--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Michael Jackson <mjackson74@...> wrote: > > Nice piece of writing Ann - I just read it too. > > Try Dying to be Me by Anita Moorjani if you have a mind to - I loved it.
Thanks for the recommendation. I have an iPad and will order it tonight. I love the instant gratification when it comes to being able to order books online like that and download them immediately. I thought I would miss the feel of the paper and the book in my hand more when reading from a tablet screen (iPad) plus I feel verrrryy guilty about not buying from my local bookstores (I always try to buy from independent bookstores, being an little independent shop owner myself). Now I can continue to obsess on death and dying more than I usually do by reading a second book on it. Hopefully ' Dying to be Me' will be uplifting. I tend to get rather Woody Allenish about illness and death. I need all the uplift I can get. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Ann <awoelflebater@...> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 9:58 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Proof of Heaven - for Emily > > > > Â > Hey Emily, I have finished the book and I enjoyed it. I would characterize > 'Proof of Heaven' as a big book within a little book. On one level it is a > little book, it is merely one man's experience of a place, a reality that he > believes was true. What he reveals about his experience is lovely in the > extreme; it is very personal and I would love most aspects of what he saw and > perceived to be true. The big part of the book for me is that it has > permanently instilled in me a vision and a hope for what could be waiting for > me after death. > > I believe Eben to be a courageous man who, in the male-dominated medical > profession, has put himself forward for what he knows to be probable ridicule > in his peers' eyes. It is very evident from his writing that his NDE is the > one most substantial event in his life and because of what it has done for > him personally, on all levels, he feels it vital to communicate his > 'findings' while in his coma to the world. That is how positive and life > altering his coma experience was, let alone the very near to dying he came > with a very rare disease for someone his age. > > Then there is, of course, the 'miracle' of complete recovery from virtual > brain death as more proof to him that he was 'chosen' to have this NDE and > recovery in order to spread a message of hope and happiness for people. Plus, > being a learned man in the area of the brain and its functioning, its > physical makeup and how disease or health manifests as well as knowledge > gained through years practicing and studying within in his profession, his > opinions and scientific evidence give more clout to dispel the notion his NDE > was merely a vision or brain-originating hallucination. He gives strong > evidence for why it could not be that but was the EXPERIENCE OF PURE > CONSCIOUSNESS unsullied by brain function or memory or projection. > > I also found that in his description of the various 'strata' of those worlds > he visited after falling into his deep coma that they resonated with some > part of me. The worm's eye view was something I felt I had some knowledge of > as well as the infinite bliss and love of the deeper places, the places even > closer to God. I felt in his descriptions a tickling of some deeper memory > for me of some truth there so I take his NDE very seriously. > > Thanks for recommending the book, it was a worthwhile read and maybe as close > as we can come to a scientifically backed up explanation for what might > possibly exist, for some or for all, after dropping the body. No matter what, > it is a lovely idea or vision to hold in one's awareness while we still > clamber about this planet in the body we currently possess. >
