I just read the unusual account in Newsweek yesterday about a near-death experience by neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander. If you comment, please be respectful of the author, and comment on positive aspects of this account, even if you respectfully disagree. It is an unusual account to say the least.
I thought it was positive that the experience deepened the man's faith in God. He made a reference to a painting in his church of Jesus and the disciples breaking bread and he said that this reminded him of the "message that lay at the very heart of my journey: that we are loved and accepted unconditionally..." (Newsweek, Oct. 15th, 2012, p. 32). He also shared a message from his experience through an angelic lady that, "You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever." "You have nothing to fear." He perceived God in the "divine breeze," and asked questions that were answered immediately in an "explosion of light, color, love, and beauty that blew through me like a crashing wave." (Newsweek, pg. 31).
He also describes angelic winged beings above in the clouds, stating that, "I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang. It seemed that you could not look at or listen to anything in this world without becoming a part of it--without joining with it in some mysterious way." (pg.30).
He describes the angelic lady who accompanied him as wearing a "simple, like a peasant's" [outfit] "its colors--powder blue, indigo, and pastel orange-peach-had the same overwhelming, super vivid aliveness that everything else had. She looked at me with a look that, if you saw it for five seconds, would make your whole life up to that point worth living, no matter what had happened in it so far. It was not a romantic look. It was not a look of friendship. it was a look that was somehow beyond all these, beyond all the different compartments of love we have down here on earth. It was something higher, holding all those other kinds of love within itself while at the same time being much bigger than all of them." (Newsweek, Oct. 15th, 2012, pg. 31).
Well, that's enough to give you an idea-- it's a pretty wild story-- amazing!
I thought it was positive that the experience deepened the man's faith in God. He made a reference to a painting in his church of Jesus and the disciples breaking bread and he said that this reminded him of the "message that lay at the very heart of my journey: that we are loved and accepted unconditionally..." (Newsweek, Oct. 15th, 2012, p. 32). He also shared a message from his experience through an angelic lady that, "You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever." "You have nothing to fear." He perceived God in the "divine breeze," and asked questions that were answered immediately in an "explosion of light, color, love, and beauty that blew through me like a crashing wave." (Newsweek, pg. 31).
He also describes angelic winged beings above in the clouds, stating that, "I could hear the visual beauty of the silvery bodies of those scintillating beings above, and I could see the surging, joyful perfection of what they sang. It seemed that you could not look at or listen to anything in this world without becoming a part of it--without joining with it in some mysterious way." (pg.30).
He describes the angelic lady who accompanied him as wearing a "simple, like a peasant's" [outfit] "its colors--powder blue, indigo, and pastel orange-peach-had the same overwhelming, super vivid aliveness that everything else had. She looked at me with a look that, if you saw it for five seconds, would make your whole life up to that point worth living, no matter what had happened in it so far. It was not a romantic look. It was not a look of friendship. it was a look that was somehow beyond all these, beyond all the different compartments of love we have down here on earth. It was something higher, holding all those other kinds of love within itself while at the same time being much bigger than all of them." (Newsweek, Oct. 15th, 2012, pg. 31).
Well, that's enough to give you an idea-- it's a pretty wild story-- amazing!