I have finished reading the above book written by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross who is well known in her study of dying and death. She is well known for her findings in respect of the emotional responses of terminally ill person. According the Dr. Elisabeth, people will usually undergo the stages of anger, denial, bargain, depressed and acceptance.
This book is nonetheless her own autobiography, recording her life and her work in the past 60 or 70 years. She talked about NDEs (near death experiencea), her encouter with guides who are spiritual beings, her suffering due to paralysis caused by strokes. What her conclusion is the purpose of life is to give and accept unconditional love. Everyone grows by learning to love. If a person does not learn the lesson, he or she will come back to learn again. I interpret this as reincarnation. It seems her viewpoint is very similar to another well known NDE writter - Dr. Raymond Moody. He also studied NDEs and used hyposis to regress a person to his previous life or lives.
I feel this is the very center of New age movement that it talks about the presence of God (irrespective of what religion it is) and love. There is reincarnation and there seems to be no final judgement after death as propounded by Christianity. The title of the book "The wheel of life" speaks for itself.
