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The All Saints Book Club will meet again on March 10 at 6 p.m. in the Parish House Living Room. They will be discussing Proof of Heaven by Dr. Raymond Moody. Doesn’t this sound interesting?
Early on November 10, 2008, Eben Alexander became comatose after several hours of progressively severe headache and back pain that had intensified into massive seizures. Tests revealed that the Lynchburg, Virginia neurosurgeon had mysteriously contracted an extremely rare (i.e., one in ten million annual occurrence) bacterial meningitis-encephalitis. For six days he languished in the coma, his body unresponsive to the increasingly massive doses of antibiotics and other medications. At this stage the mortality rate for those in Alexander’s condition is 97 percent, and the few who do survive remain in a persistently vegetative state. Then, on the seventh day, within minutes after the lead doctor in the case had asked the family to consider taking Alexander off the ventilator, his eyes popped open. Soon he would say that during the last seven days he had been in heaven.
Dr. Moody is the grandfather of the genre of “near death experience” as well as the most ardent student of and articulate spokesman for near-death experiences, a term he himself coined. And it is no less than Dr. Raymond Moody who said about the near death experience described in Proof of Heaven, “Dr. Eben Alexander’s near death experience is the most astounding I have heard in more than four decades of studying this phenomenon. [It is] one of the crown jewels of all near death experiences. . . . Dr. Alexander is living proof of an afterlife.”
If this sounds like something you’d be interested in attending please pick up or download a copy of the book and plan to attend on March 10.
