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Tales of the Dead Come Back

Image from Tales of the Dead Come Back: How Modern Medicine Is Reinventing Death "Death travelers" are bringing back stories of life beyond death.

Image from Tales of the Dead Come Back: How Modern Medicine Is Reinventing Death
“Death travelers” are bringing back stories of life beyond death.

National Geographic writer, Simon Worrall, discusses the book Glimpsing Heaven: The Stories and Science of Life After Death with its author Judy Bachrach in this September 3rd, 2014 edition of Book Talk News.

Bachrach describes how advances in life-saving measures such as CPR have enabled a significant group of people to experience death prior to being revived. The article provides us with a glimpse into the fascinating stories Bachrach relates in her book of those who have had near deal experiences. She also provides insight into what those experiences might to us.

They can fly through walls or circle the planets, turn into pure light or meet long-dead relatives. Many have blissful experiences of universal love. Most do not want to return to the living. When they do, they’re often endowed with special powers: They can predict the future or intuit people’s thoughts.

Many end up unhappy and divorced, rejected by their loved ones or colleagues, burdened with a knowledge they often dare not share. They are the “death travelers.”

If this sounds like the movie Flatliners or a science fiction novel by J. G. Ballard, it isn’t. These are the testimonies of people who have had near death experiences (NDEs) and returned from the other side to tell the tale

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