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Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing Paperback – September 1, 2014
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Within these pages, Anita recounts stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. As part of a traditional Hindu family residing in a largely Chinese and British society, Anita had been pushed and pulled by cultural and religious customs since she was a little girl. After years of struggling to forge her own path while trying to meet everyone else’s expectations, she had the realization, as a result of her epiphany on the other side, that she had the power to heal herself . . . and that there are miracles in the Universe that she’d never even imagined.
In Dying to Be Me, Anita freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being! This is a book that definitely makes the case that we are spiritual beings having a human experience . . . and that we are all One!
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Print length216 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherHay House Inc.
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Publication dateSeptember 1, 2014
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Dimensions6.06 x 0.56 x 9 inches
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ISBN-101401937535
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ISBN-13978-1401937539
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Describing her ensuing near-death experience as a realm of clarity and expansiveness, "a state of being," Moorjani made the choice to return, and her rapid and remarkable recovery defies all medical understanding. Her psychospiritual healing, which continues to this day, was self-realization: of her own magnificence, of oneness with universal energy and with a universe comprising. This candid memoir is a cathartic testimony to the magnificence and healing capacity of every human being. (Mar. 1)- Publishers Weekly
"This book is very thought provoking. Can we take the learnings, and make the changes, from someone else's Near Death Experience? Can I create for myself the same level of faith and knowing just by reading this book? Honestly, I don't think I can. But what I can do is open my mind that little bit more, take this book as another brick in building that wall of strength, and take her learnings with me on my own journey. I recommend that you do that same." - Rachel Bell
"I had the pleasure of reading Anita's book after hearing her speak in Sydney, Australia at the end of January. Her NDE experience is profound. The wisdom she shares is life changing." -Cheryl Richardson
"This book reminded me how important it is to live life from a place of passion rather than from a place of fear. No matter what challenge life gives us, it's really important to look for the gift in it. This book is truly amazing." - Vibrant Living with Celine
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Before I close, I'd like to leave you with a few final words. Always remember not to surrender your power--instead, get in touch with your own magnificence. When it comes to finding the right path, there's a different answer for each person. The only universal solution I have is to love yourself unconditionally and be yourself fearlessly! This is the most important lesson I learned from my NDE, and I honestly feel that if I'd always known this, I never would have gotten cancer in the first place.
When we're true to ourselves, we become instruments of truth for the planet. Because we're all connected, we touch the lives of everyone around us, who then affect others. Our only obligation is to be the love we are and allow our answers to come from within in the way that's most appropriate for us.
Finally, I can't stress enough how important it is to enjoy yourself and not take yourself or life too seriously. One of the biggest flaws with many traditional spiritual systems is that they give you such a somber outlook. Although you know that I abhor creating doctrines, if I ever had to create a set of tenets for a spiritual path to healing, number one on my list would be to make sure to laugh as often as possible throughout every single day--and preferably laugh at myself. This would be hands down over and above any form of prayer, meditation, chanting, or diet reform. Day-to-day problems never seem as big when viewed through a veil of humor and love.
In this age of information technology, we're bombarded with news seemingly at the speed of light. We're living in an age of high stress and fear, and in the midst of trying to protect ourselves from everything we think is "out there," we've forgotten to enjoy ourselves and to take care of what's inside.
Our life is our prayer. It's our gift to this universe, and the memories we leave behind when we someday exit this world will be our legacy to our loved ones. We owe it to ourselves and to everyone around us to be happy and to spread that joy around.
If we can go through life armed with humor and the realization that we are love, we'll already be ahead of the game. Add a box of good chocolates into the mix, and we've really got a winning formula!
I wish you joy as you realize your magnificence and express yourself fearlessly in the world.
Namaste!
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About the Author
She is the embodiment of the truth that we all have the inner power and wisdom to overcome even life's most adverse situations, as she is the living proof of this possibility.
World-renowned author, Dr. Wayne Dyer has been instrumental in bringing Anita's story to public atention, and wrote the foreword to her book. He subsequently invited her to appear on his TV special, "Wishes Fulfilled", which airs frequently on PBS.
Following the global success of her book, which is being translated and published into 31 different languages, Anita has regularly been interviewed on various prime time television shows around the world, including twice on "Fox News", "The Jeff Probst Show", "National Geographic International", "The Pearl Report" in Hong Kong, "HeadStart" with Karen Davila in the Philippines, among many others.
She inspires her audience to transform their lives by living more authentically, discovering their greatest passions, transcending their deepest fears, and living from a place of pure joy, and has the ability to explain such mind-bending concepts as timelessness, non-duality, and simultaneous realities, in such simplified terms that everyone can understand.
Anita is currently one of the most sought after inspirational speakers in the world and addresses sell out audiences all over the globe.
website: anitamoorjani.com
Facebook Page: facebook.com/Anita.Moorjani
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- Publisher : Hay House Inc.; 1st edition (September 1, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 216 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1401937535
- ISBN-13 : 978-1401937539
- Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.06 x 0.56 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #301,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #141 in Near-Death Experiences (Books)
- #2,121 in Spiritual Self-Help (Books)
- #8,664 in Memoirs (Books)
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About the author
Anita Moorjani has been at the apex of spiritual discussions since her astounding 2006 Near-Death Experience (NDE). In 2011, the illuminating story of Anita’s journey beyond the veil grabbed the attention of Dr Wayne Dyer, who then fostered her entrance into the world of public speaking. At Dr. Dyer’s insistence, Anita penned the New York Times Best Seller “Dying to be Me” (2012). Telling the story of how conflicting ideologies, fear and being a downtrodden empath created the cancer that drove her to her NDE, Anita’s chronicle of life and death has won millions of hearts over.
In recent years, Anita’s two other books "What if this is Heaven" (2017) and "Sensitive is the New Strong" (2021) have reached significant acclaim, helping people navigate a world that is increasingly loud and harsh. With the knowledge she gained from crossing over the divide between the physical and spiritual worlds, Anita’s expert advice shows people how to connect with spirit to find the support they need, no matter the issues they face. Anita’s wisdom and poignant story of life and death is also beautifully illustrated in two books for the young and the young at heart: “Love, A Story about who You Truly Are” and “Scaredy Caterpillar”. Both books cleverly share her message of the importance of embodying love in a fear-based world.
Born in Singapore to Indian (Sindhi) parents, raised in Hong Kong between the mixed Indian, British and Chinese cultures, Anita now lives in the United States. Over the last two decades, Anita has traveled the world sharing her insights of what it means to live joyfully and lovingly in a fear-based world. From her Social Media channels (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok) to her live retreats, extended workshops and week-long cruises, Anita creates a marinade that takes her followers from healing to whole. In her books and events, Anita continues to teach us the truth that we all have the inner power and wisdom to overcome even the most adverse situations.
www.AnitaMoorjani.com
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What is the central message of each of these books? Learn to live in the Eternal "Now", which exists beyond our human conceptions of time and space. After all, "past" and future" have no intrinsic reality and are mere concepts in our consciousness. It is unnecessary to die or wait for a better life tomorrow, or after death. As Father Anthony De Mello SJ writes in his book "Awareness", it is always those who are most afraid to live right now who are most concerned with whether there is a life after this one. Nobody seems to understand the importance of: "Is there a life before death?"
It is pretty clear to me, from the deeply personal accounts of these two authors during and after their NDE's, that they both experienced a spiritual awakening which was the substance of their NDE's. This explains their profound post-NDE interest in living fully now, and their enhanced ability to do so, after their respective illnesses. Only someone who is unafraid of living fully now, loses their morbid interest in a life after this one.
They also provide interesting clues of how to do this: They echo each other in trying to convey how crucially important total self-acceptance is. This means no matter who you are, you must learn to accept yourself in totality, both the allegedly good as well as the allegedly evil parts. No matter how "bad" you think you are, or how "depraved", you need to learn to approve of yourself and to love yourself, including the "evil" bits, unconditionally. That opens the door and allows you to be healed. This, I think, is also the central message in the Bible: Despite being sinners, we can be saved. But a precondition is that we must stop judging ourselves and stop rejecting the parts of ourselves that we think are evil. As we succeed, we discover that only we were judging ourselves. The door to awakening is always an open door. Nobody, not God, nor any person, stands in the way of all this joy, the unconditional love and immutable bliss which can be ours right now, except our own unwise self-judgements.
Some readers on this website were very critical of the touted concepts of unconditional self-love and unconditional self-approval, suggesting that these are very dangerous doctrines. They seem to interpret this as meaning "do as you please". However, doing just what you like, presumably at the expense of others, does not lead to personal liberty, or direct access to the present. Just the opposite. Further, having unconditional love for the worst criminals, doesn't mean that they should not be contained or restrained. As the great Ramakrishna is quoted as saying in his wonderful book "The Gospel of Ramakrishna" (also available from Amazon), "being love" doesn't mean you should not hiss like a snake. It only means not to inject your venom in your "victims". In other words, this world would be so much a better place if only we stopped being afraid, stopped judging, stopped our hatred, stopped worrying so much!
Dr Alexander postulates that consciousness is a field that pervades all of space-time, and is in fact the very fabric of space-time. The human body is a filter or valve that limits that experience and confines it to a bodily experience, both authors write. Both authors however make it quite clear, based on their own direct experience of life in the Here and Now, that it is quite possible to experience the unity and non-duality of consciousness, pervading the entire Universe, right now. This experience is accessible to every person, saint and sinner alike. To begin accessing it directly only means that you must learn to get out of your own way. Well-established ways of doing so is through prayer, by awakening faith, and / or daily meditative practice.
Besides the human body acting as a filter or a valve which restricts consciousness, language is the only other filter. We can't do anything about the former, but we can vastly expand our own direct experience and understanding of life, and its true meaning for each of us, by gaining insights into the terribly restrictive and distorting filter which language creates in each of us. The only barrier between us and our direct appreciation of the Eternal Now is our own language. The purpose of language is obviously to communicate, but we misuse and abuse it by killing ourselves, our neighbours and earth. How? Through self-judgement. By the same yardstick by which we measure ourselves, we unconsciously mete out judgement and our version of what we imagine to be "justice" on others and in fact our entire world. Therefore our journey to true freedom, if that is what we really want, must begin and end with ourselves.
Insight into the afore-said is not an intellectual process. No traction can be gained by simply reading about this, although this can be an important first step. This is also the message we find in these two amazing auto-biographical books. In this regard, many readers were incredibly disappointed, and sceptical, because they found the accounts of each of the NDE's to be so brief, sketchy, and seemingly lacking in cohesion. However, what these two writers learnt directly, is that reality, instead of the distortion most people experience as reality, is unfathomable and inconceivable. It is beyond telling. No words can ever approach the Almighty. In Genesis in the Bible we find in the centre of the Garden of Eden the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and the Tree of Life. The former is the man-made ego, developed from an early age using language as the means, and the latter is our eternal selves, to which we should make wise efforts to awaken to. As we succeed, we realize we were always in Eden, from the very beginning, always are, and always will be.
How specifically is language a filter? Consciousness is an impartial mirror, which reflects anything and everything that appears within it. There is no "me" in that mirror. The mirror is the entire Universe. But we artificially create the "me" by picking from the mirroring what we like, and pushing away what we dislike. The only tool for doing so is our learnt language. Therefore, when we look at a tree, or a beautiful sunset, we don't simply see a tree or a sunset. Our thoughts, which includes our worries and fears, are superimposed on our perception, killing our joy and all that beauty that is ours, right here and now.
So I think the true message of each of these books is not an attempt to convince the reader about a nicer life after this one. The true message for each of us is to do the necessary work, on ourselves, and in our lives, here and now, to awaken here and now. To the extent that we succeed, and know this immeasurable and unknowable Unity directly, we gain all the "Proof of Heaven" that we need to have. No scientist and no sceptic can ever take away that personal certainty.
JP
Another good book on NDE experiences is Glimpses of Eternity (shared death experiences) by Raymond Moody. Together, they've given me tremendous peace of mind.
If you make it through those two without thinking they're more deluded than the average person, try Frank DeMarco. His ideas on co-ordinating soul lives (not past lives, since God, Universe, Creation, AllThatIs exists at once, outside of time) were an eye-opener and affirm what others have said about how "past" lives are only past in OUR dimension. Moorjani uses a CD analogy to explain perceptions in time. I've used a vinyl record playing on a turntable, and wherever you drop the needle is your point in time, but. I sometimes wondered if maybe I was crazy for believing we can experience it all outside of this focus point. Now... I am thankful, I am blessed, to know this small slice of truth.
BTW, I read Moorjani's free online short account quite a while back and forgot about it. I've been busy researching ideas on other levels of reality and didn't think any more NDE accounts would be helpful. For some reason, this book came up on a side bar. I was curious about the health applications, and decided to load it on my Kindle last night. SO glad I did. Additional information relating to commonly asked questions are inlcuded. Her explainations confirmed my "gut" feelings on some spiritual ideas that are taken as complete truth in the Christian and/or New Age literature I tend to pick up (esp. in regards to forgiveness and fears of living).
I still have a few questions and doubts about what she wrote. For example, I don't feel inclined to share my bodily resources with most parasites and predators (unless I'm ready to pass on, then death by predator seems preferable to what happens in modern hospitial run by death-terrified humans). And I can't say I'm in agreement with any higher "purpose" that involves skeeters or ticks. ;-) Also, I suspect people who refuse to use the concept of "wrong" and don't see a need to change the world never had a child tortured and murdered. However, 95% of her ideas and feelings about her experience made perfect sense to me.
I'm giving this book five stars because she's done an excellent job relating her complex "other life" experience. And, I wholeheartedly believe the essence of our discord comes from the false judgments we've been taught to believe about ourselves. So much of what is taught by our family, cultural tribe, one religious group or other as necessary to spiritual connection is simply not true. The old axiom "follow your heart" and ALLOW the life force to flow through our BEING (as opposed to DOING prescribed and/or ritualized steps that "attract" certain situations and "stuff") will bring about the world we want to experience.