CNN: By Randi Kaye and Chelsea J. Carter —
One woman is under water and without oxygen for 30 minutes after a kayaking accident. Another has end-stage cancer. A teenage boy suffers heart failure.
On the brink of death, all three tell stories of leaving their bodies, going to heaven and coming back.
For each, their story raises questions: Is heaven real? What does it feel like to die?
And for each, their answer — airing Sunday on CNN’s “To Heaven and Back” — will be grounded in their experience. These are their accounts:
MARY NEAL
It was January 14, 1999, and Mary Neal, an orthopedic surgeon from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, had surprised her husband, Bill, with a week-long kayaking trip with friends in the Los Rios Region of Chile.
It had been a good trip. The couple spent the week enjoying people, the food and the culture.
But that morning, Neal’s husband wasn’t feeling well. So he stayed behind while she joined their friends on a section of river well known for its waterfalls and drops of 10 to 15 feet.
“When I first put (afloat) on the river, I didn’t feel quite right,” she said.
Personally I think these stories are very important. If ‘normal’ persons can ‘leave their body’ (and I have also met someone who had an experience like that) than I think this can also explain the Prophet’s (peace be on him) journey to Al Quds (Jerusalem) and on to heaven and back. It is easy for us to understand. Does anyone agree with me or am I right? (views welcome).
Therefore I think we can use this and similar stories for an additional argument for the truth of Islam!
I agree, let’s do it