633. William Peters

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.

Shared Crossing's Story Library contains videos of shared death experiences.

Viewers may share their spiritual end-of-life experiences with Shared Crossing's research team.

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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