An Incredible Near-Death Experience | Ep272

This week I'm talking to Peter Panagore about his book 'Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That Death Is Just the Beginning'.

When Peter Baldwin Panagore died on the side of a mountain, his life was forever changed. Decades later, the intense spiritual journey continues, with a story that combines the thrills of a wilderness adventure with the awe-inspiring elements of a paranormal novel.
In March of 1980, college senior Peter Panagore went ice climbing on the world-famous Lower Weeping Wall, along the Ice Fields Parkway in Alberta, Canada. His climbing partner was an experienced ice climber, but Panagore was a novice. On their descent, they became trapped on the side of the mountain. As the sun set, he was overcome by exhaustion and hypothermia. He died on the side of that mountain. And in those minutes on the other side, he experienced hell, forgiveness, and unconditional love. Heaven was beautiful.
Panagore's death experience changed his life and resulted in an intense spiritual journey that has continued for decades. It impelled him to pursue a master's degree at Yale Divinity School, focusing on systematic theology and Christian mysticism. His educational background coupled with 30 years of meditative practice and 20 years of professional work with the dying and grieving has given him unique insight, language, and perspective on heaven, God, death, life, love, beauty, and hope.

Bio
Global Audible Best-Selling Author of Heaven Is Beautiful: How Dying Taught Me That
Death Is Just The Beginning and Maine Best-Selling Author of Two Minutes for God: Quick
Fixes for the Spirit Rev. Peter Baldwin Panagore, MDiv. is an entrepreneur and ordained
pastor. For fifteen years (2003-2018), he broadcasted a daily two-minute spot on two NBC
TV stations with Daily Devotions (brand) just before the morning's weather. Storytelling, communicator, public speaker, pastor, and storyteller, Peter had thirty million views annually on TV (Nielsen Ratings) and uncounted listeners on FM and AM across Maine and New Hampshire plus around the nation.

Peter graduated from Yale University, where he completed his MDiv, focusing on the
practices and writings in the classics of western mysticism.
A two-time Near-Death Experiencer, Peter, first died in 1980 of hypothermia while ice
climbing in Banff Provincial Park in Canada, and then again of a heart attack in 2015, just as Hampton Roads, HarperCollins Canada, Guidepost's, Jaffa Kiado, Audible, Brilliance Audio, Kindle, Audible, and Nook, released Heaven Is Beautiful globally. In 2020, Ananta Productions with Andrea Stone and Avenue Pictures with Cary Brokaw optioned Heaven Is Beautiful for a feature film.
Peter's Maine Best Seller, Two Minutes for God: Quick Fixes for the Spirit, published with Simon & Schuster, is a daily inspirational story drawn from among the seventeen hundred he wrote and broadcast each day. Peter's at work on his third book with the working title, Knowing God.
From 1990-2003, Peter published publishing one-hundred and fifty sermons and dozens of
prayers as a staff writer for Homiletics (now Homiletics.Online), a national leading worship preparation journal for progressive clergy.

Peter published his first story, Former Enemies, once in The NYTs #1 Best Seller, Chicken Soup for the Veteran's Soul: Stories to Stir the Pride and Honor the Courage of Our Veterans, and again in Stories from a Soldier's Heart: For the Patriotic Soul (over 5 million copies in print) by Waterbrook Multnomah Publishers. He wrote blogged on Huffington Post's Blogspot, by invitation, for a decade.
Amazon Prime released the Life to Afterlife: Death and Back 2 featuring Peter in this
episode. Death and Back 2 Fox and Friends, Coast to Coast AM, Canada's The Drew
Marshall Show, featured Peter, and recently he appeared on Buddha at the Gas Pump
and Shaman Oaks. He...