US Film Critic Roger Ebert's Revelation

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Roger Eberts' widow shared Ebert's dying experience:

Quote: The one thing people might be surprised about - Roger said that he didn’t know if he could believe in God. He had his doubts. But toward the end, something really interesting happened. That week before Roger passed away, I would see him and he would talk about having visited this other place. I thought he was hallucinating. I thought they were giving him too much medication. But the day before he passed away, he wrote me a note: “This is all an elaborate hoax.” I asked him, “What’s a hoax?” And he was talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn’t visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a vastness that you can’t even imagine. It was a place where the past, present, and future were happening all at once.
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring 
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
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I'm not sure how to interpret the concept of "the past, present, and future [...] happening all at once", especially because, taken literally, it's self-contradictory, but it's clearly referencing an experience that a lot of people do seem to have, given the variety of different reports to that effect, especially in NDE accounts.

In any case, I recognised this quote as having been shared already to the forums, so I looked it up and found that it has in fact been shared on more than one occasion. For cross-referencing purposes, here they are:
  • Kamarling's 2017-10-24 post in the "ELEs : Japanese Study" thread.
  • Sci's 2020-08-27 post in his "Super-Psi & some notes from Braude's Immortal Remains" thread.
  • Sci's 2020-10-16 post in his "Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50" thread.
Stan Woolley also referenced (though didn't quote) it in his 2020-04-26 post to his "A Divine quote?" thread (the "divine" quote that started the thread was a different one, by Evelyn Waugh).

Here's a link to an original source of the quote, pulled out of Sci's posts above:

Reflecting for the New Year: On Roger’s Last Day

Chaz Ebert
January 1, 2014
RogerEbert.com

Being neither from the US nor a film buff, I hadn't been aware of Roger until seeing this quote of his on these forums.

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