Duane F Smith

Dying to Really Live: Memories of the Afterlife; a Non-believer Returns to Life After a Surprising Near Death Experience Duane F Smith

Publisher Marketing: A Near-Death Experience Offering Hope For All, Even The Non-Believer . A surprising, true afterlife sage of a young Agnostic, who before his death, seemingly had everything money could buy, when a Stanford Medical doctor diagnosed him with an incurable medical condition. Eventually he was sent home "to get his affairs in order," with 6 months to live." . Being an Agnostic, the young man soon made peace with death, expecting only oblivion when he died. However, he was wrong. Instead of the oblivion he expected, he was taken to an amazing Afterlife. Here he learned how wrong he had been about almost everything. Later. he was sent back to his life on earth with vivid evidence and memories of the afterlife. He was sent back, just as many other Near Death Experience survivors are, to tell people that there is life after death, and, that death isn't anything to fear, it's not the end of anything. In fact, death is quite the opposite. Death is just the beginning of another, new adventure, either there, here or somewhere else, as related in this afterlife saga, on life after death and of after-death communications. . The following excerpted were taken from a recent interview with the author. INTERVIEWER: So, what makes this book and the rest of the NDE Insight Series, different from all the other books about Near-Death Experiences? AUTHOR: Perhaps, if anything, it's because, I died as a Non-Believer in anything religious or spiritual and had no opinion on life after death, either way. In fact, I wasn't expecting anything, Heaven or Hell; just nothingness. However, when I finally died no one asked me, or cared, what I thought. I was just taken to the Afterlife. I had no say in the matter. . INTERVIEWER: In your book, you use the term, After Death Experience, sometimes, in place of Near-Death Experience. Would you explain the difference? AUTHOR: Sometimes these terms are used interchangeably, but someone can have a transcendent experience without actually dying or having an out of body experience. However, in a true after death experience one's body actually dies, yet the person eventually returns with memories of the afterlife. . INTERVIEWER: So what can the reader expect to read in your afterlife saga? AUTHOR: Well, first-of-all, that there is life after death and that it's possible to have afterlife communications with those who have gone on before . INTERVIEWER: Did your experience change you or your beliefs, in any way? AUTHOR: In almost every way possible. Before I died, I thought I had this life all figured out. I believed, "He who has the most toys when he dies, wins." And, when I was diagnosed with a terminal illness, according to that rule, I was doing very well. But, boy was I wrong about having everything figured out. I didn't have anything figured out. In fact, from an afterlife sojourn, I realized had gotten almost everything wrong. . INTERVIEWER: I see there are 4 books in the Series. Are they all about your death and return? ANSWER: No, Book I, "Dying to Really Live" covers my original afterlife sojourn to the the to the other side, plus, having been being taken back there again, three months later, by my Soul Guides. It's basically a saga about an afterlife sojourn. . INTERVIEWER: If Book I covers all that, what are the other 3 three books in the series about? AUTHOR: Book II, "Beyond the Afterlife," tells of what it was like to be back on earth after being in the afterlife. It also is what I saw, did and learned during the additional 4 times my Soul Guides returned me to the Afterlife, over the next few years. Plus, it tells of my initial assignments while I was back on this side. Then, in Book III, I write of my final assignment, in preparation for what I was really sent back to do. . INTERVIEWER: And what, then, was the real purpose of your being sent back. AUTHOR: In short, I was sent back with evidence of the afterlife, to tell my story; to tell people that death is not the end, but a new begi Contributor Bio:  Smith, Duane F About the Author, Duane F. Smith The Author's unusual background and life experiences provide a unique perspective on traditional education, its potential and shortcomings. Having been born dyslexic, he found his own schooling a challenge and, barely finishing high school, left to join the Army. There he was to experience a life-changing event...teaching in an experimental program prepared for the Army by the University of Maryland. It left him convinced there was a better teaching method for teaching dyslexic and ADDHD kids, than the one-size-fits-all Socratic Model, ubiquitous to education. After the Army, he went to Ashland, Oregon and to renovate old houses into college rentals. Meanwhile, in an attempt to understand why school had been so difficult for him, he enrolled in a psychology class at what is now Southern Oregon University, and one class led to another. Eventually, he received a Master's Degree, with an emphasis on early childhood development. In his late 20s, on a challenge from a frustrated teacher, he had met socially, he left an assistant to run his growing construction company, deciding to teach for a year or just long enough to test some of his theories. Here he would meet Henry O. Pete, an extremely innovative school superintendent. They soon united in their belief that the Socratic method of teaching was no longer meeting the needs of many of their students. Together, they developed an experimental program, kids who were struggling in the 4th through 6th grades. In this program the kids worked at their own pace and in their areas of interest. When, after five years, Henry was hired to be the founder of a Community College based on their same experimental theories, Duane decided not to follow Henry and left teaching to culminate his business career by building a unique inn in Ashland, Oregon. After two decades as an innkeeper, and 40 of following the progress of the students from the experiential program, he began writing. Renegade Teacher is about what worked in the classroom and what didn't. Then, Renegade Class is the story of what became of the kids from the program, over the next 40 years.