伊基蒂(Betty Eadie)在最暢銷書《被光擁抱》(Embraced by the Light)中描寫自己的瀕死經歷(Near Death Experience)﹕有一天她住院接受手術,當天晚上她感覺非常暈旋,好像身體向下沉,突然她發現自己翱翔於天花板,向下看見自己的身體仍然躺在床上,接著她覺得自己在一個黑暗的隧道中前進,在最終點,她看見一點點的光,慢慢她看見一個人站在光中,展臂歡迎擁抱她,讓她覺得無限的愛,她知道自己終於回家了,與她的救主耶穌基督面對面了。可是「耶穌」對她說,「你的時候還沒有到」,伊基蒂抗議,不願意回去,至少她得知道她為什麼「死去」,於是「耶穌」向她解釋了很多道理,帶她到處游覽。無奈,她終於必須告別天堂樂境,伊基蒂形容回到肉身就像剛剛洗了澡,又穿上一件在污泥中輥過的又冷又濕的全身工作服。[1]
艾華特(P. M. H. Atwater)是一個比較老實的研究員,她不願意報吉不報凶,所以她報告了瀕死經歷的一些不良後效,其中最驚人的一項是﹕經歷者雖然常常說自己更愛家人,但是他們的家人都沒法感到,很多時候甚至感覺他離群,傲然活在另一個世界裡。[12] 此外,經歷者雖然腦部沒有損傷,但似乎頭腦都有改變,[13] 例如對時間的感受不同,[14] 甚至漠視常規和常理。[15]
[1] Betty J. Eadie, Embraced by the Light (New York: Bantam Books, 1994), p. 28-30, 40-43, 123. etc. [2] Kenneth Ring, Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1984) p. 34-36. [3] Editors of Time-Life Books, Psychic Voyages (Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1987), p. 66-69. [4] Raymond A. Moody 著,長生譯,《來生》(台北﹕方智出版社,民國84年),p.151. [5] P.M.H. Atwater, Coming Back To Life: The After-Effects of the New-Death Experience (New York: Ballantine Books, 1988), p. 151. [6] Raymond A. Moody, Life After Life (New York: Bantam Books, 1998), 前 言 。 [7] Moody,《來生》, p. 102. [8] Ibid., p. 108. [9] Ibid., p. 150. [10] Margot Grey, Return From Death: An Exploration of the Near-Death Experience (New York: Arkana, 1987), p. 96. [11] Ibid., p. 98-99. [12] Atwater, Coming Back To Life, p. 68-70. [13] Ibid., p. 86. [14] Ibid., p. 81-89. [15] Ibid., p. 77-81. [16] John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on Near Death Experience (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1996), p. 10-17. [17] Atwater, Coming Back To Life, p. 116-117. [18] Ankerberg & Weldon, The Facts on Near Death Experience, p. 18. [19] Ring, Heading Toward Omega, p. 318. [20] Grey, Return From Death, p. 113, 134. [21] Atwater, Coming Back To Life, p. 145. [22] Moody,《 來 生》, p. 101. [23] Ring, Heading Toward Omega, p. 166. [24] 安克伯、韋爾頓著,逸萍譯,《死後生命的真相》(香港﹕天道書樓,1999)p.46-47. [25] Ankerberg & Weldon, The Facts on Near Death Experience, p. 34-37. [26] Ibid., p. 10. [27] Grey, Return From Death, p. 56-58. [28] Carol Zaleski, Other Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 31-32. [29] Richard Abanes, Embraced by the Light and the Bible (Camp Hill, Pennsylvanis: Horizon Books, 1994), p. 25-26. [30] Eadie, Embraced by the Light, p. 86-88. [31] Ring, Heading Toward Omega, p. 47-48. [32] Moody,《來生》, p. 157. [33] Ibid., p. 157-163. [34] 安克伯,《死後生命的真相》,p.9. [35] Ring, Heading Toward Omega, p. 249. [36] Ibid., p. 231-235. [37] Ibid., p. 51. [38] Ibid., p. 87-88. [39] Ibid., p. 248-49. [40] Ankerberg & Weldon, The Facts on Near Death Experience, p. 32. [41] Eadie, Embraced by the Light, about the author. [42] Atwater, Coming Back To Life, p. 27. [43] Editors of Time-Life Books, Psychic Voyages, p. 64-65. [44] Abanes, Embraced by the Light and the Bible, p. 203-04. [45] Atwater, Coming Back To Life, p. 45. [46] 吳光顯,『靈魂飛越死亡線』,顧立平編輯,《靈魂Call Out》(台北﹕周商文化,1996)p.110-11. [47] Moody,《來生》, p. 109. [48] Robert J. Geis, Personal Experience After Death (Peru, IL: Sherwood Sugden & Co: 1995), p. 100-106. [49] 電視節目 “Near Death and Dreams of Dying”, Discovery Channel, 7/17/1999. [50] Zaleski, Other Journeys, p. 26-28; J. Vernon McGee, II Corinthians (Pasadena, CA: Thru The Bible Books, 1977), p. 131-32.