Proof of Heaven

more nightmarish, because what I heard and saw was laced with the trappings of my human ...

nightmare—were extremely intense, and even outright terrifying while happening. But in retrospect—indeed, a ...

25. Not There Yet Bond wasn’t the only one having difficulty accepting the decidedly kooky person I ...

been there for these events myself. Very quickly, both sisters told me later, the brother they had know ...

Memories. Recognition. A certain mischievous streak I’ve always been known for returned as well. And while ...

26. Spreading the News “Truly well”—even if I did still have some work to do as far as the hardware ...

Quite a few people, as it turned out. Most especially, people with medical degrees. Make no mist ...

27. Homecoming I came home on November 25, 2008, two days before Thanksgiving, to a home full of grat ...

“I believe you, Dad,” he said. “But think about it. If you want this to be of value to others, the l ...

28. The Ultra-Real There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refu ...

than the logs burning in the fireplace. Yet there was no room for that reality in the medically trained scienti ...

29. A Common Experience Finally the day came when I had written down everything I could, every last memo ...

person straining at language and ideas to get this enormity across to the reader, I’d understand the aim of ...

Though the experience is as old as history, “the near-death experience” (regardless of whether it was see ...

minutes to hours in cardiac surgery and occasionally neurosurgery, using cardiopulmonary bypass pumps, and somet ...

30. Back from the Dead And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a ...

Susanna’s daughter was ill with several brain metastases from breast cancer. Her prospects of surv ...

never talked about that shirt and fedora after they were lost. Christina never heard one peep from ...

31. Three Camps I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with ...

As a doctor who’d undergone what I had, I could tell a different story. And the more I thought a ...