Beyond the Darkness
by Angie Fenimore
Our Price: $28.00
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $6.75 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Angie FenimoreEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-02-01
ISBN: 0553574426
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of Beyond the Darkness
Book Review: I am the author & want to address some reader concerns
Summary: 5 Stars
On rare occasion I will pick up used copies of my paperback to give to my children and grandchildren,(I prefer the paperback cover to the hardcover. I also had the opportunity to fix several publisher typos that appear in the hardcover).
I usually resist reading reviews since you readers can be cruel. I do want to say that what happened to me happened. I did not make it up. I was not hallucinating and I'm sorry if it doesn't fit with your preconceived notions of what may happen to you when you die.
When you drop an apple, it's going to hit the pavement. Not much I can do about that either.
I didn't write what amounts to my personal journal with all of the most painful and shameful events of my life out there for public consumption in order to harm or deceive. Why would I do that? Ask yourself if it might be painful to know that strangers, neighbors, people at the local grocery store, my children's teachers could just buy my 'diary' at Barnes & Noble. Do you think it was an easy thing at the time to reveal to everyone who knew me that I had attempted suicide? I promise the easy road would have been to keep my new and improved anonymous soccer-mom existance.
I took very seriously that I was quoting God. I labored over every word to be certain that what I said was completely accurate. I made the difficult decision to share my story so that when I meet God again at the end of my sojourn, it will be with my gift of having done all I can in this world to influence for good.
Just prior to writing the book, the NDE phenomena was all over every talk show and tv magazine. Dr. Kevorkian was on trial. Curt Cobain (Nirvana vocalist) was found dead, having shot himself. I saw 'Thelma & Louise' on TV (they drive off a cliff at the end as a suitable solution to escape the consequences of some irresponsible behavior)--all of this happened in one week's time.
I was in my car when I heard the news about Cobain on the radio while a van full of teenagers passed me in the next lane. They were hanging out the windows crying, "My hero is dead". The spirit bore witness to me, that there would be kids who would take their precious lives to follow this so-called hero.
I was profoundly affected by the end of 'Thelma and Louise'. I didn't see it coming and my emotions were already thin over Dr. Kevorkian and Curt Cobain having been all over the news. I went upstairs and laid down on my bed and cried. After searching for what I could do and praying for the answer for several days, the thought finally came to write a book. I knelt down next to my bed and asked my Father in Heaven if that was what I should do. The spirit bore witness to me that indeed, this was something I could do. Not that it was my calling, but that I have a view point that would benefit other people. Nobody else was coming forward with an experience like mine and somebody had to do the hard thing. And this is why I wrote the book.
Every single thing, including depression is a matter of choice. This isn't a judgement or critism. It is how we are co-creators with God in this life and the next. We choose to live miraculously or not. What we think about is who we are, in this life and in the next. If you are so certain that I'm wrong try living with thoughts of gratitude, love, joy, appreciation for every little piece of happiness and see what happens in your life.
Summary of Beyond the Darkness
A victim of childhood abuse and a would-be suicide recounts her descent into a hell of terrifying visions and psychic disintegration on the other side of the grave and her return to life through religious faith. Reprint.Christianity Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Christianity Books
The Problem of Pain CDby C. S. Lewis
HarperAudio; Published: 2004-06-01; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $15.88
Price in other shops:
Catholicism: New Study Edition--Completely Revised and Updatedby Richard P. McBrien
HarperOne; Published: 1994-05-19; Paperback; Book
Best price: $21.03
Price in other shops:
Theirs Is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban Americaby Robert D. Lupton
HarperOne; Published: 2011-10-11; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.61
Price in other shops:
The Hidden Book in the Bibleby Richard Elliott Friedman
HarperOne; Published: 1999-08-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.00
Price in other shops:
The Hidden Book in the Bibleby Richard Elliott Friedman
HarperOne; Published: 1998-09-22; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $3.31
Price in other shops:
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biographyby John Dominic Crossan
Harpercollins; Published: 1994-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.74
Price in other shops:
Exploring Heaven: What Great Christian Thinkers Tell Us About Our Afterlife with Godby Arthur O. Roberts
HarperSanFrancisco; Published: 2003-08-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $5.99
Price in other shops:
THE PROBLEM OF PAINby C. S. Lewis
Fontana; Published: 1979; Paperback; Book
New Testament Greek for Beginnersby J. Gresham Machen
Prentice Hall; Published: 1923-03-01; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $74.00
Price in other shops:
Mere Christianityby C. S. Lewis
Prentice Hall & IBD; Published: 1978-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.93
Similar Books and other products
The Burning Withinby Ranelle Wallace, Curtis Taylor
Gold Leaf Press; Published: 1994-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops:
Embraced by the Lightby Betty J. Eadie
Bantam; Published: 2002-10-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.49
Price in other shops:
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Backby Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent
AMZ - Omaha; Thomas Nelson; Published: 2010-11-02; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.00
Price in other shops:
There Is No Death: The Extraordinary True Experience of Sarah LaNelle Menetby Sarah Lanelle Menet
Mountain Top Publishing; Published: 2002-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.58
Price in other shops:
I Saw Heaven: A Remarkable Visit to the Spirit Worldby Lawrence E. Tooley
Horizon Publishers & Distributors; Published: 1997-03; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.75
Price in other shops:
Return from Tomorrowby George G. Ritchie, Elizabeth Sherrill
Chosen Books; Published: 2007-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.96
Price in other shops:
My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Lifeby Howard Storm
Harmony; Published: 2005-02-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $8.62
Price in other shops:
The Messageby Lance Richardson
American Family Publishing; Published: 2000-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.70
Price in other shops:
Ordered to Return: My Life After Dyingby George G. Ritchie Jr., Ian Stevenson
Hampton Roads Publishing; Published: 1998-04-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.81
Price in other shops:
Lessons From the Light: In-Sights From a Journey to the Other Sideby Sandi Rogers
Grand Central Publishing; Published: 1995-05-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $138.81