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My descent into death

a second chance at life

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An edition of My descent into death (2000)

My descent into death

a second chance at life

1st U.S. ed.
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The author offers an account of his near-death experience, his journey into a hellish world of darkness that revealed the consequences of a life lived for self alone, his escape to the regions of light, and the transformative impact of the experience.

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Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Pages
148

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Cover of: My Descent into Death
My Descent into Death: And the Message of Love Which Brought Me Back
2008, Clairview Books
in English
Cover of: My descent into death
My descent into death: a second chance at life
2005, Doubleday
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: My Descent Into Death
My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life
February 15, 2005, Doubleday
in English
Cover of: My Descent into Death
My Descent into Death: And the Message of Love Which Brought Me Back
2000, Temple Lodge Pub, Clairview, Clairview Books
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Edition Notes

Rev. ed. of: My descent into death and the message of love that brought me back.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
133.9/01/3092, B
Library of Congress
BX9886.Z8 S76 2005, BX9886.Z8S76 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 148 p. ;
Number of pages
148

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24753644M
Internet Archive
mydescentintodea00stor
ISBN 10
0385513763
ISBN 13
9780385513760
LCCN
2004058257
OCLC/WorldCat
56592619

Work Description

Not since Betty Eadie’s Embraced by the Light has a personal account of a Near-Death Experience (NDE) been so utterly different from most others—or nearly as compelling.

In the thirty years since Raymond Moody’s Life After Life appeared, a familiar pattern of NDEs has emerged: suddenly floating over one’s own body, usually in a hospital setting, then a sudden hurtling through a tunnel of light toward a presence of love. Not so in Howard Storm’s case.

Storm, an avowed atheist, was awaiting emergency surgery when he realized that he was at death’s door. Storm found himself out of his own body, looking down on the hospital room scene below. Next, rather than going “toward the light,” he found himself being torturously dragged to excruciating realms of darkness and death, where he was physically assaulted by monstrous beings of evil. His description of his pure terror and torture is unnerving in its utter originality and convincing detail.

Finally, drawn away from death and transported to the realm of heaven, Storm met angelic beings as well as the God of Creation. In this fascinating account, Storm tells of his “life review,” his conversation with God, even answers to age-old questions such as why the Holocaust was allowed to take place. Storm was sent back to his body with a new knowledge of the purpose of life here on earth. This book is his message of hope.

"This is a book you devour from cover to cover, and pass on to others. This is a book you will quote in your daily conversation. Storm was meant to write it and we were meant to read it."

-From the foreward by Anne Rice

As I lay on the ground, my tormentors swarming around me, a voice emerged from my chest. It sounded like my voice, but it wasn’t a thought of mine. I didn’t say it. The voice that sounded like my voice, but wasn’t, said, “Pray to God.” I remember thinking, “Why? What a stupid idea. That doesn’t work. What a cop-out . . .”

That voice said it again, “Pray to God!” It was more definite this time. I wasn’t sure what to do. Praying, for me as a child, had been something I had watched adults doing. It was something fancy and had to be done just so. I tried to remember prayers from my childhood experiences in Sunday school. Prayer was something you memorized. What could I remember from so long ago? Tentatively, I murmured a line, which was a jumble from the Twenty-third Psalm, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the Lord’s Prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and “God Bless America,” and whatever other churchly sounding phrases came to mind.

“Yea, though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. For purple mountain majesty, mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Deliver us from evil. One nation under God. God Bless America.”

To my amazement, the cruel, merciless beings tearing the life out of me were incited to rage by my ragged prayer. It was as if I were throwing boiling oil on them. They screamed at me, “There is no God! Who do you think you’re talking to? Nobody can hear you! Now we are really going to hurt you.” They spoke in the most obscene language, worse than any blasphemy said on earth. But at the same time, they were backing away.

—From My Descent into Death

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