William Peters, MFT, is the founder of the Shared Crossing Project whose mission is to positively transform relationships to death and dying through education and raising awareness about shared crossings and their healing benefits. As the director of the Shared Crossing Research Initiative (SCRI), William and his team collect and study extraordinary end-of-life experiences (shared crossings). William is a global leader in shared death studies and end-of-life phenomena. He has developed methods to facilitate the shared death experience and to assist experiencers in meaningfully integrating their experiences. William is a psychotherapist at the Family Therapy Institute of Santa Barbara where he specializes in end-of-life counseling as a means toward psycho-spiritual evolution. He served as a hospice worker with Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. His work is informed by his two NDEs and a variety of shared crossings. William has presented at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine’s Annual Conference. His research has been published in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and is approved and awaiting publication in Omega - Journal of Death Studies.
Book: At Heaven's Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better.
For more information on William go to SharedCrossing.com.
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Summary and Transcript of this interview.
Interview recorded February 5, 2022
YouTube Video Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
00:04:35 - The Spiritual Relevance of the Shared-Death Experience
00:09:02 - The Overmedicalization of Death
00:13:32 - The Purpose of Hospice and Palliative Care
00:17:48 - Physician's Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments
00:21:36 - Returning from the Light
00:25:55 - A State-specific Experience
00:30:12 - A Profound Encounter with Underprivileged People
00:34:43 - Encountering the Homeless Community
00:38:57 - Near-Death Experience and Re-Embodiment
00:43:36 - A Parallel Universe Above the Bed
00:48:12 - The Shared-Death Experience
00:52:38 - Remote Shared-Death Experience
00:57:05 - Sensory Experiences After Death
01:00:59 - A Mother's Premonition
01:04:52 - A Beautiful Being in a Hurry
01:08:53 - Phenomenon of the Soul Spirit Leaving the Body
01:13:49 - Witnessing the Departure
01:18:27 - Different modes of participation in near-death experiences
01:23:14 - The Conductor and Coordinating Human Death
01:27:15 - Cultural Experiences of the End of Life
01:31:28 - The Resistance to Studying Spiritual Experiences
01:35:36 - Science and Spirituality
01:39:56 - The Shared-Death Experience
01:43:51 - Facilitating Mystical Experiences at the End of Life
01:47:54 - Reflection on Suicide and Death
01:52:06 - Premonitions of Death
01:55:59 - Transition into the Afterlife
02:00:11 - Spiritual Aspects of Dying and the Need for Change
02:04:29 - Major Influencers and the Shared-Death Experience
02:08:25 - A New Paradigm for Death and Dying