The Journal Star received 30 responses about people's visions of heaven. Some were lengthy, quoting the Book of Revelations and other biblical passages; others detailed personal experiences - emotions ...

Author Yzabel Gance shares her lifelong communion with the Divine and the Messiah in A Woman Back From Heaven: My Divine ...

Since the very earliest days of Christianity, saints, mystics, and regular believers have all described the experience of sudden, overwhelming visions. The history of the Church is littered with ...

Is heaven for real? And if so, which heaven? For some, heaven is the Christian kind of afterlife that was described by a 4-year-old boy in the book and movie titled "Heaven Is for Real." For others, ...

And behold, in the forty-third year of my passing course, while I was intent upon a heavenly vision with great fear and tremulous effort, I saw a great splendour, in which a voice came from heaven ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American You careen headlong into a blinding light.

How conditions on earth shape our views of the afterlife. In Heaven in the American Imagination (Oxford University Press), Gary Scott Smith surveys the vast landscape of religion in the United States, ...

WILDWOOD – It took a heavenly vision to convince a Rio Grande woman to open a new business, one she wasn’t quite ready to start. Yet last week, Lataysha Sherretta realized a lifelong dream when she ...