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Dr. Mary Neal is a board-certified orthopaedic spine surgeon who drowned while kayaking on a South American river. She experienced life after death. She went to heaven and back, conversed with Jesus and experienced God's encompassing love. She was returned to Earth with some specific instructions for work she still needed to do. Her life has been one filled with the miracles and intervention of God. Her story gives reason to live by faith and is a story of hope.

Drifting wrote:It seems Dr Mary Neal is keen to cash in (I may be doing her a slight disservice in that she claims the proceeds of the book will be given to charity once production costs and expenses have been accounted for) on her life after death experience.....

"To Heaven and Back is a book I wrote about my spiritual journey and the near-death experience I had in 1999 while kayaking in the Los Rios region of southern Chile. I wrote it because more than anything I want people to know that God’s unconditional love for each of us is intense, complete, and is reflected in all of Heaven. Before we return to Heaven, our real home, we have an incredible opportunity on Earth to face challenges that will help us learn, grow and to become more Christ-like in the fruits of our spirit. Our time is so short that we need to be about God’s business every day." Dr Mary Neal

It may be coincidence that the Fox News article dated May 2012 coincides with the launch of Dr Mary Neals book rather than the date of the near death experience (13 years ago).

Dr. Mary Neal is a board-certified orthopaedic spine surgeon who drowned while kayaking on a South American river. She experienced life after death. She went to heaven and back, conversed with Jesus and experienced God's encompassing love. She was returned to Earth with some specific instructions for work she still needed to do. Her life has been one filled with the miracles and intervention of God. Her story gives reason to live by faith and is a story of hope.

Find out more at drmaryneal.com

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Most of all true February 9, 2012
By Bruce Stubblefield
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
At the same time that Dr. Mary Neal was drowning in a river in Chile, her husband, Bill, appeared to me in a dream. Bill is an old friend of mine from high school. We had shared many adventures and confidences over the years, but neither he nor any other friend had ever stared at me in a dream and woke me up. I shook it off at the time, only to learn a few days or weeks later why I had seen him.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Volunteering as a timer at last week’s USSA Junior XC Olympics may very well be the hardest thing Dr. Mary Neal has ever done.

It’s not that the work itself was especially difficult; she has timed scores of competitive Nordic events.

It wasn’t even the fact that she traveled to Presque Isle from her home in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on a broken ankle compliments of a backcountry skiing accident two weeks ago.

For Neal, being in northern Maine brought a firsthand reminder of the split second nine months ago when her family’s life changed forever.

On June 21, 2009, Neal’s son William “Willie” Neal was killed while roller skiing when he was struck from behind by a car driven by 18-year-old Erik Lundquist of Fort Fairfield.

In December, Aroostook County District Attorney Neale Adams determined Lundquist did not commit “gross deviation” warranting a manslaughter charge, and no charges were pressed.

“Coming out here was very, very difficult,” Mary Neal said Saturday afternoon after the final competition at the Nordic Heritage Center. “None of us really wanted to come.”

Since June, Neal and her family have dealt with their loss as best they can, with Mary Neal saying it has never been easy.

“Were it not for the responsibility of raising our other children I would not get out of bed,” Neal said. “But God gave us the privilege and responsibility to raise our other children.”

gdemetz wrote:I hope all the "anti's" here will listen to this doctors story which was on Fox news. I'm confident that they will conclude, as they always do, that all this really happened only in her mind. Anyhow, it's just another of many such firm testimonies, and by the way, she wasn't roasting in hell for not making a profession of faith, nor was she singing in the heavenly choir above for those who did! She obviously was in the spirit world as the true LDS doctrine teaches!

gdemetz wrote:Drifting, you make a lot of good points. I can't really answer the time line question unless I did a lot more research on her life. As concerning the reason Christ did not tell her to join the Mormon church, I can only speculate that, based on other similar experiences I have read, it seems as though Christ had very little if any communication with those people in that state, and perhaps it was that He did not want to give someone such a revelation until they merited it. This would be consistent with Him teaching in parables. The apostles asked Him why He didn't teach the people plainly (as He taught them), and His answer was simply that to them it was given to know, and obviously to the others it was not. I also think that the reason the church has given those guidelines is perhaps due to the fact that there are those who state they have had such an experience, but to me just don't seem like credible witnesses like this doctor.