tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post2508789611253817900..comments2024-03-26T14:34:28.415-07:00Comments on Religion and Child Abuse News: Parents exploit son's imaginary return trip to Heaven in book being sold to the gullible as nonfictionPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-78334024843550830152015-01-24T14:17:55.804-08:002015-01-24T14:17:55.804-08:00 “On more than one occasion we asked for a meeting... “On more than one occasion we asked for a meeting with Kevin, Beth, Alex and their agent to discuss and correct any inaccuracies,” the publisher said, “but Beth would not agree to such a meeting.”<br /><br />In its Tuesday statement to the Guardian, Tyndale House clarified:<br /><br />“After originally agreeing to a meeting, Mrs Malarkey sent us an email on May 22 2012, saying that out of Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-47251919162112038712015-01-24T14:17:47.809-08:002015-01-24T14:17:47.809-08:00But all parties seem to agree that Alex did not wr...But all parties seem to agree that Alex did not write them, and he never signed a contract with Tyndale and on the copyright register. While Alex is listed as a co-author of the book, Kevin Malarkey is listed as the only claimant of the copyright. On the form, Alex’s father indicated he had acquired his sole copyright “by written agreement”.<br /><br />The copyright, as it turns out, was Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-31945551562611573572015-01-24T14:15:07.782-08:002015-01-24T14:15:07.782-08:00For five years the Malarkeys were not looking for ...For five years the Malarkeys were not looking for a wider audience. “I felt no urge, really, to share the story,” Kevin Malarkey actually told the Coast to Coast AM radio show in 2011. “I think, for one, we were busy with our own lives. I mean, my wife – she doesn’t like when I say it – kind of became a full-time nurse at that point.”<br /><br />But then, in January 2009, Alex attracted media Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-44204984989407563932015-01-24T14:13:10.439-08:002015-01-24T14:13:10.439-08:00The publisher Tyndale House said in a statement it...The publisher Tyndale House said in a statement it was “saddened to learn” that its co-author “is now saying that he made up the story of dying and going to heaven.” Since the scandal broke, the Malarkeys have not spoken publicly. According to family members, Kevin Malarkey seems to be standing by the book. The agent who sold Alex’s story to Tyndale House – who reassured them by telling them how Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-9318653695323128692015-01-24T14:12:01.165-08:002015-01-24T14:12:01.165-08:00The boy who didn't come back from heaven: insi...The boy who didn't come back from heaven: inside a bestseller's 'deception'<br /><br />Alex Malarkey co-wrote a bestselling book about a near-death experience – and then last week admitted he made it up. So why wasn’t anyone listening to a quadriplegic boy and a mother who simply wanted the truth to be heard?<br /><br />by Michelle Dean The Guardian January 21, 2015 <br /><br Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-1977588330063945552015-01-17T14:40:24.639-08:002015-01-17T14:40:24.639-08:00Boy Says He Didnt Go To Heaven; Publisher Says It ...Boy Says He Didnt Go To Heaven; Publisher Says It Will Pull Book<br /><br />National Public Radio, JANUARY 15, 2015<br /><br />Nearly five years after it hit best-seller lists, a book that purported to be a 6-year-old boy's story of visiting angels and heaven after being injured in a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves. The young man at the center of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven,Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-80991232260702112872013-08-16T12:45:02.943-07:002013-08-16T12:45:02.943-07:00Dr Borjigin said it was feasible that the same thi...Dr Borjigin said it was feasible that the same thing would happen in the human brain, and that an elevated level of brain activity and consciousness could give rise to near-death visions.<br /><br />"This can give us a framework to begin to explain these. The fact they see light perhaps indicates the visual cortex in the brain is highly activated - and we have evidence to suggest this might Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-30423193888350801272013-08-16T12:44:52.644-07:002013-08-16T12:44:52.644-07:00Near-death experiences are electrical surge in dyi...Near-death experiences are electrical surge in dying brain<br /><br />By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC World Service August 12, 2013<br /><br />A surge of electrical activity in the brain could be responsible for the vivid experiences described by near-death survivors, scientists report.<br /><br />A study carried out on dying rats found high levels of brainwaves at the point of the Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-82129942127325064472013-07-03T17:04:28.942-07:002013-07-03T17:04:28.942-07:00He points at Alexander.
"For him, it's s...He points at Alexander.<br /><br />"For him, it's something reality. Real. But those people who never sort of experienced that, still, his mind is a little bit sort of..." He taps his fingers against the side of his head. "Different!" he says, and laughs a belly laugh, his robes shaking. The audience laughs with him. Alexander smiles a tight smile.<br /><br />"For Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-26832941381512471932013-07-03T17:04:21.066-07:002013-07-03T17:04:21.066-07:00His survival is a miracle, he says. His doctors to...His survival is a miracle, he says. His doctors told him that he is alive when he should be dead, and he believes intensely that he is alive for a reason, to spread the word about the love awaiting us all in heaven. To heal.<br /><br />By focusing on the inconsistencies in his story, on recollections that don't seem to add up, on a court-documented history of revising facts, on the Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-4057983638520150632013-07-03T17:03:01.073-07:002013-07-03T17:03:01.073-07:00Could she imagine her intubated patient being able...Could she imagine her intubated patient being able to speak at all, let alone in a crystal-clear way?<br /><br />"No," she says.<br /><br />He finds an agent, and the agent shops his book proposal around, and soon Simon & Schuster offers him a book deal. They put it on the fast track for publishing, want to get it out that same year. A writer named Ptolemy Tompkins, who has written Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-89880522055519225902013-07-03T17:01:47.840-07:002013-07-03T17:01:47.840-07:00Here's how Dr. Potter remembers it:
"We ...Here's how Dr. Potter remembers it:<br /><br />"We couldn't work with Eben at all, we couldn't get vital signs, he just was not able to comply. <br /><br />So I had to make the decision to just place him in a chemically induced coma. Really for his own safety, until we could treat him. And so I did.... I put him to sleep, if you will, and put him on life support."<br /><br /Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-67137495433435846012013-07-03T17:00:15.584-07:002013-07-03T17:00:15.584-07:00So he had changed the character's name to Chuc...So he had changed the character's name to Chuck, which happened to be the real name of someone he did skydive with?<br /><br />"It's not Chuck," he repeats. "It's not Chuck."<br />Is he still in touch with Chuck?<br /><br />"No."<br /><br />And fake Chuck?<br /><br />"No, I don't know what happened to fake Chuck."<br /><br />Is there anyone Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-57720767636782827062013-07-03T16:57:42.875-07:002013-07-03T16:57:42.875-07:00It's a story from his skydiving days back in c...It's a story from his skydiving days back in college. He logged more than three hundred jumps during his college career, and most of them were thrilling but otherwise uneventful. On one autumn day in 1975, however, something went wrong. On that particular day, he was the last of a group of six jumpers to exit the airplane. The group had intended to form a six-man star formation, but one flew Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-3628673701979035782013-07-03T16:56:36.027-07:002013-07-03T16:56:36.027-07:00The tobacco farmer's lawsuit was still in its ...The tobacco farmer's lawsuit was still in its preliminary stages, hanging over Alexander's head like a $3 million hammer, when the E. coli started their terrible multiplication.<br /><br />He goes home from the hospital just before Thanksgiving.<br /><br />He is sixteen pounds lighter and still foggy, but getting stronger and sharper every day. He had been scheduled to give a deposition Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-16974991294362728272013-07-03T16:55:28.540-07:002013-07-03T16:55:28.540-07:00When he comes back, when he opens his eyes, when t...When he comes back, when he opens his eyes, when the new-old realm with all its fresh-familiar sensations comes washing over him, he is at first very confused. For the better part of the next week, he experiences what is known as ICU psychosis. He hallucinates. Some of the hallucinations are very strange. At one point he believes he is running through a cancer clinic in south Florida, being Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-37330953045018560522013-07-03T16:54:17.455-07:002013-07-03T16:54:17.455-07:00Back in the muck and murk of the realm below the v...Back in the muck and murk of the realm below the verdant place, below God, he eventually, after seconds or hours or days or years or millennia, discovers that he is in control. That he can ascend again. All he needs to do is summon the melody, the one that accompanied the initial portal, and then he'll float up and through it and be back on the butterfly again, with the beautiful girl, ready Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-66215239952427390262013-07-03T16:53:07.872-07:002013-07-03T16:53:07.872-07:00He'd also begun using the hospital's new i...He'd also begun using the hospital's new intraoperative MRI machine to do tumor work. Problem was, Black was known worldwide as the tumor guy. For instance, when Ringo Starr's daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor, her doctors sent her across the Atlantic, because only Black would do. Alexander thought Black was maybe worried that Alexander was encroaching on his turf, and this Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-24677394938600843292013-07-03T16:51:48.660-07:002013-07-03T16:51:48.660-07:00Q: During that whole time, none of these four or f...Q: During that whole time, none of these four or five men said anything to you, is that right?<br /><br />A: Yes. When they started putting the novocaine or whatever it was in my head, I said, "Is one of you Dr. Alexander?" and this voice in back of me said, "Yes, I am." And I said, "Please come around so I can see you. I would like to see what you look like." And soPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-34652155774226304612013-07-03T16:49:19.095-07:002013-07-03T16:49:19.095-07:00And then he sees the light.
A bright light, swirl...And then he sees the light.<br /><br />A bright light, swirling above him, accompanied by the most beautiful music. He is rising up toward it. Up through it. The unpleasant place is gone, somewhere below him, and now he is in a place that even if he had the power of vocabulary, of words, he would find almost indescribably beautiful. It is a green and verdant place. A green, idyllic place filled Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-41785109342689836732013-07-03T16:48:12.340-07:002013-07-03T16:48:12.340-07:00Escherichia coli bacteria have insinuated themselv...Escherichia coli bacteria have insinuated themselves into the lining of his central nervous system, the membranes that protect his brain and spinal cord, he writes in Proof of Heaven. It is unclear how they got there. Spontaneous cases of bacterial meningitis are rare but not unheard of, and the transmission vectors are the same as those of other common infectious diseases: tainted water suppliesPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-6900005364639584212013-07-03T16:46:48.611-07:002013-07-03T16:46:48.611-07:00From one point of view, the point of view that Fox...From one point of view, the point of view that Fox & Friends and Newsweek and Oprah and Dr. Oz and Larry King and all of his other gentle interrogators have helped perpetuate, Dr. Eben Alexander is a living miracle, literally heaven sent, a man capable of finally bridging the chasm between the world of spirituality and the world of science. From this point of view, he is, let's not mince Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-27701838018528079792013-07-03T16:45:13.081-07:002013-07-03T16:45:13.081-07:00Now the views of the studio and of Dr. Alexander f...Now the views of the studio and of Dr. Alexander faded back in, and the host to the left of Carlson, Brian Kilmeade, a compact and gruff guy with a sheaf of papers stacked on the table in front of him like a prosecuting attorney, asked a question. It was another unusual question and perhaps that's why Kilmeade prefaced it with a reiteration of what made their guest uniquely qualified to Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-58851230581740465072013-07-03T16:43:50.643-07:002013-07-03T16:43:50.643-07:00The Prophet
Before Proof of Heaven made Dr. Eben ...The Prophet<br /><br />Before Proof of Heaven made Dr. Eben Alexander rich and famous as a "man of science" who'd experienced the afterlife, he was something else: a neurosurgeon with a troubled history and a man in need of reinvention<br /><br />BY LUKE DITTRICH, Esquire <br /><br />On December 18, 2012, the set of Fox & Friends was both festive and somber. Festive because it Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-12890958988608039122013-07-03T16:08:22.000-07:002013-07-03T16:08:22.000-07:00The Proof of Heaven Author Has Now Been Thoroughly...The Proof of Heaven Author Has Now Been Thoroughly Debunked by Science<br /><br />ESTHER ZUCKERMAN The Atlantic Wire July 2, 2013<br /><br />A book called Proof of Heaven is bound to provoke eye rolls, but its author, Eben Alexander, had space in a Newsweek story and on shows like of Fox & Friends to detail his claims. Read into those endorsements — and nearly 15 million 2 million copies Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com