Started: March 23
Finished: March 27
Notes: I am highly skeptical of near-death, life-after-death or returning-from-death claims, whatever you want to call them, but I'm also not convinced by the handful of scientific explanations I've read over the years. Anyway, it's a matter I have some mild interest in, so I thought I'd check out this popular book on the subject, the story of a pastor who was apparently killed in a car crash and then came back to life to report of visions of Heaven.
Mini review: Christian believers and those in grief might find some succor here, but the skeptics will not find anything to sway them, or not much. This isn't really a book trying to validate near-death experiences, but tells how one pastor felt about his and how he handled it and the physical and emotional trauma a major car accident caused him, his family and his loved ones. This is a book to turn to in order to help one with grieving, or to embolden one's Christian beliefs, but again, skeptics are not likely to be swayed nor to find much here of use. Still, books like this sometimes help people, or make people change their mind about a topic, so it might be worth reading if you are interested in such matters.
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