Atheist Under Communist Rule Has Near-Death Experience, Learns About Spirituality

3/27/2016|Updated: 2/15/2023

It was 1988 and 17-year-old Jan Bostik had never heard about God or Buddha or anything spiritual in nature. He was living in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) under communist rule.

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