Near-death / heaven-visiting accounts: deep skepticism warranted; Paul's 2 Corinthians 12 model shows the right posture is silence, not book tours

Mike distinguishes two categories: (1) A trusted teacher whose heart stopped in the hospital, had an experience of God's presence, told a small group privately, wrote no book, and is not monetizing it — Mike has no skepticism here. (2) People with wild detailed accounts who write bestsellers and go on tour — Mike is very skeptical. Reasons for skepticism: financial motive to fabricate/exaggerate, bizarre details inconsistent with Scripture, generally "weird" character. The one biblical example of someone visiting heaven is Paul (2 Corinthians 12), who refused to speak about it in first person, said the words were inexpressible, called it "unlawful to speak" about the things he saw, and wrote no book. That posture is the opposite of the Heaven Is For Real genre.