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“I highly recommend it to everyone who is looking for proof of the love and caring of a universal God.” George G. Ritchie, Jr., M.D.Author of Return from Tomorrow and My Life After Dying

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By John Peccavi     June 18, 2018

About 20 years ago, the church which my wife and I attend in Nashville had an unusual visitor.  Dr. George G. Ritchie spoke to a group of us about his near death experience.

It happened in 1943, while he was a private undergoing training at an Army post in Texas.  Pneumonia sent him to the hospital, where his heart stopped beating and a medical officer pronounced him dead.  Before Ritchie's body was taken to the morgue, a hospital worker, thinking that he saw Ritchie's chest move, persuaded a doctor to inject adrenaline into the heart, which started it beating again.

Ritchie later wrote books describing what he experienced after his heart stopped:  He "flew" out of the hospital and on a path due East.  At Vicksburg, Mississippi, he descended to the ground and tried unsuccessfully to engage in conversation with a man who could not see or hear him.  He then flew back to the hospital and, in the presence of his corpse, realized he had died.

The room then filled with very bright light and Ritchie encountered a Being of Light whom he identified with Jesus Christ.  As if watching a movie, Ritchie saw the events of his own life and felt Christ ask him, "What have you done with your life?"  Ritchie came to understand that Christ was asking him how much unconditional love he had given to others.

Ritchie seemed sincere when he told us this story.  Of course, that does not rule out the possibility that he was describing a dream or hallucination, caused by his illness, so vivid he believed it to be real.

Nonetheless, the story has prompted a lot of thought.  The near-death experiences described by other people often include such a review of the person's past life.  I'm not looking forward to having such a review.  Too many parts of my life cause me regret, guilt and shame.

If we take Ritchie's story as a given, it leads to the question, why is this review of one's life part of the process?

Ritchie's story continues with a description of other realms on Earth which we do not see.  One obviously is a hell, and another is a place where people can continue the creative work they had begun and continue to grow spiritually.  Ritchie also describes seeing from afar a holy city, not on the Earth, for beings even more advanced spiritually.

If the purpose of this life, and the life to come, is spiritual growth, then I suspect the purpose of a review is to learn from our own mistakes, our own sins.  Of course, everyone makes mistakes, and everyone sins.

Sins cause harm and suffering, to ourselves and often to others. We need to repent and we need to undo the harm when we can, but we also need to study the experience and learn from it.

The path toward sin often begins with some seemingly minor choices that make temptation more and more likely and more and more potent.  If we can identify where we first started to go offtrack, we are better prepared to avoid that mistake in the future.

Banner is based on Hallucination by Prof. Mario Markus (Wikimedia Commons).

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