Cardiologist Pens Book About Near Death Experiences

Critically acclaimed author Dr M.S. Rawlings, author of Beyond Death’s Door and To Hell and Back, has just released his latest publication, Where Are You Going? (paperback, 978-1-60477-853-3) through Christian self-publisher Xulon Press.

Rawlings, a leading Chattanooga-based cardiologist who himself was resuscitated following a heart attack, had originally been an agnostic and a cynic. But something happened to him that changed his life. While applying CPR on a patient who was screaming that he was in hell, the author watched as the “transforming power of Jesus Christ came upon the man.”

The experience forever changed Rawlings, who soon after began a long-term study of near-death experiences. Not long after, Rawlings became a Christian.

Throughout his studies, Rawlings has sought to answer the question of what happens to us when we die. In this, his latest publication, he recounts more of his experiences resuscitating patients, teaching resuscitation in both foreign and domestic medical schools, and the destinations resuscitated patients found themselves in after they were considered clinically dead. These fascinating, thought-provoking stories will offer revelations to those who are wondering what awaits us beyond death, and subsequently, their lives will be changed.

While I found much of Rawling’s work interesting, his claims about hell are a little too “fire and damnation” sounding for me. Anyhow, see what you think…

Posted on October 17th, 2008 by Simon in Recent News |

ACE
November 18th, 2008 at 6:26 pm

why would you do CPR on someone who is screaming? If you can talk then you are not in cardiac arrest or respiratory arrest for that matter. Any nurse could tell you that.
Susan
January 13th, 2009 at 12:59 pm

That was exactly my question (I’m a Paramedic). That statement alone, unfortunately, really degrades the credibility of this gentlemen or his stories.
Susan
January 13th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Wow, I just watched the video and noticed a few more discrepancies. For one, his vision of hell and all the people he knew there did not occur during clinical death. His wife even says he was thrashing around and moaning. The doctor’s description is also not accurate.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and propose that this material is solely based in religion and not the paranormal (of afterlife). It’s quite likely this fella and others did have terrible visions while they were in altered states of consciousness (blood loss being one cause of such a state) but these visions would have been based on his conscious and possibly subconscious mind: his fears, regrets, guilt and so on.

It’s great that folks like this do find God and Christ and religion in their lives (I’m all for that) but now it looks like a religious group is using these experiences as people having “returned from the other side” to incite fear into people abut “going to hell.” Maybe there are people out there that have died (really died, as in cardiac arrest), been resuscitated, and returned with stories like this. I’ve never heard of them before and that’s pretty odd. I can tell you that these folks, from what is presented here, are not cases that returned from clinical death.

I am writing this only so that people are appropriately wary and thoughtful about the content when they view it.
vivek
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:30 am

This video is well framed but it certainly seems that it is manipulated presentations of what actually had happened or what susan has truly said to create fear of going to hell among the living ones. In addition to the above reasons I would like to highlight a point that came in my mind from the presentation of the video and in fact that made me think the video is probably shot for a religious purpose. The point is:
the lady, subject’s wife, was narrating the incident while sitting in the church and secondly
the subject Mr. Ronald Regan was keeping on stressing about his and his fellows ill doings.

This put me in ur side Susan and ACE.
angad
July 10th, 2009 at 12:16 am

I recently had near dying experience, I could see yellow-orange flashes of dead people, I had feeling of loosing heaviness. i was feeling light …
Daddy60
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:05 am

The answer that immediately leapt to mind was The Matrix. ,
Carol
November 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am

If you read the book by Rawlings, “beyond Death’s Door”, you will read the experience of the cardiac arrest he was resusitating. It has been years since I read it, but I recall it happened in his office at the end of the day when he was alone, staff having also left. He was trying to put in a temporary pacemaker (a wire threaded temporarily through the groin to control heartbeat in certain conditions) and had to stop CPR to do this. The man would pass out, and several times he had to stop and perform CPR. Then the person would come to and that is when he spoke those words, falling unconscious again when he stopped CPR to continue to put in the wire. I suggest reading the book before you judge.
As a cardiac nurse I too have heard many people tell me their near death stories. Most, but not all, were pleasant.

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