Coma

Paperback, xiv + 121 including notes, glossary, and bibliography This book, originally published in 1989 as Coma: Key to Awakening (also in the Fae Dougan Library), has been retitled and has a new foreword in this 1994 edition. Contents: Forward / Amy and Arny Mindell Preface Part one: The key to life 1. A big ship: Introduction to working with the dying 2. Crossing the bridge: Transition issues of the last three weeks of a man dying of leukemia 3. The death sentence: How final dream and body states react to and ignore medical predictions of death 4. Coma and rebirth: Sudden awakening out of a profound coma to experience the key to life 5. The spirit in the bottle: Dream work, body work, and the disappearance of symptoms on the final day with life 6. What is death: Death and personal myths, practicing dying, grieving, and the meaning of death in life Part Two: Theory and training 7. Altered states and coma: Trance, altered states, and coma definitions; trance training and exercises 8. Working with comas: Advanced exercises and detailed methods for completing comatose signals 9. Coma and shamanistic experience: Process ideas about illness, and reaccessing old comatose experiences 10. Dreambody and mythbody: Relativity of different body experiences and their connection to dreams and myths 11. The immortal you: Cultural theories, case reports, and experiential exercises revealing an immortal self 12. Brain death and Thanatos ethics: Uniform determination of death, persistent vegetative states, brain death, and the rebuttal of case material Appendix: The spirit in the bottle