BIOGRAPHY:
Laurin Bellg, MD, is a critical care physician and committed collector of hospital patients' near-death experiences (NDEs). The award-winning author of Near Death in the ICU: Stories from Patients Near Death and Why We Should Listen to Them (Sloan Press, 2015), she has spoken widely to audiences about her work with patients in the intensive care unit who have shared their near-death and out-of-body experiences while seriously ill, traumatically injured, or after resuscitation from confirmed clinical death.
Born into a religious family, Laurin entered a profession with "a rigidly logical view of the world and withered sense of mystery," as she writes in her book. Her intuitive experiences as a child, coupled with a mystical event during medical school, gave her an open-minded curiosity and willingness to listen. When patients reported information they could not possibly have known, events that later came to fruition, and detailed encounters with deceased loved ones and other light beings, she courageously collected their stories and told them.
She has published essays in "Mysterious Ways," "Pulse," and the anthology Our Children Live On (Llewellyn Publications, 2012). Laurin is currently working on a second edition of Near Death in the ICU to expand the collection of accounts to include unusual cases during the pandemic and the unexpected reactions of medical colleagues and NDE researchers to her book. She makes clear she is not a researcher but more a story gatherer with a
particular interest in how anomalous experiences change people's lives.
After the successful release of her first book, she was invited to cofacilitate a residential program at the world-renowned Monroe Institute called "NDE Spectrum," where participants can experience and embody, through guided meditations, the transformative benefits of the near-death experience without physically dying.