On June 19, 2004, a South African family had a serious car accident. The accident left their 12 year old son, Aldo McPherson, in a coma and on life support.

God did a number of miracles for Aldo and his family. God allowed Aldo to experience heaven and then asked Aldo to share a message with the world. God also taught Aldo and his family — especially his mother Retha McPherson — how to speak life and restoration over Aldo’s physical condition. In response to their obedience God began healing Aldo.

Before sharing some of the messages Aldo brought back with him from heaven and some of the lessons Retha McPherson learned, I would like to share this video documenting Aldo’s recovery process after the accident.

Aldo McPherson’s Recovery

You can read or listen to Retha McPherson as she shares her family’s experience.

You can also watch Retha McPherson tell her family’s story as she is interviewed on It’s Supernatural with Sid Roth (below).

Retha McPherson on It’s Supernatural

Aldo was unable to speak after his coma so he had to write when he wanted to communicate. He began writing to tell his family and the world what he had experienced in heaven and what God had been revealing to him.

His original letters were written in Afrikaans. You can see some of them and read the English translation provided under each one. Here is The Collection of Aldo McPherson’s hand-written letters from 2005 to the present.

It looks like the letters included in this collection supplement the ones already published in Aldo and Retha McPherson’s books. You can see some of these very interesting letters and read more of the story in the book A Message from God co-authored by Aldo McPherson and his mother Retha McPherson, which is available as a   new or used physical copy or as a digital eBook in our Spiritual Lifestyle Resources Book Store. You can also take a look at their second book From God: A Message of Faith.

Now, with modern medicine’s improved resuscitation techniques, we have many near death experience stories. But today, I want to share an NDE that occured over 40 years ago.

I recently came across the amazing testimony of a sky diver named Mickey Robinson. Back in August 15, 1968 tragedy hit. The airplane was making a sharp ascent when the engines stopped and the plane crash landed. The pilot was burned alive.

Most of the sky divers were able to get out of the plane without much damage. But Mickey was stuck in the plane because his harness was caught on something. By the time he was rescued, he was severely burned over 35% of his body. He would spend 167 consecutive days in the hospital and go through years of hospital treatment and endure over 50 surgeries.

At one point, the hospital called his sister and said if you want to see your brother, you better see him this morning because he may not be here this afternoon. It was that day, that Mickey’s spirit left his body and he experienced eternity.

I have found three videos where he shares aspects of his near death experience. The first one I saw was this recent interview with Patricia King through my iTunes subscription to Extreme Prophetic Television. However, I notice that the video is not playing correctly on her website (at least on my computer). I hope it plays for you because it is a great interview and the main reason I got interested in Mickey Robinson’s testimony. I recommend subscribing to the iTunes Extreme Prophetic Television podcast and watching the interview posted February 28, 2010.

Or you can watch this Sid Roth interview done 3 years ago. This is also a great interview because, in addition to his near death experience, Mickey shares how his blind eye was restored and how God healed him of damage that was considered incurable by the medical community. And then there is another surprising miracle healing that Mickey reveals in this video — but I don’t want to ruin the surprise…

Both of those interviews are a summary of his near death experience and won’t take much time to watch.

For a more thorough version of his story, check out this video where he shares more details of his story with a live audience:

If you would like Mickey Robinson’s book telling his story, go to the Heaven testimonies portion of our bookstore.

There was a time not too long ago when my wife and I dreamed of spending our lives traveling the world and seeing all the wonderful and amazing things that can be found all over the world. We had already begun to fulfill our dream as we had seen interesting places in the United States, Mexico, Europe, China, and South Korea.

We loved learning about the various cultures around the world. We thought enjoying all the sights and sensations of the world would be the most fulfilling way to spend our lives. But all that began to change when one of our friends gave us a a copy of a book called “Heaven is So Real.”

The book recounts the experiences of a Korean American woman named Choo Nam Thomas who is given the privilege of seeing heaven with Jesus as her tour guide. The overriding theme of the book is that heaven is an incredibly beautiful and fun place to be and that it is better to be in heaven for eternity than any other place. But heaven is a place for people who have hearts set on higher spiritual things not on the pleasures and preoccupations of the material world.

As my wife and I read that book, we began to see clearly that we had our hearts focused on worldly pleasures and worldly experiences. If our hearts were so focused on the things of the world, how could we be sure that our hearts would be ready to enjoy the things of heaven at the end of our earthly lives? If our hearts were not focused on heaven during our lifetime on earth, how could we expect our hearts to rise up to heaven at the time of our death?

From then on, we have been focusing on heavenly things. Now we can really appreciate the meaning of the chorus line from that old hymn that says:

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.

We will only be on earth for a  short time. We want to use this time on earth to focus our hearts, minds and lives on the spiritual things of heaven as we bless others. We want to focus on our eternal destination and eternal condition rather than focus on temporal things that are here today and gone tomorrow.

Choo Thomas’ book is so life changing that many readers feel compelled to share the book with their friends. You should get a copy of the book from the ‘Heaven’ category of the book store and, after it changes your life, give it away.

Choo Thomas has also made her book available for free download in numerous languages.

English (Available to read online, or download as a Word Document, or to listen to as audio)

American Sign Langauge (ASL)

French 

Arabic 

Russian 

Chinese Traditional 

Chinese Simplified 

Dutch 

Italian 

Malaysia 

Portuguese 

Tamil 

Thai 

Turkish 

You can also see her share a few of her experiences on a video posted to YouTube. The background music is Choo Thomas singing in the Spirit. You will get to hear her share a few of her experiences in heaven and her visit to the edge of a fiery pit.

Choo Thomas taken to Heaven & Hell Part 1

Choo Thomas taken to Heaven & Hell Part 2

Choo Thomas taken to Heaven & Hell Part 3

Choo Thomas taken to Heaven & Hell Part 4

To get a better idea of how her story has changed people’s lives, read these testimonies.

If you would like to get the book in hardcover or kindle format, then you might want to check out our store.

We would be happy to hear how the book blessed you. Just leave us a comment.