Prologue 1(10)
1 The Pain
11(6)
2 The Hospital
17(6)
3 Out of Nowhere
23(2)
4 Eben IV
25(4)
5 Underworld
29(4)
6 An Anchor to Life
33(5)
7 The Spinning Melody and the Gateway
38(4)
8 Israel
42(3)
9 The Core
45(5)
10 What Counts
50(9)
11 An End to the Downward Spiral
59(9)
12 The Core
68(6)
13 Wednesday
74(2)
14 A Special Kind of NDE
76(4)
15 The Gift of Forgetting
80(7)
16 The Well
87(2)
17 N of 1
89(6)
18 To Forget, aad to Remember
95(2)
19 Nowhere to Hide
97(5)
20 The Closing
102(3)
21 The Rainbow
105(3)
22 Six Faces
108(3)
23 Final Night, First Morning
111(4)
24 The Return
115(5)
25 Not There Yet
120(4)
26 Spreading the News
124(2)
27 Homecoming
126(3)
28 The Ultra-Real
129(2)
29 A Common Experience
131(5)
30 Back from the Dead
136(4)
31 Three Camps
140(7)
32 A Visit to Church
147(2)
33 The Enigma of Consciousness
149(13)
34 A Final Dilemma
162(3)
35 The Photograph
165(7)
Eternea 172(1)
Acknowledgments 173(4)
Reading List 177(6)
Appendix A Statement 183(2)
Scott Wade
Appendix B Neuroscientific Hypotheses I Considered to Explain My Experience 185(4)
Index 189