The modern, reconstructed Nauvoo Illinois Temple \u00a0(LDS Media Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I share here a few brief notes that I\u2019ve extracted from Marlene Bateman Sullivan, Gaze into Heaven: Near-Death Experiences in Early Church History<\/em> (Springville, UT: CFI, 2013):<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
When Joseph Eldridge had a near-death experience, he said the first thing he saw was his own body. \u00a0\u201cI looked down on my body and could see myself lying there. \u00a0My father and mother were leaning over each other weeping for me.\u201d \u00a0(11)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Peter E. Johnson said, \u201cSoon after that, my spirit left the body; just how I cannot tell. \u00a0But I perceived myself standing some four or five feet in the air, and saw my body lying on the bed.\u201d \u00a0(11)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Harriett Ovard Lee: \u00a0\u201cI saw my husband and all the people in the room, some of them crying and wringing their hands over my lifeless body, at the sight of which I shuddered.\u201d \u00a0(12)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jennie Boshart recalled a story about her grandfather Albert M. Boyce, who was born in Spanish Fork, Utah, in 1854, and later moved to McCammon, Idaho, where he served for fifteen years as a bishop.<\/p>\n
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One day, at the age of 74, he went off on his own to bathe at Lava Hot Springs. \u00a0Suddenly, though, after about half an hour in the water, he felt faint and blacked out. \u00a0Fortunately, an American Indian friend of his came walking along at just the right time. \u00a0Seeing Brother Boyce face down in the pool, he hurried pulled him out. \u00a0But there was no pulse, and no discernible heartbeat.<\/p>\n
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At the same moment, as Grandfather testified later, he found himself standing next to his own body, watching these proceedings. \u00a0He said that he knew his soul had been \u2018lifted\u2019 out of his body to watch the Indian attempt to get his heart to beat again. \u00a0This went on for what seemed a long period of time. \u00a0To the Indian, he felt it was useless, but he knew that he couldn\u2019t give up trying to revive him as long as he had the strength to try.<\/span><\/p>\nBut suddenly Grandfather felt himself re-entering his body, and the next thing he knew he was bringing up water from his stomach. \u00a0It wasn\u2019t long before Grandfather could move and talk with the Indian whom he thanked profusely for saving his life.<\/span><\/p>\nWhen Grandfather later manifested his testimony, he said that when he \u2018left\u2019 his body and stood by, it was the strangest phenomenon he had ever witnessed. \u00a0The Indian later said that he was so positive that Grandfather was dead when he pulled him out of the pool. \u00a0(12-13)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 I share here a few brief notes that I\u2019ve extracted from Marlene Bateman Sullivan, Gaze into Heaven: Near-Death Experiences in Early Church History (Springville, UT: CFI, 2013): \u00a0 When Joseph Eldridge had a near-death experience, he said the first thing he saw was his own body. \u00a0\u201cI looked down on my body and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1727,1104,1008,1011,900,9392,903,9916,960,906,10691],"class_list":["post-84650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afterlife","tag-death","tag-immortality","tag-life-after-death","tag-nde","tag-ndes","tag-near-death-experience","tag-near-death-experiences","tag-obe","tag-out-of-body-experience","tag-world-to-come"],"yoast_head":"\n
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