The Tunguska explosion was blamed on a meteorite or comet that, experts believe, exploded as low as 5 miles above the ground. Up until now, no one has found a crater or debris that supported this belief.

Marine geologist, Luca Gasperini, and his team may have located the crater about 5 miles north-northwest of the suspected epicenter. Lake Chesko has a strange funnel-shaped bottom that is consistent with craters. Future drilling may resolve a century-old mystery.

Freddie Mcguire, 47, was declared dead by doctors after he suffered a heart attack on Easter. As his family was coming to terms with his death and preparing his funeral, a member of the hospital staff saw him move his hand. Friends and neighbors dubbed him as Jesus Christ, due to his miraculous resurrection on Easter.

This isn’t the first case I’ve heard about, where a person is pronounced dead by medical personnel, only to be discovered alive days later. Some of these people regained consciousness while lying inside the morgue.

Hit by a car in 1976, George Rodonaia, a Soviet doctor, was left in a mortuary for three days. He showed obvious signs of life only after a doctor began to make an incision in his stomach as part of a postmortem examination. He claimed to be conscious for much of the experience, saying: “All about me there was darkness . . . I remembered Descartes’s famous line, ‘I think, therefore I am’. And it was then I knew I was still alive”

Source: Times Online

Lance Segundo’s midlife crisis takes a bizarre twist when he catches a glimpse of his brother, Art, and sister-in-law while driving down a mountain road. Both are long-dead. When he tries to discuss the incident with his psychiatrist, he is met with skepticism and admonished for mixing alcohol and prescription drugs. He accepts the doctor’s reasoning because there are pieces of his life that he can’t remember, such as why he and his brother had become estranged as well as the reason why he stopped partying with his friends.

Another part of him refuses to believe that the sighting of his brother and sister-in-law was an hallucination. His life takes another twist when he meets Naomi Lake at work. They take an instant liking to each other, which quickly turns into a romantic relationship. When he confides in her about his experience, she helps him try to understand it and face it.

Naomi goes with him to the spot where he saw his brother, but stays behind when she sees Art waiting for him. The brothers slip twenty-five years back in time, when they are trying to hike to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, a trip which their father had tried and failed. It is here where we begin to see the other side of Lance Segundo and experience his journey toward redemption.

Overall, this is a very good book. The authors try to cover a lot of ground in terms of the afterlife, the paranormal, spiritualism, and near death experiences. They succeeded, for the most part, although at times I found myself reading information dumps that interfered with the story. Despite this irritation, I was riveted to the story, its supernatural elements, and especially the plot twists. Recommended.

Rhea A. White’s life took an unexpected turn in 1952, when she was involved in a bad car accident. This accident caused her to have a near-death experience, which changed her outlook on life after death. After she recovered from her injuries, she entered into the field of parapsychology, first studying mysticism, religion, psychology, psychiatry, philosophy and literary criticism. Later, she founded the Parapsychology Source Information Center, Parapsychology Abstracts International and Exceptional Human Experiences Network.

In 1990, she realized that traditional science wasn’t going to answer her question as to why she experienced the NDE and what it meant. Rhea began studying the reports of other people who had experienced NDE’s, along with other non-ordinary and anomalous experiences. She classified this study as “Exceptional Human Experiences,” which students of the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology rely heavily on to write their dissertations. Rhea’s career spanned nearly 40 years, earning her the respect of colleagues and students alike.

Quoted from Palyne Gaenir:

From her early studies in Jung’s writings to her research work with J.B. Rhine, she was a driven thinker from very young. Editor of professional Ph.D. level journals much of her adult life, and founder of the Exceptional Human Experience Network, an organization dedicated to recognizing and better understanding the things that move us and evolve us, Rhea was one of those people who put out more work for good causes in the world than any one person will ever know about.

Rhea White passed away on February 24 of an undisclosed illness, which she battled for several years.