Embraced By The Light is a wonderful book based on Betty Eadie’s experience with life after death. It starts off with her in the hospital waiting to get a hysterectomy. After her husband Joe leaves the hospital to go home and tend to their 7 children she starts to reminisce on her past as a young child. She talks about her parents and how her mother was an American Indian and how her father was a white man. Her parents divorced and her mother had to work full time just to make ends meat. Since her mother didn’t have enough money for a babysitter, Betty had to go to an Indian boarding school and was taught to fear God. One day she asked one of the nuns about God’s existence and was beat severely for it and had to go to the hospital. While in the hospital she had her first near death experience and talked about how she was cradled in a man’s arms that had a bright glow to him and had a long flowing beard. Then she enters back into her body and continues on with her life.
At age fifteen Betty got married and had 4 kids with their youngest dying of SIDS at only three months of age. After six years of marriage Betty and her husband divorced. The Christmas following he
She went into surgery the next morning. That night after surgery she was laying in bed and fell asleep, she woke up to feel her spirit drifting up off her body. As she rose from her body she looked down to see someone, she couldn’t tell at first that the body was hers until she drifted down to get a closer look. Betty Eadie says in the book that since you’ve never seen your body in 3-d before you don’t really recognize yourself when you do. She sat there looking at herself for a moment then three monks appeared. They told her to come with them. As she started to leave the hospital and drift up into the air she noticed them being guided by a light. She knew she had died and before she went any further she rushed back to her house and went inside to make sure that her kids would be alight and that they could cope with out her. As she went back to the monks, they drifted up the to the light. When they got to the top the monks left her and she was standing in front of a black!
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