When scientists acknowledge the authenticity of the afterlife, it makes me giddy. They validate my beliefs, even if they aren’t referring specifically to my experience. In the book, Proof of Heaven, Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, Eben Alexander, outlines how his near-death experience (NDE) proves we survive in a different dimension when our physical bodies cease to exist. [...]
Dedicated to my cousin Roy and coworker Bill—both who had endured prejudice and misplaced shame for being how God created them. They have since crossed over. I’m angry, yet I’ve been silent. By taking the “this is not my battle” stance, I’ve empowered those who expend energy to make homosexuals pariahs in our society. Now’s [...]
For many years, I feared dying. I’m not sure whether it was the trepidation that I wasn’t good enough to go to heaven or if I wanted to pack everything into life before it was extinguished. Or both. Now, when my time comes, I believe I’ll look boldly into my future and say, “I’m ready.” [...]
During a recent panel discussion that I moderated, I found some organized religions moored to fear, seemingly scaring their parishioners into submission. Once an evangelical, I constantly monitored my actions and thoughts for good Christian behavior. What I was told to do, I did. What my pastor said not to do, I didn’t. I was [...]
Years ago, an evangelical friend cut me from her life after her pastor said I was destined for hell. Apparently, he believed I cavorted with Satan because I: Visited a Chinese acupuncturist for pain management treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome and neurally mediated hypotension; and Lived with a man, not married. I was shocked my [...]
University of Arizona Professor Gary Schwartz, PhD believes he has proven that death is not the end of our individual existences. In his book, The Afterlife Experiments, he discusses his pivotal study of mediums and after-death communications. Schwartz, who earned his doctorate at Harvard and taught at Yale, headed UA’s former Human Energy Systems Laboratory, now [...]
