Nancy,
This post begs the question: When do you think Dancing Past the Dark (the book) will be published? Literature authored exclusively by “Nancy Evans-Bush” is hard to find. I’ve searched Google and Amazon, and other than a few IANDS articles and downloads, it looks like you’ve been kinda shy over the course of your career. That and it seems like you’ve been working in the background while more high profile types took most of the credit.
What little I can find is of a deeply insightful, uplifting-to-humorous caliber that is scarce in any literature, much less NDE related topics. For that matter, I don’t think a fully researched reasonably intelligent book concerning distressing NDE’s is out there on the market at all right now.
I mean, I’m not sweating you to hurry up or anything, but… oh heck:
Ah… I have no answer for your question, Rabbit, because so far there is a demonstrated absence of interest from agents to agent or publishers to publish. Especially with the recession, these are parlous times in publishing circles. (If only I had had the experience as a 4-year-old and could expand on it from the perspective of pediatric transformation and attract a million starry-eyed readers…but alas, no such luck.) If no publisher is forthcoming by the end of the year, I will be considering e-book format, simply to get the stuff out there. All the experiencers and their families who’ve had next to *nothing* for all these years! So many exasperations! If only I had done a PhD, or been an MD or a professor! If only it hadn’t taken 30 years to get enough solid information! If only people I’ve discovered rather recently had spoken up 20 years ago! If only, if only. My hope is to have the [editorial censorship] work available one way or another before I hit my next decade mark. The Grandma Moses of near-death studies. This is perhaps an intemperate response, demonstrating only that we’re all grumpy about something or other. Many thanks for your kind words–and if you have any ideas for how to change the status quo, do please let me know. In the meantime, I’ll dribble the chapters out one at a time.
There’s always Publish America. Through the NDERF I found a great NDE account that a guy wrote that encompassed his whole life. I forget the title and the author author. I’ve moved, and the book is packed away somewhere. This was a few years ago. I wrote a review about it for the NDERF.
NDE differs from dreams in several important aspects:
1) Mark, who I interviewed, fell into a diabetic coma, and began his Near Death Experience. When he returned, he never needed insulin again. Dreams don’t usually reverse diabetes.
2) There are fire-fighters who went into an NDE together, ascended up into the light while they were trapped in the flames; fire swept over, melted the fittings on their fire-suits, burned the handles on their equipment and singed their clothing; but their hair, skin, eyes and bodies were left uninjured when they were sent back down the tunnel and re-entered their bodies. The melted fire-fighting equipment was no dream.
3) I’ve seen NDEs or visions open and cause computer equipment to crash, bring down networks, and even black-out electronic test equipment for an extended period — and computers don’t dream or hallucinate. There’s energy there that’s external to the person.
4) People bring back information that they could not otherwise obtain in a dream-state, and it sometimes can be verified by an independent source later. How does someone get new knowledge or acquire intelligence they didn’t have from an internal dream?
5) I’ve interviewed & read several accounts where one person dies in the arms of another who is comforting them, and both share the same NDE; in some of the accounts, both returned; in other accounts, one dies, and moves on, but the two remain in contact telepathically. When you consider that one is oxygenating normally, and quite awake, while the other is in respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest, but both see the light and go toward it, it’s hard to understand why people hold on to the “Lack of Oxygen to the Brain” theory, or call it an hallucination, when hallucinations and dreams are not shared nor are they identical between two persons.
…”and if you have any ideas for how to change the status quo, do please let me know.”…
As a matter of fact, I do have a few ideas, now that I see what’s going on. I started to post them here, but the post started getting too involved for a simple blog post. That’s okay, I happen to have a “Professional” level membership at IANDS (needless to say, I’m no professional:-) ). One of the membership advantages is that I have email access to all sorts of people in the NDE community. The IANDS system doesn’t tell me what their actual email address is, and I’ve never used it, but in this case, I’ll try to send you an email with some suggestions and ideas for folks to contact. It may take a few days ’cause I want to sniff around and think about it first.
I will say this, though. Self-publishing an e-book may feel like a step down to folks our age (I’m a decade or two up there myself), but it is the direction that mainstream publishing is rapidly heading towards. Sure, I personally prefer dead-tree books, and I don’t own an e-reader right now, but I do have Kindle for PC downloaded (it’s free) on my PC and laptop. There are a lot of good books out there that can only be accessed via electronic media because of the same problems you’re having. Check your email in a couple of days.
This is the book that was published by Publish America. It’s njow available on Amazon.
I discovered it as a NDE experience on NDERF, and bought it. This is a way to get out there.
Once out there, your name and reputation will sell it. Ron Kruger and A Higher Good made it.
I understand why my last comments were axed off the blog. I was only trying to show that after about three and a half years Ron Krugers book is still in print. It’s alive and kicking, and benefiting all who are lucky enough to find it and read it.
Publishing America has the reputation of being willing to publish anything. This may seem to be the publishing out for the bottom feeders, but hey! his book is out there benefiting people.
If these comments never get posted, that’s OK with me, but I hope they get read.
Hi Nancy!
I have been waiting for the other shoe to fall but I don’t see Chapter 2 in the Sample Chapter link. Am I missing something?
Robert
Nancy,
This post begs the question: When do you think Dancing Past the Dark (the book) will be published? Literature authored exclusively by “Nancy Evans-Bush” is hard to find. I’ve searched Google and Amazon, and other than a few IANDS articles and downloads, it looks like you’ve been kinda shy over the course of your career. That and it seems like you’ve been working in the background while more high profile types took most of the credit.
What little I can find is of a deeply insightful, uplifting-to-humorous caliber that is scarce in any literature, much less NDE related topics. For that matter, I don’t think a fully researched reasonably intelligent book concerning distressing NDE’s is out there on the market at all right now.
I mean, I’m not sweating you to hurry up or anything, but… oh heck:
🙂 Sweat…Sweat…Sweat 🙂
Ah… I have no answer for your question, Rabbit, because so far there is a demonstrated absence of interest from agents to agent or publishers to publish. Especially with the recession, these are parlous times in publishing circles. (If only I had had the experience as a 4-year-old and could expand on it from the perspective of pediatric transformation and attract a million starry-eyed readers…but alas, no such luck.) If no publisher is forthcoming by the end of the year, I will be considering e-book format, simply to get the stuff out there. All the experiencers and their families who’ve had next to *nothing* for all these years! So many exasperations! If only I had done a PhD, or been an MD or a professor! If only it hadn’t taken 30 years to get enough solid information! If only people I’ve discovered rather recently had spoken up 20 years ago! If only, if only. My hope is to have the [editorial censorship] work available one way or another before I hit my next decade mark. The Grandma Moses of near-death studies. This is perhaps an intemperate response, demonstrating only that we’re all grumpy about something or other. Many thanks for your kind words–and if you have any ideas for how to change the status quo, do please let me know. In the meantime, I’ll dribble the chapters out one at a time.
There’s always Publish America. Through the NDERF I found a great NDE account that a guy wrote that encompassed his whole life. I forget the title and the author author. I’ve moved, and the book is packed away somewhere. This was a few years ago. I wrote a review about it for the NDERF.
NDE differs from dreams in several important aspects:
1) Mark, who I interviewed, fell into a diabetic coma, and began his Near Death Experience. When he returned, he never needed insulin again. Dreams don’t usually reverse diabetes.
2) There are fire-fighters who went into an NDE together, ascended up into the light while they were trapped in the flames; fire swept over, melted the fittings on their fire-suits, burned the handles on their equipment and singed their clothing; but their hair, skin, eyes and bodies were left uninjured when they were sent back down the tunnel and re-entered their bodies. The melted fire-fighting equipment was no dream.
3) I’ve seen NDEs or visions open and cause computer equipment to crash, bring down networks, and even black-out electronic test equipment for an extended period — and computers don’t dream or hallucinate. There’s energy there that’s external to the person.
4) People bring back information that they could not otherwise obtain in a dream-state, and it sometimes can be verified by an independent source later. How does someone get new knowledge or acquire intelligence they didn’t have from an internal dream?
5) I’ve interviewed & read several accounts where one person dies in the arms of another who is comforting them, and both share the same NDE; in some of the accounts, both returned; in other accounts, one dies, and moves on, but the two remain in contact telepathically. When you consider that one is oxygenating normally, and quite awake, while the other is in respiratory arrest or cardiac arrest, but both see the light and go toward it, it’s hard to understand why people hold on to the “Lack of Oxygen to the Brain” theory, or call it an hallucination, when hallucinations and dreams are not shared nor are they identical between two persons.
…”and if you have any ideas for how to change the status quo, do please let me know.”…
As a matter of fact, I do have a few ideas, now that I see what’s going on. I started to post them here, but the post started getting too involved for a simple blog post. That’s okay, I happen to have a “Professional” level membership at IANDS (needless to say, I’m no professional:-) ). One of the membership advantages is that I have email access to all sorts of people in the NDE community. The IANDS system doesn’t tell me what their actual email address is, and I’ve never used it, but in this case, I’ll try to send you an email with some suggestions and ideas for folks to contact. It may take a few days ’cause I want to sniff around and think about it first.
I will say this, though. Self-publishing an e-book may feel like a step down to folks our age (I’m a decade or two up there myself), but it is the direction that mainstream publishing is rapidly heading towards. Sure, I personally prefer dead-tree books, and I don’t own an e-reader right now, but I do have Kindle for PC downloaded (it’s free) on my PC and laptop. There are a lot of good books out there that can only be accessed via electronic media because of the same problems you’re having. Check your email in a couple of days.
Very good you are at making a person smile early in the morning. Thank you. Check your email this morning.
http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Good-Ronald-Kruger/dp/1413781667
This is the book that was published by Publish America. It’s njow available on Amazon.
I discovered it as a NDE experience on NDERF, and bought it. This is a way to get out there.
Once out there, your name and reputation will sell it. Ron Kruger and A Higher Good made it.
I understand why my last comments were axed off the blog. I was only trying to show that after about three and a half years Ron Krugers book is still in print. It’s alive and kicking, and benefiting all who are lucky enough to find it and read it.
Publishing America has the reputation of being willing to publish anything. This may seem to be the publishing out for the bottom feeders, but hey! his book is out there benefiting people.
If these comments never get posted, that’s OK with me, but I hope they get read.
Sorry, Dave, no comments have been axed. I’ve been away for a bit.