The other books I've read were usually written by the person who had the NDE and focused on that individual's experience. The final half of the book moved at a fast pace, and I learned a lot about Heaven as Burke used NDEs to illustrate major points in his book.

Anyone interested in NDEs or longing to imagine heaven more clearly will enjoy this fascinating and hope-filled book. When you picture heaven, you’ve probably been taught to think of an ethereal realm full of clouds and blinding light. I would definitely encourage anyone with questions about what happens after we die to read this book. Burke even dabbles in a bit of physics (my husband was educated as a physicist so we appreciated that bit). If you’re Christian, there might be dozens of angels playing trumpets and massive crowds singing church songs for all eternity.As a Worship Leader, Imagine Heaven has given deeper meaning to the lyrics in my favorite worship songs and I find this book to be a wonderful resource in helping God’s people to seek after the heart of God in worship. That's what pushed this book from 4 to 5 stars for me, I know that's not fair, but it really does make the reading experience that much better. Studying mystical accounts of supposed journeys into the afterlife yields nothing but confusion, contradiction, false hope, bad doctrine, and a host of similar evils. I have always been fascinated with stories about people going to heaven and have several books written by people who died and went to heaven but this book is the piesta resistance as it it brings lots and lots of experiences of Heaven all together in one volume.

Most of the doctors found out that they had to be telling truth about seeing themselves dead because they gave every detail about what got in their charts. In his engrossing book, my friend John Burke surveys the vast literature on NDEs, examining them in light of the Bible and showing how they can help us live with an eye on eternity. I just so happen to walk into this church, my first time in a church as an adult (not counting funerals and weddings), on the first day of this Imagine Heaven series.I could see her in perfect health, with all the music which she loved so much and envisioning what she was probably seeing and doing, gave me a peace about her death that I don't think I would have had if I hadn't read this book. Scriptures are heavily used to reference and guide the reader as to how the person who has experienced life after death matches what the Word of God tells us. But I would warn them not to be fooled by any emotional persuasions, like I had after my initial reading. I read this again and, while it made me cry, I could picture her reuniting with her parents who had died at the ages of 50 and 51, along with all the rest of family and friends who had died before her. Some woman named Vicky was blind her entire life and she told people she could see herself first when she died and then she went into a tunnel of brightness and saw her family and friends and Jesus.