How to Survive Life (and Death)

Aired Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 2:00 PM ET

Today’s Rising Star is Robert Kopecky

When you nearly die three times, you learn a thing or two about how to live… An Emmy-nominated art director for television, Robert Kopecky never dreamed he’d end up writing a book about how to survive life and death. But what else could he do?

About the Guest Robert Kopecky

Robert Kopecky survived a traumatic childhood, traveled extensively as a young man. His journeys – from the remote South Pacific to the capitals of Europe to the deserts of Arizona and the canyons of New York City – were punctuated by three dramatic “Near Death Experiences.” Interspersed through a life of professional successes and personal setbacks, and his own “dark nights of the soul,” the three NDEs, and the subsequent need for answers, led him to years of study and meditation. Elements of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Gnostic Christianity, physics, philosophy and more, have contributed to his unique transpersonal realizations about life and death. All of which inspired the calling to write his direct, humorous transformational prose, and to joyfully pass along all the lessons he’s learned – obviously the hard way. He has gathered them together in his book, How to Survive Life (and Death): A Guide for Happiness in This World and Beyond.

Website: http://robertkopecky.blogspot.com