A Flight Without Wings: My Experience with Heaven - Softcover

McLaughlin, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 150352454X ISBN 13: 9781503524545

Publisher: XLIBRIS, 2014

Synopsis

The following story describes my journey into Heaven and subsequent return to life, all as a result of massive head trauma sustained while vacationing in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico 21 years ago, on 9/11/1993. It will describe visions as well as deep feelings that moved me to the core of my being. It will go on to briefly give some background into facets of my life and experiences that I had before and after that "accident" that relate somehow to the understanding and clarity that this event has brought to me and how I continue to discover the benefits of passing over to the "other side" Some things are evident to anyone who reads this and some remain relative in more obscure ways. My hope would be that my words and experience with an afterlife will comfort those people who struggle with a fear and concern, either for themselves or someone close to them that has made this journey on their own. I have kept this to myself for all these years initially out of fear of accepting it, and then out of my inability to accurately describe the sequence of events and the meaning of it all. My best guess and my overwhelming belief is that this journey of mine represents the exact path and result of nearly everyone who has left us. I was "blessed" with a return ticket and a feeling that it is my onus to share what so few get to experience.

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When I first thought about why I was sent back, I struggled to make sense of the whole process and that has some part in why I kept it all to myself for such a long time. The few times that I let it consume my thoughts, left me more and more hungry for purpose, even though I found some solace in little bits and pieces but never enough to satisfy me. The experience was so profound in my life that there just had to be a greater good to come of it . . . Something to tie it all together

Review

Reviewed By Jack Magnus for:  Readers' Favorite -  5 Star Overall Rating

A Flight Without Wings: My Experience with Heaven is a non-fiction memoir written by Brian McLaughlin. The author was on vacation in Mexico in 1993 when he sustained massive head trauma. He was in a comatose state as the doctors were working on him in a Cancun hospital, but he could hear them discussing his case, especially how to sew up his ruptured eye. His doctors and family were not sure that he would survive or that, if he did, he would have brain damage.While he was on the operating table, he began to feel dissociated from the event even as he continued to hear them, though more and more faintly. He began to feel a deep sense of comfort and warmth. Then he watched as a speck grew larger, and he discerned that it was a figure approaching him.
Brian McLaughlin's religious/philosophical memoir, A Flight Without Wings: My Experience with Heaven, is not filled with accounts of angelic hosts, harps and the gilded halls of Heaven. What it is, rather, is a sincere and reflective account of the author's near-death experience and how those crucial moments when he hovered between life and death transformed his outlook on life.McLaughlin speaks directly to the reader, and I quickly became involved with what he had to say. His story, while indelibly altered by his injuries and his after-life experience, is filled with life, resilience and enthusiasm, even as it reflects the peace and comfort -- and certainty -- he feels about what happens next, and shares his thoughts on how he can best share his feelings with others. He does so admirably in this well-written and moving memoir that neither delves into the fanciful or dogmatic, nor descends into anger and recriminations over the events that so changed his life. A Flight WithoutWings: My Experience with Heaven is a remarkable work that's well worth reading, and it's highly recommended.
Stephan Meyers, Author "The Prayer"  for Book Viral
Poignant and incredibly  thought provoking, books on near death experiences ,  are rarely as powerful as this.
A grounded and highly inspirational read, A Flight Without Wings by Brian McLaughlin speaks directly to those who question the authenticity of anyone who has experienced a Near Death Experience seeing heaven or hell through death. Everyone must eventually die,it can't be avoided. However, even though death is a fact of life, it's a topic many people prefer not to talk about and McLaughlin's extraordinary After Life Experience helps to broker much-needed discussion and Life After Death proof. It may not be a journey that can be validated in conventional terms, but in engaging and thought-provoking prose he wisely avoids the grandiose of more saccharin accounts of the afterlife to tell the straight forward story of events that changed his worldly perspective. His descriptions of heaven are simple, not overly poetic, just the memories of someone who experienced the indescribable and then found the best words to describe it. For many readers, it will pose answers to the most pressing questions they may have about the meaning of life and what happens after we die.  
Even in this day and age of technology, no one knows for sure what happens after death and it reminds us of the need to share , as McLaughlin offers his readers a powerful faith-based perspective. An account with broad appeal, A Flight Without Wings proves is certainly deserving of your attention and is highly recommended.

Edition details

• Publisher: XLIBRIS
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 150352454X
• ISBN 13: 9781503524545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84