In many ways the book is like an encyclopaedic compendium of all the NDE research ever done. Even the alternative, 3D materialistic theories are presented and then systematically demolished. However I will conclude by saying that I found the book to be an excellent source of information relating to the NDE. There’s a lot more to talk about (the book is 473 pages, and each page is much larger than the average book). This is consistent with what SOTT has found. Atwater calculated, based on the children’s descriptions of themselves in the future with their own children and grandchildren, that such changes would transpire from 2013 onwards.
Unlike Ring, Atwater did not conclude that NDEers identify UFOs in a positive light. My take on all this is that NDErs become more prone to UFO experiences because the rewiring of their brain structure enables UFO experiences to occur more readily – in other words it is more receptive to higher realities.
However, Atwater notes that unlike those only having NDEs, the UFO experiencers’ lives are more troubled and negative in the long-run (and we at SOTT all know why this is).
Most experiencers felt that what they went through was like a ‘shove’ in the ‘right direction’ – as if they were getting ‘off track’ in their ‘true purpose’. All of this begs the question of whether the experiencer was already innately STO or whether it was the experience itself that turned them from being (potentially) STS into STO.