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.

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