Read: Dr. George Ritchie's near-death experience

Hola Kristen ~ I did get your phone messages about the Obama Christian
Science Monitor. Alas, there are indeed victims and victimizers in connected
reality. Sometimes we are victims of circumstances beyond our direct control.
This does not condone self-pity, it does admit that some things are simply out
of our control. A lot of New Age thinking and various manifestations of the same
forget much of the wisdom in plain old common sense. There debates never ends
but solutions are found in direct actions and learning from our own direct existential
experiences.

Anyway, that would be a good book to read... add to my pile!

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Peter S. Lopez ~aka: Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com

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Dr. George Ritchie's near-death experience

In December, 1943, George Ritchie died of pneumonia. Nine minutes later, miraculously and unaccountably, he returned to life to tell of his amazing near-death experience in the afterlife. His near-death experience was the one that profoundly moved Raymond Moody to begin seriously investigating the near-death experience. Since Dr. Moody is considered to be the "father of the near-death experience," Dr. Ritchie's near-death experience is in a class of its own. You will find his experience to be one of the most profound near-death experiences ever documented. The following is a brief summary of Dr. George Ritchie's near-death experience. You can read his NDE testimony in its entirety in his ground-breaking books Return From Tomorrow and his follow-up book Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying.

George leaves his body and sees it lying in his bed. He is not aware the dead body in his bed is his. Wanting eagerly to travel to Richmond, Virginia to start college, he finds himself flying in the air toward a city. He is not sure how he acquired these strange powers of flight and transparency. He arrives at a city and discovers he has lost his solidness. He flies back to the hospital and sees his lifeless body in the morgue and realizes he has died. Suddenly, Jesus appears emitting a tremendous light and love. George's entire life appears before him. Jesus asks, "What have you done with your life?" He realizes Jesus is not judging him, but he is judging himself. Jesus gives him a tour of four different dimensions in the afterlife. They both fly toward a large city on Earth where they notice a group of assembly-line workers at work. He witnesses the spirit of a woman trying desperately to obtain a cigarette from the workers who are oblivious to her presence. This woman died severely addicted to cigarettes.. In a house, Jesus shows him the spirit of a boy following a living teenage girl and begging for forgiveness while the girl is completely unaware of the boy's presence. Jesus tells George that the boy committed suicide and is "chained to every consequence of his act." Jesus shows George a bar filled with sailors who are heavily drinking. Spirits try desperately and in vain to get a drink or to control the sailors' alcoholic behavior. These spirits are from humans who die severely alcoholic. He is horrified as he observes a drunken sailor pass out and an alcoholic spirit jump into the body of the sailor. Jesus takes him to a new dimension away from Earth and shows him a kind of "receiving station" where spirits would arrive in a deep hypnotic sleep because of their beliefs. These are spirits who believe they must sleep after death until Jesus returns. Jesus shows him a dimension where angry spirits are locked in hand-to-hand combat, trying in vain to hurt each other. He hears verbal abuse going on. He observes some trying in vain to get sexual gratification from each other. He also sees spirits arguing over some religious or political point and trying to kill the ones who did not agree with them. Here, he realizes he is seeing hell. These are spirits who are locked into some earthly desire that went beyond the physical and which cannot be satisfied in the spirit. He is then taken to a different dimension appearing like an enormous university. Here he observes people dressed as monks engaged in some form of artistic behavior or research. He is taken into an enormous library where all the important books of the universe are assembled. He asks Jesus if this is heaven. He replies that these are the people who grew beyond selfish desires while on Earth. George realizes these people cannot see Jesus, just as the others could not see him in hell. Jesus takes him into outer space toward a distant city made of brilliant light of a similar description to the city in the Book of Revelation. He speculates this is the place where people go who have become Christ-like while on Earth. Here, love was the dominant focus of life. He realizes he is seeing heaven, but he is not allowed to go in. Jesus then shows him the future of the Earth. He then returns to his physical body.

"Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through." - Dr.. George Ritchie
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From: Kristen W <kristyleigh@hotmail.com>
To: Peter Lopez <peter.lopez51@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:13:15 PM
Subject: RE: Just Checking In

Peter,
Remember- there are NO VICTIMS just experiences of Victimization, which we can learn from when we are ready to accept the LESSON that all good is the only real outcome.
ASAP go and buy the book "Return From Tomorrow," by Dr. George Richie.  It will open your
eyes and your heart as to how to keep on keeping on with the vision of what life is all about.
Kristen
 

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Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:41:33 -0700
From: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Just Checking In
To: kristyleigh@hotmail.com

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Thanks Christian... we had a CASA Meeting here at Globe Mills yesterday
and heard a cassette tape on the Four Agreements. I see so much more
need to be done and my job is really stifling, trying to help people but
having to do a bunch of paperwork crap that my control freak Supervisor
has me do.. I got a lousy evaluation recently from them, they conspire.
against me and I am only there  for the clients... plus the paycheck helps
to keep me going of course. I wish I had another way of making a living
right now that I could get concentrate more on actual counseling, group
workshops and writing.... alas..it is Thursday and I go in late today but
get out at 7 PM... though there is a Dual Recovery Anonymous Meeting
at 7 that I may hang around for... Blessings and Pray for Us ALL!

Education for Liberation!
Peter S. Lopez ~aka: Peta
Sacramento, California, Aztlan
Yahoo Email: peter.lopez51@yahoo.com

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From: Kristen W <kristyleigh@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:48:54 AM
Subject: FW: Just Checking In

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A minister passing through his church 
in the middle of the day, 
Decided to pause by the altar 
and see who had come to pray. 

Just then the back door opened, 
a man came down the aisle, 
The minister frowned as he saw 
the man hadn't shaved in a while.

His shirt was kinda shabby 
and his coat was worn and frayed, 
the man knelt, he bowed his head, 
Then rose and walked away. 

In the days that followed, 
each noon time came this chap, 
each time he knelt just for a moment, 
A lunch pail in his lap. 

Well, the minister's suspicions grew,  
with robbery a main fear, 
He decided to stop the man and ask him, 
'What are you doing here?' 

The old man said, he worked down the road. 
Lunch was half an hour. 
Lunchtime was his prayer time, 
For finding strength and power.

'I stay only moments, see,  
because the factory is so far away; 
as I kneel here talking to the Lord, 
This is kinda what I say: 

'I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, LORD, 
HOW HAPPY I'VE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND EACH OTHERS FRIENDSHIP AND YOU TOOK AWAY MY SIN. DON'T KNOW MUCH OF HOW TO PRAY, BUT I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY. 
SO, JESUS, THIS IS JIM CHECKING IN TODAY.' 

The minister feeling foolish, 
told Jim, that was fine. 
He told the man he was welcome 
To come and pray just anytime 

Time to go, Jim smiled, said 'Thanks.' 
He hurried to the door. 
The minister knelt at the altar, 
he'd never done it before. 

His cold heart  melted, warmed with love, 
and met with Jesus there. 
As the tears flowed, in his heart, 
he repeated old Jim's prayer: 

'I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, LORD, 
HOW HAPPY I'VE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND EACH OTHERS FRIENDSHIP AND YOU TOOK AWAY MY SIN. I DON'T KNOW MUCH OF HOW TO PRAY, BUT I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY. 
SO, JESUS, THIS IS ME CHECKING IN TODAY.' 

Past noon one day, the minister noticed 
that old Jim hadn't come. 
As more days passed without Jim, 
he began to worry some.  

At the factory, he asked about him, 
learning he was ill.

The hospital staff was worried, 
But he'd given them a thrill. 

The week that Jim was with them, 
Brought changes in the ward. 
His smiles, a joy contagious. 
Changed people, were his reward. 

The head nurse couldn't understand 
why Jim was so glad, 
when no flowers, calls or cards came, 
Not a visitor he had. 

The minister stayed by his bed, 
He voiced the nurse's concern: 
No friends came to show they cared. 
He had nowhere to turn. 

Looking surprised, old Jim spoke 
up and with a winsome smile; 
'the nurse is wrong, she couldn't know, 
that he's in here all the while  
everyday at noon He's here, 
a dear friend of mine, you see, 
He sits right down, takes my hand, 
Leans over and says to me:

 

'I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, JIM, 
HOW HAPPY I HAVE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND THIS FRIENDSHIP, AND I TOOK AWAY YOUR SIN.

ALWAYS LOVE TO HEAR YOU PRAY,  
I THINK ABOUT YOU EACH DAY, AND SO JIM, THIS IS JESUS CHECKING IN TODAY.'

If this blesses you, pass it on..

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