Becoming Starlight
Surviving Grief and Mending the Wounds of Loss: A Memoir
by Sharon Prentice, PhD
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Pub Date May 08 2018 | Archive Date Aug 19 2019
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Description
Dr. Raymond Moody, world renowned physician and researcher, states: Becoming Starlight: A Shared Death Journey From Darkness to Light is in “the vanguard of a series of works that are a breakthrough in understanding the biggest question of existence that mankind struggles with--the mystery of life after life. Becoming Starlight disrupts today’s conversations about the Near Death Experience and the Shared Death Experience, turning that debate on its head.”
Becoming Starlight is the true story of one woman’s tumultuous relationship with God during the soul-wrenching deaths of her daughter and husband, and her eventual redemption as her soul slipped over to another framework of existence—a realm of pure love and light—by means of a Shared Death Experience (SDE) at the moment of her husband’s death. The little known Shared Death Experience—a profound transcendent consciousness—afforded the author a peek into forever-ness, a lifting of the veil between this life and the next. It was a redemption by means of a completely unexpected experience, one that brought the author kicking and screaming into the very presence of God. It is He, alone, who has the power to part the veil and “invite” you—bring you to Him--while you are still alive and well.
Deeply embedded in Becoming Starlight is a life-and-death struggle with Spiritual darkness and loss of faith. It’s a story brimming with the stuff of life—tremendous love, agonizing loss, quiet rage, inconsolable sorrow, and a complete fall from Grace. At the heart of it is a war between who lives and dies, a battle that brings us face to face with our own mortality.
Becoming Starlight is an emotionally powerful and spiritually gripping story of what lies “beyond” this life. It is a true account of a soul-searching journey that is filled with all those things that life—and death—presents to us all. It is a story that every woman who has ever loved and sorrowed and every man who has ever loved a woman will relate to. Shifting us outside our comfort zones, it makes us question everything we thought we knew—or believed—about our place in the Universe and our relationship with God. It does that by taking us on a journey that begins within the bowels of fear and ends with an encounter with the source of all Creation.
Becoming Starlight recounts the unfolding of a lifetime of beliefs about God and an eventual redemption that led the author home to a true Spiritual self…within and of God.
Sharon Prentice, PhD
Soon after completing her graduate studies in psychology, Dr. Prentice found the world of secular psychology lacking—her patients needed "something more". So, she set out to investigate and explore alternative methods in the field of mental health that would incorporate that "something special" she believed existed in each and every individual soul. Her journey would take her through the great religions of the world as well as to a discovery of ancient, time proven alternatives to modern therapeutic models of counseling.
Advance Praise
"Becoming Starlight is truly sensational; everybody who is seriously interested in the question of life after death should read it." —Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., author of Life After Life, Reunions, and Glimpses of Eternity
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781947637948 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 238609
This was a beautiful story. I found it hard to put down. It is one I will definitely read again.
I would like to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a review copy. This is my honest and unbiased opinion of it.
Dee B, Educator
"Becoming Starlight" is a great redemption story. Sharon describes her descent into a horrible, cruel and thoroughly undeserved world of hurt. Suffering illness and loss at an age when one's hopes and dreams should be flourishing rather than being trampled on by a seemingly blind and malevolent fate. It's a very personal account and the somewhat naive tone of the writing is a help not a hindrance. I think it may have been Truman Capote who said that the first three rules of editing are "cut, cut, cut" and I think this story may have benefitted from that advice. That said, the book is fairly short and does offer many pearls of wisdom regarding the "gifts" which extreme hardship may confer on a life when one sees the light, or, in this case, the Starlight. Much of the wisdom is Sharon's own but it is augmented by the quotes of many other 'lightworkers'; the product of the extensive study and research which she has undertaken. The Shared Death Experience is difficult terrain to cover if you feel you're writing for those who have not been there. Sharon has done a great job of that. Those who have been there, and there are millions of us, will understand immediately and easily. Nice work.
Kim T, Reviewer
What a beautiful reading experience! I am not a religious person but I would consider myself spiritual and this brought me to tears on a number of occasions. While there is talk of God, it's a more generic God which is good because it didn't feel overly preachy to me.
Becoming Starlight would be a good gift for someone struggling with the very questions discussed in its' pages. Is there more to this than just our mortal lives on earth? Is there a "heaven"? Should we fear death? For people open to the spiritual, it would be a reassuring read and could provide great comfort, especially while grieving the loss of a loved one.
Thank you, NetGalley for this e-book in exchange for my honest review!
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