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.
Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.
Interview recorded February 5, 2022
Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.
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
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