168. Our Resurrection from Death and Entry into Eternal Life

IN accordance with my promise [§72], I will now relate the steps by which we move from bodily life into eternal life, in order to show how a person is revived. The explanation is based not on hearsay but on my own personal experience.

72. Allow me, then, to offer at the end of this chapter an account of our revival from the dead and entry into eternal life [§§168-181].

169. I was brought into a state in which I was unaware of physical sensation — almost into the condition of someone who is dying. My inner life and thinking remained unimpaired, however, so that I would perceive and remember what was happening. I underwent the same experiences as those who have died and are being revived, when their breathing is at first consistent with continued life and then falls silent.