Dying to Wake Up: A Doctor's Voyage into the Afterlife

Dr. Rajiv Parti, founder of the Pain Management Institute of California and Chief of Anesthesiology at Bakersfield’s Heart Hospital, specialized in cardiac anesthesiology. On Christmas Eve of 2010, after two years of battling chronic pelvic pain, incontinence, and impotency due to surgical complications from prostate cancer, Dr. Parti was taken to the Emergency Room at UCLA. Suffering from sepsis (a life-threatening infection) and in excruciating pain, Dr. Parti had an out-of-body experience. Floating ten feet above his body, Dr. Parti watched his medical team as they struggled to save him. While part of his consciousness remained in the operating room in Los Angeles, another part of his consciousness journeyed to India where he watched family members prepare a meal. From there he visited hell, experienced a life review, met deceased loved ones, travelled through a “time tunnel,” and visited Heaven where he met a Being of Light (whom he regarded as God) and two guardian angels. During the experience, Rajiv was told that he was going to be alright, but that when he returned to his body, his life purpose would be changed forever: he would leave behind his materialistic lifestyle, stop practicing anesthesiology, and become a healer.

Paul Perry is the co-author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Closer to the Light, Transformed by the Light and Saved by the Light, which was made into a popular movie by Fox TV. His books have been published in more than 30 languages around the world. In 1986 Perry's interest in the effects and meaning of near-death experiences led to a professional involvement with Dr. Raymond Moody, considered to be the founder of near-death studies. The two have written five books together – Paranormal, Glimpses of Eternity, The Light Beyond, Coming Back and Reunions.

Steve West is a multi-award winning voice actor, having received nine AudioFile Earphones Awards for outstanding narration. Steve has also performed on the West End stage in ABBA's musical phenomenon Mamma Mia! and opposite the likes of Chucky the killer doll and Don Draper in TV's Mad Men.