Comment by Heather Spoonheim on March 27, 2011 at 3:51pm

I wouldn't doubt that the kid actually holds all these memories in his head.  So he had a comforting dream while waking up from surgery...so he learned to understand that dream from a religious context...blah blah blah.  If you want to impress me, show me a kid from a Muslim home who dreamed of Jesus and a Christian message, or a kid like this from a Christian home who saw Mohammed.

Comment by Jillian Mann on March 27, 2011 at 5:12pm

Heather- I said the exact same thing!!! A christian claims they died and when to heaven......coincidence?

Comment by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on March 27, 2011 at 6:42pm

Theists lap up this stuff as “evidence” to prove the existence of their god. However parading them as newsworthy on TV is pathetic. Of course this is organised by the book publishers who have no qualms about exploiting this family. Then why would they when the father is willing to tout his own son for money. It’s another example of child abuse.

Maybe I am too cynical. What kind of a reporter would not challenge this idiotic assertion by asking if it would be possible that a four year old child who has been indoctrinated all his life with Jesus crap by a deluded parent might have experienced something by taking serious drugs?

Comment by Wesley on March 27, 2011 at 7:12pm

What's really funny about this is...  Certain yoga systems are about leaving your body while living and traversing the inner planes..(Heaven/s)  They do this on a daily basis.  But because these people aren't christians it doesn't make the news and is of no interest to anyone.

In sant mat, for instance, its the whole point of the system.  You learn to rise above body consciousness and meet your master inside who takes you up through the various planes and subplanes from the physical, astral, causal or mental, supramental, spiritual or freedom.  Fear of death is disolved because you have already experienced what comes after on a daily basis.

 yes, all this is silly, but these kinds of experiences are common.   Does this mean that heaven is real?   no...  I think it means that our neural architecture is the same.  We have these types of experiences because of our neural architecture and it might explain a lot about why 'inner' experiences have some similarities and some significant differences.

Christians tend to see christian imagery....  hindu's see hindu imagery... etc...   people see what they expect to see.

 

Here's a link to different ordering of the various planes, heavens from similar sant mat groups.....

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Sant_Mat/cosmology.html

 

The typical satsangi (sant mat practitioner) hearing about the details from this kid would say.... 'He's had an inner experience but not a very high one, big whoop'  

My point in posting this is that phenomenalogically these kinds of experiences are possible.. I've had them myself.  This does not mean that the 'interpretation' of this type of experience is 'THE TRUTH'... The fact that people from different faiths have inner experiences CONFIRMING their particular interpretation of heaven and what comes after tends to confirm my idea that these experiences are due to the architecture of the brain that all humans share...than to the existence of different supernatural realms and Gods for each religion.

Comment by BadHandshakers on March 27, 2011 at 7:24pm

I don't get my news from CNN most of the time, and I'm glad I haven't,
because if she is s'posed to be a reporter, and this isn't a religious segment,
then I'd be more pissed at her not doing her job, and pressing him on it,
raising the question that he could have easily fed all of it to his child, to
make a buck out of it, which he is, and all of it is merely a favourable lie.

Comment by Steve M on March 27, 2011 at 9:06pm

What are all of you saying, that he didn't really go to heaven. What a bunch of cynics. Next you'll be trying to convince me there's no pot of gold at the end of every rainbow or that fairys don't live in my garden.

Comment by Eddie Smith on March 27, 2011 at 10:19pm

Father is a pastor. Gee that's a surprise.

Comment by Randy Zimmerman on March 27, 2011 at 10:56pm

Sounds more like the kid was just having a typical good dream.

Comment by Ingrid S on March 28, 2011 at 3:30am

This kinda reminds me of the balloon boy hoax that happened about a year ago. It's incredible what some people will do to get attention, using their own children like that.

A horse with rainbow colored hair? Rainbow Dash? I think this kid just had a trip to Cloudsdale. Who knows, it sounds just as probable as him meeting Jesus and seeing angels.

Comment by Lara Kearns on March 28, 2011 at 8:07am

So if this kid went to heaven, my grandma mustve gone to hell, cause after her hip replacement surgery she heard helicopters and human sized moths jumping from ropes into her room and scary things with red eyes were watching her the whole night..........now really.  The doctors even told us this would happen from anesthesia.  So i agree with Scarlette Blues

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