THE WORLD IS full of people who would like to believe Anita Moorjani - and I'm one of them. After all, she claims to have the answer to a question that has dogged people through the ages: Is there life after death?
The answer, according to Moorjani, is an unequivocal 'yes'. She has been there, she says ... and back again.
One year ago, Moorjani was on her death bed. She was in the late stages of Hodgkin's lymphoma. Her whole body was swollen, her organs were failing and she was unable to breathe. She drifted into unconsciousness. She claims she then had an experience that would not only change her life but save it.
'I could feel my spirit actually leaving my body,' she says. 'I saw and heard a conversation between my husband and the doctors taking place outside my room, 40 feet [12 metres] down a hallway - a conversation I was able to repeat to my shocked husband later.'
She claims to have crossed over into another dimension in which she glimpsed other lives. There was no bright light or tunnel. She says she was engulfed by a feeling of love and a great understanding of what life and death were all about, why we exist and why she had cancer.
'There are no words to describe the experience,' Moorjani says. 'I was in a place where I understood how much more there is than what we're able to conceive in our three-dimensional world. I realised what a gift life was.'
