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.
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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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