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Glimpsing Heaven
- Author
- Judy Bachrach
- Narrator
- Susan Boyce
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 2 September 2014
- Run Time
- 6 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life?
Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those who died and then returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what occurred while they were dead, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death—the moment when the heart stops beating and brain stem activity ceases—is not necessarily the end of consciousness, as a number of doctors are now beginning to concede. Hundreds of thousands of fascinating post-death experiences have been documented, and for many who have died and returned, life is forever changed.
These days, an increasing number of scientific researchers are turning their studies to people who have experienced what the author calls death travels—putting stock and credence in the sights, encounters, and exciting experiences reported by those who return from the dead. Through interviews with scores of these "death travelers," and with physicians, nurses, and scientists unraveling the mysteries of the afterlife, Bachrach redefines the meaning of both life and death. Glimpsing Heaven reveals both the uncertainty and the surprising joys of life after death.
Critics Review
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“Meticulously researched…Glimpsing Heaven is full of lively, vivid, engaging reporting. And it is delightfully funny…fascinating, well told, haunting.”
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“This book’s journalistic approach makes the topic accessible to the secular and skeptical crowd.”
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Details
- Author
- Judy Bachrach
- Narrator
- Susan Boyce
- Duration
- 6 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9781481509756
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal, Sociology: death and dying, Christian life and practice, Coping with death and bereavement
Synopsis
If you caught a glimpse of heaven, would you choose to come back to life?Investigative journalist Judy Bachrach has collected accounts of those who died and then returned to life with lucid, vivid memories of what occurred while they were dead, and the conclusions are astonishing. Clinical death—the moment when the heart stops beating and brain stem activity ceases—is not necessarily the end of consciousness, as a number of doctors are now beginning to concede. Hundreds of thousands of fascinating post-death experiences have been documented, and for many who have died and returned, life is forever changed.These days, an increasing number of scientific researchers are turning their studies to people who have experienced what the author calls death travels—putting stock and credence in the sights, encounters, and exciting experiences reported by those who return from the dead. Through interviews with scores of these "death travelers," and with physicians, nurses, and scientists unraveling the mysteries of the afterlife, Bachrach redefines the meaning of both life and death. Glimpsing Heaven reveals both the uncertainty and the surprising joys of life after death.
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