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You're listening to episode 363 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world,

where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason.

In this episode, we're talking about Christianity and near-death experiences.

I'm Dom Betanelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken.

Hey, Jimmy.

Howdy, Dom?

In 1975, Raymond Moody brought near-death experiences to public attention with his best-selling book, Life After Life.

But the press seldom gets stories like this right, and even many students of near-death

experiences exaggerate or neglect aspects of NDEs.

They may make it sound like everyone goes to heaven, or that people see whatever religious

figures in the afterlife that they happen to

believe in, or that NDE's teach reincarnation. All of this raised concerns among some

Christians about whether near-death experiences were compatible with the faith. So, does

everyone go to heaven? Do you see whatever God you worship?

Do the experiences teach reincarnation?

And are they compatible with the Christian faith?

That's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world.

Jimmy, what do you want to say to begin today's mystery?

Today we're going to be looking at the relationship between near-death experiences or NDEs and the Christian faith. This means that today's

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