Dearly Departed: Everything you want to know about the afterlife

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Perhaps he encounters an opening: The tourist is agape. He leaves reluctantly to reoccupy his body and this earth. But the experience changes him forever.

He tells his story to the masses. So do the medieval visionaries whose accounts were to the Middle Ages what reality TV is to the 21st century: And despite—or perhaps because of—the increasing rationalism of our times, this narrative genre thrives today. Ninety Minutes in Heaven , about a Christian pastor who ascended to God after a car wreck; Heaven Is for Real , about a child who sees heaven during surgery; and Proof of Heaven , by a Duke-trained neurosurgeon who traveled to heaven in , have all been bestsellers, all following the same storyline.

The neurosurgeon, Eben Alexander, said in Newsweek in that his experience convinced him that his consciousness the soul, or the self exists somehow separate from or outside the mind and can travel to other dimensions on its own.

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Tales like these are thrilling in part because their tellers hold the passionate conviction of religious converts: I saw it, so it must be true. According to a Gallup poll, about 8 million Americans claim to have had a near-death experience NDE , and many of them regard this experience as proof of an afterlife—a parallel, spiritual realm, more real, many say, than this one.

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Raymond Moody, who wrote Life After Life in , one of the first popular books about NDEs, told CNN in that among people who have had such experiences, conviction about an afterlife transcends the particulars of religion. And finally, if you see something while you are stressed or unconscious or traumatized in some way, does that circumstance delegitimize the veracity of your vision?

This is the trouble with NDEs as a field of scientific study: But over the years, science has posited a number of theories about the connection between visions of heaven and the chemical and physical processes that occur at death. Mummy I dont blame you.

Talking to the other side. For the love of Mary.

Blueprint of the soul. Children who see further than most. Pain of those left behind.

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The priest and the medium. Keeping an open mind.

Wisdom of the inner voice. Saying goodbye to beloved pets.

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Life is a celebration. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.

A little while, and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body. Apr 14, Kylie Abecca rated it it was ok.

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