Proof of Heaven

gave him license to uncover my adoptive identity. But Richard was too much of a gentleman to go back on ...

There was only one wound that wouldn’t heal: the loss, ten years earlier in 1998, of my b ...

12. The Core Something pulled at me. Not like someone grabbing my arm, but something subtler, les ...

was no longer of this place, but only visiting it. But why was I visiting it again? The answer came to m ...

times. How many I can’t say exactly—again because time as it was there just doesn’t translate to our concep ...

core of everything that exists or that ever will exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of wh ...

earth, while our brains (including its left-side analytical parts) are fully functioning. Science—the science to wh ...

13. Wednesday For two days, “Wednesday” had been the buzzword—the day on my doctors’ lips when it came t ...

brother. And, being hardly more than a boy himself, he came up with a scenario he thought Bond ...

14. A Special Kind of NDE The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the ...

recognized those people instantly. Many NDE subjects have reported engaging in life reviews, in which ...

you remember some things about yourself while forgetting other things completely. But again this is only ...

15. The Gift of Forgetting We must believe in free will. We have no choice. —ISAAC B. SINGER (1902–1991) ...

from our physical surroundings, selecting the material we actually need in order to survive, so it is ...

side of the universe is as a speck of dust compared to the invisible and spiritual part. In my past ...

and allowed by the Creator as a necessary consequence of giving the gift of free will to beings like us. Sma ...

the football in the end zone, that comes up with the inspired scientific insight or writes the inspired s ...

16. The Well Holley first met our friend Sylvia in the 1980s, when both were teaching at the Ravenscroft Sch ...

“Communicating with a coma patient,” she later told me, “is a little like throwing a rope down a ...

17. N of 1 It was Thursday when my doctors determined that my particular strain of E. coli didn’t mat ...