| Title | : | A Heartbeat From Eternity: One pilot's spiritual journey |
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| ISBN | : | - |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 45 |
| Publication | : | Published August 10, 2023 |
January 13th 1982… A Boeing 737 takes off in a snow storm at Washington’s National Airport, and almost immediately falls out of the sky, crashing into traffic on the 14th Street bridge. In the top picture a rescue helicopter pilot flies close to the water to save a woman passenger drowning in the icy water of the Potomac River. The pilot lowers one landing skid into the water, while a crewman (without safety harness) stands on the skid to pull the woman into the chopper.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Melbourne Australia, an Australian Boeing 737 captain reads this news report in shocked disbelief. A self willed man, he is on a search for the real meaning of life. He makes a life plan of fulfilled ambitions, instant gratification and self aggrandisement on a pathway through psychotherapy, weekend Buddist meditation retreats, Tai-chi, learning to play different musical instruments, forming a band and winning gold guitars at Tamworth music awards, in all a hope that this would lead to psychological nirvana of peace and satisfaction. But he found himself in a squirrel cage, running flat out - looking for everything and finding nothing, just leaping from one bottomless pit of dissatisfaction to another. Then one day in May 2000 a near fatal stroke put this man into hospital on life support. He lies there listening to the tick, tick, tick of the heart beat monitor knowing full well that the next tick could be his last… And he thinks of the Potomac River crash. In a strange supernatural way, he sees it as a mirror image of his own life with it’s struggles. And then, in the steep challenge of rehabilitation at home, he finds the path that will take him out of his troubles.
Follow me now to the next page of this book and let us walk together along the path that took this man to the highest plateau of human experience.
Come on! Let’s go....
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world in Melbourne Australia, an Australian Boeing 737 captain reads this news report in shocked disbelief. A self willed man, he is on a search for the real meaning of life. He makes a life plan of fulfilled ambitions, instant gratification and self aggrandisement on a pathway through psychotherapy, weekend Buddist meditation retreats, Tai-chi, learning to play different musical instruments, forming a band and winning gold guitars at Tamworth music awards, in all a hope that this would lead to psychological nirvana of peace and satisfaction. But he found himself in a squirrel cage, running flat out - looking for everything and finding nothing, just leaping from one bottomless pit of dissatisfaction to another. Then one day in May 2000 a near fatal stroke put this man into hospital on life support. He lies there listening to the tick, tick, tick of the heart beat monitor knowing full well that the next tick could be his last… And he thinks of the Potomac River crash. In a strange supernatural way, he sees it as a mirror image of his own life with it’s struggles. And then, in the steep challenge of rehabilitation at home, he finds the path that will take him out of his troubles.
Follow me now to the next page of this book and let us walk together along the path that took this man to the highest plateau of human experience.
Come on! Let’s go....
