Secrets from Beyond The Grave

the other hand, may see a tunnel of fire, people in dark chambers or individuals who appear in dread, and a feeling of being lost or hopelessness. A Medical Doctor's Experience

One of the first books I read documenting life after death was written by Dr. Maurice Rawlings and is called Beyond Death's Door . Dr. Rawlings is a specialist in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and has resuscitated many people who were clinically dead. He considered all religions as "hocus-pocus" and "death nothing more than a painless extinction." In 1977 his opinions changed as he revived a man who had a heart attack. Rawlings wrote: Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . . . His pupils were dilated, and he was perspiring and trembling--he looked as if his hair was on end. He said, "Don't you understand? I am in hell. . . . Don't let me go back to hell."1 On page 85 of this book he writes: This place seems to be underground within the earth in some way . . . When a person clinically dies, for example, with heart failure, and has an out-of-body experience, some of the most unusual things are reported to happen from time to time. At times a person's watch quits working at the very time they expired . The battery simply quits. The quartz batteries placed in common watches are manufactured to endure a certain amount of voltage. However if the watts of electricity exceed the standards, the battery will fail. Others observed later that all of their credit cards had been demagnetized in their wallets for no apparent reason. Some returned saying that their memory was sharper and their knowledge was increased after the experience. These simple yet unusual phenomena, which are occasionally reported among "after-deathers," cannot be explained in a medical sense or in a laboratory experiment. For batteries to quit and magnetic strips on bank cards to be demagnetized would require an extremely powerful surge of electricity in the body or some type of electromagnetic activity. The Image on the Shroud This is similar to one of the explanations given about the famous Shroud of Turin, a 14.3 by 3.7 foot linen cloth that bears the image of a man who has been physically beaten. It appears consistent with the description of the scourging and crucifixion of Christ. The mysterious cloth has been on public display throughout the centuries, and small segments have undergone critical examinations by specialists, some attempting to prove the cloth is the burial shroud of Christ and others maintaining it is a remarkable forgery from the Crusader period of medieval times. The image of the suffering man became clear on May 28, 1898, when an amateur photographer made a black-and-white negative of the shroud. Clearly the face and body of a man was seen with what appeared to be small bloodstains on the forehead, holes in the wrists, and long furrows on the back--again, consistent with the biblical account that Christ was scourged on His back, had a crown of thorns placed upon His head, and was crucified using nails in His hands and feet. I personally have no opinion one way or another concerning the authenticity of the shroud, as my faith and confidence do not rely upon a linen cloth but in Christ, who is my High