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~1 min readAnita Moorjani’s memoir of her near-death experience in February 2006 during late-stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma — organs failing, hospice-bound — followed by what she describes as a complete remission within weeks of returning. The book interleaves the NDE narrative with her interpretation of what the experience taught about identity, fear and unconditional self-acceptance.
Moorjani’s story reached Wayne Dyer, who asked Hay House to commission it; the resulting book hit the New York Times bestseller list two weeks after its March 2012 release and has since circulated in over forty languages. The eighteen chapters and a prologue move through her Hong Kong childhood, the cancer diagnosis, the coma and NDE, the rapid remission, and the framework she developed afterwards. A 10th-anniversary edition appeared in 2022 with a new introduction.
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Contents
19 chapters- The Day I "Died"
- Growing Up Different
- Many Religions, Many Paths
- Matchmaking Missteps
- My True Love
- Diagnosis of Fear
- Seeking Salvation
- Leaving the World Behind
- Something Infinite and Altogether Fantastic
- Realizing the Miracle
- Proof of Healing
- "Lady, Whichever Way I Look At It, You Should Be Dead!"
- Seeing Life with New Eyes
- Finding My Path
- Healing Is Only the Beginning
- Why I Got Sick … and Healed
- Infinite Selves and Universal Energy
- Allowing and Being Yourself
- Questions and Answers
Reception
editor-collectedA New York Times bestseller and one of the most-circulated NDE accounts of the 2010s, particularly within Hay House’s catalogue and Wayne Dyer’s promotional ecosystem. Skeptics including Steven Novella have flagged the standard issues — single-case medical claims, no published case file, the difficulty of distinguishing "spontaneous remission with disputed staging" from "miraculous reversal". Moorjani’s audience treats those critiques as missing the point; the book’s claim is experiential rather than medical.
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3 questions- What is Dying to Be Me about?
- Anita Moorjani’s memoir of her near-death experience in February 2006, during late-stage Hodgkin’s lymphoma — organs failing, hospice-bound — followed by what she describes as a complete remission within weeks. The book interleaves the NDE account with her later framework of identity, fear and unconditional self-acceptance.
- How did the book come to be published?
- Moorjani’s story reached Wayne Dyer, who asked his publishers at Hay House to find her and commission a book. Hay House released it in March 2012; it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and has since circulated in over forty languages.
- How do skeptics respond to the medical claims?
- Skeptics including Steven Novella have raised the standard issues with single-case medical claims — no published case file, the difficulty of distinguishing spontaneous remission with disputed staging from a miraculous reversal. Moorjani’s audience treats the critique as missing the point; the book’s claim is experiential rather than medical.
Catalogue record
- Author
- Anita Moorjani
- Title
- Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
- Original title
- Dying to Be Me
- Publisher
- Hay House
- Year
- 1 March 2012
- Pages
- 216
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781401937539
- Shelf
- Awakening · Consciousness · Esoteric
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