Your Strange and Beautiful Stories of Near-Death Experiences
After I wrote a book about heaven, people started telling me about their own close encounters
Faith, critics say, is belief without evidence. Nowhere is this truer than when we talk about heaven. An overwhelming number of human beings believe in the hereafter. Not one has indisputable proof.
But many have stories. Some are their own. Some are passed down. Some have been read. Some have been repeated. The best ones give you chills. But they all give you pause. And this much I can tell you:
There are more than you think.
As the writer of The Five People You Meet in Heaven, I have heard a great deal of stories about the afterlife. And with that book’s sequel, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven, now published, I am hearing them again.
It’s not like I’m a cleric. I have no religious training. But I did something 15 years ago that I am doing again now: putting out my own view of heaven, what it might look like, how it might work.
And when you do that, you get stories in return.
This doesn’t surprise me. My first imagining of heaven also came from someone else’s story — my beloved Uncle Eddie, a barrel-chested, white-whiskered World War…
