malarkey

[space otter]

the humor in this , for me, is in the kid's last name...really..??!!..lol



'The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven' Recants Everything



"The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" actually never went.


Alex Malarkey, a young boy who co-authored a book with his father about going to heaven and returning to earth first published in 2010, wrote an open letter to Christian publishers retracting his story.

In 2004, Malarkey and his father, who is a Christian therapist, were in a bad car accident that left the six-year-old boy paralyzed and in a coma.

According to the book's Amazon page, "When Alex awoke from a coma two months later, he had an incredible story to share. Of events at the accident scene and in the hospital while he was unconscious. Of the angels who took him through the gates of Heaven itself. And, most amazing of all ... of meeting and talking with Jesus."

The letter that Alex, who is now 16, wrote to publishers says he made the whole thing up: "I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. When I made the claims that I did, I had never read the Bible. People have profited from lies, and continue to. They should read the Bible, which is enough."

Two major Christian bookstores, Lifeway and Tyndale House, have announced plans to pull the books from stores.

Last April, Alex's mother, Beth Malarkey, wrote on her blog that the book was untrue. She also implied that Alex has not received the proceeds from the book sales:

It is both puzzling and painful to watch the book The Boy who Came Back from Heaven to not only continue to sell, but to continue, for the most part, to not be questioned... The ones making money from the book are NOT the ones staying up through the night, struggling for their breath, or were they the ones at six years old, waking up unable to move or breathe and in a strange place after last remember seeing a car coming right at the car he was riding in.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-boy-who-came-back-from-heaven-recants-everything/ar-AA8fa4j

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

Sounded like the kids dad was the instigator in all this.

[zorgon]

This is why the internet is really worse than a library LOL

Its too easy to make up BS and spread it  burying any true stories

Ah well

[rdunk]

This report should be "one of the boys" instead of "The Boy........, since there are other very young boys with accounts of similar Heavenly experiences - Colton Burpo for example. One can easily find Colton's testimony of his NDE/DE experience on YouTube. And there actually is a movie out that details Colton's experience, but I haven't seen it. After his experience, Colton even expressed knowledge of family matters that he had no way to know about, prior to his NDE at age 4.

So.......just because we unfortunately now know about someone lying about an NDE for personal gain, this doesn't mean that NDE experiences in general are not real - whether young boys/girls or older people.  †††

[space otter]

rdunk

I have often thought that nde's are only little pokes at you to connect with that part of our minds that know so much more than we accept normally
showing a way or giving you a way to accept knowing more..and  a way to continue knowing more by stretching your acceptance of it



we are all capable of so much more than we even try

and yeah the internet while helping some with tons of info also should come with a warning to roll
your pant legs up and wear boots cause there's a lot of manure to wade thur
same old.. let the buyer  (of info) beware

[micjer]

His name is ironic.

The old saying that someone is "full of malarkey" is very fitting.

[rdunk]

space otter said, "we are all capable of so much more than we even try".

space otter, I absolutely agree with you on that. I have seen numerous personal experiences of others that verify that to be the case. Significant numbers of people have had head/brain injuries, and afterward displayed new & significant advanced capabilities in various areas - areas of music, mathematics, memory, and etc. For me, not having any significant knowledge in the area of brain stuff, such new capabilities would indicate that some sort of "brain rewiring" has taken place to allow the new stuff to suddenly be revealed!

Seems to be just a "connection problem" for most of us, that denies us access to many areas under normal conditions, except for the few who are able to just think far beyond/above the rest of us with the same type of brains.