A groundbreaking study of the lifelong effects of near-death experiences in the newly born, babies, toddlers, and children up to age five

• Draws on interviews with nearly 400 childhood experiencers, both fully matured and young, as well as more than 40 years of NDE research involving over 5,000 people

• Reveals how those who experience a near-death state at a young age are profoundly affected for the rest of their lives, including developing psychic and intuitive abilities, “wisdom beyond their years,” and a pervasive feeling of being “homesick for heaven”

• Investigates the wide-awake consciousness of babies being born, womb memories, and the experience of being alive on the other side of death

In this major study of near-death experiences with the newly born, babies, toddlers, and children up to age five, NDE expert P. M. H. Atwater reveals how those who experience a near-death state or other worlds at a very young age are profoundly affected for the rest of their lives, including developing psychic and intuitive abilities, higher intelligence and “wisdom beyond their years,” and a pervasive feeling of being “homesick for heaven.”

Drawing on interviews with nearly 400 childhood experiencers, both fully matured and young, Atwater explores their accounts of what it is like to be alive on the other side of death as well as what makes them different from others, complemented by a deep analysis of statistical evidence from her more than 40 years of NDE research involving more than 5,000 people. She shows how, in contrast to adult experiencers, child and infant experiencers of near-death states cannot compare “before” with “after” as adults do, because they don’t have a “before.” The world of these “forever angels” is the life continuum, a stream of consciousness that has always existed and always will. Integrating “where they once were” with “where they now are” is a lifelong challenge. The author explores how those who have a near-death experience very early in life, or even in utero, grow up “different”--sometimes geniuses, sometimes lost, yet unusually psychic and smart, all at the same time. She reveals how these experiences and their knowledge of the afterlife affect the individual in many areas, including family life, dating, health, education, and spirituality, as well as increasing the experiencer’s potential for thoughts of suicide, out-of-body experiences, and PTSD symptoms.

Examining the forever angels’ memories of the womb, birth, early childhood, and the other world, Atwater investigates the wide-awake consciousness of babies being born, the vivid recall of mature childhood near-death experiencers, and how memory of the life-continuum never fades, nor does the desire to go back.

P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., is a distinguished researcher of near-death experiences, prayer chaplain, spiritual counselor, and visionary. She is the author of 18 books including Children of the Fifth World, Beyond the Indigo Children, and The New Children and Near-Death Experiences. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

INTRODUCTION
Child Experiencers Are Different

ONE
What’s Here

TWO
Who’s Here

THREE
In Their Own Words

FOUR
Birth Memories

FIVE
The Womb

SIX
Otherworldly

SEVEN
Some Surprises

EIGHT
Afterward

NINE
A Question of Family

TEN
Health Issues

ELEVEN
School, Dating, Sex

TWELVE
Growing Up, Jobs, Marriage

THIRTEEN
PTSD and NDEs

FOURTEEN
Solutions

FIFTEEN
Historical Cases

SIXTEEN
Markers

SEVENTEEN
The Forever Angels

Notes

Additional and Suggested Reading

Resources

International Association for Near-Death Studies

Index

About the Author