The publisher, Swedenborg Foundation info@swedenborg.com , January 21, 1998 from the foreward by Kenneth Ring "Books on the near-death experience are plentiful, but it is the singular value of this book to provide an illuminating Swedenborgian perspective on the NDE and the entire afterlife journey that it promises. Leon Rhodes has given us a beautiful gift in showing the greater spiritual world into which the NDE itself is just the briefest glimpse."