title: The Eternal Journey: How Near-Death Experiences Illuminate Our Earthly Lives
author:  Craig R. Lundahl 
description: Focusing on the "eternal" nature of our existence, Craig Lundahl and Harold Widdison share their quest to understand "the purpose of life and the meaning of death." <i>The Eternal Journey</i> incorporates near-death experience (NDE) case studies that reveal the afterlife with cases involving pre-earth life encounters, making this an up-to-date work on the entire journey of the human soul. Grounded in scientific research yet emotionally charged, this is a revealing look at where we came from, what we're doing here, and where we're going.
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  SLEEP IS NOT, DEATH IS NOT;
  
  
  WHO SEEM TO DIE LIVE.
  
  
  HOUSE YOU WERE BORN IN,
  
  
  FRIENDS OF YOUR SPRING-TIME,
  
  
  OLD MAN AND YOUNG MAID,
  
  
  DAY’S TOIL AND ITS GUERDON,
  
  
  THEY ARE ALL VANISHING,
  
  
  FLEEING TO FABLES,
  
  
  CANNOT BE MOORED.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  — _Ralph Waldo Emerson_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary
  things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like
  anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and
  After. Like many of the extraordinary things to come, it involved my
  grandfather, Abraham Portman.
  
  
  
  
  
  Growing up, Grandpa Portman was the most fascinating person I knew. He had
  lived in an orphanage, fought in wars, crossed oceans by steamship and deserts
  on horseback, performed in circuses, knew everything about guns and self-
  defense and surviving in the wilderness, and spoke at least three langua