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The human encounter with death

By: Material type: TextTextNY E.P. Dutton c1977Description: xiii, 240p.; bibliog.; indexContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-525-12975-8
Subject(s): Abstract: 'The authors have assisted persons dying of cancer in transcending the anxiety and anger around their personal fate. Using psychedelics, they have guided the patients to death-rebirth experiences that resemble transformation rites practiced in a variety of cultures. Physician and medical anthropologist join here in recreating an old art--the art of dying.'
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[By] Stanislav Grof [and] Joan Halifax. Foreword by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.

'The authors have assisted persons dying of cancer in transcending the anxiety and anger around their personal fate. Using psychedelics, they have guided the patients to death-rebirth experiences that resemble transformation rites practiced in a variety of cultures. Physician and medical anthropologist join here in recreating an old art--the art of dying.'

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