Download Return from Tomorrow George G Ritchie Elizabeth Sherrill Books

Product details Paperback 144 pages Publisher Chosen Books; Anniversary edition (September 1, 2007) Language English ISBN-10 080079432X

Return from Tomorrow George G Ritchie Elizabeth Sherrill Books Reviews

• I loved this book. It's not just well-written and a wonderful story, but it's different than all the other Near Death Experience narratives I've read for a couple reasons. The author does not go through the typical sequence of events that Moody outlined in Life After Life. I don't want to go into detail as to what first happens to the author when he dies, but it was fascinating and made perfect sense.
  
  The following is a bit of a spoiler.
  
  In the year after his NDE, he's understandably angry or depressed that he wasn't allowed to stay on the Other Side. How that is turned around for him or how he turns that around and transcends his despair is what made this book remarkable and inspiring to me. It has made a big difference in my life. Although I never died and went to the Other Side, I have spent significant time looking back and longing for a beautiful era in my life that ended long ago. As a result, I've wasted untold amounts of time feeling sad, depressed and alienated. When I read the part of the book where the author has an epiphany and pulls out of his darkness, I had one too -- and I haven't looked back since.
  
  Thank you George C. Ritchie!!
• For years, I had two misconceptions about this book, based on what I had read about it. The first was that George Ritchie was a fundamentalist Christian, and the second was that he had experienced the fundamentalist Christian version of Hell. As a result, I had little desire to read what he had to say. Recently, as a result of reading a large number of near-death and post-death accounts, I decided to compare this one with others. To my surprise, I found the book not only well-written and very compelling, but completely different in outlook from what I had expected. It does contain a section on a hellish realm, true, but as part of a much larger narrative that includes experiences of divine love and light, of souls clinging to drinkers in bars and attempting to experience being drunk through them, and much more. His experiences are very similar to those of others in their range and their impact, not at all the anomaly they are often described as. Further, Ritchie is a Christian now, as a result of his experiences, but, also as a result, he understands God as loving and caring for everyone, regardless of religious affiliation or lack of it, and understands loving others and showing that love in deeds to be the most important lessons he learned. "Return from Tomorrow" is more similar to post-death narratives than it is to most NDE's, and this may account for the way it has been treated in NDE literature, since much of it shows no knowledge of post-death narratives. I am very glad I finally read it, and recommend it as very worthwhile.
• I am an admitted NDE addict and have many favorites. I wasn't going to buy this one because some reviews indicated it was short on the heaven part and long on the biography part. I am so glad I bought it. There were some insights in this book that are very important, and really made me think about my relationship to our Lord and whether my commitment is what He is looking for. Wow. And the encounters he had in the hellish side of the next life show an amazing new side of God's love for everyone, and present some awesome questions and possibilities. They reminded me of CS Lewis's Great Divorce and George MacDonald's Lilith. The Great Divorce was written right about the time Ritchie's experience occurred and was not written until years later, so Lewis could not have read this beforehand. Several things make me wonder if Lewis ever had an NDE.
• I've heard quite a few NDEs in my life, even experiencing a shared-death experience when I was very young, and belonging to IANDS for a few years. I have never heard or read another NDE like George's before! This NDE tops all of them! I've never read Any NDE as rich or fulfilling as this one! George Ritchie had this NDE when he was young., and he is so honest about all the details, even his complete confusion at the beginning of his NDE, not realizing he was out of his body at first. The inclusion of Jesus and his power is so shocking to many people who never understood Jesus in that way before! Jesus takes George on a tour, showing him the many spiritual areas of life, from how spirits can possess intoxicated people on earth, to other deceased spirits who chose to stay near those they knew on earth, and even spirits fighting in hell. He later takes George to higher realms other spirits have attained after death, answering George's questions of what he is seeing. I've felt for many years that a movie should be made from George's NDE, because it is so extraordinary, showing and explaining so many areas of life and, our potential, and the wonders of life. Definitely one of the biggest life-changing books I have Ever read!
• I read this book by accident and truly loved it ! And hope one day it becomes a film. George had an amazing experience in meeting and traveling with Jesus !
  
  I myself years ago in my teenage years witnessed a man dressed in a white robe but with no face. His head was like a ball of light and he was everything George describes in this book !
  
  If this book were to be made a film one day for the world to see ! I would really hope the parts of Wild Bill are included in the film because there is so much hate in the world currently in 2018.
  
  Wild Bill saw it first hand and he learned to forgive those that were full of hate and he easily could have let it overtake him and fill his heart with vengeance but choose a harder path and forgive those and have compassion for them.
  
  It’s easy to hate but it’s harder to Love and that’s why so many of us are blind to see Christ.