Dr. Michele Knight had a Near Death Experience following a fall from a tree. Her life has never been the same since. Since her experience, she has gone on to study After Death Communication, and completed her PhD: "Ways of Being: The alchemy of bereavement and communique explores the impact of unsought after-death contact experiences between the bereaved and those close to them who died".

Her interest and research in death and the afterlife comes from her own lived experiences, including bereavements, encounters with the deceased and the attitudinal responses to those experiences.