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The Eternal Journey: How Near-Death Experiences Illuminate Our Earthly Lives

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I've read this book twice, and I intend to read it again. This is simply the best organised, straight-forward, most scholarly account on the nature and purpose of life that I have ever read. Yet, at no time did I feel that I was being "sold" a particular dogma. There was nothing that I had to sit down and struggle to accept or rationalise;it just simply had the ring of truth. One look at the table of contents reveals the clear, logical organization of the book- there is no fuzzy minded pseudo- mysticism here. Everything from the nature and purpose of pre-earth life, life on earth, and post-earth life is right here. You find definate information on everything from angels, bewildered spirits, pets; to the big questions like the purpose of life and the nature of suffering. If you've been told that you can't possibly understand the great mystery of God's will, try reading this book- it gives some satisfying and comforting answers in clear and simple language.

Insightful, informative and to be believed. There deffinately is a LIFE after death.

The Eternal Journey's best insight is that what kindnesses sincerely we do especially for the lowly and helpless is what is the most important thing we will be judged by once we reach the afterlife. All the earthly cares and pleasures we are focused on such moving up in the world will not matter much in the afterlife and going after material things solely will deaden our spiritual growth, which has eternal value. We grow by love and according to this book, our faith in the right sort of religious doctrine will not matter as much as how loving we were, even to those very different from us.

As far as practical problems on earth, the book leaves one confused. Things have to be done and set up properly for society to function well and some ideas on how to do that are better than others. So I don't see how one could just sit back and not worry about such temporal problems, as the book seems to suggest we should.

The book suggests we should love everyone, but this suggestion doesn't make much sense to me on a practical level when enemies bent on our destruction will just take advantage of our love and attempt to take all of our power from us.

Another interesting insight is that we, our lives and our decisions are important both temporally and eternally. What we think and do or don't do rightly or wrongly will have an effect on everyone being that we are all interconnected. We should be careful of what we do, think, or say and we should consider what effect that we bring to us and others. This is not a meaningless existence, all of it is rather very meaningful and we are important players in this existence both here and now and in eternity.

Also, we are given a mission that relates to our families, which we should fulfill for spiritual progress of the family. Unfortunately, we don't know exactly what that mission is while we dwell on earth and have passed through the veil of forgetfulness. The mission probably has something to do with love, I suppose. Families and their relationships are important on earth and in heaven.

There are also other interesting tidbits such as it not a good idea to get addicted to something until it becomes a spiritual addiction. You will not be able to slake your cravings in the afterworld without a physical body.

The Eternal Journey has a Christian world view mostly. You get one shot at living a proper life and then you are judged eternally. You don't keep coming round and round like in reincarnation to get it right. It makes this one life much more important, if this is true. Some hellish NDE's are reported, which are about 12 percent of all reported NDE's. Whether hell is eternal or not is debatable, according to the book, but it is appropriately scary. A lot of what is reported in the book illuminates some scriptures such as earthly losers being winners in heaven (the last shall be first) and everything hidden shall be revealed (there will be no hidden secrets in the afterlife).

Reading this book may encourage readers to think about their lives, their values, and whether they are living right and valuing the right things.

This book was great so good that i ordered a total of six so i could give one to each of my family members. i recieved great service also.

I have read this book over a dozen times and find that it's one of my go-to books during times of increased stress or spiritual need. As someone involved in broadcast & journalism, I find it poorly edited (spelling, grammar), but the content of the book is very well chosen and organized. I have read many books on near-death experiences, but find this one to be the most objective of them all -- and lacking in the airy-fairy weirdness so common to such books. If you've lost a loved one or pet and need comforting about where they are, what condition they're in and whether you'll see them again, I encourage you to read The Eternal Journey. I have bought and given away many copies of this book, and have loaned it to numerous people over the years. Some of them have sought me out later and told me, "This book changed my life." Whenever I do public speaking, such as college lectures, I mention this book -- it's that important to me. I challenge anyone of any religion -- or no religion -- to read this book and believe there's no afterlife...and not to find this book extraordinarily comforting. When I get really, really down on life on or myself, I remind myself of the content of this book, which essentially says that we choose our life's trials and tribulations before we come to Earth, kind of like applying to a college and choosing your courses of study. As such, one can't shake one's fist at the sky for all the ills one is going through; one must just take a deep breath and say to oneself, "I chose this for the purpose of learning from it. What am I supposed to be learning?" When taken in that context, one's life's challenges take on a new importance...and seem to lose some of their bite. I simply cannot highly enough recommend The Eternal Journey. It has been a blessing to me and I know it will be to you. Buy it.

This book is amazing and exciting. It gives great detail in every aspect of life out of this world. It is life changing in a good, positive motivating way. I will recommend this book to everyone I know.

I took this out at my local library and loved it. I read it THREE times. It is written like a sociological study, So it doesn't come accross as 'sappy' and predictable.
Should you get this book? Well, of all the books I have read about near death experiences/life after death it was the best reasearched of documented NDE. For many, it will be comforting and to others it is confirming what they already must know.

This is the best book I've read in years. It's beyond inspirational. It's life-changing. Read this before Oprah's suggested book by Gary Zukav, "Seat of the Soul". If you already read that, you'll love this. It's proof.

This was such an instructive book that took the best of a lot of NDE accounts and placed them in and summarized different aspects of the NDE for us who have not been through those experiences. It was done in a very easy reading format and style. The only problem was that it ended - I wanted it to go on for many more pages even though it had 272 pages. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to study and learn about life beyond and our pre-earth pre-mortal life too. I am keeping this book as one to go back and study further or as a further reference book.

I order books on a wide array of different topics. That of the NDE[near-death experience] is a topic that has always captivated me. Let's face it, one day, we'll all have to take our own 'eternal journey'. So, suffice to say, this was a good topic for me to read into further. This book does a good job of trying to shed some light on what may possibly await us on the other side. However, the book repeats itself on several occasions and paraphrases what it has already stated. Another reason I rate it lower is because the author[s] don't really mention the hellish NDEs and mainly stick to the heavenly ones, thus giving the book an unbalanced viewpoint. They do however, advance many a wild theory on why certain aspects of the NDE correlate with our lives. For example, one theory[which is pretty much stated as fact] is that we all individually choose how our earthly lives turn out from a spirtual world before we are even born[as a living spirit in the spirit realm]. That is to say every detail of our lives are chosen by us in advance before we are born in order to learn life lessons and enlighten ourselves. Interesting reading. I definetely give the author[s] credit for attempting to think outside conventional reasoning.

If you can overlook the repeating aspect and enjoy reading about near-death experiences, this book will interest you. I just wish there had been more balance.