way of combing these two dimensions so that they almost appear seamless. Whether speaking of the painful loss of her older brother John years later, or of her introduction through spiritual guidance to The Four Levels of Knowing & Existence,” the Melissa we meet and listen to is right here. Yes, the words appear as black symbols called letters against a page or screen, but you may find yourself imaging you’re having a conversation at a quiet cafe. Tea never comes, and it is not missed. You didn’t come for the beverage.
Books on personal encounters with death and dying are now many and varied. Some of them emphasize the actual death experience and the often traumatic aftermath, while other books focus more on profound spiritual teachings. Melissa combines both with ease and grace. This is a book of great calm, which allows its penetrating wisdom to bubble forth unexpectedly, often in the words of her teacher and mentor, Wally Skaggs: esoteric astrologer, student of General Semantics, who Melissa credits with embodying the power of living with integrity as “a light that shows me where I am on my path ad helps to show me where I need to go in the future.”
Thank you, Melissa Farrell for the gift of this small yet very Big book.
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