VanEersel Patrice

French writer, a journalist. After covering a story of the experiences of the dying, he wrote a best-seller, "The Source of Darkness," describing case studies in the psychological aspects of death, 1986. The son of a father who had French, Italian and Belgian ancestry and to a German mother, Van Eersel became a reporter and author. For a long time the leading reporter for "Actuel" magazine, he segued into the chief editor of the magazine "Nouvelles clés" and the director of "Clés," a collection published by Albin Michel. His investigations regularly bring him to the borderline of the ongoing transformation in the world. Moving more firmly into the area of parapsychology, Van Eersel wrote of spiritualism in "La Source Blanche," 1996, on the experiences of temporary death and the care of the terminally ill in "Réapprivoiser la mort," 1997, and on shamanism in "Le Cercle des Anciens," 1998. Van Eersel married on 4/18/1980. Read less