![]() ![]() In another case, from Holland, a man who had his heart shocked into beating again, could a week later tell the staff where they had misplaced his dentures because he saw the emergency room nurse place them into the lower drawer of a crash cart with “all the bottles on it.” “And what convinced him was how they could describe the resuscitation techniques he did, and he said ‘if I taped it, I could teach other physicians how to do resuscitation, it was that accurate.'” “As he did, he started to see more and more say ‘yes, here was my experience.'” Sabom, a cardiologist, started interviewing his own patients because he hadn’t ever heard anyone talk of an NDE. Michael Sabom: when he first heard about this, and he actually set out to disprove it,” Burke said. These accounts are so accurate, Burke said, that they are also what have convinced many skeptical doctors. Oftentimes, these recounts even include details that were out of the line of sight and field of hearing of the patient, even if they had been conscious. In these types of experiences, these people can see themselves being worked on in the hospital, and recall with uncanny clarity and accuracy things that happened while they were brain dead, with no consciousness. What convinced Burke was the “out-of-body” type of recounts that NDErs tell. “Many have studied it, like I did, and have become convinced that this is evidence our consciousness survives our mortality.” “Cardiologists, doctors, have over the years seen the same thing,” Burke said. “Doubters welcome.” Looking for Proofīurke has not had a near-death experience himself. “And many years later, we started Gateway Church for skeptics like me,” he said. It took so long because Burke by nature is skeptical-even having heard as many NDE stories as he has, he is skeptical of each one as he conducts interviews. It took him about three decades to write what would become a New York Times bestseller, “Imagine Heaven,” piecing together Biblical parallels to commonalities shared across NDEs through dozens of stories. “That kind of opened me up, and I began a journey of exploration,” said Burke in an interview with NTD Television for the show “ Mysteries of Life.”Īfter he read that first book, Burke kept running into people who’d had NDEs, and eventually left his career in engineering to go into ministry. And Burke learned, through a national 1980s Gallup poll, that nearly 1 in 25 Americans had had a near-death experience. Some spoke of seeing God, some described Jesus. There were multiple cases of people pronounced clinically dead without heartbeats or brain waves, who came back to life and spoke of astounding-and astoundingly similar-experiences. “I said, oh my gosh, this might be evidence this afterlife, God stuff is real,” Burke said. He was “agnostic, skeptical.” But when his father was diagnosed with cancer, a friend gave them a book about near-death experience research, one of the first published, and Burke read it himself in one night. He was not religious, and wasn’t sure about God. He has also interviewed more than 1,000 people who were clinically dead and came back with an experience to recount.īut when Burke began this research, he was a skeptic. Hundreds of scholarly articles have been written on the subject of near-death experiences (NDEs), including in major peer-reviewed publications like The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet, describing what God has tried to reveal to mankind about heaven through Jewish prophets and Jesus, says Pastor John Burke.īurke can rattle off a dozen commonalities between what those who’ve had NDEs say and corresponding snippets of scripture.īurke knows this because he’s studied the Bible in detail, paying particular attention to details describing heaven.
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