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'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home . . .

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Saturday, May 15, 2021

The dead may not know initially they are dead

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"The idea that the dead often don’t initially realize they are dead is universal. While many near-death, out of-body, and postmortem na...
Friday, May 14, 2021

Multiple after-death bodies are transitional

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“However many or few spiritual bodies we may actually possess is not so essential a question as it may first seem, if we ...
Thursday, May 13, 2021

Would the dead be dressed as they choose?

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"The fact that the newly disembodied dead seemed often to find themselves not only dressed, but dressed in items of clothing they’d pos...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

An afterlife of specific things and particular people

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We tend to assume that, in the highly unlikely event that there really is a world beyond this one, it is airy and misty, ...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The near-death experience of Rev. J. L. Bertrand

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Another mountain climbing narrative with many classic NDE features comes from a clergyman named J. L. Bertrand. While on ...
Monday, May 10, 2021

Albert Heim's near-death experience in the 1880s

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Near-death experiences (though not yet called such) undergone by mountain climbers were so common that in 1893 a Swiss ge...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

African American spiritual: By and By

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We are often tossed and driv’n on the restless sea of time, somber skies and howling tempest oft succeed a bright sunshi...
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Robert Traer
I have not had a near-death experience, but my father did when during surgery he suffered cardiac arrest. A scientist by training, he was skeptical. Yet seeing himself outside his body, watching the surgeon trying to revive him, moving through darkness toward my deceased mother, and feeling unconditional love from the brilliant light surrounding her—before returning to his body and ordinary consciousness—was life transforming. He lost his fear of death and became more loving. And my life was altered by his experience, for NDE research has renewed my Christian faith.
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