Into the Light - book review

If you are a person who has any doubt about an afterlife or are fearful of death, a must read book has come across my desk. It is Into the Light, by John Lerma, M.D., and presents real life stories about angelic visits, visions of the afterlife, and other pre-death experiences.

Dr. Lerma has been the inpatient medical director for a renowned Hospice, and part of his work involves listening to dying patients as they go through the final days and weeks of their lives. Through this work, he has heard stories that reinforced the notion that there is something beyond our lives that has one major component in common. It is that the only thing that is real on what we call "the other side" is unconditional Love. Everyone is forgiven when they finally come to a willingness to forgive themselves, no matter what they have done in life. Each person is given an opportunity of reviewing their lives to see the importance of what may never have made sense to them previously. Bodies are vehicles for the expression of the soul, and the scripts we follow are designed by and for us to open to greater opportunities to give and receive love. No matter whether we are able to do this in life or not, at the time of death we have a major opportunity to turn our lives around.

Confucious said words to the effect that redemption is possible up until the last nail is placed in the coffin. The enormity of Love is palpable to those who are willing to open themselves to receive the blessings and forgiveness that comes as we make our transition from what we think of as life to the state we know of as death.

This book is eye opening and can be life changing. I have been unable to read any chapter without feeling the enormous love that our Creator has for us. It has made a difference in the way I look at life and my actions of the past. All the perceived mistakes have had purpose and fit into a larger context when viewed from the perspective of time.

One of the individuals who was dying, who had been part of the Nazi concentration camp death squads, gave a moving account of his liftetime guilt for his actions. He was given the opportunity to experience hell during his pre-dying days, because he believed that was all he deserved. It was only when he  felt he had been in hell for more than a hundred years that he was willing to cry out to the light that appeared in a distant corner. What happened next was part of an amazing process that all humanity is being called to. It changes everything.

Read the book and be ready to see and live life in a whole new light. It's time!