Farther Shores

Kason, Yvonne. Farther Shores: Exploring how Near-Death, Kundalini, and Mystical Experiences can transform ordinary lives. iUniverse, 2008

 
A dramatic near-death experience changed Dr.Yvonne Kason’s life forever and prompted her quest as a medical doctor, to research spiritual experiences that can transform our everyday lives.  The first US publication of this Canadian best seller, Farther Shores is a synthesis of 25 years of Dr. Kason’s research, personal experiences and the experiences of thousands of patients she has counseled. She has helped others understand and integrate extraordinary states of consciousness and the long-term spiritual transformation that often follows.  Written from a multi-faith perspective, the book draws deeply from yoga and Christian mystical traditions, along with modern medicine, psychiatry and psychology.

 Using inspiring case stories, Dr. Kason explores and defines  diverse spiritually transformative experiences happening to people today. Dr. Kason offers sound advice on how to use these occurrences for spiritual growth and personal healing. 

Topics include:

• Mystical experiences - a multifaith perspective
• Near Death Experiences
• NDE-like experiences: Facing-death, death-bed and death-watch experiences
• Kundalini awakening / spiritual energy episodes / yogic model of consciousness
• Psychic awakenings including past-life recall
• Spiritual Emergencies and Psychosis
• Grounding strategies
• Long-term spiritual transformation of consciousness/ the mystical path: physical, psychological, and spiritual symptoms
• Promoting a balanced Spiritual Transformation / Self-realization / God-realization

Farther Shores is a thrilling exploration of mystical experiences and their after-effects, an inspiration for those interested in spiritual experiences, an indispensable tool for counselors and health care professionals, and a practical guide for persons having spiritual experience of all types, and for their family and friends.

“…an exceptionally readable and userful book on near-death and other spiritually transformative experiences.  Written in a popular style that will appeal to intelligent lay readers, this book is careful enough about its science to be palatable as well to physicians and scholars.” … -Bruce Greyson M.D., Bonner-Lowry Professor of Personality Studies, University of Virginia Medical School, Former editor of  The Journal of Near-Death Studies, and editor of The Near-Death Experience: Problems, Prospects, Perspectives.

“…an exceptional book…[that] takes the reader into a world where mystical happenings bring direction and healing to our everyday lives.” - Jyoti (Jeneane Prevatt, Ph.D.) Former Director of the Spiritual Emergence Network, Author of An Angel Called My Name.

… “a major contribution to our understanding of a wide range of spiritually transformative experiences…Kason is a wise and knowledgeable guide in these realms, and I can recommend her book with the greatest enthusiasm.” - Kenneth Ring, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Author of Heading Toward Omega and Lessons from the Light.

…”builds a bridge between the scientific and the spiritual, a bridge physicians will feel comfortable crossing.” - Family Practice

About the Author

Yvonne Kason, MD, MEd, CCFP, FCFP,MGPP, is a family physician and transpersonal psychotherapist based in Toronto, retired in 2006.  Dr. Kason  was an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Toronto, on faculty at three Toronto teaching hospitals. She was the founder of the Spiritual Emergence Research and Referral Clinic and a founder of the Kundalini Research Network and the Spirituality in Health-Care Network. In 2002 she chaired the University of Toronto’s first international conference on Spirituality and Health-Care, to promote multi-faith and multi-professional dialogue relating to spirituality and healing. Dr. Kason has been a guest on numerous television and radio shows across Canada and the U.S. Her near-death experience has been re-enacted on “Sightings”, as well as in two television documentaries. A recognized international expert and Canada’s foremost authority on on near-death, kundalini and mystical experiences, she is in demand as a lecturer and media resource.

Kason, Yvonne. Farther Shores: Exploring how Near-death, Kundalini, and Mystical Experiences can transform ordinary lives. iUniverse, 2008

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