Interesting Reading or Listening

I usually listen to audio books while I’m on a road trip, and my recent one to Utah, Wyoming and Montana was no exception.  I listened to two books them and one of them, titled 90 minutes in Heaven really had an impact on me.  A Baptist minister wrote it.  He had been in a horrific traffic accident that rendered him lifeless for almost two hours.

I won’t spoil the book by telling you too much about it, as I encourage you to read or listen to it yourself.  I believe you will find it as fascinating as did.

As a result of listening to the book over the course of two days, along with some further urging by others with whom I shared the experience, I have begun to re-examine my wayward life

Those of you who have read my columns over the years may recall that I’ve had some very strange experiences with death and near death.  In fact, I claim to have been dead myself on at least two occasions, possibly three.  I didn’t see that tunnel of light, see my own body below me, or experience anything like Reverend Piper did, but there were some periods of time that were totally unaccounted for and not due to unconsciousness.

I was also visited in a dream by a close friend who had died less than 48 hours before. He even conversed with me about his death, assuring me that he was “at peace.”

Okay, enough of the esoteric.  I relate it to give some substance to my present state of mind.

I probably won’t let you in on the final decision I make to either accept or reject the supposed afterlife, but I promise not to ever proselytize.  I’m no preacher anyway, and certainly not a model for others.

If you want a good read, even if only for the medical history of a person who had 34 separate operations to put him back together again, or to learn what the Ilizarov apparatus is and how it works, try 90 Minutes in Heaven.

An Ilizarov apparatus in use