Heaven and Hell Exist According to Leading U.S. Doctor

Rawlings was a cardiologist at the Diagnostic Hospital, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And he had written three books about death, heaven and hell based on interviews with people who were clinically dead – who had stopped breathing and whose hearts had stopped beating but whose tissues remained alive.

Rawlings wrote his first book after being involved in the case of a 48-year-old mail carrier. The man thought he was dying. His heart stopped and he quit breathing. But doctors keep reviving him.

Each time the man pleaded with them: “Don’t stop… Don’t stop. I am in hell.” Rawlings observed that the man had a terrified look.

The heart specialist is firmly convinced that hell exists. People who have experienced clinical death have told similar stories about the incident. “Each person said his spirit lifted from the body and that even outside the body they could see doctors frantically trying to resuscitate them,” Rawlings said.

Based on his findings, the spirit passed through a dark tunnel and at the end they either found heaven or hell. “Those experiencing heaven often reported encountering an angelic being – and people they once knew but who had previously died,” said Rawlings.

“They reported brilliance but no sun. What they particularly recall is the lush parklands and countryside, sometimes mountains. It was the most wonderful thing they had ever seen.”

“But there is also another type of experience,” reported Rawlings. “At the end of the tunnel some people have seen what they believe is the devil in human form, with the head of a goat. It is as if they are in a different world,” he said.

“They have a feeling of foreboding and in some instances have seen a lake of fire with people being hurled into it.”

Rawlings said one man experienced three separate clinical deaths from three different illnesses – each time having an afterlife experience.

First came the hellfire experience, but the other two experiences were heavenly, said the doctor. And he added that the lives of people who experience near-death are altered.

“All the people were interviewed immediately after the experience,” said Rawlings. “In this way very vivid descriptions of hell experienced were obtained. “But not all who undergo clinical death experience the astral journey to heaven and hell. “I estimate it is confined to about 20 per cent of revived people,” he said.