Hey Im a Christian (Catholic) and not long ago I fell into this deep state of contemplation where I began thinking of the afterlife...Im currently 17 years of age and have experienced a lot of my childhood, and the thought of never experiencing these moments and this childhood ever again started to get to me...almost depressing me and leaving me in despair, to the point where I couldn't sleep. Ive always believed in an afterlife, a heaven and hell. Its a very difficult concept to grasp in which it is something that is purely driven by force, due to its transcendent presence.
I began to research the afterlife, to enforce my belief in it...and then I came accross the novel '90 minutes in heaven'. I don't want to spoil too much of the novel, but basically it is about this guy who suffered a dangerous car accident, and was announced dead. According to him, the 90 minutes in which he died he was in heaven...And then he managed to come back to life.
There is a duality in the novel which tests the faith, in which we are described to the wonders of heaven in which he saw, and the ordeal he faced trying to recover from an almost death-like state. The latter is something that was driven by his faith in God, in which he recovered and spread the word to all.
Wether his reccount was true or not is indefinite, however, it is definitely a source of inspiration for those that want an inkling into what may happen in the afterlife..
This post was edited by industrie on Apr 14 2010 01:31am