. >> it changes your perspective says fordham religious education professor mary beth wardell. >> sometimes these moments of trauma can be entryways into conversation with the sacred. >> is this all there is if we love for 70 or 80 years then boom, dead, gone, nothing? this is like playing theater. this doesn't make sense. why fall in love? it doesn't make sense. eternity. >> it took me a long time to realize that it's a mystery that i'm never going to understand. i don't have the capability of understanding. reporter: he enough there will always be skeptics and there will be reasons to think his story is to continue and it must be a hallucination doubters will say and he's convinced he will always be. >> afield blessed an amazing way because i've been given an opportunity to know that something else exists. i think that's one of the greatest gifts that could ever be given to somebody and that's understanding and knowing that this is not all there is. >> dan bowens "fox 5 news." >> coming up. certain diseases are treated. >> it won't be the first time neurological disease like ms. >> nobody