In this foray into what Hamlet famously styled the â??undiscoverâ??d country from whose bourn no traveller returns,â? Judy Bachrach looks at recent accounts of those claiming to have returned from the undiscovered country in order to suggest what her readersâ??â??and, indeed, her ownâ??â??impending itinerariesâ? might be like.
A sworn agnostic, for whom religious faith is unappealing, Bachrach prides herself on her adamantine skepticism. â??I am a journalist,â? she declares, â??have been since age 22, and if thereâ??s one thing Iâ??ve learned, itâ??s not to trust anyone completely on any subject they havenâ??t either witnessed or experienced.â? Consequently, she looks at the accounts of various individualsâ?? experiences beyond the living from a decidedly untraditional point of view. This makes her an ideal recorder of testimony that most religious readers (your humble reviewer included) might be inclined to discredit.
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