About the Author

Stephen Hawley Martin is a professional writer and the only three-time winner of the Writer's Digest Book Award, having won first prize twice for fiction and once for nonfiction. He also has won a first prize for visionary fiction from Independent Publisher and a first prize for nonfiction from USA Book News. He has written 16 published books and is a former principal of the world-renowned ad firm, The Martin Agency (GEICO, Wal-Mart, ExxonMobil), which in 2009 was named by ADWEEK magazine the premier ad agency in the United States. Martin spent two years gathering the evidence for this book, during which time he conducted in-depth interviews with literally hundreds of experts, including medical doctors, parapsychologists, meta-physicians, quantum physicists, near death survivors, theologians, psychiatrists, psychologists, and researchers into the true nature of reality.