Love to the Millionth Power

What happens when you die? What would happen to you if you died and then came back to the world you left and realized that there simply is no death? What would your life be like? This is Patricia Grabow’s story. She died in a car accident in London June 16, 1980. This is what happened to her as experienced death than then returned to a life in which she faced challenges she could hardly have imagined. It is her discovery of love, salvation, and soul-mates with no religious overtones---just the “love to the millionth power” she experienced when she died---- scattered throughout her struggle to save herself and her children. It is the journey of a truth-sayer as she was led to those who cared that her family survive and that her story be told and the three books generated throughout the experience tell what death and life actually meant through “new eyes.”

What happens when you die? What would happen to you if you died and then came back to the world you left and realized that there simply is no death? What would your life be like? This is Patricia Grabow’s story. She died in a car accident in London June 16, 1980. This is what happened to her as experienced death than then returned to a life in which she faced challenges she could hardly have imagined. It is her discovery of love, salvation, and soul-mates with no religious overtones---just the “love to the millionth power” she experienced when she died---- scattered throughout her struggle to save herself and her children. It is the journey of a truth-sayer as she was led to those who cared that her family survive and that her story be told and the three books generated throughout the experience tell what death and life actually meant through “new eyes.”

Patricia's clinical death experience was the beginning of a new life that at the time did not seem possible. Her earlier life had led her from upbringings in Montana to travels in Asia, high school in the Pacific, university in the West and Washington State, a first marriage in Washington DC, and a second chiefly in Alaska, where she worked in Native education in both Anchorage and small villages in the remote interior. Following the accident in London, Patricia returned to the U.S. and began to receive guidance that would lead her out of the tragedy and loss she had experienced before the accident, as well as the longing for the “love to the millionth power” she had during the accident, to the great beings around her who would assist her on the generation of the books she was to write, and to survival. Among them were the remarkable McArthur family, including Charlotte, who along with Christine Kauffman assisted Patricia with The Immortal Now; mentor Barbara McCormick, early editor Jay Booth, collaborator Rosie Porter, and final editor Cheryl McLaughlin. The story of the period after the accident is truly a story of love, salvation, and soul mates, as the writing had promised. Patricia, currently living in Montana with a master’s degree in education, is the mother of three sons (Chris, Tim, and the youngest, Rob, who was born at the end of the work on the first book). She is also a proud grandmother.