God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

Dr. John Lerma is a topic of ongoing interest. I’ve done 3 blogs concerning him and his two books, Into the Light and Learning from the Light . In reviewing the second book, I only had time to deal with the first half of it, stopping with Lerma’s anecdote about the ‘true’ Roswell story. In that story (Chapter 5) a dying military man named Col. Marshall Bradfield deliberately transferred to the hospice in Houston where Lerma worked. Since he was 92 and dying, he wanted to share with Lerma the real story of what crashed at Roswell, NM in 1947. He allegedly knew the real story is because he was visiting with his parents in Roswell when the event occurred. Mac Brazel, on whose ranch the UFO crashed, came first to the Bradfield residence to lead none other than Marsh to the site. The military arrived soon after they did, but Marsh had time to put two pieces of debris together and see a German iron cross. When he got home again, he called his commander at Wright-Patterson AFB. He le...

Today I received a comment, which I will not be publishing, about Dr. John Lerma, author of ' Into the Light ' and ' Learning From the Light .' I have two blog posts about his books in which I express a little skepticism, not about the quality of the stories he shares, but about the quantity of angelic visitations and revelations. I had to ask, did he elaborate just a bit in the telling. Today's comment averred that he does not exist, that he is a fictional character made up to sell books, and that the medical institutions that he claims to have worked for either don't exist or have no record of him. So, I checked the back of his book and called the AMA to see is he is listed there. He was not. I called The Medical Center of Houston. It certainly does exist, and I talked to Sonja in the Hospice department. She said that Dr. Lerma hasn't worked there for about 5 years, but that he did work there in the past. He went by the names of John and Juan. I asked ...

In my first post about John Lerma, a review of his book Into the Light , I expressed my discomfort about the long, guru-like monologues that all of his stories relayed. All of the dying patients, no matter who they were or how old they were, sounded like a Lerma lecture. They all called him Dr. Lerma, using his name frequently. Never Doc, or Doctor, or John. They never have meltdowns. In this second book, published in 2009, I got the same squeamish feeling, even when he described the death of his own father. When Lerma writes, “Dad said the angels told him…” or some other patient says the same thing, it almost becomes “ex-cathedra” dogma, as if Moses or the Pope said it. Who can argue with the angels? It certainly puts Dr. Lerma into the position of an authoritative, sacred scribe transmitting End Times truth. That is if you believe it all. Dr. Lerma, who was raised Catholic, has worked many years in hospice care in Houston and San Antonio, TX, so I have to assume that at least h...