Alan Pearce is co-author of a new book that explores the beautiful, disturbing and dangerous world in coma, published by Inner Traditions – Bear & Company.

According to Pearce's book, Coma and Near-Death Experience: The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious, "Every day around the world, thousands of people are placed in medically-induced comas. For some coma survivors, the experience is an utter blank. Others lay paralyzed, aware of everything around them but unable to move, speak, or even blink. Many experience alternate lives spanning decades, lives they grieve once awakened. Some encounter ultra-vivid nightmares, while others undergo a deep, spiritual oneness with the universe or say they have glimpsed the afterlife."

Pearce is a journalist, broadcaster and author, also specializing in foreign affairs an ...