Fast Lane to Heaven: Celestial Encounters that Changed My Life

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Summary: Predictions come true.
Review: The thing that impressed me about this book is that I read it before 9/11. After 9/11 I had to go back and re-read some of his predictions, and he came very close to describing the events in the news today. He discribes religious fanatics who think they are doing Gods will but are not. He says they attack either Washington D.C. or New York, and that these attacks change the way we live. That is pretty impressive to me. If the rest of what he pridicts comes ture we are in for a very rough ride.

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Summary: Changing your life can be difficult, even after an NDE
Review: This is a story of an NDE that happened to a very worldly human being who struggled with the clear message of the NDE for a long time after returning to this world before finally accepting it. Strangely, to me at least, this makes Dougherty's account quite believable and entertaining. Dougherty claims that his NDE immediately affected his life profoundly and turned him into a more loving and less worldly human being. Reading between the lines of Dougherty's book, it's clear that although Dougherty's heart may have been changed, Dougherty still struggled to abandon his old way of life for a long time after his NDE. Despite the change in Dougherty, he clung to his old Nightclub business until it was taken away from him. But eventually he embraced the message from his NDE and changed the focus of his life. The message that I took from Dougherty's book was that even when your heart changes, it can take a lot longer to turn your life's focus around. Dougherty's book inspires you to have hope, don't give up on the changes you want to make, and take heart, sometimes it takes a lot longer to change yourself than you think it will. I like this book and recommend it. As for his predictions and prophecies, they are neither convincing (just a little too unclear) nor unconvincing. If you are looking for miraculous predictions to convince you of the veracity of NDEs, then you are missing the most important content in virtually every NDE.