Rev. Brennan:

Treating NDEs as important puts a lot of credence on the functioning of an oxygen-deprived brain. I don’t attach much importance to what our brains do when they are not working.

— G.

Two lines from a longer, thoughtful email from a reader who calls himself an atheist.

I repeat: Atheism is as fragile as Fundamentalism.
Both are ready to fall like a house of cards.
They cannot stand up to reason and information.

Brains actually do not do anything when they are not working.
People having an NDE are absent from the brain—
yet they can often describe in detail everything doctors and nurses are doing to revive them.
This can include what doctors and nurses say to one another—while there is no brain activity.
Yes, the information is conclusive.

So, what I call highly resistant non-believers must run from this and all such evidence—
just as fundamentalists must resist the clear truth that the Bible is not inerrant.

But I have absolutely no desire to fight reality.
I want the truth.

Dr. Raj Parti, a Hindu who met Jesus in an NDE, concludes this:
1 – Consciousness exists outside the body.
2 – There is life after death.
3 – We are all connected to each other.
4 – There is one all-prevailing supreme love and intelligence which is the source of all creation.

No use to fight it.
Everyone who has an NDE says the same thing.

And so does Jesus.

I return to the pulpit Sunday after my accident.
Worship at 11:00.

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