May 7, 2013 - So too is belief in what one academic called “an unreligious afterlife,” the ... accounts of afterlife experiences are recognizably Christian—at least in .... McVea, whose Waking Up in Heaven tells the story of the nine minutes that .... An hour and a half later, though, Piper stirred back to life, albeit to a long and ...
The Science of Near-Death Experiences - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/...science-of-near-death-experiences/386231/
(The subject of The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, published in 2010, recently ... are just further evidence that NDEs rank right up there with alien abductions, ... Yet even these skeptics rarely accuse experiencers of inventing their stories ... Many people, she said, don't realize for years that they've had an NDE, and ...