{"product_id":"reclaiming-the-spirit-a-memoir-of-two-near-death-experiences-and-the-fifty-nine-years-between-them-hardcover","title":"Reclaiming the Spirit: A Memoir of Two Near-Death Experiences and the Fifty-Nine Years Between Them - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmanuel Perlman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwice, Emanuel Perlman crossed the threshold between life and death and came back changed each time. Reclaiming the Spirit is a memoir of fifty-nine years lived at the edge of ordinary experience. At his mother's bedside, in her last lucid moment, she looked past him and spoke four words no child forgets, a moment that crystallized a lifetime spent seeking what lies beneath the surface of belief, grief, and mortality. Across those decades, Perlman's path took him into places most people never see: preparing the dead with his own hands according to Jewish burial tradition; standing inches from the funeral pyres of Varanasi, where he captured one of the only existing photographs of the reclusive Aghori sect; laying his palm against ancient stone beneath Jerusalem and feeling it soften beneath his touch; and being named Chief Udochukwu in Nigeria, consecrated as a living emblem of peace. Woven throughout is a second near-death experience and a lifelong question the book keeps returning to: what does it mean to be a witness rather than a spectator to your own life, and to the suffering of others? With a foreword by Dr. Everett R. Siegel, retired Johns Hopkins physician in neuropsychiatry, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, this is a book for readers drawn to memoirs of faith, mortality, and the hidden architecture of existence itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67869723885726,"sku":"9798993028248","price":54.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7748\/8030\/files\/7GEKt2fDXM9798993028248.webp?v=1793314614","url":"https:\/\/theword.com\/products\/reclaiming-the-spirit-a-memoir-of-two-near-death-experiences-and-the-fifty-nine-years-between-them-hardcover","provider":"TheWord.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}