A meeting with the devil in a NDE
Mohau Malope believes that some of the things he did in high school saved him from staying in hell during his NDE. We are sitting in the...
An epiphany and a change of tack
Niall Campbell is also known by his traditional name Phokojwe (The Jackal) and is traditional doctor nyanga (medicine man) and a Ngaka...
African spirituality, trance and dance
In many cultures, the line is not as clear as in others, so we turn to some parts of Africa to look at its rich traditions that retain a...
Deep Research into Near Death Experiences
I’ve done my own deep research into near death. It was just that the research was unexpected, unwanted and supremely badly timed. It...
Clinical death, NDE or OBE?
Since the 1960s, research has been carried out on the experiences of people who have been declared clinically dead – most often on the...
The summer of sex, Osho and sannyasins
This is an extract from the book Love and Above: A journey through shamanism, coma and joy. The book is available on Amazon, in stores in...
The madness begins
Prologue to Love and Above What am I doing here? It’s an easy Sunday morning and I am sitting on a cold concrete floor with my legs...
Post Traumatic Bliss
I was carrying all my otherworldly secrets with me. Sometimes at night I would just close my eyes and feel myself shooting through the...
He's going to die tonight.
I had been to see him the day before and sat next to him a while as his chest heaved and rattled. I whispered to him. Stroked his...
Fighting my way out of a long coma.
The ICU at night is a terrifying nightmare world. Not even Dean Koontz or Steven King could imagine the nights of terror. It was cold and...
Waking up from a long coma
I have watched movies about people waking from a coma. They opened their eyes and the fog cleared. It’s nothing like that. Waking up from...
Called to come home
Floating. Aeons ago I left the world of men, of form and substance. I am floating away in the universe. I know it is the universe as I...
The Coma Stage 3: Limbo in a coma
I have shot out of the hospital. I have long left my body. It was so fast I didn’t even notice it. One second I was hovering somewhere...
The Madness Begins
What am I doing here? It’s an easy Sunday morning and I am sitting on a cold concrete floor with my legs stretched out in front of me and...
I survived a coma, and NDE
A year ago I had a full and busy life. I was the group editor of a publishing company, mom to two young kids (eight and ten) and busy...
FEC vs Taxol. No contest!
I started off on three rounds of FEC and its pretty simple to sum it all up in a word. Revolting. By the last round I honestly thought it wa
Just getting to Greece is a journey
So we arrived after a mammoth 2-day journey. 8 hours in Dubai airport (never again it wasn’t terrible as we slept, but just too long). Then
A year after my near death experience
By Sunday I was in a coma in ICU and on a life support machine that kept me breathing. I stayed in the coma for a month
It was a mixed marriage
I had a murky idea about what family life was going to be like. I hadn’t thought about it a great deal, but I did have a few ideas: I though
Romance 101? No chance with young kids
From stylish, successful career gal and sex-bomb wife to wobbly new mom in 9 short months, Your Pregnancy Magazine talks to Sarah Bullen