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  • Khloe Kardashian Describes Near-Death Experience

    Khloe Kardashian and her brother-in-law Scott Disick recently suffered a near-death experience.

    The incident took place on Saturday, July 16 when the duo took to the water for some little rest and relaxation. However, it wasn’t all relaxing. According to Lord Disick, he managed to fall into the water while tubing.

    “We actually fell in the bay yesterday,” Disick revealed.

    “No, you – not me,” Khloe clarified.

    “Sorry,” Scott replied. “I fell in the bay. We were tubing behind our boat –”

    “I don’t do big bodies of water,” Kardashian explained, “so I held on for dear life.”

    And, yes, they do consider this a near-death experience. “We saw the tapes, because we were dying to see them,” Khloe said.

    “It was really ridiculous,” said Disick.

    “I literally was flying way above [the tube], but I would not let go of the handles,” Khloe recalled.

    Kardashian has also been dealing with some boy drama. According to a recent Billboard interview, her new beau French Montana is just using her for publicity. “I want to capitalize on it,” Montana said of his relationship with Khloe. “I’ll get a fan base from everywhere. I just hope I’ll be able to connect with everything that’s going on.”

    When Khloe heard of the interview, she took to Twitter to respond, admitting that she simply doesn’t care. “It’s amusing to me that Y’all think I don’t see it. I was the first one to see it. I just don’t care,” she tweeted.

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  • ‘Heaven is for Real’ Movie Crushes Johnny Depp at Box Office

    The Heaven is for Real movie opened in theaters on April 16th, and on Easter weekend it crushed Johnny Depp’s new film Trandsendence in box office earnings. Heaven is for Real soared, bringing in $21.5 million from 2, 417 theaters. Depp’s film opened to a rather dismal $11.5 million coming from a total of 3, 455 movie theater locations.

    Based on the best-selling book of the same name written by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent, Heaven is for Real tells the story of little Colton Burpo who says he went to Heaven and came back again during a surgical procedure. Greg Kinnear stars as Colton Burpo’s father in the film. This is the latest in a series of Christian films to earn big at the box office in recent weeks. Noah, starring Russell Crowe, started big. God’s Not Dead, featuring Duck Dynsasty stars Willie and Corie Robertson, did much better than expected in a very limited theater run.

    Perhaps part of the film’s initial success stems from the Twitter campaign producers launched which focuses on strong family values.

    Bishop T.D. Jakes of The Potter’s House mega church even recommended the following video about the film, which includes snippets with some of the cast members.

    Heaven is for Real made quite a stir when the book was published, with many saying the story was contrived or highly embellished by Colton Burpo’s pastor father Todd Burpo. Producers obviously thought it had enough pull to draw people in to movie theaters, and Easter weekend’s box office numbers proved them right.

    Do you have plans to see Heaven is for Real, and if so, did you first read the book? What is drawing you to want to see this new Christian film?

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  • Colton Burpo, The Boy Who Said He Met Jesus In Heaven, Faces His Critics

    When Colton Burpo was 4 years old, he had an emergency appendectomy surgery that nearly took his life. After recovering from the surgery, Burpo said that he was able to visit the afterlife. Not only that, he said that he met Jesus there. He told his story with complete details and described Jesus as a man who had “brown hair, a brown beard, and beautiful sea-blue eyes.”

    His statement made others believe, while others became his worst critics.

    Colton is now 13 years old and is giving interviews together with his parents Sonya and Todd Burpo to promote the upcoming movie Heaven is for Real. The film is an adaptation of the book Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back, which is based on Colton’s near death experience.

    The book discusses Colton’s experience in detail, even saying that Jesus rides a rainbow-colored horse. The boy also said that he met some of his family members who have already passed.

    Colton said that he hopes the film allows viewers to realize that God loves them and wants them “to go to heaven.” He also mentioned that the problem with people is that they are too attached to material things and that’s what hinders them from entering heaven. “So when you love Jesus and you decide to follow him, it’s easier to let those things go so you can be in heaven for an eternity,” Colton said.

    Through the years, Colton has been using his experience as a way to spread the Christian message. He gives inspiration to children who are terminally ill, as well.

    Despite critics telling the Burpo family to stop telling their story, they still continue their mission of spreading the message. “OK you can believe what you want to,” Colton said addressing his critics. “That’s not going to stop me from sharing what I saw.”

    Heaven is for Real hits theaters on April 16.

    Colton talks about heaven

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  • Euthanized Rats May Yield Near-Death Explanation

    Ever since a reputable neurosurgeon made the claim that he had experienced the afterlife, a wave of experiments now seek to explain the phenomenon behind a near-death experience.

    NPR recently reported that a brief spike in brain activity that occurs shortly after the heart ceases may be the cause of near-death experiences. Nine lab rats were hooked up to machines and analyzed by a team of neuroscientists at the University of Michigan. The scientists found that the rats’ brains experienced an electrical burst that lasted about 30 seconds after their hearts stopped.

    Theoretically, if human brains work like rats (after all, we are both mammals) then our perception of the near-death experience is actually a last ditch attempt by our brains to keep itself alive before it shuts down for good. Jimo Borjigan, leader of the research team and a scientist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is excited that “science tells us the experiences really could be real for these individuals, and there is actually biological basis for… [the near-death experience]… in their brain. It’s all really happening in their brain during this very early period of cardiac arrest.”

    Near-death experiences have always been considered a highly spiritual phenomenon, with many reporting visiting a variety of afterlifes, or even Heaven to speak with God himself. Borjigan and his team “were just so astonished” at the “continued and heightened activity” that was “much, much higher after the heart stops — within the first 30 seconds.”

    The findings are so revolutionary that the National Academy of Sciences is publishing the research. A neuroscientist with the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Christof Koch, said of the research that “it shows us in considerable more detail than ever done before what happens when the brain is dying… When you turn off a light switch, the light immediately goes from on to off… The brain doesn’t immediately go off, but it shows a series of sort of complicated transitions.”

    In spite of the findings, not all scientists agree that the discovery applies to human physiology. Sam Parnia, an expert on dying and near-death experiences with the Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York, has said he doesn’t believe “this particular study helps in any way to explain near-death experiences in human beings… We have no evidence at all that the rats had any near-death experiences or whether animals can have any such type of experience.”

    The BBC reported Dr. Chris Chambers of Cardiff University as commenting that “we should be extremely cautious before drawing any conclusions about human near-death experiences: it is one thing to measure brain activity in rats during cardiac arrest, and quite another to relate that to human experience.”