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Burke, John. Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, Chapters 7/9/13/14, Colton Burpo, Pages 68-69/94/138/148, 2015
Imagine Heaven - Colton Burpo - Chapters 7, 9, 13, 14 - Pages 68-69, 94, 138, 148 - 2015
2015
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Four-year-old Colton Burpo had a "brush with death" during a medical crisis in the hospital. Though the exact medical condition isn't specified in this text, he claimed to have left his body and visited heaven. Months later, he began revealing extraordinary details to his family. He told his father Todd that he had met Todd's deceased grandfather "Pop" in heaven. When shown a picture of Pop as an elderly man, Colton didn't recognize him, stating "nobody's old in heaven...and nobody wears glasses." However, when shown a picture of Pop at age twenty-nine, Colton immediately recognized him.
Most remarkably, Colton revealed knowledge of a sister his parents had never told him about. He said, "You had a baby die in your tummy, didn't you?" He explained that a girl who looked like his living sister Cassie but with dark hair had run up and hugged him. She told him she had died in their mother's tummy and couldn't wait for her parents to get to heaven. Colton knew the baby didn't have a name because his parents hadn't named her. This revelation shocked his parents as they had never disclosed the miscarriage to him. During his out-of-body experience, Colton claimed he watched the doctor working on him from "up in the air." He also saw his father locked in another room shouting at God and his mother in the lobby on her cell phone - details that were later confirmed. He described sitting in Jesus's lap, saying Jesus had brown hair, a beard, and "so pretty" blue eyes. He noticed "markers" on Jesus's hands and feet, which his father understood as crucifixion wounds. Colton stated it never gets dark in heaven because "God and Jesus light up heaven." His ability to describe specific details about deceased family members he'd never met or known about, combined with accurate observations of his parents' locations during his crisis, provide significant veridical elements to his experience.
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Medical crisis described as "brush with death" but specific condition not detailed in this text. Hospital setting confirmed. Score: 2 for unknown condition + 2 for hospital.
Remarkable veridical elements: knowledge of miscarried sister never disclosed to him (10 points), plus observations of father in separate room and mother in lobby (8 points for multiple specific details).
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