Customer Reviews

Absent from the Body: One Man's Clinical Death, a Journey Through Heaven and Hell

5 star:		(0)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

What if it is all true? What if there is more to life than what we can see? What if there really is a hell? This book really answers those questions. I can say personally that I knew this man, and his experiences were true, and life changing not only for him, but his family, and everyone who came in contact with him. There is a real message from God to humanity. There is more to life than what we can see. Do not wait until death to find out. It will be to late. Not everyone gets a Lazarus experience.

I'm really into stories of people's supernatural experiences. They give us an insight into the human mind and our hopes and dreams, and yes, maybe even into the afterlife. Sadly, though, this book seemed like it was merely mining a sensationalist bent, and didn't not come across as an honest telling of someone's experiences. The book was not very well written, and seems to read like an cartoonish retelling of something that amy have been on a daytime television show, although I'm not sure if that is the editor's fault or the author's.

In all, I would advise that you money is best spent elsewhere, as, in all honesty, I felt that this author may simply be trying to cash in on people's willingness to trust someone with a story to tell about heaven. Sad, really.

I found this book to be bizarre. The stories that Brubacker relates are frankly very difficult to believe. Perhaps the most disturbing part of the story is the change that occurs in this man's life due to his heart attack. His life goes from being relatively normal to totally NDE and spiritially oriented, but spiritualality with a bizarre twist, including the so-called "red eye", which sounds more like a character from a poorly written episode of the "X-Files". But I did find myself thinking about this book a lot after I had read it. I think this was primarily because I believe that "something" happened to this man, it is just hard to believe that the "something" is what is related in this book.