Evidence for Heaven - Michael Zigarelli - TBH 418
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary

"I write books about things I don't know. That's how this Near Death Experience book began…" - Michael Zigarelli
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What happens when people clinically die… and then come back with stories they can't explain?
In this episode, I speak with professor and author Michael Zigarelli of Messiah University in Pennsylvania about his book Evidence for Heaven, a fascinating look at documented Near Death Experiences from around the world.
Michael has studied countless cases involving children, the blind, atheists, medical patients, and others who describe remarkably similar encounters beyond this life.
Evidence for Heaven - click here to see on Amazon https://a.co/d/0ginEV7b
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| 0:00.0 | People who had near-death experiences blind from birth, and then suddenly they see. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah, there's a story of an eight-year-old named Brad who claims to have risen out of his body and then seen for the first time. |
| 0:18.0 | Kind of floated up above that medical facility and saw for the first time. Kind of floated up above that medical facility |
| 0:22.2 | and saw for the first time snow. |
| 0:24.8 | He saw the streets that were plowed. |
| 0:26.5 | He saw trolleys, then floated skyward. |
| 0:30.9 | This is touched by heaven. |
| 0:32.3 | Everyday encounters with God, those moments |
| 0:35.9 | when heaven and earth collide. |
| 0:37.4 | And we see God in these encounter stories |
| 0:40.1 | with angels, divine intervention, prophetic dreams, visions, and yes, today, near-death experiences. |
| 0:47.2 | So, and I, and by the way, I've checked, apparently if you get on YouTube, you and I, I think, |
| 0:52.7 | are the last two people on the planet who have yet to have a near-death experience. |
| 0:57.1 | Right? There's a zillion stories out there, and it's like, wait, you and we're it. |
| 1:01.3 | And I say again, one of the attributes we do not give God enough credit for is a sense of humor. |
| 1:07.9 | Oh, I tell you about songs bubbling up in my head seemingly out of nowhere, |
| 1:11.5 | but we know where that nowhere is. And this morning, I wake up with this song that I think embodies |
| 1:16.7 | this continuing life element, this, that we never die, eternity kind of thing, because the song |
| 1:23.8 | I woke up to this morning was, I am a vampire, I am a vampire, I am a vampire. |
| 1:31.1 | That's one way of achieving eternal life. I don't know. Is that an option? It's actually, it's from a |
| 1:37.8 | soundtrack from a movie called Juno. I'd seen a while back, but we're not talking about living |
| 1:42.5 | forever as a vampire in case that is an option. |
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