Thresholds

Thresholds: Near Life Experiences

Gabriel Bradford Millar (author)

People returning to life from serious accidents sometimes describe their near-death experiences. Such experiences may include brief glimpses of sustaining light, of healing, of helping and often the painful realization that it is not yet time to cross the threshold of death. Such breakthroughs into a different reality are also being experienced by people in everyday life situations. Such experiences are often brief, but their meaning and intensity is such that they are almost too personal to share. This book is a gathering of a variety of people's accounts of their "near-life" experiences, moments of openness, transformation or total clarity which became inner turning points. It is a book of common revelation which aims to help readers respect the authority of their own profound experiences and seeking. It contains 46 contributors, including Jay Ramsay, Alan Ramsay, Charles Lawrie, Diane Lodge, Ronald Higgins, Stanley Messenger, Judy de la Hoyde and Leslie Kenton.

Gabriel Bradford Millar is arenegade American poet, born in New York in 1944. For five years, she attended universities in New York and Edinburgh, where she published in Lines Review and Scottish International, read her works on BBC TV, and was interviewed by George Bruce on BBC Radio Scotland. She married an English man, raised children and chickens in Gloucestershire, and taught English at a Waldorf school. Her books include Mid-Day, The Brook Runs, and Bloom on the Stone. More recently, she published Thresholds: Near-life Experiences (1995), forty years of poetry in The Saving Flame (2001) and Crackle of Almonds (2012). Gabriel has given scores of readings and over a hundred play shops and, with Jay Ramsay, co-founded Poetry Stroud (UK) and Celebration of the Word as forums for other poets. She believes that poems, like love-talk, should go from mouth to ear, with no paper in between.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hawthorn Press (27 Jun. 1998)
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1869890681