Return from Tomorrow

[Roland]

After reading this I understood better why the word of wisdom protects us

from the influence of the evil.

George Ritchie - near-death experiences

Heaven and Hell

Dr. George Ritchie's near-death experience

In December, 1943, George Ritchie died of pneumonia. Nine minutes later,

miraculously and unaccountably, he returned to life to tell of his amazing

near-death experience in the afterlife. His near-death experience was the

one that profoundly moved Raymond Moody to begin seriously investigating

the near-death experience. Since Dr. Moody is considered to be the "father

of the near-death experience," Dr. Ritchie's near-death experience is in a

class of its own. You will find his experience to be one of the most profound

near-death experiences ever documented.

The following is a brief summary of Dr. George Ritchie's near-death experience.

You can read his NDE testimony in its entirety in his ground-breaking books

Return From Tomorrow and his follow-up book Ordered to Return: My Life After

Dying.

George leaves his body and sees it lying in his bed. He is not aware the dead

body in his bed is his. Wanting eagerly to travel to Richmond, Virginia to start

college, he finds himself flying in the air toward a city. He is not sure how he

acquired these strange powers of flight and transparency. He arrives at a city

and discovers he has lost his solidness. He flies back to the hospital and sees

his lifeless body in the morgue and realizes he has died.

Suddenly, Jesus appears emitting a tremendous light and love. George's entire

life appears before him. Jesus asks, "What have you done with your life?" He

realizes Jesus is not judging him, but he is judging himself.

Jesus gives him a tour of four different dimensions in the afterlife. They both

fly toward a large city on Earth where they notice a group of assembly-line

workers at work. He witnesses the spirit of a woman trying desperately to

obtain a cigarette from the workers who are oblivious to her presence.

This woman died severely addicted to cigarettes.

In a house, Jesus shows him the spirit of a boy following a living teenage girl

and begging for forgiveness while the girl is completely unaware of the boy's

presence. Jesus tells George that the boy committed suicide and is "chained

to every consequence of his act."

Jesus shows George a bar filled with sailors who are heavily drinking. Spirits

try desperately and in vain to get a drink or to control the sailors' alcoholic

behavior. These spirits are from humans who die severely alcoholic. He is

horrified as he observes a drunken sailor pass out and an alcoholic spirit

jump into the body of the sailor.

Jesus takes him to a new dimension away from Earth and shows him a kind

of "receiving station" where spirits would arrive in a deep hypnotic sleep

because of their beliefs. These are spirits who believe they must sleep after

death until Jesus returns.

Jesus shows him a dimension where angry spirits are locked in hand-to-hand

combat, trying in vain to hurt each other. He hears verbal abuse going on.

He observes some trying in vain to get sexual gratification from each other.

He also sees spirits arguing over some religious or political point and trying

to kill the ones who did not agree with them. Here, he realizes he is seeing

hell. These are spirits who are locked into some earthly desire that went

beyond the physical and which cannot be satisfied in the spirit.

He is then taken to a different dimension appearing like an enormous university.

Here he observes people dressed as monks engaged in some form of artistic

behavior or research. He is taken into an enormous library where all the

important books of the universe are assembled. He asks Jesus if this is heaven.

He replies that these are the people who grew beyond selfish desires while on

Earth. George realizes these people cannot see Jesus, just as the others could

not see him in hell.

Jesus takes him into outer space toward a distant city made of brilliant light of

a similar description to the city in the Book of Revelation. He speculates this is

the place where people go who have become Christ-like while on Earth. Here,

love was the dominant focus of life. He realizes he is seeing heaven, but he is

not allowed to go in. Jesus then shows him the future of the Earth. He then

returns to his physical body.

"Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through." -

Dr. George Ritchie