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I always like to read articles by Brent L. Top.    He  is a Professor of Church History and Doctrine and is currently serving as the Dean of Religious Education at BYU.    Life After Death: 6 Insights into the Spirit World by Brent L. Top  | Nov. 03, 2018 Makes You Think Mormon Life In 1990, I attended the annual conference of the International Association of Near-Death Studies, held that year in Washington, DC with Robert Millet. We didn’t quite know what to expect. Was the conference going to be comprised of  “UFO chasers,” people with aluminum foil hats, and the like?  But it wasn’t like that at all. There were scientists, medical doctors, scholars from many academic disciplines, theologians and clerics from diverse faiths, and many good women and men who had experienced some sort of encounter with the spirit world and sought to make sense of it all. As impressive as this gathering was, what had a greater impact on me was that most