Closer to the light : learning from children's near-death experiences by Melvin Morse, Paul Perry

A CLASSIC ABOUT CHILDREN AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES
Near-death experiences, or NDE, is a term used to describe a mystical experiences that happens to people who have been declared clinically dead, only to return to life. Extensive polls reveal an estimated seventeen percent of those who almost die have NDEs, which some say are glimpses into the next world. Morse’s studies have proven the existence of NDEs. Science tells only half the story about life beyond death and the human soul. Children who have come very close to death, the children of Light, tell the rest. This is what they have told Dr. Morse:I have a wonderful secret to tell you. I have been climbing a staircase to heaven.”
“I just wanted to get to that Light. Forget my body, forget everything. I just wanted to get to that Light.”
“I was told that life is painful and that I had to go back anyway.”
“There were a lot of good things in that Light.”
“I heard a voice say, ‘Go back, Bobby. You have a job to do.’”
“There as a beautiful Light that had everything good in it. For about a week, I could see sparkles of the Light in everything.”
“Before falling asleep at night, I could see that Light.”
“I learned that everything in lie is connected and that if you hurt something, you hurt everything.”
“I wasn’t afraid to live again because I knew that someday I would be with that Light.”
“You’ll see. Heaven is fun.”
Closer to the Light is a culmination of Dr. Morse’s extensive research on children and the existence of the soul.