Embraced by the Light by Betty J Eadie

This is sort of a painful book to read, because the author comes across as a warm, nice person who is probably a good friend, wife and mother to her eight children.You pull for her. You want to believe. You really do.But of all the near death experience accounts I've read, this is easily the one that's easiest to dismiss as a fake or -- at least -- an exaggeration.For one thing, a lot of NDE people describe getting to Heaven's "door" (so to speak), but not being allowed inside by a certain point, or they couldn't return to their bodies, and it wasn't time for them to die.Eadie is taken to many places throughout Heaven by her guides. She goes lots of places and many secrets of the Universe explained to her.Frankly, I found her story of being held by an old man angel/spirit one night when she was a very sick and lonely little girl much more credible.I was partly put off by her account of being in the hospital at night before and after (the night she allegedly "died") as being t
oo melodramatic. She was working too hard to make us feel suspense and spooked.Maybe she did have an NDE. I can even believe she was held by Jesus. That's a common theme.And of course, I could be wrong. Maybe she's not trying to take advantage of the increasing popularity of near death experiences. I can't prove her story is fake. I do wonder why it's so different in some ways than others.And she includes a touching story of how, while in Heaven, saw the soul of a girl waiting to be born, whose spirit seemed so beautiful to her. And that turned out to be the foster child she and her husband wound up adopting.She emphasizes the central message that once we're dead we're judging by how much we loved while here on Earth.This is s worthwhile message. Maybe she feels that any way she can spread it and convince people to love more is worth it. I don't know.I notice that some reviewers have criticized her writing that it doesn't matter which religion you belong to down here on Eart
h, and I suppose that she understood some of her fellow Christians (she clearly is Christian) would criticize this.Even if she did have an NDE, it's clear from the descriptions of others that everybody interprets it according to their own religion, culture and level of understanding. Therefore, especially for such a long story including her learnings, it's difficult to take her words at face value.

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