Barbara Walters Goes Supernatural
If you’re in the U.S. tomorrow, Tuesday, you may want to tune into ABC at 9pm EST to watch veteran broadcaster Barbara Walters in a two-hour special, “Heaven: Where Is It? How Do We Get There?”
“I think this is one of the most important pieces that I’ve ever done,” said Walters. “I hope it will be inspirational and to some degree educational. I hate to say that because I don’t want it to sound like Comparative Religion 101.”
Barbara has been mainly associated over the years with celebrity interviews on “20/20″, and latterly on “The View”.
The Miami Herald reports that, “Walters travels to India to meet the Dalai Lama and to a Jerusalem prison to interview a failed suicide bomber. She speaks to people about near-death experiences, including Elizabeth Taylor, to religious leaders and to authors Mitch Albom and Maria Shriver about their books on heaven. She poses some questions sure to become Walters legends: ‘Is there sex in heaven?’ and ‘Would you like me to go to hell?’ ”
Walters says she became interested in the subject “after reading a story about a doctor who worked with children who had undergone near-death experiences. She was struck by a survey that showed nearly nine in 10 Americans believe in an afterlife, and nearly as many believed a heaven exists.”
“Here we are at a time when we are so technically oriented, and we have a bigger and bigger spiritual need,” she said. The Dalai Lama, and follower Richard Gere, explained how they believe heaven is a waiting place for souls that are born again and again. The better a person’s behavior while on Earth, the better their next life will be.



