Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the Beginning, by Peter Baldwin Panagore
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When Peter Baldwin Panagore died on the side of a mountain, his life was forever changed. Decades later, the intense spiritual journey continues, with a story that combines the thrills of a wilderness adventure with the awe-inspiring elements of a paranormal novel. In March of 1980, college senior Peter Panagore went ice climbing on the world-famous Lower Weeping Wall, along the Ice Fields Parkway in Alberta, Canada. His climbing partner was an experienced ice climber, but Panagore was a novice. On their descent, they became trapped on the side of the mountain. As the sun set, he was overcome by exhaustion and hypothermia. He died on the side of that mountain. And in those minutes on the other side, he experienced hell, forgiveness, and unconditional love. Heaven was beautiful. Panagore’s death experience changed his life and resulted in an intense spiritual journey that has continued for decades. It impelled him to pursue a master’s degree at Yale Divinity School, focusing on systematic theology and Christian mysticism. His educational background coupled with 30 years of meditative practice and 20 years of professional work with the dying and grieving has given him unique insight, language, and perspective on heaven, God, death, life, love, beauty, and hope. I have told my story to audiences large and small for a decade now…. My story touches people’s hearts; every time I tell it the audience is gripped and silent…. This book is about hope. It is meant to give real hope to the dying, hope to the fearful, hope to the hopeless, hope to the grieving.—from the book
Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the Beginning, by Peter Baldwin Panagore - Amazon Sales Rank: #196866 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Released on: 2015-10-01
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Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the Beginning, by Peter Baldwin Panagore Review "...Panagore's near death experience (NDE) changed his life and resulted in an intense spiritual journey that has continued for decades. His educational background coupled with 30 years of yogic and meditative practice and 20 years of professional work with the dying and grieving has given him unique insight, language, and perspective on heaven, God, death, life, love, beauty, and hope... In this state he experienced a classic NDE, but his description of it adds a powerful new interpretation to the commonly agreed elements. ... A quick and rewarding read." ~M. Knight NEW CONSCIOUSNESS REVIEW"United Church of Christ minister Panagore offers a harrowing account of a near-death experience when he was a young man in 1980 on an ice-climbing adventure in Alberta, Canada. Along with a more experienced climber, Panagore set out on a trip that took him to Lower Weeping Wall, where the two mountaineers found themselves trapped as they descended the face of the frigid mountain wall. After their rope became snagged and they were overcome by hypothermia, frostbite, and exhaustion, Panagore lost consciousness, his body shut down, and he nearly died. What happened on the other side of death changed Panagore's life, resulting in his pursuit of a master's degree focusing on systematic theology and Christian mysticism. Feelings of overwhelming love, forgiveness, and caring--but also of shouldering the burdens of others who he hurt during his lifetime on Earth--met him on the other side; he also encountered God. Readers who have a fascination with near-death experiences and mysticism will be drawn into Panagore's remembrances of dying on the side of that mountain and the unexplainable feelings he encountered, and may find comfort in his assurance that death is not to be feared. Agent: Stephany Evans, Fine Print Literary Management (Oct.) --Publisher's Weekly, Reviewed on 08/07/2015"Heaven is hot right now--not in temperature, but in public interest. Everyone who longs to get a glimpse of the afterlife will be grateful for this gripping first-person account by Peter Panagore, who dies on a cold mountainside after a heart-pounding ice climb in the Canadian wilderness. There he meets the God who made him and knows him--the God who is loving, all-powerful and real. This book will give hope and confidence to all who wonder about what lies beyond our earthly existence." --Henry G. Brinton, senior pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia and author of The Welcoming Congregation: Roots and Fruits of Christian Hospitality"Heaven is Beautiful is a profound, true story offering amazing proof that there is more. This book and its illuminating truth pushed my restart button! Best page-turning read of the year!" --Jennifer Skiff, author of God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine and The Divinity of Dogs
From the Back Cover "Best page-turning read of the year!" --Jennifer Skiff, author of God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine and The Divinity of Dogs
About the Author
Peter Baldwin Panagore earned his B.A in English from the University of Massachusetts and a M.Div from Yale University. He was ordained in the United Church of Christ and served churches in suburban Connecticut, on a remote Maine island, and in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful. Read it regardless of your view of near-death experiences By Bryan In “Heaven Is Beautiful,” Rev. Peter Baldwin. Panagore engages the reader in an intimate and openly vulnerable manner. As such, we are drawn into the author's experience, internal process, and interpretation. Essentially the book has four distinct themes. On the surface it is a first person narrative of a deep-winter wilderness encounter including his first experience ice climbing. At this level the book grabs one immediately. Panagore manages to simultaneously explain the technicalities of winter camping and climbing to the uninitiated without letting it get in the way of helping us enter into the head and heart space of his 21-year-old self.The second effort is perhaps the most noble as the author attempts what he acknowledges to be an impossible task: How does one narrate what is by definition ineffable? He wrestles with this repeatedly making sure we know that there are no words to convey the substance of his near-death experience (NDE) on the side of an ice cliff, because words themselves are limited symbols. And yet, with frequent reminders of the conundrum, Panagore plunges in. As warned, it left me feeling both eager to understand, and yet knowing I was unable to fully embrace what is by its very nature personal and intimate. However, the comfortable andfamiliar manner of the prose helps the reader to simply trust, and enter into the author’s experience.The narrative then shifts from an outdoor adventure to one of deep struggle as Rev. Panagore endeavors to live with the experience. Because he decided not to reveal it to anyone for years, the story is an internal one, bracketed by external events. We are drawn into a story of inner turmoil and struggle as he comes to grips with the aftermath of his NDE, working constantly to integrate it into his renewed sense of what it means to be alive and to be human. This, for me, was the most engaging part of the book.Finally, interspersed throughout the narrative is Rev. Panagore’s effort to interpret his experience through the lens of 35 years of reflection. What does this all mean? While he easily draws on Christian scripture as illustration and metaphor to help him point to the indescribable, he never gets tangled in dogmatic or religious arguments about life after death and how it functions. He is not preaching about the afterlife, he is simply describing it as he experienced it on that mountain. He is less concerned with convincing the reader that his experience is authentic, but rather proceeds with the confidence that it is. This disarming confidence is replete throughout the book and caused me to evaluate the experience not as a skeptic or a believer, but as a curious observer.In the end, I was not left wondering about the veracity of Panagore’s experience on the side of the ice-cliff. I was instead fascinated by the way the experience shaped his life: his focus, his work, his philosophy, his very existence. Some of this is not as simple or easy as the book’s title might convey. This book does not shy away from the pain and conflict that the NDE caused (and in many ways still causes) for the author. Indeed, the author’s definition of hell (not a physical place) is haunting and unsettling. The book is successful because instead of trying to convince the reader about the truth and nature of an afterlife, it instead gives one a sense that we should be focusing on our actions and behaviors’ in this life, attempting to live as loving and concerned people, and leaving our worry and fretting over the next life in the hands of a loving and compassionate God.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful. His near death experience, incredibly vivid, believable and beautiful By JT Exquisitely beautiful. I have been fascinated by near death experiences (NDE) during most of my adult years. Life After Life by Raymond Moody (1975) was the first book I read that piqued my interest. Its stories cited the experiences of about 100 people who'd experienced this phenomenon all of which described very similar experiences, e.g., sluicing down a dark tunnel to arrive in brilliant light, feeling love as they never experienced before, meeting up again with relatives and friends who had died and surroundings so incredibly beautiful (I can think of no word to describe use) that they could not find words to describe the event after "coming back." The book helped me with my faith.Then along comes Peter B. Panagore's book. I started it in the early morning and was compelled to finish it before turning in for the night. For me, Panagore's description of what happened to him and has happened since dying in a harness hanging off an ice wall in Canada, has captured the indescribable beauty of that experience as well as the real confusion and personal pain he underwent as he harbored his story for twenty years before finally letting it all come out in a transformative sermon he gave at his church in Maine. This book is REAL for lack of a better term. No sugar coating but intensely beautiful.I will read it again.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Words for the Soul... By dls I consider personal narrative the most essential reading I do - the real deal, hearing, reading other people's stories helps me put my own in perspective and broadens my understanding of the human condition. This particular account was extremely honest and, while my Judaic orientation is unclear about what happens after dying, my basic, complex spiritual being says anything is possible. I think the most important thing, for me, about Peter's account, is that hope matters...to us all. I believe the great equalizer is the fact that we are born and we all die. Peter gives us a glimpse into just one experience, really not mystical, but very deeply spiritual - in some ways matter of fact, as is his style, but very fluid and literal and beautiful. Parts of the book made me cry. And as we all know crying is great purging and healing. Thank you Peter Panagore, for a very thoughtful sharing of humanity.
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