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Show (f pathway 5 , Jj VZSS " I first read about Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in 1976 in the San Francisco Chronicle. The story was about a woman psychiatrist who had been working with dying patients and her extraordinary experiences with them. It seems she had found many basic truths among her basically different patients. People of every race and creed, who had experienced near-death episodes, were telling her the same stories. Her interest was in the patient who had been termed "clinically dead" and then revived to life. Individual belief systems aside, they all reported similar occurrances: a great and shining light about them and a warm and loving atmosphere surrounding them. The stories prompted Kubler-Ross to more research and finally led her to begin to speak publically about her findings. : . During one lecture tour at the University of Virginia, a young graduate student challenged Kubler-Ross, implying that she was no scientist, but a fanciful fool. She, in turn, dared him to study her research before closing his mind, he did so and became a firm believer: his name is Raymond Moody, the author of several popular books on the subject, the first being "Life After Life."" I found it significant that just before I read Moody's first book, a co-worker of mine, a woman of 50, told me of her own experience with "coming back from the dead." She had-been had-been in an auto accident and while doctors were working on her body, she had been aware of their beings and their words: "It's too late; we've lost her." She said she came into a bright light and a radiant being told her she must return to life; that she had much left to do. She returned reluctantly and astonished the medical staff by repeating their words and actions to them. Kubler-Ross speaks: "What we hear from our friends who passed over, from people who came back to share with us, is that every human being after this transition is going to have to face something that looks very much like a television screen, you are given an opportunity, not to be judged by a judgmental God, but to judge yourself, by having to review every single action, every word, and every thought of your life. You make you own hell, or your own heaven, by the way you live." |
