Could that be heaven up ahead?
Well, it could be. And that light is shining brighter than ever these days. Heaven is hot. Hotter even than that other place. Just ask any bookseller in America.
Folks have been going to heaven with amazing regularity lately. They look around — one even sat on Jesus' lap — then come back to report on the trip. It's a lucrative journey.
Three of these tales have ascended to heavenly heights on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list recently, and more are on the way.
- Colton Burpo, then almost 4 years old, "dies" during an emergency appendectomy, travels to heaven and reports back how "really, really big God is." Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, Rev. Todd Burpo's 2010 tale of his son's round-trip to the Pearly Gates, has sold more than 7.5 million copies after 22 printings. It's been on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list for 111 weeks and reached No. 1 eight times in 2011. It's currently No. 94.
- Eben Alexander, a Harvard neurosurgeon who was in a coma for seven days in 2008, encounters an "angelic being" who guides him into the "deepest realms of super-physical existence." His Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife, published last fall, peaked at No. 4 in December and is currently No. 10.
- Mary Neal's To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story, published in May, tells of the orthopedic surgeon's celestial journey following a kayak accident in Chile in which she was pulled underwater for so long that even she thought she was dead. It's been in the top 150 for 33 weeks, reaching as high as No. 14 in July.
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/01/10/heaven-bestsellers-burpo-neal/1759279/
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