Fast Lane to Heaven: A Life-After-Death Journey

This is a very well written story of Ned D.'s Near-Death Experience. As you read it, you will feel as though you are going through that same experience he encountered and you will feel his emotions welling up inside as he struggled to make sense of his sanity. Meeting others with similar experiences brought him into his sense of peace and put him on his true mission in life to reach out to others. You will see a person who battled with alcoholism (the natural flesh versus spiritual mission) and find out how he overcomes the flesh. Although I have not met Ned personally, I feel proud of him because he is living the life that God has ordained for him. "You Go, Ned!" The only qualm I may have is that I never saw the name "Jesus Christ" in any of the writing. It is through Jesus that we commune to God the Father. I think Ned's book is a good reader for alcoholics who want to overcome. I've had SEER VISIONS from God that you can read about at http://shekinahgloryofgod.faithweb.com Bless you, Faith Shoemaker

A true testmony of a life experience. Ned shares with us , with great sensibility, his learning experience on the after death. He gives us a good opportunity to rethink our lives and why we are here.

In August, 2007, I was asked, telepathically through a spiritual connection, to write a fallen Vietnam War soldier's story (a novel). Several factors have come into play since this "request" was initially relayed to me: 1) I had to first "accept" his mission; 2) I needed to learn to "listen" faithfully to my spirit guides AND him; and 3) I had to cast off fears that this couldn't (or shouldn't) be done. In April, 2008, as I began to utilize the time, money, and resources that had been provided to me to complete this novel, I "stumbled(?)" onto this book by author, Ned Dougherty. Finding this book, which contained a factual and inspirational recollection of Ned Dougherty's friend's passing in South Vietnam in '69, was no fluke! Thank you Lieutenant McCampbell and Mr. Dougherty for sharing your experiences of the afterlife!!

I wholehearted agree with the other earlier review shown here. The author says about his account: "I would usually awake before dawn and immediately begin to write. The writing seemed to come to me automatically--totally by inspiration." "The financial and banking institutions will collapse due in large part to the failure of the insurance companies as a result of the natural disasters. The United States will be thrown into political, economic, and social chaos." "The United States government will fail to meet its financial obligations as a result of its staggering national debt and will collapse. As a result of the destruction of U.S. military bases from natural disasters, the United States will lose its ability to wage war or defend itself, leaving the country vulnerable to invasion by foreign troops, particularly by China's 'army of two hundred million.'" He also talks about a pole shift, earthquakes, eruptions, tidal waves that will bring geophysical and geopolitical changes. He was also told, "None of these events in the future need to take place if mankind begins to recognize and work with God's plan." The author left New York and now lives in the mountains of Pennsylvania. He encourages prayer and meditation. "The future of the world rests in our hands. The right choice is obvious. If each and every individual aspires to lead a life of love of God, self, and neighbor, collectively mankind has the ability to determine the future of the world and to choose our destiny as a civilization."

Ned Dougherty's Fast Lane to Heaven, is an incredible tale of one man's transformation after his near death experience. Similar to Betty Eadie's and Dannion Brinkley's vivid recalls of their NDEs, Dougherty is also able to recall with vivid clarity his journey and all that was shown to him.Dougherty was living the hedonistic, fast lane of life, with homes in both The Hamptons, and West Palm Beach, driving expensive cars, having many expensive toys, and operating two thriving nightclubs. Alcohol was his admitted drug of choice, and cocaine use was intermittently part of his lifestyle, as were meaningless relationships with meaningless beautiful women.After suffering an apparent heart attack, Dougherty realized that he was no longer "in his body", and was met by a former friend who "died" in Vietnam. Dougherty recalls in stunning detail his life review, future life events, future world events, including the 9-11 attacks on New York and Washington, his meetings with The Lady of The Light, God, and other spiritual beings. Because Dougherty's life's mission is not yet completed on earth, he is told he must go back.Needless to say, Dougherty's life is forever transformed after his heavenly encounters, and amazingly, the doctors could not find anything physically wrong with him - all of his medical tests were normal. Yet Dougherty knew that he had died, but all of the doctors could not find anything indicating a heart attack.As foretold to Dougherty, he indeed turned his life around, and is no longer living a hedonistic, fast lifestyle, but a more spiritual, contemplative one, which includes hospice volunteering, as well as forming his Angels of Mercy organization which provides miracles to those in need. He is still visited by The Lady of The Light and his devotion and faith in God has deepened greatly.I found this book truly amazing, and I have read all the NDE books that I can, and this account is one of the best. His honesty and admittances of his former lifestyle helped to portray him as he truly was/is. He was not portrayed as someone without any flaws, or perfect. I am sure that all readers can relate to his imperfections in one way or another. The reader can only "try" to relate to his struggles and difficulties in "trying" to live an earthly existence, after seeing and experiencing all that he had with his celestial encounters. Synchronistic encounters reaffirmed to Dougherty that all that happened did indeed happen. Events shown to him that would occur in his life happened not according to Dougherty's "trying" to make them happen, but instead they happened according to God's plan.I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in NDEs. There is a most startling message in the book from Archangel Michael that was given to Dougherty, that is worth reading several times over. Indeed, a wake-up message for us all.This book is just another confirmation to us all that there is nothing to fear in dying, that we all are constantl