Discover everything that Anita Moorjani has learned about illness, healing, overcoming fear and the true magnificence of life itself, through her battle with illness and near-death experience. In a brand-new Afterword, she tells us how her life has dramatically changed since the book's original publication, including how the discovery that she is an empath has given her a profound new perspective on her near-death experience.

I don't agree with absolutely everything that Anita says. For instance, the commentary on rapists and murderers was not particularly convincing to me, for reasons I won't indulge to go into here. But I don't think Anita would mind this. As I say, she is not a guru and I suggest that people don't treat her as such. She does not have the answer to everything, nor should she be expected to. That's a bit too much responsibility for one person! And after all, one of the very reasons we may all be different is precisely because each one of us is capable of bringing unique contributions, and insights, to the structure of existence and this magical (though admittedly sometimes confounding) thing called life. The audio, a newer revised version, contained a final bonus chapter not present in the ebook I got from the library, a much older version. This was a discussion of empathy and highly sensitive people. (She’s written an entire book on the subject). I appreciated this info, as I belong to one or both categories, though I’ve long since learned to survive by setting firm boundaries. I could see that her more recent writing style is much more fluid.A review of Anita’s near-death experience: “It felt like love was coming from the whole universe, I was bathed in it”.

They also provide interesting clues of how to do this: They echo each other in trying to convey how crucially important total self-acceptance is. This means no matter who you are, you must learn to accept yourself in totality, both the allegedly good as well as the allegedly evil parts. No matter how "bad" you think you are, or how "depraved", you need to learn to approve of yourself and to love yourself, including the "evil" bits, unconditionally. That opens the door and allows you to be healed. This, I think, is also the central message in the Bible: Despite being sinners, we can be saved. But a precondition is that we must stop judging ourselves and stop rejecting the parts of ourselves that we think are evil. As we succeed, we discover that only we were judging ourselves. The door to awakening is always an open door. Nobody, not God, nor any person, stands in the way of all this joy, the unconditional love and immutable bliss which can be ours right now, except our own unwise self-judgements.Based on my own experience and opinions of several colleagues, I am unable to attribute her dramatic recovery to her chemotherapy. Based on what we have learned about cancer cell behaviors, I speculate that something (non-physical..."information"?) either switched off the mutated genes from expressing, or signaled them to a programmed cell death. The exact mechanism is unknown to us, but not likely to be the result of cytotoxic drugs." In this truly inspirational memoir, New York Times Best Selling Author – Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body-overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system-began shutting down.