{"id":8253,"date":"2012-06-04T14:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2012-06-14T17:29:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:29:48","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-go-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2012\/06\/what-is-it-like-to-go-to-heaven.html","title":{"rendered":"What Is It Like to Go to Heaven?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/files\/2012\/05\/HeavenAndBack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8254 alignleft\" title=\"HeavenAndBack\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2012\/05\/HeavenAndBack-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if you could find out?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mary Neal was involved in an unfortunate kayak accident that ultimately took her life. She found that it wasn&#8217;t yet time for her to leave this life, but before she was revived she experienced a divine taste of the afterlife. That is the experience that she recounts in <em>To Heaven and Back<\/em>, a thought provoking story that will undoubtedly impact the way you live your life.<\/p>\n<p>Mary&#8217;s story is part of a growing mountain of evidence for the afterlife as described in the Bible, and reading such a story through the eyes of a medical professional sheds new light on the big questions we all have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/waterbrookmultnomah.com\/catalog.php?work=223400&amp;lightbox=1\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase it here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"To Heaven and Back Book Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rHt4Vbe05DU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you could find out? Dr. Mary Neal was involved in an unfortunate kayak accident that ultimately took her life. She found that it wasn&#8217;t yet time for her to leave this life, but before she was revived she experienced a divine taste of the afterlife. That is the experience that she recounts in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Is It Like to Go to Heaven?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2012\/06\/what-is-it-like-to-go-to-heaven.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Is It Like to Go to Heaven?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What if you could find out? 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