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Death and Rebirth: Conclusion

Posted on April 13, 2018 by Lee — 22 Comments

For Chapter 4, click here. As the rock group The Police say in their song of the same title, “We are spirits in the material world.” While the hope of an afterlife certainly fuels our fascination with near-death experiences, we…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 4: Our Third Stage After Death

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Lee — 4 Comments

For Chapter 3, click here. Near-death experiencers who meet the being of light say that this being emphasizes love and learning as the most important things in life. The love must come from within, but much of our learning comes…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 3: Our Second Stage After Death

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Lee — 23 Comments

For Chapter 2, click here. After we die we initially go back to an outward lifestyle similar to the one we had before we died. But that doesn’t last long. Soon our outer layers start getting peeled away one by one,…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 2: Our First Stage After Death

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Lee — 31 Comments

For Chapter 1, click here. In his Forward to The Tibetan Book of the Dead John Woodroffe says: Life immediately after death is, according to this view, as Spiritists assert, similar to, and a continuation of, the life preceding it.…

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Death and Rebirth, Chapter 1: The Experience of Dying

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Lee — 24 Comments

For the Introduction, click here. There is a difference between Swedenborg’s experience and the experiences of people who have come close to dying and have returned. When Swedenborg described the spiritual world and the process of dying in Heaven and…

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Death and Rebirth: Introduction

Posted on March 31, 2018 by Lee — 10 Comments

In 1975 Raymond Moody published his book Life After Life. It became an instant bestseller, sparking an intense popular interest in near-death experiences (NDEs) that has continued to grow ever since. Suddenly there was new light shining on a part…

Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and Hell, Life After Life, near-death experiences, Raymond Moody, spiritual growth, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the spiritual world
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A Short(ish) Video Course on Near-Death Experiences

Posted on August 2, 2015 by Lee — 29 Comments

Are you interested in near-death experiences, but don’t have hundreds of hours to wade through thousands of books and videos to get a solid idea of what they’re all about? Garret Weeks has done the work for you in his ongoing YouTube video series, Journey of…

Tagged with: angels, Garret Weeks, God, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, Jesus Christ, love, near-death experiences, spirituality
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The Afterlife: It’s Not as Different as you Think!

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Lee — 124 Comments

Throughout the ages, the afterlife has been pictured in many different ways—more ways than we can possibly list here. Christians alone have pictured heaven as: The endless pleasure of intelligent and witty conversation with other angels Perpetual feasting with Abraham,…

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Must We Answer in Heaven for Misbehavior we have Confessed To on Earth?

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Lee — 10 Comments

In the article, “The Bible, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Reincarnation,” I wrote this: In the spiritual world, it is not only possible for us to re-experience events in our own lives from the records of it in our spiritual memory, but…

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Visions of Heaven, by Lisa Miller

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Lee — Leave a comment

Released just in time for Easter is this new book published by TIME: (We picked up a copy at the local supermarket checkout stand under a different title: Discovering Heaven: How Our Ideas About the Afterlife Shape How We Live Today.)…

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