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Becoming Starlight Reviewed By Michelle Kaye Malsbury of Bookpleasures.com
- By Michelle Kaye Malsbury
- Published September 14, 2018
- General Non-Fiction
Michelle Kaye Malsbury
Reviewer Michelle Kaye Malsbury:
Michelle was born in Champaign, IL. Currently, she resides in Asheville, NC
and is in her second year of doctoral studies at Nova Southeastern
University in Ft. Lauderdale with specialization/concentration in
conflict resolution and peace studies. She has over six hundred
articles published on the web and one book published thus far with
many more in the wings. Hobbies include; reading, writing, music, and
playing with her Australian Cattle Dog, Abu.
Author: Sharon Prentice, PhD
Dr. Prentice, author of Becoming Starlight, belongs to the following professional communities; American Counselors Association, National Christian Counselors Association, and the American Mental Health Counselors Association. (2018, back cover) Doctor Prentice is a Commissioned minister of Pastoral Care. This book is an outcropping of questions she had about SDE or shared death experiences.
In the introduction Dr. Prentice asks “Have you ever lost someone you loved and then struggled with the question of “Where is he?...”. (2018) I’m pretty sure most of us can respond to this question with a resounding yes. To which Prentice says, “The search for answers brings so many of us to the brink of an immeasurable abyss, and then leaves us gasping for air and begging for one sentence that will put our hearts to rest. But where do we go for that answer?”
We have read much of the topic of near death experiences, yet there has been little knowledge put forth on the topic of the shared death experience. This is the perspective that Dr. Prentice takes for this groundbreaking book.
Her daughter was alive only moments and then gone, but she was in danger of losing her life too if the medical team did not move swiftly enough. She felt herself go under and she felt the immense pain of both her physical body and the intense loss of her daughter at the same time. She recovered from the physical loss and was sent home with a birth and death certificate for her daughter. She was in turmoil and sought answers to why this tragedy had to occur.
Steve, her husband, was in the military and they got transferred from Chicago to La Jolla, California. He was sent off for SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) training and she was alone and learning how to navigate her new life. Eventually this new life became her escape and sanctity, but she was fearful that her husband would go abroad and die too. His job was that of a military advisor and his protection was not from our troops, but that of foreign troops. However, she has forgotten his pain and suffering and had been simply wallowing in her own for months. He needed her to desperately love him and be his solace in his time of need as he had been the strength for her previously. Could she rally the strength?
I’m not going to give every juicy detail of this book away here. Buy it, read it, and learn from it as I did.