Near Death Experiences

It is closing in on three in the morning and sleep is the furthest thing from my mind. I am in Botswana again. This is the third trip I have taken up here in the two years in which we’ve been on these parallel treatment and healing journeys. Life is slowly returning to a level of relative normality. The well-wishers have tailed off, MRIs are less terrifying and have all come back clear. Llewelyn is now very firmly on the path to becoming a koma doctor – a doctor of rite

It’s been 20 years since my first book was published, and I wanted to reflect on the long journey of being an author, as well as working...

When I woke up from the coma in late 2012, the topic of near death was on everybody’s lips. This was due to an American neuroscientist...

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...

Niall Campbell is also known by his traditional name Phokojwe (The Jackal) and is traditional doctor nyanga (medicine man) and a Ngaka...

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...

I’ve done my own deep research into near death. It was just that the research was unexpected, unwanted and supremely badly timed. It...

Since the 1960s, research has been carried out on the experiences of people who have been declared clinically dead – most often on the...

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...

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 a six-kilogram black hen on the top my head. I really should not be here. I am a frazzled, but reasonably mature, hip and working mother of two small kids at age 34. And Sundays are rest and wine days. I should be at my parents’ house by the beach in Simonstown looking out over the yachts sailing. Soon I should be sitting down for a Sund

​I was carrying all my otherworldly secrets with me. Sometimes at night I would just close my eyes and feel myself shooting through the...

​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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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