One book this year really fascinated me, but not for the reason the author likely intended. Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander is a runaway best-seller with two million copies sold in little over a year.
Alexander is a neurosurgeon who claims to have proof that Heaven exists. I don’t need proof, but his story did interest me.
But what truly intrigued me were a few paragraphs near the end that took me back 29 years — Jan. 15 and 16, 1985 — when I experienced a couple things I have often wondered about.
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