About this title: At the age of 31, Betty J. Eadie died during surgery, and lived to write about it. Her affecting and, to many, entirely plausible account of the extraordinary circumstances of her journey from life to death and back again helped unleash a torrent of similar accounts--narratives which, in their remarkable details, appear to push back the veil surrounding our mortality and provide a glimpse of the joyful abundance she believes we are all meant to experience.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Onjinjinkta Publishing
Date Published: 03/2001
ISBN-13:9781882723003ISBN:1882723007
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 159 p. Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
"I read this and thought it just had WAY to many details about life questions. I'm not sure saying that this lady didn't have an out of body experience, but I find it hard to swallow this kind of exact detail and the extent of her "journey".
My dad had a brief experience with his spirt leaving his body following heart surgery a few years ago. He said he was very confused about what had happened until he had a chance to ponder on it later. I have always had an interest in this subject."
"It is difficult to rate a book that wasn't well-written based on an individual's experience. I know the author wrote this not with the intention of becoming a published author but simply to get her message to the world which she felt a duty to share. I don't feel I have a right to rate her experience that she testifies happened to her, and I feel her story was worth sharing. So my rating is based purely on the technicalities of the writing.
It was not organized well and it could have been presented in a story form much more. I didn't feel like I was reading a story at all, but just a bunch of unorganized information dumping. It drove me crazy! So I give it two stars. If it weren't for the author's subject matter and my admiration for her determination and courage to make her story known, I'd give it a 1.
The themes of the book are well worth mentioning: Love is the ultimate force for good. and the most important thing we could strive to do in our lives is to love others.
Our thoughts and words have more power than we think.
Mortality is but a portion of our journey to learning and progression.
I felt a renewed desire to live my life the best I can, as I have full power over it.
if you can get through the poor techniques of the writing, I'd definitely reccommend this book."
"This book is about the authors near-death experience. In it she talks about what happened to her when she "died". It is VERY interesting. She talks about the people she met, the things she learned, and what the Spirit World was like. It is very thought provoking as she is not a member of the LDS church, but what she learned is a lot of what we believe. It is interesting."
"A schizophrenic little mixture of Christianity, eastern mysticism, and what smells like Mormonism to produce about 150 pages of dry-heave inducing fluff. I started out thinking this woman probably believes in the experiences she describes and I don't suggest that it's out of the question. But I am beginning to lean toward the possibility that she is a charlatan. At any rate, I am really struggling to finish the book because her theology is so bad. Her language is loose enough on her interpretation of her visions that it's possible to interpret it just about any way you want."
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