Kenneth Ring’s New NDE Career Part 1
The following post is from Dr. Kenneth Ring’s blog “Notes from the Ringdom” and is reposted with permission. The original can be viewed HERE. I am – or perhaps I should say, I was – a …
The following post is from Dr. Kenneth Ring’s blog “Notes from the Ringdom” and is reposted with permission. The original can be viewed HERE. I am – or perhaps I should say, I was – a …
“I’m busy. We’re all busy. But when Ken Ring publishes a new essay on his blog, I read it and am never disappointed. Now these essays have been collected in this beautiful book. Full disclosure: …
Following up our previous blog posts of quotes about Beyond Death and Love and Death, we now encounter Summer (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere)– the bright, luminous, and exuberant counterpoint to the …
These days as I cope with a condition I have sorrowfully come to realize is one from which I shall never recover – I am referring to old age, which I don’t recommend (though I …
The blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up. — Matthew, 11:5 Death is no more than passing from one room into …
“I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.” — D. J. Enright or perhaps Julian Barnes, or was it Thomas Nagel? Possibly all three. “Dying is hard; death is easy.” …
A funny thing happened to me on the road toward death. I got sidetracked and wound up taking a detour. These days, it seems, I am being courted, and my life, at least my professional …
This will be embarrassing, but at least it will be short. The ancient Greeks looked down on anyone who was guilty of false modesty; they felt that if you were a superior person, you …
Philip Roth, who wrote so fiercely about the torments of aging and the calamity of approaching death, died a few months ago. In the end it was congestive heart failure that brought his long life …
Dr. Ring enjoys hearing from his readers. If you have comments about his blog posts, please send them to theuniversityofheaven@gmail.com . ************* What is the bane of an old man’s life? That’s obvious. Naturally, it is the …