Simon C's Experience

Experience description:   

This is the first of 3 remarkably memorable experiences of being outside my body into another realm of existence that I am reporting in details. There have been many other-worldly experiences throughout my life since childhood up to the present age of 47. These three incidents are outstanding in my memory because they are my closest encounters with God in the truest sense beyond any plausible doubt. 

Some background would help understanding the occurrences. I grew up in Hong Kong in an apparently normal way. Sometimes, however, I was plagued by some dark forces inside me that I had to try hard to control. I remember a shocking moment in grade 2 hearing a powerful laughter in me just like from a devil trying to possess me. I could see a real eternal hell embedded with it. Later I attended a Baptist church with my sister, and found some peace amid these plagues. In grade 4 I came to a serious moment of private confession in the Christian faith, and experienced a profound release from these dark powers. But when I gradually became more skeptical and sensually lax, the dark things crept back.

During the years of secondary school, I suffered more not just from my inner plights, but also in coping with the hard and violent conditions of the world that I increasingly realized. I felt a need deeply of a Godly power to deliver me from the pressing life problems again. The light came one day in the middle of my high-school years, around 1978 or 79. 

I was standing just outside the classroom, chatting with a classmate. Suddenly, I felt that I was out of my body up and away into a dark void. Then I turned into a stream of air seemingly and went through something narrow like a tunnel.

As I came out shortly, I saw a bright whitish Light without boundary not far away. I sensed in my incorporeal state that this is like God. I tried to move closer but felt some deep and dark constraint hindering me. Then surprisingly I re-experienced my life events backward in an accelerated speed, all the way back to an early year of junior school. It stopped at a TV scene of an animation-series which I watched then about a soccer player, all like in a matter of a few seconds. (Was that a scene I did watch? I still ask today anyhow.) 

So my whole life is in a recording outside time. After the review I felt that my life had been quite empty without much merit but a shadowy burden. I was disappointed that all my sufferings and hurts were not addressed and redressed.

They did not seem much to the Great Light. It was clear, however, that there was much darkness within my being that I must work out before I could see anything like heaven. Nothing much I could do there without my body and the material world. As I tried to move further toward the Light, I reached a point which I sensed there would be no return crossing it. The thought of dropping dead on earth frightened me. The only option now was to go back to this world. Then before long I found myself back standing there with my earthly consciousness again. My classmate also stopped talking shortly and we separated. I had no worldly memory during those out-of-body moments of probably within a minute. 

The overall effect is positive. I felt I had eventually received assurance that I do have an immaterial soul, and God really exists. I recall an impulse of telling my sister that, but did not try until many years later due to my lack of words to describe it then, and my unreadiness to defend or argue about it. The experience had given me a spiritual uplift to face the difficulties of life for many years, just enough but not as much as I wished. After I came to Canada in 1981, the memory was overclouded for some years. Its clarity came back following my second encounter with the Light in 1990 in a similar way. Many details resurfaced clearly so that I am certain the above account is very accurate. It is a powerful imprint unlike most regular memories that seem to fade away, though I still have not recalled the exact year or the classmate's identity. I have talked about it with a number of people, but this is the first time I put it in meticulous writing.

Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?     No      

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? No      

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          No       Some threatening inner experiences.


What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?           Above normal consciousness

            Was the experience dream like in any way?   Not like any dream. Another state of being and reality.

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     Yes     Just like pure existence and consciousness without any form

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            Deeper senses of peace and negativity

Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?           None

LOCATION DESCRIPTION:  Did you recognize any familiar locations or any locations from familiar religious teachings or encounter any locations inhabited by incredible or amazing creatures?    No           

Did you see a light?           Yes     A boundless, whitish, bright, peaceful, ethereal light with unlimited potentials

Did you meet or see any other beings?           No      

Did you experiment while out of the body or in another, altered state? No      

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          No      

Did you notice how your 5 senses were working, and if so, how were they different?          Yes            Like inner spiritual senses of visions