For six minutes Wisconsin husband, farmer, and writer Philip Hasheider was dead. He met all the requirements: heart not beating, lungs no longer breathing, skin an ashen-color turning blue. He was lifeless, flat on the floor.

This extraordinary story of his Near Death Experience (NDE) is about the events on an early October morning leading to his sudden cardiac death and what he experienced during that time away from his body. Through no request or fault of his own, he had suddenly, in an instant, become an expert on dying.

This book is an explanation of what he experienced during the time he was being revived, and an exploration of how the full awareness of his life has been opened for him with a new set of eyes. His interpretation of the experience here and in another dimension offers a pathway for others to follow this journey with him.

Philip Hasheider is a farmer, writer and local historian. He's the author of 30 books on farming, local history and family stories. His essays have appeared in the Wisconsin Academy of Review, The Capital Times, Wisconsin State Journal, Sickle & Sheaf, Seasons on the Farm, Old Sauk Trails, My First Tractor: Stories of Farmers and Their First Love, and The Country Today. He was the writer for the first Wisconsin Local Food Marketing Guide that received the Wisconsin Distinguished Document Award from the Wisconsin Library Association and the national Notable Government documents Award from the American Library Association. He is a five-time recipient of the Book of Merit Award presented by the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin State Genealogical Society. He lives on a farm in South Central Wisconsin, with his wife Mary, and where pasture-grazed beef is a central part of their farm's legacy.