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STE - Prayers - DBVs
Spiritually Transformative Events, Prayer, Nearing End of Life Events
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172. Rhonda
D Experience
2/11/12 I
glowed as brilliant as the sun, but soft because it didn't hurt my eyes. Inside
my hand, because it was transparent, were millions of glitter or sparkles. And
with that realization I became elated. It was the most wonderful feeling I have
ever felt in my life. I kept thinking to myself, ‘I am so beautiful. Oh my, how
beautiful I am.’ And then, this warm feeling of joy and ecstasy just consumed
me… as I was admiring myself and bathing in the joy I thought or maybe someone
said in my head or whatever it was that I had, and it was not said in a mean way
it was said in a humorous way as if this person or myself was so pleased with my
joy but yet had to remind me why I was there - ‘All right, stop admiring
yourself. You have a job to do.’ And with that I began moving. 171. Kathy
C Experience
2/11/12
After much insane behavior the men lined the remaining three of us up on the
ground execution style. I had not prayed for years, I knew it was over. I made a
promise if I were spared I would do anything to make changes in my out of
control life. I was living a fast, selfish, vane, partying existence. At the
moment I made the promise time stood still, as if by some force outside of the
scene one of the men did a complete 180 and talked the other men out of killing
us… A third generation Comanche medicine man who ran the Indian Medicine program
at a local hospital called me. How he found me God only knows. He said they, the
Native American ancestors told him to come and help me. 170. Shirley
J Experience
1/8/12 Although
she was only 4 months old when she died, but somehow I felt she was able to
communicate with me at that level and she comforted me and told me she was doing
well and happy. I had tears of joy and sadness at the same time that I knew she
must stay there. I put her back on the shelf and the door opened. it was my
grandmother again. I stepped outside and she told me without speaking to me that
I needed to go back. 169. Brad
N Experience
12/30/11
From Australia
As
the angel took me up out of my room and up towards the upper atmosphere it was
talking to me the hole time and telling me things about the reasons as to why we
live and learn on Earth to help us to evolve our spirit. The Angel told me that
it was "all a learning experience". WE moved on from there into heaven where I
was taken to a Beautiful building that had a clear ceiling that you could see
out to the heavens. I was introduced to family ancestors and people that I had
met that had passed over. I was filled with love and joy that I can not describe
when I was in there presence, It was like we could feel each others love and joy
as though it was one energy. The angel gave me time with the past family and
friends and then we moved into another part of the building to a room where I
met two Very wise male figures who spoke to me about my life. I absolutely loved
being in their Presence. 168. Wally Experience
11/5/11
I
remember saying "I'm Here, I'm Here. This lasted for about 10 amazing seconds
then I pulled back and was looking into the light. "Come or Go" was said. I
thought about my wife next to me and my 4 children so young. I wanted to go back
to what I just experience but didn't want to leave my family. I started fighting
back into my body and the pain in my neck came back. I started making a weird
noise, my wife rolled over and I came back. I darted up out of my laid down
position with a massive pain in my chest as if a bee had just stung me and my
neck throbbing. Within 10 minutes the pain was gone. I looked at what happened
as a gift from Jesus and didn't seek medical attention. Since then I started
eating extremely healthy and lost 50 pounds. 167. Susan Experience
10/7/11
Just
diagnosed with Stage III breast cancer, moving back to my home, job transfer to
where I could get treatment, chemo and doctor dates scheduling. I thought, I
have to clear my mind, so I started saying a prayer. I still couldn't
concentrate so I started singing the prayer (even though I can't carry a tune)
in my mind. I was sitting upright on my bed with my eyes closed. All of a
sudden I saw a crack of light, then brilliant light. Overwhelming peace and
love overcame me. I smiled, how wonderful this is, I need to do this more often
I thought. I kept singing the prayer in my flat voice. Then a bunch of angels
appeared to the right of the light. They were singing with me, but much more
beautiful voices. It was like the "dueling banjos", I was flat and they'd
finish in beautiful harmony. 166. James
M Experience
101/11
The experience that followed was like a spiritual orgasm,
with the release of a sexual orgasm but a hundred times more powerful. I
felt concentrated love, joy, bliss, euphoria which is hard to translate, that is
why I equate it with an orgasm. And I knew this was ME and I had been here
sometime in the past but had, at some point, tensed up and lost this awareness.
Then I had been searching for return to this state, constantly, from moment to
moment, without even realizing it. I equate this experience to the Garden of
Eden, which I think resides in our hearts right now, not in the distant past, or
in some distant place. To analyze this experience technically, in
Buddhism there are states of Jahna or full absorption Samadhi when one's mind,
normally centered in the head, drops into a state of profound rest in the solar
plexus. When this happens, one can experience states of beautiful calm and
bliss. 165. Angela Experience
9/18/11
From Canada.
There were no words spoken, at any point. Although I know these were a male
presence, I remember not being able to see their faces. I distinctly remember
feeling a hand, a physical hand, on my own, and feeling that my life was now
spared, that I was now safe. Once on the shore, I remember looking back into
the water, and along the shoreline. There was no one there, except for people
visible off in the distance, and back at the hotel. 164. Willie
W Experience 9/10/11
From New Zealand.
I
was near the bottom of the pool, staring at the tiles on the floor. I thought,
"God, I'm coming to see you now." I waited for the end, wondering what angels
looked like. I was apprehensive, but peaceful at the same time - a mixture of
feelings that I struggle to describe. I think I closed my eyes and waited. The
next thing I knew, I was standing upright in the pool, coughing water out, but
alive. To this day I have no rational explanation for how I came to be standing
in the pool. There was nobody nearby who could have rescued me and I'm certain
I did not propel myself upwards …After this event, I became much more spiritual
and found myself hungering for knowledge about God and other aspects of
Christianity. By the time I was 12, I was able to teach other kids Bible
teaching. I have remained "religious" throughout my life and am now studying
towards ordained ministry in the Presbyterian Church. This experience changed
God from a theory to a reality for me. 163. Peter
F Experience 9/10/11
From Australia.
It
was simply an exacting re-run of the original only the final step came with a
metamorphosis of sorts and mortal words can’t cut the mustard. I will fail, but
it was the kinetics that was a mind-blow. The force that drew me toward the
light was experienced at the level of the heart and so naturally with my last
step I recall leading with my chest, arching my back letting my head and limbs
trail and having this feeling of complete release as I rocketed vertically. It
was an intense blur but without doubt, I remember exhaling. It was as though I
was exhaling diving into water with bubbles pouring out of my mouth and trailing
behind. It was the dominant part of the submission or transcendence and it was
long, savored and when so complete, things just became stationary and I was
just.., somewhere, taking it all in, witnessing. 162. Nancy
C Experience 8/20/11
My
eyes were wide open and I could see the room I was in and at the same time, I
was completely and utterly enveloped in Unconditional Love, Wisdom and a Knowing
beyond all knowing. My body melted away and there was only blissful peace. The
entire physical world melted and I was floating in a sea of energy that was
filled with the most amazing light. I was filled with overwhelming gratitude In
those few moments, I knew that everything was and is exactly the way it is
supposed to be and that we all come to earth for only one thing, to give and
receive unconditional love and there are as many ways to do that as there are
living beings in the universe… For now, I can say that I will never be afraid of
dying and that while I might not like some things in this life, in my heart I
know that ALL is well. I pray that I may be of service to and through this
energy that I choose to call God. I can't wait until I get to go HOME. 161.
Max B Experience
7/23/11
From the UK.
At
this point I slowly became aware of the music, unlike any music I have heard
before, powerful and emotional it seemed to emanate from the brighter area in
the mists above me, I could feel this music blowing through me, ripping away the
last shreds of my existence on earth, catching me up in the music, joining me
together with the others. By now, the sense of joy at my return, that came from
them all, everyone of them, was overwhelming, they were so genuinely overjoyed
to have me back, so full of love for me on my return. I knew then my purpose
(although I cannot tell you what it was). I also knew that I would stand on that
balcony forever, as one with them all, at peace. Wrapped in, and pierced through
with love, one with the music. Time had a different meaning here. 160.
Anda Experience
7/10/11
Gently... a light appeared above me...I could see that I was approaching the
surface of the water and there was a gentle light up there. Before too long I
broke through the surface of the water and found myself standing in shallow
water in a sort of gentle river or brook in the middle of the most beautiful and
alive forest. The place was vibrant and the color green was all around me. The
forest was lit from within itself... there was no sun...no sky...but it wasn't
dark either. I felt the most incredible love as I stood in that stream and in
that forest. it was amazing. I also knew everything. I remembered this place
and I remembered that I had always come from this place... and I remembered that
I actually knew everything there was to know... and I always had known it ALL. 159.
Sally S Experience 7/8/11
She said, “I have to
tell you something. You are a beautiful person. You were talking about dying
today. Jesus wants you to know He loves you and He died for you. He wants you to
know you are a beautiful person and He died for You because He loves you so
much. You are a beautiful person.” I studied her face and
listened carefully to her every word without interruption. She delivered her
words calmly and with a direct sense of purpose. (And, as you can see above, she
said the same words/sentences several times.) 158. Douglas
G Experience 7/4/11
Then
I was in the Void, and I thought, “This is the Void. I'm not supposed to be
here. I'm a Christian, not a Buddhist. Where's the tunnel and light I saw the
last time years ago? Where's God? This isn't right. I'm disappointed.”ť The Void
stretched on for eternity. I hit the pavement and the blackness of the void
changed to the blackness of simply having my eyes closed. I noticed the
difference. I had a vision that I was about to be struck and killed by a
particular car. I didn't want to open my eyes and see, but I wasn't really
afraid. I didn't want to die, but felt I was ready to go if necessary. I thought
I had two seconds left to live, and I wondered what I was going to do with all
that time. Two seconds seemed like forever. I opened my eyes and the particular
car I saw in the vision was indeed there, but it had stopped safely about 20m up
the street. 157. Tony
P Experience 6/25/11
Christmas night at Disney got call from ex wishing Merry Christmas, son after
felt onset of I was barely alive, 3 wks critical care/ICU. flew back to co. pain
was so intense indescribable, 4 mos. later scheduled surgery cancelled after I
spent a week at cabin on top of mountain, no electricity, TV, etc. Suddenly no
pain, could eat again, began gaining weight (was 240, then 150) now completely
healthy and symptom free. During illness lucid dreamt nightly about body parts
that were in peril, healing themselves. everything about me has changed since.
Thought process, tolerance, need to help others, understand and accept all
things as they are, have certain abilities that are unexplainable and prior to
would be unbelievable… my doctor wants me to write a paper to state exactly what
I did to suddenly heal, cannot place into words, unfortunately. 156. Tracey
D Experience 6/12/11 In
Sept 1997 I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I had a tumor the size of
a grapefruit right beside my heart and lungs. Shortly after I began my chemo I
was lying in bed exhausted and scared. I couldn't stop thinking of my kids. As I
lay there I began to pray for God to take care of them if I die. In my head as
clear as if someone was in the room with me I heard someone say, ""you are going
to be fine."" I can't explain it but I know it wasn't me talking to myself in my
head. It came from someone else. I also became very peaceful, all me fear went
away. It has been 12 years since my last treatment and I have remained cancer
free. These experiences have had a lasting affect on me. I have a lot less fear
of death something I was always terrified of. also I can recollect the events as
if they were yesterday. they haven't diminished with time. Although I was afraid
at the time it now brings me great comfort and peace of mind." 155. Kim
B Experience 5/29/11 I
suddenly had an intense urge to look up. I was telling myself, "I can't believe
this is happening". My daughter was chattering away but I don't know what she
was saying. My entire body began to feel like it was magnetized. There was an
intense yellowy-gold light that came down from the sky just beyond the tree
outside the window I was 'looking' out. This light felt like it was pulling me.
It was like a giant magnet and I had a trillion tiny pieces of metal just
beneath my skin (I didn't think this at the time - this is not the best
description but the only one I can put into words). I was being pulled ever so
slightly by the 'magnet'. I started thinking about God and immediately the pull
felt to move from pulling me forward to pulling me upwards… There are no words
to describe the absolute knowing but not knowing because nothing except the love
from the light even mattered. It was more than love and peace, but I have no
words for more... Then I said that I needed to stay and let people know about
what I now knew. I was being told not to forget. I was certain I wouldn't.
Before that thought even ended I was told not to forget that this is real. 154. Maria Experience 5/22/11 The
light is so bright now. I'd say it's the brightness whiteness I've ever seen. I
felt no pain, no grief, no sorrow. I felt so light so free so bright and pure
love is the best way to describe it in words. It's pure it's everything it's our
beginning. I see all the light at the end now and two beings of light on
opposite sides of an entrance. Guardians. Light figures as white as light but
I can see a figures somehow. I hear my voice say I want to come in I want to be
here. I hear you can not come. My voice responds why I've been good I don't
want to go back please. I hear it's not your time you have more to do. At that
moment Im laying in my bed and all the pain and sorrow I was feeling was gone. A
weight was lifted my spirit returned and I was reborn wanting to live. My faith
restored and knowledge of the light that awaits me. 153. Winfit Experience 5/13/11
From Indonesia. Original in Indonesian, translated
to English by Chuck.
And after the spirit
had exited my body completely my spirit felt like it was floating and was as
light as the wind. My spirit could see life on earth. I could see my younger
siblings and my parents. It was strange, as if I was inside glass. I yelled,
“please help!” but not one of my family members heard me. Then the being asked
the name of my prophet. I answered, “Mohammed”. Then a person invited me to a
dark place where there was one who was bright and white all over. But before
that I was brought through a very dark path and at the end of the path I could
see a white light so I ran closer to it and discovered that the light originated
from the forehead of a very handsome person. The person next to me said this was
the prophet Mohammed. 152. Myriam
M Experience 5/7/11
From Belgium.
I
had ŕ severe breakdown. I sat in bed alone at home, exhausted and suddenly found
myself in ŕ pitch black void, complete emptiness. I was alone crying in despair
and suddenly in THE distance I did see ŕ light growing bigger and bigger. At
first glance I thought it was my grandfather but there was not really ŕ face and
yet there was. THE being of light asked me what i was doing there and told me
it was not my time yet. I told it I was very unhappy because of person al
reasons and did not want to go on like this. THE being of light told me this was
not important. THE communication was telepathic but at THE Same time I could not
only hear THE thoughts bud feel what it was feeling at THE Same time it looked
like ŕ multidimensional communication. At That point THE being spread its light
around me and i felt an unconditional love with ŕ complete understanding and
Some humor, like we would comfort ŕ child who does not understand. I never
experienced something so complete in my life. 150. James Experience
5149NDE
4/17/11 Next
thing, I was surrounded by this awesome white light. The light was bright and
very calming. I felt as though a power had me in its grip. It began to lift me
up. What a feeling of care and love!! The power was very gentle yet strong and
confident not to drop me. I felt quite secure in its grip. Next, It, (the light)
lowered me down on a pavement also glowing with light. I felt at first a little
nervous, but it disappeared. I raised my head to see where I was, and gazed upon
a place very familiar. It was the part of town where I had gone to high school.
It was now beautiful, unlike the ghetto place it was back on earth. Everything,
the buildings, homes, and even the streets were illuminated with a beauty
indescribable. 149. Magalie Experience
4/16/11 We
reached the light inside. There it was a feeling of peaceful, happiness.
The
Man who saved me from the evil octopus shaped arms went to stand behind me.
Didn't say anything. In the light was another man. He had white eyes, no pupils,
had a long beard. He had also a stick like from grapevine in his hand . He
talked to me, but he didn't open his mouth. He talked in my head. I could hear
what he said to me, without him moving lips. I could feel wisdom (that's kind of
hard to explain). Than I felt like he was going through my head, my memories in
a flash, extremely fast, very strange feeling. he said it wasn't my time yet. I
had to go back. Than in one second I was back in my car, and it was right on
time cause I had to push the brakes immediately, the car was going to hit at 120
km an hour a big truck. 148. Peta
W Experiences
3/28/11
From Australia.
I
was just dozing off when I awoke in my dream to someone (a male voice) telling
me the life cycle - I was ecstatic to finally understand and it put me
immediately at ease. Then I saw the bright light and felt such emotion I still
cannot describe the intensity to this day. I then remember thinking I must of
had a heart attack because I could not explain why I was dead. I then told
myself I was not ready to die and wanted to go back. I then awoke with the
intensity and calmness and a wholeness - a sense of completeness. Even though I
felt I knew what was on the other side I could not attach it to anything I had
experienced before. I tried to remember what the voice told me but for the life
of me I could not. It was like "I gave you this to help you survive and not
fear death - but you cannot know the truth until the end". I will never forget
that feeling - it was wonderful - it embraced me - it surrounded me - nothing on
earth has ever come close. 147. Julianne
R Experiences
3/13/11 I
felt love and peace like I had never known. Eventually I started remembering
things that had taken place in my life, things that I had totally forgotten. I
suppose you might call them flash backs...sort of like movies that I was re
experiencing. That is one of the reasons I knew the light (Lord) was giving me
the information because I was remembering things that happened that were totally
lost to my conscious mind. As those experiences were revealed I remembered
them. At no time did I feel judged or condemned by the light about some of the
selfish things I had done. It was more self condemnation, and my own shame. I
felt emotionally the feelings of those I had hurt exactly the way they had felt
them at the time I had been unkind to them and hurt them. I was told by the
Lord what my purpose had been on earth, in two words, overcoming selfishness was
the purpose. Loving others and giving of myself unselfishly. 146. Gillian Experiences
3/2/11 I
was finally taken to OR and the repair performed. While in recovery I woke as
if I had had the best sleep in my life. I was back to being euphoric and loved
and with that brilliant bright light again! It was wonderful. Nothing mattered
but love. I started chatting with the nurse and apologized for them having to
call her in. She responded and told me that in all her years (I believe it was
20) as an OR/Recovery Room nurse she had never witnessed anything like this....
a patient coming out of the OR with such clarity and happiness and glowing. 145. William Experiences
3/1/11
I
was lying on the floor at my college girlfriend's house in front of the
fireplace watching big snowflakes float down outside a picture window. I
thought how nice it would be if she joined me. I heard a voice say why don't
you ask her. I thought, why don't you. You are invisible. I felt like there
was a light on in the hallway and talking. Then, her father came to the living
room and I felt a spirit come into my head. The next day she asked me how I did
that. I said I didn't know, but what did she see. She said I was a gold light
and was beckoning her with my hand and that her family also saw me. 144. Dolores
H Experience
2/12/11 My
revelation came in a dream – a very real dream. In my dream I heard someone
knock at the front door. As I made my way to the door, I saw the entire house
filled with people, and I couldn’t understand why no-one was answering the
knock. When I opened the door, I saw with pure ecstasy that Jesus was standing
there, and as far back as I could see, beautiful angels were behind him. I was
awestruck with joy, and shouted out to everyone to look – but no-one heard,
no-one looked. I turned back to Jesus with utter sorrow, but as devastated and
crushed as I was, Jesus was more so. He sadly let me know that the others were
not ready to hear or see him. He told me that he just wanted to let me know
that he would be there for me when I needed him, and that he had to go. I
pleaded to him to take me with him, but he smiled sadly and said he couldn’t,
because I still had much to do. 143.
Bob S Experience.
2/12/11 I
decided to go into the middle bedroom to ask the Creator a question. My wife was
watching TV in another room. As I began to make my way to this room, I began to
feel a physical pressure on my chest that increased the closer I got to the
room. By the time I had knelt down at the bed, the pressure was so great that I
began to have trouble breathing. I can’t remember how long it took before I
asked the question but it seemed like an eternity. So I asked the Creator:
How come we don’t have any children? He instantly replied:
Because you wanted it that way. 142.
James Experience.
1/30/11
I
was then seen by the light who talked to me. There are NO words that can begin
to describe this event. Even today I have no way of passing this story on
because there is NO language or story telling that could convey what I
experienced. The Light Being gave me a mission that I was to carry out in this
life. I was told that I would return to my body and I was sent away from the
bright light being. I was at great speed propelled downward to the first white
room, the one with men in white robes, the place where I was first purified. I
was told that I ought to forget this memory, that I was never to tell the
specifics of the instructions given to me by the Light Being. I think the being
was God, perhaps Jesus. I was told never to reveal the mission or to
consciously remember what the message from the Light to me was/is. 141.
Hilary R Experience.
1/22/11
As I
was praying I asked God to reveal to me what he would like me to do because I
wanted to be one of his disciples. I continued to pray and read psalms. As I
went to go back to my room euphoria engulfed me. I felt the purest form and
highest degree of an elevated love that I have never felt before. I didn't even
know that our bodies are capable of reaching such an exhilarating level. While I
was feeling such joy I heard a very clear audible voice in my ear and it said
"you have to tell people the good news that life goes on after death." This
experience comes to me with absolute certainty and I can confidently say that
the feeling I felt was not an earthly one but I can only surmise that it came
from somewhere or something beyond my comprehension. 140.
Diana B Experience.
12/12/10
I
was waiting for someone to answer, business call. I had my eyes closed, I
wasn't thinking of anything. My eyes were closed. it was quiet in my apartment.
Instantaneously, I was next to a huge vision of Virgin Mary. I was very close
to her. She had a book in her hand. Telepathically she said "I want you to
write this book", It was like I was in a movie. She was moving her head as she
looked through the book. The energy was unbelievable. Then it was gone, I was
on my back, my body felt it had been electrified, I was full of energy and
love. This started many experiences with Mary, Jesus, light beings healing from
all three. 139.
Ray K Experience.
11/14/10 In
my dream, I saw myself as a adult in a car accident. I did not see my present
self (as a child), but I was looking at the car from the front. My adult self
was in the front seat, and my body was crushed by the engine. I felt that I was
watching myself die, and knew that my death was imminent. This dream has never
repeated itself, nor have I ever had a similar one since. At present time, I
have come to a conclusion that although this dream did not produce a conscious
effect, I think it produced a subconscious one. I feel that this may be why I
have shown no fear in death, and have a strong positive view of a Afterlife. 138.
Maggie E Experience.
11/2/10 Suddenly, for no
reason, I had a drastic internal shift in perspective. I perceived myself as
being equally a part of, and connected to, everything in the universe (words
really aren't doing this justice, or even coming close). I realized that my self
existed, and everything in the universe existed, but that my self perception was
an illusion. For a moment I could see this with total clarity, and understood it
completely. I was not separate from anything. 137.
Sally C Experience.
11/1/10
Three years later I was checking out a 12
step support group at a hospital. I found it boring and was going to leave. A
voice inside me said “stay a bit longer”. I thought, “That is odd that I
thought that, but OK”. A few minutes later the room got really bright, I
looked at the ceiling to figure out where were all these lights that got turn
on. Then to my front right stood Jesus! At this point, I kind of turned into
a different person, it’s hard to explain but I will try my best. Basically,
it’s like I became my spirit. Like my spirit was allowed to remember. I
stopped being this human persona; so hard to explain. I was me, but also an
eternal being. When I saw Jesus, my spirit just felt INTENSE relief. So
relieved to see Jesus! 136.
Kim N Experience.
10/24/10 I
also had the instant knowledge that I didn't have to worry about my body and
that I would soon be coming back to it. The forms left without another word and
I felt myself floating towards the ceiling. I went through the ceiling and came
upon a beautiful ocean. It was so crystal clear that I could believe it was
real. I began to walk on a path that went right into the middle of the ocean.
I looked to my right and saw three brilliantly gold fish popping to the surface
as if to say 'hi'. I saw three men sitting in chairs straight ahead. I knew
instantly that they were angels. I sensed that only one of them was my guardian
angel, the one on the left was my sisters angel, and the one on the right was my
husbands. I talked with my angel from what seemed like eternity. He answered
many of my questions, although I can't remember what we discussed. 135.
Magda M Experience.
10/24/10 From
Portugal
Suddenly, in the middle of the corridor leading to bed room, I felt engulfed by
an enormous feeling of warmth and well being. There was an incredible
bright light, white but not blinding. I felt a part of the universe.
Then a message was telepathically conveyed to me, very simple, "love, the
important thing is to give, no matter how, when or to whom, all is about
giving." Then I felt terribly afraid and overwhelmed. All of a
sudden, I felt back at home, in the middle of the corridor leading to my
bedroom. My husband and children were still asleep, all was silent.
134.
Anthony H Experience.
10/24/10
In the midst of me
driving, I could see out of my own eyes, but I could also see the world around
me, other cars, landscape etc. I saw myself through 2 different view points, to
my left and to my right, all while looking through my own eyes and through the
other view point above me that could see everything else. Very quickly
things began moving extremely slow. At the point of time stopping, I felt
my heart begin to beat abnormally. I felt my soul leaving through
the left side of my heart and it felt as though I was being pulled up by my
shoulders. All the view points became like my normal sight. My eyes
were closed after I left my body and it was hard to open them. But as I
did so, I could see the car I was driving and the world around me. It was
a state of reality that felt more real than life itself. 133.
Jan R Experience.
9/27/10
But when I did, wow. I
was in a totally different place. AND I DON'T MEAN MAYBE! I felt totally,
completely, profoundly at peace. It felt as though I were in a light-filled
tube sort of. I could see my problems all around me on the other side of this
"tube", but they didn't affect me AT ALL. I had no emotions connected to them,
no pain, no reaction to them AT ALL. I was filled completely with peace, no ifs
ands or buts. It had a physical and mental resonance to it too that words
cannot ever describe appropriately. A sort of vibration I had never ever
experienced before or since. My thinking was super super clear. 132.
KC A Experience.
9/25/10
From the UK.
A pinpoint of light starts to grow, just like coming out of a
tunnel, and I am now in the brightest white light you have ever seen but it does
not dazzle. So peaceful, utopia, utter bliss, nothing matters any more. I have
never felt peace and love like it, words can not describe this peace! Then a man
comes up to me, now at that time I was an atheist and I didn’t know him. He said
to me “ARE YOU COMING WITH ME” I say “YOU WHAT” and at that instant I’m back in
bed and take a great gasp of air. I breath it out and there is so much carbon
dioxide in it, it makes my eyes water, just like when drinking beer and you burp
through your nose. My whole body is tingling, every cell is tingling and my
heart is waking away like a sledge hammer. 131.
Bev G Experience.
9/17/10 Then
there were the NDE’s that I personal believe were permitted to act as a
‘grave warning’ to all of us. Within three NDE’s when my spirit was
permitted to enter the physical lives of ‘living people,’ three of these
individuals were also permitted to actually be able to ‘see my spirit standing
in front of them.’ My spirit was able to see two of these three people standing
there pointing at me. I was aware that my spirit was calling out to one woman
but her reaction appeared to show that she was unable to hear me. After that
occasion of her being actually able to see my spirit, every time, I had a NDE
and my spirit was permitted to enter into her ‘physical living life.’ I was
aware she could not actually see my spirit but she was able to sense it nearby
her within the room and she would start speaking to me. In one of these NDE’s my
spirit’s attention was draw to the time on a clock. The following day she came
to ask me if my spirit had visited her, I wrote down the time that my spirit had
seen displayed on the clock and she confirmed it to be correct.
130.
Patti H Experience.
9/13/10 The
second "mystical" experience was just last month. I am now age 65 and thought
perhaps it was my time to transition to the next life. I was awaken at exactly
2:30 AM Pacific Standard Time by a bright light that radiated throughout my
bedroom. I live alone and thought perhaps my daughter had driven to see me from
Idaho and flipped on the overhead lights as she entered the room. However, when
I looked around, no one was present in the room. When I looked up I saw an Angel
- literally! She had no arms but wings that attached to the side of her body.
She was translucent and radiant in white light. I asked her why she was here and
there was no verbal response. She had a look on her face of concern and then
suddenly vanished and the room went dark again. I never felt afraid. 129.
Sarah R Experience.
8/10/10
Life
crisis of a loss of a love relationship followed by miscarriage that led to
severe depression and near suicide. Instead turned to seek a relationship with
our Creator through a retreat with "Conversations with God" author… My
experience is different in that it was NOT triggered by a near-death encounter,
and yet I came to the same spiritual viewpoint expressed by many who did have
that experience. That is why I think it is significant that you know of it. It
is NOT necessary to die to go to Heaven. Heaven IS a state beyond mind, the
realization of completeness and oneness with the Beloved, All-in-All. We always
have been, are now, and always will be ONE with the Presence of that we call
God, by whatever name. There is no way to be separate from an omnipresent
being. Period. We can only THINK we are separate. 128.
Rebecca S Experience.
6/20/10
I
was lying down getting ready for bed. I was awake when all of a sudden my spirit
lifted as my body felt very heavy and impossible to move any part. I tried but
then my spirit started going through this very bright white tunnel. I was moving
slowly through the light and had the most wonderful feeling of love and peace.
It was beautiful and I just slowly kept going. It seemed it took a while and the
closer I got the stronger the feelings were. A male voice I hope was God, kept
telling me, Becky, Go Back it's not your time! Go back Becky it's not your
time.The peace was awesome and I had never felt anything like it. I kept flowing
softly like on a cloud and soon I reached heaven as the voice kept saying go
back. I reached the golden gates open wide waiting for me to come in. It was
Beautiful! The flowers, colors, a waterfall flowing like diamonds, the peace and
Love was what I wanted. I wanted to go in but the voice would not let me. 127.
Wayne Experience.
6/20/10 In
as much as it affected my life and future, and in as much as it affected others
around me, changing them to positive ways and lifestyles, it was absolutely
real, which is as real as it needs to be! 126.
Mike C Experience.
6/19/10
I DIDN'T 'SEE' ANYTHING JUST 'FELT' A PRESENCE. THE FIRST IMPRESSION OF THE
PRESENCE WAS 'SURPRISE' BORDERING ON DISBELIEF. I FELT MYSELF THINKING 'THIS IS
WHO I REALLY AM!' TIME WAS EITHER NOT PASSING OR IT DID SO EXTREMELY SLOWLY.
WITHOUT 'ME' ASKING THIS QUESTION I FELT MYSELF ASK (WITHOUT WORDS BUT
COMMUNICATING) 'WHO AM I?' ANOTHER DIFFERENT PRESENCE, THIS TIME TO MY RIGHT,
'SHOWED' ME A PICTURE 'IN MY MIND' OF A BRILLIANT LIGHT. THE LIGHT WAS SO BRIGHT
THAT I KNEW I SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO LOOK AT IT BUT IT DID NOT HURT MY 'EYES'.
EMANATING FROM THE LIGHT WERE AN IMMEASURABLE NUMBER OF RAYS OR BEAMS. ONE OF
THESE BEAMS OF LIGHT THAT WAS STILL CONNECTED TO THE SOURCE (AS ALL OF THE BEAMS
WERE) WAS COMING IN MY DIRECTION. I GOT THE FEELING THAT THE VERY TINY TIP OF
THE BEAM WAS 'ME'. AS IF TO SAY THAT I WAS 'PART' OF THE LIGHT. THE NEXT
QUESTION THAT WAS 'GIVEN' ME WAS 'WHY AM I HERE?' AGAIN, A PICTURE IN MY MIND,
THIS TIME OF A HUGE ROUND GREEN TREE (NOT AN EVERGREEN) WITH SOME SORT OF RED
FRUIT ON IT. I TOOK IT LATER TO MEAN GROW AND HAVE CHILDREN. 125.
Kenneth H Experiences.
5/11/10
I
had a feeling of well being, I flew through the roof, and kept flying at a speed
so fast I cant explain ,however I kept going even faster. I could feel the g
force and enjoyed it very much. Next I noticed a being, he spoke to me
telepathically. He said come here, instantly I was there. He was wearing a
robe, he waved his arm and said to me look this is life, I looked all at once I
understood everything there is about life I said is that all there is to it.
Is it that simple? He said "yes." He then said this is you this is your
soul. Next I turned into a golden bubble with my face inside the bubble. At that
instant I became aware that I am an eternal being as well as everybody else the
feeling was tremendous joy. 124.
David A Experiences.
4/6/10
I had a
prophetic dream that made no sense to me at the time. In the dream, I
turned the corner of a building and saw a gigantic, blue-colored block of
something I couldn't identify. The following week, a family friend took my
brother and I cross-country skiing. On the way to our hotel room, I turned
the corner of the balcony that lead to our room and stopped dead in my
tracks, my mouth agape. My brother said my face had turned white. It was a
gigantic block of ice that had been pushed up vertically onto the shore of
Lake Superior. It was identical to what I'd seen in the dream. It was my
first experience with the unexplainable. 123.
Alain P Experience
3/25/10
From France. Original in French, translated to English by
Simon A.
I was invaded by a cone of light which covered my whole being, a Light of Love,
incredibly white, tender and loving. I really felt that this Light was someone,
someone who loved me and was right there behind the light, on the right-hand
side. I still had my hands over my closed eyes, and I could see my joined
hands in multiple replication, that is, I saw this image repeated 7 or 8 times
one after the other. The cone of light was also outside of me, it was so gentle!
Then, gently, the light withdrew. The moment of astonishment once past, all I
could say was "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" 121.
Treva
Experience 2/25/10
It
was around noon and all of a sudden in my deepest despair I was in the presence
of something much bigger than me but no actual "seeing" a person but felt that I
was in the presence of someone so wonderful. And very bright light all around
"me" even though I didn't "see" any part of me. I just had a sense of me being
engulfed with such love, acceptance and "wholeness". The feeling was wonderful,
peaceful, joyous and secure. I "hear" a voice say "It's not your time". I said
I wanted to stay and be here in all this love and again "It's not your time, you
must go back". I said again I didn't want to that I wanted to stay here. I
begged but was told to go back and before I left I asked why are we here and the
voice said "To get wisdom". 120.
Carol O
Experience 2/25/10
My
first love boyfriend had broken up with me and I didn't know why. In struggling
to get past it for months, I went to bed one school night and literally willed
myself to die. I was not sleeping during this event and I had turned out the
lights in my room. Upon concentrating on wanting to die, I arose above my body
laying in bed and looked down. I could definitely see myself laying there. I
then proceeded to go down into this spiral tunnel and around and round and down,
down I went. The tunnel was dark but I could see that I was going down. After a
period of time traveling this way, there was an opening and I came through it
and found myself standing with a wall behind me (or the shoot that I had just
came out of was now behind me and that opening was directly behind me about
shoulder height.) There was this huge, bright white light shining on me. God
spoke to me although I could not see him, but I have always assumed it was God.
He said, "Have you made your final decision?" 119.
Kim D
Experience 2/25/10
From Canada.
I
was repeating to myself, "I wonder what it would be like to die..." as I lay in
the back seat of the car as my mother drove the car and my sister sat in the
front seat. We were coming home from a shopping trip… Rather quickly, I entered
a black void. My consciousness was no longer in the back seat of that car. I
was in an absolutely black black place that was everything and everywhere.
Black void is the best definition for this place. There was no sound. My own
thoughts were very loud when I did begin to think. My first thought was, "Is
that all there is"? and then "I didn't even do anything". 118.
Jane
Experience 2/25/10
Sometime toward morning I suddenly "awakened" or rather felt that I had become "untethered"
from my body and I was rapidly speeding upwards. The feeling of detachment from
my body was surreal as I felt I had no weight or anchor. I was totally
free of any physical constraints (like gravity). As I was rapidly speeding
upward I had an overwhelming sense of a complete and total love and acceptance
and I immediately said to myself "Oh, this is what it's like". I immediately
knew it was God's love for me. It was the most wonderful emotion I had ever
experienced and I felt free of any earthly attachments whatsoever. Nothing
mattered anymore other than a desperate longing to remain in this "love". 116.
Kathleen
B
Experience 2/4/10
I
was sitting on the sofa waiting for a friend to return back to the house so was
reading a book on color therapy when this strange sense of deeply connecting
with my inner self took over my consciousness. It first began at the point where
I was able to consciously connect with every cell in my body and then my own
inner voice told me that I knew I could do this 'connecting down to a cellular
level of my body' all along. Like it was some kind of common knowledge at a very
base or spiritual level or an awakened inner consciousness? The more I seem to
curiously concentrate on this feeling the deeper and more profound it became. It
felt like 'home' and very 'natural' on some level to do this. The next aspect of
this experience was that my body became very light in my torso area and I
started to feel a separation of my body as it seem to float off. 115.
Julie L
Experience 1/14/10
I
opened my eyes and there was a translucent white, bright light all around me in
the room. I could see through the light and see the TV on un front of me. As I
felt the warmth of the hand that held mine I was engulfed with love,
unconditional love was filling me, I was smiling from ear to ear! Tears still
steaming down my face, I heard a male voice say to me, not out loud but
telepathically, in my head, everything is going to be ok, none of that matters
now. I Will always love you. I asked him if he was holding my hand and he said
yes, He told me he was sitting beside me. Meanwhile, all I could feel was this
complete unconditional love and forgiveness. I was so happy, so close to him!
To this day I am still not sure who came to me that night, was it God? The lord
Jesus? my grandfather, who by the way had a close relationship with Jesus.
Whoever it was, he was divine and he loved me! I felt close to him and I can't
wait to be with him again someday. 114.
Joe C
Experience 12/6/09
After a brief stop the
wheel began to turn back away from the flames and the chasm.
At
that point I knew that I had faced the force of evil and had won. I knew that I
was going to be OK and I was going to be a stronger person in the future.
Eventually over a period of several days it all dissipated and went away. For
several days I was weak and drained. 113.
Robbrina
A
Experience 11/21/09
I
seen my friend sitting at the end of the couch by my feet. His name was Adam &
was a good friend of mine. He had died months earlier suddenly,...after being
released from a long prison sentence he came home & died 2 weeks later as a
result of a overdose. He had decided to try heroin again after being clean for
years, & died alone in his room. I was overcome with joy by seeing him by I
suddenly had a rush come over me...like a feeling & I received the explanation
that it was Adam doing these things to me for the past 2 weeks. I got annoyed
with him & said, "It was you? You were doing this to me? Why??" It felt like I
was moving my lips but the question came inside my mind. He answered," Because I
am mad at all of you. God made me die for a reason, so you all would stop
getting high & you ARE ALL STILL DOING IT!" I knew he was talking about the
circle of friends we had, which all of them used heroin… 112.
James W
Experience 10/24/09
I clearly recall the
sensation of “wow” this spirit is powerful and way bigger in size than
me? Why did I know this? I could not see anything but I felt this sensation in
the pit of my stomach. This spirit, or whatever it was, was very powerful. All
of a sudden not 10 feet away from me was TWO of XXXXX. Where the light came
from that illuminated this next scene was beyond me but this bright light coming
from somewhere had illuminated these two (one) person(s) One XXXXX was crying,
looking away from me, and hugging the other XXXXX??? I perceived two ages, the
younger XXXXX, the one that was crying and looking away? Why I new that it was
another XXXXX was beyond me, I just knew. 111.
Cheryl
McG
Experience 10/11/09
It was then that I
realized there really wasn't anything I could do to save myself, and that I
wouldn't be able to hold my breath much longer. I calmly stood there and
mentally prepared myself to die. After the panicky efforts to save myself, my
mind was now quiet and calm as I waited to drown. It was then that I heard a
mechanical sound like an intercom in my ear, and the next thing I heard was a
woman's voice calmly addressing me. "Cheryl, walk against force of the water,"
the voice instructed, and, without question or resistance, I immediately
obeyed. Turning towards the flow of the water, I actually had to push through
it, the pressure/force was that strong. After a few steps forward, I actually
felt a stone staircase under my feet and I knew, because of this, I couldn't be
too far from shore. I kept walking and within seconds my head finally broke
through the surface of the water and out into the air. 110.
Cedric S
Experience 9/27/09
Here
it went wrong I got a whole lot of foam (white water) and I could not take in
enough air, so when the second wave hit me I went under without air, in panic
and because of the force of the wave I went down and because I was totally in
panic I did not see I was swimming in the wrong direction. Instead of going up I
was going to the bottom, first I tried to fight it but then I remember saying to
myself 'if I have to go like this God so be it'. A feeling of peace and serenity
came over me and everything turned into a very special blue and I was gone. 109.
Sarah M
Experience 9/7/09
I was standing in
a "room", only there were no walls, and there was a bright light as far as I
could see. God was standing in front of me and told me that I had died, because
my body had failed me. and then he said that I needed to make changes in my
life, because if I didn't, it was going to be too late. he also told me that he
was giving me another chance to live, and that I was still going to be sick, but
he would heal me when the time was right. and at that time, I felt as if I had
entered back into my body and I'm assuming that's when I gasped for air in my
sleep. 108.
Vernon
Experience 8/22/09
Hindu
from India
I started reading those NDE experiences, suddenly a world in front of me
disappeared. there was no body around me at all. all I see is a vision, at first
there is only void empty blackness around me. here I don't feel any fear. I was
totally in other dimension. I still have the awareness of me without any body at
all. suddenly I started moving (not moving but void emptiness vanishing slowly)
towards a beautiful light. the light is so beautiful you cant see those light on
this earth. light I saw was changing very slowly from golden brownish, then
orange-ish then greenish blue yellow. mixture of all colors and hues .nearest
possible explanation about light I saw is this. real beauty can only be
experienced when you feel it. it was so beautiful to look at. and I also heard a
beautiful sound which is more like angels howling chorus or may it is sound of
"OM". it was so pleasant to hear it. suddenly I could feel presence of others
around me. here others I meant was. there were other like me in this beautiful
dimension. 107.
Rose
Experience 1/25/09
While in the Light, I was told I could ask any question or receive any answer.
All I wanted to know was whether I would go back. Knowledge passed directly to
my soul, without needing words or thoughts. It was clear to me that: 1) God
does exist 2) The "highest plane" on which God exists is open to all beings 3)
God is a being of Infinite Light 4) God knows and loves everyone 5) We all go to
the Infinite Light after death 6) The Infinite Light holds the key to all
mysteries 106.
Maria
Experience 1/23/09
From Mexico, original in Spanish, translated to English by
Simon
Then suddenly I saw a black circle on the wall, like the mouth of a mine-shaft,
followed immediately by a light in front of me, whiter than any I had ever seen.
It did not harm my eyes, but was a strong light, which lit up the silhouette and
the hands of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He offered me his hands as if to welcome me,
and in a most beautiful tone of voice he asked me:
"Maria, do you wish to come with me?" Without hesitation I replied "Yes!" This
was without reflecting twice, my reply was instantaneous, and straightaway my
mother appeared on the scene, saying: "No, Lord, don't take her with you, I
still need her so much." With that, the well of light disappeared, and
turning round I saw myself in my bed, and I saw how two angels, strong and
adorable, who were holding me up by the arms as if to take me upwards, let me go
all at once, and by this action made me "return" to my body, with such a jolt
that it made me wake up. 105.
Rae
Experience 1/10/09 Several
weeks after this experience, in May, I started feeling this love in my heart.
Similar to the initial experience in the restaurant. At times this love became
so strong, I would have to stop my job and go into the bathroom until it passed.
It was an absolutely amazing feeling. Through this constant barrage of intense
love, I became aware little by little of how beautiful all people are and that
everyone is made of this love. Even now I still feel this love in my heart. It
doesn't seem as intense as it use to, but sometimes it becomes very warm, fuzzy
feeling that lights up my inside. I know this love is from God, and I know
everyone is made from this love and is this love. The sad part of knowing this
is others do not believe me and do not even know that they are love. This
sometimes makes me extremely sad. I use to speak of my experiences more when
this was first happening because I thought maybe there are other people who feel
this amazing love in their heart, but people do not want to believe it. I know
it is true because it is in me. 104.
Stephen
CLS
Experience 12/27/08
The
explosion was accomplished in a nanosecond and before I knew it I was standing
before a wall of unimaginable pure white light. At the center of my vision I
soon observed writings in "black fire" moving top to bottom and left to right in
three rows. These were numerical; eleven numbers per row expanding
progressively by intervals no larger than 80 and no smaller than 4. Most
intervals averaged 30 to maybe 40 apart. I somehow instinctively understood it
to be an numerical record involving the sequential longevities of my previous 33
existences in an understandable form to me. 103.
Chen D
Experience 12/27/08
When
I went into sleep, it wasn't like any other time, I knew I was sleeping. I start
to be able to view all around be 360 degree with just a thought of the mind.
Then I began to feel light beings and a manifestation of Guan Yin (Mother Goddess
in Buddhism) appear. I'm not the religious sort in fact was a Atheist but I am
attracted reading Buddhist philosophy since young. So I thought it must be due
to imagination. As though reading my thought, the being said non-verbally (mental
projections) ,'No my friend, what you see is you've seen. It is due to past
links that make you more attracted to Buddha's words.' So I began to ask
questions about religions and existence's meaning. 102.
John P
Experience 12/27/08
The
experience lasted for about 1 week, during which I couldn't eat, but drank some
water. The experience was indescribable, both wonderful and terrifying. This
wasn't a random hallucination, but a vision where beings spoke to me. Wisdom
came into my mind, beyond my control. I was told I had a pure heart, and this is
why I could see paradise. The Golden Energy was absolutely wonderful, with a
purifying smell. From my vision I learned that there is a God, and he would have
created perfection in the beginning, but needed every Angel to serve him. Some
didn't, retaining there power, and this Universe was created instead, with
powerful duality. Perfect creation would have to be done with perfect order,
with an Angel having a specific task. God has creative energy that has to be
expressed, as we have to breathe. He had something he desired to create, with
happiness for everyone, and some Angels prevented it from happening. 101.
Zen B Experience
12/20/08
During the second song on the album, In the Morning Day, there was a creative
pause after the lyrics ended and before the rest of the song was played out. I
heard that familiar “Voice” say, "Bruce (my given adoptive name), are you
willing to die for what you believe in?" Immediately the “Voice” had my
attention and I thought for a moment about what I believed in strongly enough to
give up my life. Jesus Christ was it... not as organized religion knows him...
only as I knew him to be much more than most comprehended. So I agreed. Just as
I said, "Yes," the music continued with a sound like a rocket ship taking off or
going by at a phenomenal speed. I felt myself being gently pulled out of my body
and so I let go and followed the pull. I looked back to see my body lying across
my bed, as I had been doing. I'd had OBEs before so I was familiar with the
feeling of leaving. What I found when I turned back to look where I was going
was absolutely awesome. I was totally engulfed in white light... feeling at
home, warm, rather effervescent and serene. 100.
Josh R Experience
12/17/08
I
started dreaming about flying over a tan color city, or kingdom, next thing I
was by a little patio with a couple of steps with people and Jesus, once I walk
on the patio, I knew somehow god had accepted me, I was going up in a birdcage
rounded oval with a flat bottom, but I felt warmness cotton like softness
beneath the back of my body and I also felt my body lifting and lifting in such
a smooth fast very fast way, then I open my eyes, from my dreams to realize I'm
in heaven. I was way up in the sky and looking down and I seen two people
walking side by side holding hands walking up to some stairs that led to three
big tan doors but I kept looking upwards and saw a beautiful kingdom with a
really neat looking hexagon shape building in the center of the kingdom over
looking thee glass like structures that were reflecting bright light and I look
up straight ahead of me and seen the most beautiful giant light with a pillars
on each side of God but as soon as I seen the light-God. Boom I was back
in my body.
99.
Constance G Experience
12/15/08
I had just dozed off
(so it seemed) when all at once I was in this "black void" that had "circles"
around it like a trachea, or like the exterior of an earthworm looks. There was
a hollow sound like wind and I saw a light way ahead of me. I didn't feel
scared, just "What???" When I looked at the light it seemed to "recognize" me
as I recognized it...I knew what was happening (as I've been interested in this
subject for YEARS but never thought I'd have such an experience.) When I
acknowledged the light it was as though I became sucked toward it. It wasn't
just light. It was EVERYTHING. It was a feeling...JOY. I felt JOY in the most
enormous sense of the word that can be described. I was bathed in this light
and felt as though I was turned wrong side out before it and it was the most
BEAUTIFUL feeling I can possibly possibly describe. I thought "am I dead?" but I
didn't care. Then it was as though the light cleared and I saw a "world" through
a sort of opening like a cave exit/entrance. 98.
Max W Experience
12/15/08 Immediately
I realized I was in the presence of God - my Creator. I use the word he for my
emotional appreciation and ease of communication but that was never stated or
even implied by this Supreme creator spiritual being to me. Rather he was Light,
Love and Spirit with all capital letters for the uniqueness and lack of any
better words to describe him. I sensed his wholeness, completeness, he was one
as opposed to my being of parts ie spirit, mind and body. He did not think or
decide I will love someone he is LOVE, endless love - his endlessness startled
me and when he drew me closer into him and my spirit briefly seemed to touch him
I became afraid - not of anything at all that he did or felt towards me for I
only saw and felt this beings wonderful love but for some reason when I touched
and realized his endlessness next to my finiteness I was briefly afraid - I was
so different than him. He knew that and moved on to answer my prayer and show me
what he wanted me to know. 97.
Amanda Experience
12/14/08
Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio.
Afterwards, a day was spend preparing for the funeral and associated
activities. On Monday we went to the burial. I was standing by the body the
whole time, including during the night. I didn't want to leave my son alone. I
asked my loved ones to leave me alone with him for a few hours before they took
him away. This time, while standing in front of my son, I asked God to
resurrect him, that he do something because his death was caused by confusion,
a mistake, and that he be returned to me. I asked him with great faith and I
knew that God could resurrect him. He only needed me to ask. So, during my
prayer, there appeared on my right in the form of a triangle, thousands and
thousands of lights moving down from heaven. The first of these lights was my
son. God had heard my prayer! He hadn't resurrected him physically, but in
spirit. 96.
Carry G Experience
12/1/08
Immediately, a strong but gentle voice spoke to me from the light, a voice heard
not with my ears but with my mind. The being of light said, "Carry, I love you
exactly the way you are." The funny thing was that when I heard that voice I
recognize it. Somehow, I 'knew' this being. He was like the best friend I
always wanted and wished for but did not know it. But, upon hearing his voice,
I knew him immediately. When the being of light first said this, I felt like
the most loved human being of all time, the most favorite of all human beings in
the universe, past, present or future, yet at the same time I knew this being
loved everyone equally and just as infinitely as I felt right then. The being
delighted in me and was completely focused on me. I was the center of its
attention yet somehow I knew everyone was at the 'center' of its attention.
When the being said those words to me I knew it saw me as I was, faults and all,
not just at that moment, but for all the moments of my life. I felt no shame, no
judgment; in fact, it was so liberating to be known so perfectly, to be so
wonderfully accepted, yet at the same time, not judged or condemned in the
slightest way. 95.
Kim L Experience
10/4/08
From Canada
Try
to understand I found myself on a hill and I still do not know how I got there
to this day or even why. It was full of life-size statues of the walk of Christ
this is not the strange part, since I've since learned they really do exist. I
am not a religious person but not person nor is there any background in my
family. I looked at these statues I was really tired and emotional at the time
and I had not slept in awhile but I cried and cried when I seen what they had
done to this man...then I was in or was it around, or was it around me this is
the weird does! Know it part, it was dark or really just the absence of light
but there was presence and more than one and what peace wow real peace like I
never felt and Love that I cannot put into words they just could never capture
the truth. We all talked but not with words or hearing with our ears.
94.
Alisa L Experience 9/27/08
I
UNDERSTOOD that night what unconditional love meant and was indescribably
overcome with emotion as I FELT for the 1st time the very "realness" and wonder
of God presence right there with me at that moment and his amazing love for ALL
people as individuals. The God of wrath disappeared forever and was replaced
with a God of constant love and gentleness. I realized ALL people had value,
even (and especially) that little boy who shared my sonĆs hospital room. It was
absolutely the most life-changing realization I have ever had. My personal
relationship with God started that night as I sat there with tears streaming
down my face. I was no longer afraid of death in any way. I knew it would be
more wonderful than anything I could imagine. Life finally had a purpose for me:
to reach out and share my personal knowledge of God with others. 93.
Terrance
B Experience 9/1/08
From Australia
Like any other night I went to bed and fell
into a deep sleep, this sleep wasn’t like any other I have ever experienced. I
had a falling dream however I fell into a large room with marble Column yellow
and orange with blue grain running through it, standing next to them were human
figures that was wearing off white robes and at the end of this room was a man
sitting at a large marble table that had carvings around the edges, this man had
white hair with a golden tinge, he has ice blue eyes and his skin was of a pink
and blue translucent delicate texture. As I stood in front of this man he asked
me, "What have you done with your life?" I didn’t reply to his question.
He asked me a second time, "What have you done with your life?" Still I said
nothing. Then he said, "I’ll show you." He raised his hand
then all of a sudden my whole life passed before my eyes as if I was looking at
myself from a second floor apartment down on to the car park below, from this
prospective I saw my whole life in an instant . Again this man asked, "What have
you done with your life?" Still I didn’t answer him. Then he said, "Now
what do you think of death?" 91.
Rick N Experience 6/22/08
Then
just as quickly as we were walking by the lake we were lying in a field of tall
grass. I noticed this time however that I was lying by his right side but at
the same time I was hovering above watching this. I could see that it was me
and that I looked to be about five years old. Jesus had his right leg crossed
over his left with his knees pulled up. I was beside him the same way. He had a
straw in his mouth and would take it out to talk to me. I could see his lips
moving and my little head was nodding up and down as I was taking in what he was
saying. He was so calm and peaceful acting. Again it was telepathic and to this
day cannot tell you in audible words what he said. He was speaking to my soul
and to my heart. 90.
Dan M Experience 4/27/08
I felt an
emptiness that I had never felt before, my old life was gone and the last thing
I wanted to do was start a new one. Through my tears I looked up and yelled out
""God help me"". It was a plea and a demand at the same time, and before I could
close my mouth on the last syllable, it felt like my consciousness was seized.
My vision was drawn down to a single point of white light which immediately
exploded up around me in a violet color that seemed to have texture. Then I was
aware of being on a cloud while retaining all my minds faculties, but I knew I
was no longer present with my physical body. The first thing I saw was the
figure of who I can only describe as being Jesus, sitting across from me looking
into my eyes. He wore a white robe and had white hair and beard along with a
radiant smile. I immediately knew that every bit of my life was known and
accepted as being good and right. Several moments in my life flashed through my
consciousness that let me know that I was known by a power that I had not
previously been conscious of, and in that there was the feeling of unconditional
love. 89.
Cornelia D Experience 1/2/08
From Germany, Original in German, Translated to English by Amy.
It was a dream. I entered the Church I normally attend, was led to my usual seat. The Mass began in its normal fashion, but all of a sudden -- I saw on
the Altar -- there stood Jesus shining brightly with outstretched arms. I was in shock! I and everybody else started screaming. We all jumped up!
But in this state of shock or terror a great feeling of love took complete
hold of my heart and wouldn't let go. As if in a dream I knelt down. "Don't
be afraid, I am with you," came the message. I was no longer afraid. Love
held me and filled my being. I looked towards the front of the church one
more time, and He was gone.
Around me was chaos, everybody was running out of the church.
88.
Jean C Experience 12/31/07
From Brazil, Original in Portuguese, Translated to English by Rio.
I was walking along, and just as I was about
to cross a street with lots of traffic thinking about the love of God, when I
was completely enveloped by an extremely brilliant light and felt overtaken by
an infinite, complete love. I don't know how but I crossed the street without
any notion of having crossed it. I have never felt like a normal being since
that time. I developed paranormal gifts and I feel like I am always living in
two different worlds at the same time. 87.
Bernadette C Experience 12/16/07
Then, something
happened and it seemed like we were surrounded by a cocoon of a curtain of
pouring rain, and everything outside was lit up with a sparkly silver-lavender
light and alive and more vivid. But inside, it was just me and Holly and nothing
else mattered, or was even there at all. I was in some other reality where time
stood still. I felt very content and at peace with everything. And bliss, I
could not have been happier than I was in that moment! I had a sense that all
things were perfect as they were and we were part of something larger and
everything had its purpose and was important. I also felt loved and protected by
something unseen, I think it was God. Most of all, I felt a feeling of pure love
and trust radiating from and toward Holly. 86.
Nate Y Experience 11/28/07 I
remember that I didn’t feel any fear, but was trying to soak up and understand
what was happening. Suddenly a very white beam of light came down from the
ceiling and landed on my chest. The robed figures suddenly had looks of terror
in their faces and they disappeared. I looked up to see where the beam of
light was coming from and that is when I saw Jesus floating above my bedroom
closet. I remember that I could still see things dimly around my room through
my peripheral vision (study desk, windows, dresser, etc), but there above my
closet was Jesus. 85.
Emma L Experience 10/23/07 Translated
from Spanish into English by Eva.
When I left the operating
theatre, with the drainage tubes [still in], and in much pain, I lost all notion
of time and space. I was lying down and all of a sudden I saw myself engulfed
in a brilliant light and a sort of very soft and faint breeze passed over my
chest. I wanted to move my body but I couldn't. I wanted to turn around and
see in another direction, and again I couldn't. At that moment I felt fear but
soon a voice told me that I shouldn't be concerned; that everything would be all
right. I wanted to turn to see this being and only was able to catch a glimpse
of a white tunic from the chest [area] to the floor. I also saw his enormous
hands, so soft, that caressed my chest and spoke the words that everything would actually
be all right. I don't know how much time passed I only know that I started to
feel a peace and tranquility that I had never before felt. Up to now, they've
done studies and everything comes out fine. I think it was the Master, Jesus,
who came to me and placed himself at my right hand to bring me the health and
peace that I needed at that moment. 84.
Perry S Experience 10/6/07
So our Father
gave me a wonderful gift, he took me home, I remember following a very bright
light. Came to a school or some teaching going on. I was in spirit form, but
young and innocent child like), we were leaning forward listening to what looked
like Jesus reading out of a book. It was so awesome, (you got me crying) I
remember Jesus looking up at me and he closed his book and I started to leave. I
was leaving, I had no hands or fingers to grab on to, I wanted to stay
soooooooooo bad. But then Gods Holy Spirit filled me and instantly I felt
secure, loved beyond want we feel here. I was safe. He Loves Us So much. Can't
express to you the Joy, Love, Happiness, Peace, I could go on, but it wouldn't
be enough....Awesome. 83.
Rhonda Experience 5/27/07
So we sat there on the rocks and
closed our eyes for a couple of seconds. I said a few words silently, probably
something profound like “Dear Lord: Please help the dog. Amen.” When we
opened our eyes, that Chihuahua was just floating, skimming, across the top of
the rushing water. I’ve always said she looked like there was a hand under her. Sally and I were overwhelmed, to
say the least. We made our way through the woods and started walking back down
the dirt road, just raving about how wonderful God was and how we couldn’t
believe what we had just seen. We were quite the spectacle, if anyone had been
around to see us: all scraped up, babbling excitedly, our bathing suits still
untied and hanging down around our waists. Sally’s pet name for me and some
of her other friends was “Kiddy.” At one point during this conversation on the
dirt road, she turned to me and said, “Kiddy, what can we ever do to thank him?”
I opened my mouth to respond, but
I will never know what I was going to say. Right then a deep male voice boomed
from the sky, saying “Praise God.” 82.
Lidia
Experience. 4/11/07 From
Spain, Original in Spanish, translated to English by Carol
I
forgot my name, my beloved and fellow beings and all I was in the reality. The
only thing that I was thinking and transmitting was the phrase: “it is just that
I have to go back”, but I did not know where neither why. The presence that was
with me was not any death being that I could recognize, but her company was so
pleasant. The only thing that I was telling her was: “It is just that I have to
go back.” I remember that I was communicating through my thoughts and that I
knew that all the presences that were in that place think and feel. All of us
were vibrating in the same intensity. All was perfect. I felt the essence of
love. My soul was in peace. I felt like never before. Because I did not stop
repeating the same words, the presence that was with me told me “you will have
to talk about that with Him.” Suddenly, He appeared in front of me. This
presence had Biblical image. Mature man, long gray hair, with beard and a white
tunic. His presence transmitted me something marvelous even more that the other
presences of that place that I described you. Mentally I told Him “It is just
that I have to go back” and He turned His hands to himself like if He was
reading the story of my life and He told me: “It is just that you have to go
back, the doors are open for you.” 81.
Moriah
Experience. 3/11/07
The next thing that I
remember is waking up and finding myself on my knees and my head is facing down.
I wonder to myself. Where am I? I’m not in my bed. As I tried to recognize my
whereabouts, my head lifted up to see an oaken, wooden door that projects a
presence of authority and respect. As I examine the door, trying to make sense
of where I am, I notice there are no knobs. It had two doors that push open.
When my head is facing straight forward, I am now instantly standing but I don’t
remember using my legs to stand up. I look through the right-hand door with a
window opening one foot high by two feet wide, although the window had no glass.
As I look through the window, a torrential flow of excitement, joy and love
bursts through me as I behold Our Father! I know instantly who He is! As my
enthusiasm escalates, the doors, nearly six inches in thickness, invite me
inward. 80.
Kelly D
Experience. 2/25/07
The angel figure was in the corner of the room every night
for about a week. Then one night, when I closed my eyes, I sensed the angel
figure was real close to me, so I opened my eyes and it was hovering right about
me (about 12 inches from my body). I was petrified! I tried to wake my husband
up but he wouldn't budge. Then I hear a voice that told me sternly to pray. In
my head I told the voice that I did not know how to pray. The voice repeated
that I needed to pray. I then cried out to God in my head and asked for his
help. Then this other voice started praying. It was the most beautiful prayer
I had ever heard. I cannot remember any of the words of the prayer, but I could
feel in my soul that the prayer was awesome. It made me cry. After whatever it
was that prayed for me was finished, I felt my soul being sucked out of my body
backwards. It sucked me backwards down the hallway and out of the house and I
was elevated in mid air in front of my kid's basketball hoop. Then I saw this
beautiful iridescent cloud come up, and when it did, my yard lit up from the
brightness of the cloud. The color of the grass was beautiful (the colors are
beyond words; I cannot describe the beauty). 
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Other Spiritually
Transformative Events(STE), Prayer
Death-Bed Visions, Other
Spiritually Transformative Events
STE
dream with remarkable detail shared about an exceptional experience.
Nearly killed by criminals, then life-changing OBE. Remarkable spiritual
transformation.
Remarkable STE encountering deceased relatives and her own child who died of
SIDS at four months old.
Exceptional STE dream which was very NDE-like. Remarkable spiritual wisdom.
STE
with NDE-like content.
Remarkable spiritual experience shortly after diagnosis with cancer.
STE while in the Peace Corps in Thailand.
Probable fear-death experience and STE during life-threatening risk of drowning.
Life-threatening event at age 10 leading to great spiritual growth.
Contributor is studying to be an ordained minister.
STE
dreams from doctor. Remarkable spiritual experiences well worth reading.
Remarkable spiritual experience in the presence of a 3 meter (9 foot) snake.
SOBE which is profoundly transcendent.
STE
dream and premonition dream.
STE
at age 15.
Power of
prayer.
Remarkable experience that defies description, but we’ll call it an STE.
STE
while sick. Involves apparent healing and insights.
STE
following diagnosis of non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
Profound STE.
Remarkable STE while grieving her mother’s death.
Muslim
STE where she met Mohammad.
STE
at time of personal crisis. From Belgium- shared in English.
151. Alena
Z Experience
4/19/11
Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon A.
One night while I was asleep my grandfather came to see me. Seeing him made me
very emotional, I wept with joy to know that he was not dead, and just kept
repeating: You're here, you're alive! and he replied to me: Yes, I'm
alive. And he made me understand that he knew what was happening to me, he
knew about all my fears and anxieties. He told me he had come come because he
wanted to teach me something. I was scared and curious at the same time, but he
calmed me, perceiving my fears. Will I be able to return here? He said:
Yes, I will bring you back. He took me by the hand and I went with him.
We went through a kind of tunnel, with a radiant white light at the end of it,
but which did not hurt the eyes though it was really bright. It seemed like a
sky, or a space, but it was wonderful. My entire being was filled with a very
great joy, a peace and a love which were unconditional, a compression of all
things, and many emotions, it is difficult to express this with human words.
There were people there, all of them smiling at me, it seemed they were busy
with something, but at the same time they radiated much love and welcome. Their
faces seemed familiar but I did not remember where I had seen them before. There
was a man with a white tunic who also smiled at me and radiated great love, at
the time I thought it was Jesus. I knew this was my true home and I felt at home
there.
STE
Dream
STE.
Contributor is a pastor, and this experience turned him away from resigning as a
pastor.
STE
while driving. At end of experience she was able to avoid a crash. She was
atheist before the experience, but not currently.
STE
dream with NDE-like features.
STE
dream.
Euphoric and spiritual awareness around time of life-threatening event.
Remarkable SOBEs (one witnessed by several people) and an STE from an attorney.
STE and prophetic dream with remarkable validation after the experience, and
remarkable encounter with evil entity.
STE.
Remarkable STE by a Catholic priest with a doctorate level degree. Experience
happened at age 16.
Brief experiences with profound insights.
STE
vision with awareness she should write a book.
Dream as young
child of seeing himself as an adult dying in a car accident.
Perception changed.
STEs through prayer.
Remarkable shared
experience with important lessons on love. She was in the OBE state and he
called his a dream.
STE, Premonition, and possible ADC.
An
amazing STE while driving. Not to be encouraged!
STE
that turned her life around.
Dream
that changed to a NDE-like experience.
Many experiences and philosophy.
A
couple of STEs.
STE
following workshop/retreat.
STE
that is very NDE-like.
STE
associated with LSD trip that was very life-changing.
STE
where he was one with the light.
Very NDE-Like and
spiritually transformative.
Several prophetic dreams, an STE, an OBE.
Extremely loving, transcendent experience!
122.
Cathy
Experience 2/26/10
From Canada
I then noticed that
around me were these cloud like forms all over the gazebo.
most
had white crosses above them. I then heard a voice beside me explaining that
the cloud like forms were the people that had been a part of my life. People
that I was close to such as family and friends, and people that I had passed in
the streets. every person I ever saw or interacted with were represented to me
there. I could sense my family around me. I began thinking of the people that I
love and was close to. the voice said that the people farthest away were people
I was yet to meet. that If I choose to stay I would be a influence on their
lives too. I asked if I was in heaven he said that I was not but it was very
close by. He said that I could decide to go on to heaven or to go back to my
life. He said that there were many more people for me to meet and to help if I
should go back to "my life"
STE
at time of depression.
STE
at time of depression.
STE
at age 16.
STE
at age 11.
STE
dream.
117.
Mary P
Experience 2/25/10
There were three ancient men dressed in robes surrounding me. I knew them to be
sages or spirit guides. They were of three different heights. They were
teaching me by imparting knowledge directly to my brain in a telepathic way. I
felt that they were teaching me everything all at once. When I would later
reenter my body I would have no clear recollection of what they had taught me
but I was aware that this knowledge would always be a part of me and that I
would be called to use this at various times in my life. When I asked these
beings who they were, they replied "Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding" …I view
this as an extraordinary learning experience that has changed me and allowed me
to grow as a person. I now know that all of the events that have happened, even
the loss of my child, have occurred to allow the next things to unfold in my
life as they are meant to. I have learned to trust in my instincts and
intuition and to walk by faith and not by sight.
STE
at time son was fighting a fatal disease: brain cancer.
STE
with deep inner connection.
Prayer/meditation experience.
STE
involving vision of hellish chasm and a fight not to enter it.
STE
with life-changing encounter with deceased friend.
STE
when she got caught in an undertow while being baptized in the Jordan River.
Several STEs
stemming from a near-drowning experience.
NDE-like STE brought about by grief from the death of beloved kittens and
reading NDEs on the internet.
Remarkable STE at age 17 during meditation.
STE from a meeting with Jesus.
STEs over a period of time.
STE where he saw
33 previous lives.
STE
from Singapore. He was an atheist at the time.
Detailed STE over a one week period.
Experience following prayer.
STE after jaw got broken.
Undergoing five day EEG study for seizures. Two probable spiritual dreams. No
seizures during these spiritual experiences.
Remarkably transcendent spiritual experience.
The power of prayer to help empower the deceased to
go to the light.
Remarkably transcendent prayer experience with many similarities to NDE. This
experience led him to become a Catholic priest.
STE
with substantial life change at age 12.
Multiple remarkable and life-changing experiences.
Although a short experience, it really
gets you thinking!
92.
David M Experience 8/17/08
From England
At
length I awoke the next morning, an entirely transformed person. Before, I was
the shiest of all people, and suddenly I was now both outward going and also
inward looking; before, I was afraid even of the dark, and of many things; yet
suddenly, I was unafraid of all things; before, I was extremely unhappy, and now
suddenly I had come into a happiness that never leaves, not even for a moment.
In retrospect, what had seemed to be three extraordinarily terrible and
malignant forces within my room, seem now to have been the dark shadows of my
self caused by the all-compelling and ineffable brilliance of the encounter.
This awakening took place on 1.9.1991.
STE
with profound changes in his life.
STE
at time of severe sleep deprivation.
Remarkable STE. Very life-changing.
Spiritual dream with life
changing consequences.
Wonderful spiritually transformative
event!
STE with dog during thunderstorm.
Spiritually transformative dream at age 14.
In English and Spanish.
Awesome
Experience!
Spiritually
transformative dream with NDE-like imagery.
78. Lorraine R Experience. 2/3/07 As we studied, someone brought a pile of even more beautiful books and offered them to us. I said " we have more than enough, why not give them to someone who needs them more than we do. As I said this I was sent soaring high up above the earth, looking down it was dark but I could see the lights of cities. I was shown and told that each of us is bound to the others. I was told that it is like a thread that weaves and binds and goes through each of us. This makes us all the same. The thread that binds us together is LOVE. As I was told this my whole body was suffused with the most amazing feeling of love that I have never yet experienced on earth and I understood totally that we are all one . It was totally overwhelming. I said to the being or teacher or God, " Why don't people understand that we are all the same, all colors and races and religions, if only people understood this there would be no more wars or hatred or greed or selfishness. There would be peace on Earth. Then I heard a voice. It just said one word, it was a male voice. He said;' Exactly' then it was as if thousands of voices joined in and echoed Exactly.
77.
Kimberly G
Experience. 2/3/07
…all of a
sudden my whole room filled with this red-rose colored light and at the same
time this overwhelming feeling of love poured into me, into my brain, and my
I.Q. went through the ceiling--------words are hard to explain, I started seeing
people I had known that had passed away. I could see my Grandfather as a infant
in the womb and at the same time I could see him as a old man. Everything was
together as one, God was the center of it all , all this love. So many things
were told to me things I could not understand or hold. I feel like the main
message they told me was I was loved and this is what it felt like and not to
ever be scared of death, for this is where I would go. I did not want it to end…
Remarkable experience, and quite transformative.
76.
Sue V's
Experience. 1/4/07
I was aware of
all things from the smallest organism to the biggest happenings of outer space.
I had a "knowing" of everything and anything. Above my head and to my right a
bright light (not blinding but brighter than any light I have known) flowed
quickly towards and over me engulfing me and all the other souls in the universe
and down on earth (which I was fully aware of entirely). Simultaneously, the
light was also this complete LOVE. It was a type of love that cannot be
described as it is not like anything I have ever known. The love came with the
light. It was received and given at the same time. It spread from what I
instantly knew was God to encompass everything in the universe and beyond. The
love was like bliss and so complete that there was no room for anything else.
(No room for evil).
Remarkable OBE while driving. Very transcendent and life-changing.
75.
Saul P's
Experience. 6/3/06
I found myself in a dark tunnel at the end of
which I saw a small, powerful light. I walked slowly but confidently toward it
which grew as I got closer. At the end of my journey, the tunnel and darkness
gave way to a complete, ineffable light where there was a resplendent city
without shadows. Three days after this nighttime dream, at 10 a.m. while I
was at work, I felt an enormous luminous force ascend from my body to my head
which changed my way of seeing the world from being normally gray to illuminated
as if everything has its own internal light.
STE via a Kundalini Experience.
74.
Lynn R's
Experience. 5/27/06 As
my mind meandered amongst the forest of my thoughts, I was unprepared for what
waiting there for me. Without warning, my brain seemed to have a mind of its
own. The tree beyond the window reached out to me and embraced me in its
reality. I had the overwhelming and unquestioning feeling that the tree and I
were inseparably and totally one. I had often felt a kinship with trees. These
majestic silence creatures continually give and ask little in return. Yet, the
experience I was immersed in, like a bottomless pool, was far deeper. In a way
I could not account for, I became the tree, and the tree, in turn, became me.
An essence within the tree was also within me. Through this fundamental nature
we shared our connectedness. Joy and love surged through me and filled my
awareness. I experienced a connectedness to all of life.
Several
remarkable spiritually transformative events including a concept of
interconnectedness of all.
73.
Amal's Experience
5/20/06
From Jerusalem
She had a frightening out of body experience that shifted her spiritual
awareness.
72.
Nicolla's Experience
3/26/06
I remember
looking at her and it was like time stood still. I remember thinking "my
perspective is that I am over here looking at her. The trees are on my right
and I see a slide and a girl". I realized that her perspective was different.
To her, the world at that moment consisted of seeing me on a towel with the
trees on (her) left since we were facing opposite directions. I realized there
was no such thing as true perspective. To everyone else the world is different.
To us the world "consisted" of a backyard and pool although even between the two
of us, our reality or perspective was different as noted above -- because each
of us was looking at something differently. But to others I realized that at
that very moment the world "consisted" of a different reality -- I realized some
people were in war, starving, sleeping, whatever... all looking at different
things and experiencing a different reality.
Sudden
spiritual insight spontaneously at age 9.
71.
Leo T's Experience
3/11/06
I was now
instantly in what appeared to be the Himalayas all covered in snow and only
mountains in all directions. I was then at the top in a niche where there was a
man sitting with legs crossed, he was bald, had a wrap that went around from
across one arm down to his waist. He never said a word, no words were necessary.
I new I was to ask him a question. I asked " What is the meaning of life." I was
at that moment lifted as if floating, I was turned around and I then occupied
his body-space. At that moment i saw the universe, billions of galaxies, all
circling like snowflakes, in a dancing mass. It was alive, spinning,
mixing...billions of years passing in only a blink. I saw, knew understood
everything. There was nothing of this magnitude to compare, i laughed. It just
was. I just knew.
Remarkably profound and transcendent meditation experience.
70.
Arturo's Experience 3/4/06
From Chile, Original in Spanish
translated to English by Rio. I
finally decided to forget my past and recreate my life, especially for love of
my children. On making this decision I experienced it as a gift, as joy.
Afterwards, I had the sensation of beginning a journey, entering through a door
or tunnel that was hidden behind some bushes. After that, I relived some
experiences with my wife or flirted with women when I was young where I
understood and completely felt everything that was happening psychologically
inside the other person (deep inside where it would seem not even she realized
the profound, positive, loving, and beneficial purpose that each experience
between two people has). This happened in such a way that any feelings of guilt
or worry about these people where completely healed and taken away (in a very
similar way as when the knots and muscular tensions were taken away when I began
the experience).
69.
Laine S's Experience
2/19/06
I opened my eyes to see a person
sitting across from me. He smiled when I saw him and I asked who he was. He
said he was my future\higher (Same thought) self. Needless to say I was rather
shocked. We discussed many things. He pointed out to me events in my life that
led up to experiences that I had were not accidents and that there are no
accidents or coincident. He showed me several examples and showed me that
circumstances were created for me that dissolved after I no longer needed them.
It was eye-opening to have somebody walk me through my life and point out things
I missed. I asked questions and he provided me with answers that I had been
searching for all my life. He was very wise and understanding. I can't
remember everything we discussed anymore but it gave me a new perspective on
what I am and how my life had been set up.
Remarkable STE. Cautionary
note: I think this experience happened in spite of the associated LSD, and not
because of the LSD. LSD usage is generally dangerous and can be devastating, as
we have heard from many others whose accounts we have not published.
68.
Bob G's Experience
2/14/06
The voice said
"there is a GOD" everything will be all right. the words were followed by the
absolute certain knowledge that what the words said were true. ? and I mean
ABSOLUTE CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE. Never on earth can we know anything like i
understood the meaning of those words at that moment. Then without words more
like a thought but not i was somehow given to know that God loved ME
unconditionally followed immediately by a joy or rapture that was unlike
anything i had or have know the rest of my life. The entire preceding episode
is as clear to me today as it was when it happened. i have related this
experience to others ever since that day.
STE
during ride in car that happened 52 years ago.
67.
Tracy B's Experience
2/05/06
During what is called the offertory of the Mass, I was looking down at my
hands. I thought to myself, with mild disgust, "my hands look old, like my
mother's". Just then as I looked up toward the altar and the priest, everything
was bathed in a very bright light. I could still see the doings on the altar as
I heard a male voice speak to me. The voice said these words: "It is not what
your hands look like that's important, it's the work they do that's beautiful,
and the work of the hands of everyone here." Upon the hearing of the the word
beautiful, it was as if I was looking down into a deep well, I could see written
words coming out of this well, words which I understood to define beautiful.
Spiritually Transformative
Experience (STE) at Mass.
66.
Brad K's Experience
2/05/06 Walking
the woods, suddenly finding myself observing myself from above & behind, again
timelessness, then "back". Moments later a different ethnic group of unknowns
appeared, blocking my path, cursing & threatening. Normal reaction: anger, fear,
possibly fatal given the circumstances, yet my "being" knew only compassion &
tranquility ... somehow seeing deeply & beyond. A presence ... a voice that
wasn't, conveyed "all rightness", protection ... the shouting grew silent, then
stares .. In times of weariness & discouragement, I've tried to discount such
experiences & others for the small comfort of giving up, honestly I can't. I'd
always wondered what was meant by "Heaven's at hand & within" ... no longer.
OBE with a great deal of
spiritual wisdom.
65. Shirley
W's Experience 1/1/06
It begins then as
the acts of kindness and love of every moment, of every being everywhere, as
they are gently gathered up and brought into the circle of my arms and
circulated throughout the vessel that I AM in waves of overwhelming love. Small,
tender, untold acts of child to elder, elder to child, stranger to stranger,
family to family, friend to friend, and friend to foe. So many unknown actions
except to the few, acts that have made all the difference in another's life,
that have lifted the burdens for a brief moment, that have turned whole lives
around, that have made one very small ripple in a life troubled by a multitude
of pains. No earthly vessel can hold this love, this magnitude of amazing love,
from each human on this planet. It circles through my arms and clear through me
and back out into the ethers clearing and marking a path to the stars.
Remarkable spiritual
experience.
64. Lu's Experience
12/4/05
i was pretty
sure that i was dying [IV methamphetamine overdose], but i felt so calm. i was
in my bedroom. there was no-one with me, but suddenly someone [not visible] came
& silently guided me through what i should do to increase my chances of living
through it. it was the most calming voice... no sound, at all. out of nowhere, i
knew things that i had never known before, so i calmly did these things right
away.
Experience associated with IV methamphetamine overdose. No clear separation of
consciousness, but remarkable encounter with loving presence.
63. Pamela
B's Experience 10/8/05
As soon as my soul came out and I
started going up the tunnel, there was a small circle of white light. It was
sort of a dim circle at the time. Then the light got closer and closer, while I
felt this circle above me and the tunnel. The circle was expanding in the
black. The circle got bigger and bigger, or I got closer to the light. I felt
much emotion at this time--bewilderment, fear, but also love at the same time.
Even though I now felt for sure that I was dying, I was amazed and curious and
scared all at the same time. I felt an intense sense of peace, love and
freedom. Fear and joy all at once. Then I sensed if I let this continue, and
the circle of light gets big enough to erase all the darkness, and I enter it,
that I would die and never return to my body.
Experience at age 14.
62. Georgia
S's Experience
9/17/05
I found myself
in my little car in a forest glade. When I looked around me, I saw a path
through this forest that wound upward and that at the end of the path was an
opening. And it opened into a really bright white light. I started driving up
the path. I was absolutely determined to get there. It was slow going and then
it got slower because the path became muddy. Finally, my car got stuck in the
mud and I couldn't go any further. Still, I decided to walk the rest of the
way. I was going to get into that light no matter what it took. I got all the
way to the top when the voice of my oldest daughter distracted me. She was
standing at the end of the path and she looked at me and said, "Not yet, Mom."
Attempted to enter the light in vision, was not allowed to do so.
61. Aussie's Experience
9/3/05
This experience is very difficult
to put into words. It was like I was connected to all of creation, I could see
or feel the connections. Time became slower like syrup. The experience involved
some type of direct knowing as opposed to words in my mind. I became aware of
all of creation being like a huge wheel. The experience "told" me that
everything, every speck of dust was so important to the whole. The focus then
shifted to me, I was "told" that I was also just as important to this
completeness as every other thing in this vast wheel. If I was not there there
would be a piece missing. I was also told that every event in life has a
purpose, even people starving had a purpose and that life and creation was
perfect just as it was.
Experience fully awake in
room at place of employment.
60. Melanie M's Experience 4/30/05 This is what he said to me: "You asked me what I do with people's burdens. Well, it's simple: I hang onto them until you learn the lessons from them, then I give the burden back to you as jewels. The jewels are the lessons you learn. Some lessons are more important than others, hence some jewels are more precious than others, but all equally important." I was astounded! I felt very honored to be talking with Him.
Dream OBE with a remarkable encounter with another being. Very
important life lesson taught.
59. Rozee C's Experience 4/30/05 … the most beautiful sight i have ever seen. a perfect being about 7 feet tall, white hair to the shoulders, golden brown skin, huge eyes with fully dilated pupils pouring love into me, smiling radiantly at me as if i also was the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. behind him the horizon stretched endlessly. mountains, the ocean, the clear blue sky.
Two visions described.
58. Terry S's Experience 4/30/05 I would always go first and turn on the light, then he would descend on his tummy. Just after I flipped the light switch I heard him cry out and saw him tumbling head first down the stairs. I cried out "Dear God help me!" and witnessed my son suspended in mid-air by one leg, the rest of his body dangling. He arched his back to look up at who had hold of him. I was there with my arms out to catch him, but a few more seconds passed before he was gently placed in my arms. I was totally awake at this time. Months later, while asleep, I watched myself personally handing my
child to Jesus and felt the love and peace as I did so.
Encounter with Jesus.
57. Eva L's Experience
3/13/05
Best part: the funny discovery that all this worrying about the past and the future is just a joke, that what our thoughts have nothing to do with our timeless essence, and the feeling of expanding, of spaciousness. Worst: not really a worst part, except perhaps a bit of remorse of not letting my laughter out, and not knowing how to stay in this experience.
Guided meditation in a Buddhist setting led to a different type of perception regarding past, present, and future.
56. Amy's Experience
2/18/05 then all of a sudden I felt like i was being lifted into the air i didn't feel like i was my whole self, I felt like it was just my soul. I felt like i was floating about 3 inches from my body, it felt like i was on top of myself. I felt extreme weightlessness, like i weighed nothing. I felt I had an adrenalin rush like i was free falling, like i was on a roller coaster. I felt like i couldn't move or breathe, but i didn't need to breathe. I floating there between 6-7 seconds. I was really really scared. Then i was gently put back down into my body. I felt like god reached down and lifted my soul out of me, then put it back into me.
An atheist asked God to prove he existed.
55. Michael M's Experience
2/18/05 At that exact moment, I was pushed down a tunnel and was aware of stone walls as I flew through it at lightening speed and before I knew what had happed: found myself in an intense light. I can remember it hurting my eyes but as I adjusted my vision, was aware I was in cloud. Through this cloud below me I saw a green cliff top and sensed I should fly towards it. As I got nearer I could pick out more detail and noticed there was a person standing below me. I was a bit disorientated at this point but as I landed the figure of a man stood before me. I could not see his face.
This was a very transformative event.
54. Jody C's Experience
2/18/05 Before my visitor left me, we appeared back in my attic bedroom. He took both my hands, looked me in the eyes, with a piercing brilliance of pure love and energy, and said, "It's up to you now, Jody. You must keep this family together, Love them, teach them what I tell you, when the time is right." Then he embraced me, and we both wept. Then he released me, and I laid back into my body. I jumped from my bed, and knelt down beside it and cried, "God, why me? Why did this happen to me? Why is this my responsibility?" Then a calming peace came over me, and I felt everything would be all right. But the love and pureness of the light which for a time, I had been in, still overwhelmed me, and I cried myself to
sleep.
Powerful spiritual experience.
53. Patricia S's Experience
12/12/04 First I would feel joy because the lovely scene from nature before me reminded me of "where I came from." (I always assumed this place was Heaven, though I don't remember when I actually used that word, in my head, to identify the place.) But shortly after feeling the joy of being reminded of "where I came from" I would feel rather upset and unhappy because I was not THERE and THERE was soooo much more wonderful than this world! It was as if I was looking at the picture of a loved one and feeling joy at the sight of that face, but knowing that after all the picture was just a two dimensional object not the real, living, wonderful person. This world is like that - in it's most beautiful moments it is no more
than a pale reflection at best compared to the reality of Heaven.
Child STE of pre-existence knowledge.
52. Karla NC's
Experience. 11/21/04
This light was Power, Light, something straight from (I hoped!) God. It was going to hit me right on the crown of my head, and I had enough time to get worried. I could hear it coming, and feel it. It sounded awesome. It struck me, (the way I imagine lightning would feel - HUGE EXPLOSION!!) and as I lost consciousness (during this conscious dream state) I seemed to split in two, like a dried out husk, and my last thought at this stage was "I didn't think this could happen during an astral experience [go unconscious!]"!! My "self" shrunk down to a tiny little light, and seemed to blink out. Next thing; I'm flying across a river, and land on a sea shore. (this portion felt more dream like). I look out to sea
There
is a lot of powerful imagery in this one.
51. Lisa W's
Experience. 10/31/04
i was wide awake and staring at the drapes when i saw a bright light where just seconds before, there were drapes. the light started to take on a form of it's own and within the light stood Jesus Christ. i remember staring into his eyes, i could not look away, i had no thoughts of my own, hypnotized would be more accurate. paralyzed... he spoke my name and when he did, it echoed 2-3 times in my mind, and after that this is exactly what he said.
She was a 15 year old teenager when she had this transcendental experience.
50. Tracy S's
Experience. 10/24/04
& 3/26/05
A short time later the messenger returned and said, "They will see you now." I then followed him through the door and into the garden area. I saw a man in a plain brown robe kneeling in the garden digging it with a trowel. He looked up at me, stood up and brushed the dirt from his knees and walked towards me with His arms open. I knew Him instantly, he was my Father, the Father of my spirit. I ran into His outstretched arms. I felt the greatest most pure love emanating from Him that I have ever felt, and I could feel it healing my spirit. I cried like a child and He comforted me, and soothed me.
An amazing account! An angel led him to the mother/father of his spirit.
49. Kaye J's
Experience. 10/24/04
I turned from the awful spectacle, and in terror ran back on the trestle. I fell between the tracks. I heard a calm voice say distinctly...."You die." "No! No!" I wailed. The voice asked. "What then?" I thought immediately of my friend "God" (who was not a part of traditional teaching) and felt great relief. I sat up and said with perfect confidence "You will have to get me out of here God." Then I watched the black mountain fall. I was lifted about a foot off the ground, and held in a palpable circle of bright light. It was unlike any thing I had ever felt, but at that time, it felt very natural.
Miraculous event as a child where she had divine assistance in
escaping a train.
48. Bryan W's Experience. 10/24/04 Suddenly, a light began entering my dream from above and behind me - at this point my dream was over - and I remember falling to my knee and looking down at a stone ground. As the light increased in my dream, there was this tremendous feeling that increased with it's presence. The light continued to the point that I became engulfed by it. I could no longer see my hands as they were also made of light - basically, everything was white light. One thing I would add, the light didn't hurt my eyes. This feeling started in the middle of my chest and went through my entire body all the way through my toes and fingers, head, etc. The only way I can describe the feeling is to say it felt almost like the same feeling when you have an orgasm - but a millions times stronger. He was angry at God for human suffering - God answered back!
47. Theresa B's
Experience. 10/24/04
I WAS IN THE PRESENCE OF A BALL OF THAT HELD ALL KNOWLEDGE AND WAS MENTALLY ANSWERING ALL MY QUESTIONS. WHEN IT STARTED LEAVING ME I STARTED PHYSICALLY FOLLOWING IT---I DESIRED TO BE PART OF THE LIGHT MORE THAN ANYTHING EVER OR SENSE BUT IT WAS NOT MY TIME, MY PURPOSE WAS NOT DONE. I QUESTIONED ABOUT ALL THE EVIL IN THIS WORLD AND IT ANSWERED IN MY MIND. THE LIGHT WAS LIKE A THE SUN BUT DIMMER.
She was deeply grieving her husband's death and had this experience.
46. Dorie C's
Experience. 10/24/04
I cant remember how much time had passed in this entire event. It may have been anywhere from half an hour to an hour. But suddenly, my body stopped convulsing and the noise was far in the background and the tent felt full of God's presence. I knew he was there and he was communicating with me. I also 'knew' my grandmother was there. she had died about 5 years previously. But I knew she was there and I knew there was more than God's presence in the tent. Encounter with God's presence has helped her change her life.
45.
Tom S's Experience
9/18/04
I opened my eyes and was
just lying there very still, feeling this, wondering what was going on, when I
suddenly felt two hands on my right shoulder push my physical body down harder
into the mattress. This was undeniably my body being pushed down like someone
was leaning straight armed against me and putting his/her weight on me with a
quick motion. Coincident to the touch of those 2 hands a powerful pulse of
of the same energy I had awakened to coursed through me.
Angel encounter
that was life transforming.
44.
Jeff F's Experience
9/18/04
At about eleven at night, I was
compelled to fall on my face alone in the dark to pray on the floor. For
three and one half hours, words rolled out of my mouth about every unkind thing
I had ever done and every sin. I kept nothing secret and opened every
darkest closet. Then for the next three and one half hours, words rolled off of
my tongue about every dark and terrible act being committed among the nations of
the earth. The floor was puddled with my tears.
A bit on the preachy side, but if you
like that kind of thing - you'll enjoy this experience.
43.
Jessica B's Experience
9/12/04
I was truly 'in tune'
with the music and suddenly i felt a beam of light - it felt very bright in the
dark concert hall - it shone down on me and seemed to enter the top of my head.
Information was communicated to me - 'through' the music - that we are light
and love and that love truly conquers all - that all of the 'good' and 'bad'
things that happen on this earth are nothing compared to love. And then i had a
vision of how everything is related and truly 'one'.
Profound and
transformative event.
42. Rebecca
R's Experience
7/27/04 Soon, I was ,I
felt ,in space. There was a blackness at first then suddenly huge clusters of
stars and lights bouncing from all directions. Then all these pieces of light
seemed to create a funnel of brightness that the hands guided me through.
Immediately passing through this I was floating over the ocean right before
complete night comes to the world. I remembered for an instant that I have a
fear of deep waters. It was then that the hands that were holding mine suddenly,
without missing a beat, swooped me up into their arms and held me close. Whoever
this was knew my fear without me saying a word. I felt protected and secure in
these arms.
Amazing discussion
with spirit guides.
41.
Alan Z's Experience
7/27/04 One night I
dreamt I was in a dark, primitive room made of mud walls. Around the perimeter
of the room were shadowy people, including myself. Suddenly, I was in the
center of the room looking back toward where I'd been standing along the wall.
In my place was now a glowing woman in colorful flowing robes. Then, I saw a
bright white light in the shape of a cross shining on floor in front of me from
a skylight above. I looked up into this impossibly bright white light and the
dream cracked open with a highly dramatic surge of power going up my spine.
Suddenly, my vision changed and I saw the face of Jesus and a voice say "I am
Jesus". Then, my face was transposed onto Jesus' face and I saw my own cracking
into pieces. The vision left and I was left weeping in my bed, very frightened
by the power of the experience.
STE and a NDE-Like
experience
40. Anthony
S's Experience
6/13/04 All
of a sudden, I felt so incredibly free! I ‘saw/sensed’ everything around me in
the room and just wanted to get away from it all. So I directed by mere
thought, my consciousness to go ‘up’. I went through the ceiling and could
still see in every direction. I saw the attic as I passed the interior ceiling
and then as I went through the roof I saw everything at once. The sun, the
clouds, the trees, the gravel in the driveway, feathers blowing in the wind
along the ground, the vehicles, the neighbor's house, etc. etc. The feeling of
liberation was so very incredible and intense and I just ‘decided’ to continue
going ‘up’. It was a strange sensation looking back now. Not as though it was
actual motion (though it seemed like it at first), but more like a changing of
perception. It was more like everything else was moving or ‘shifting’ as my
perception changed.
A totally life
changing SOBE.
39. Nicole
F's Experience
6/12/04 First of all, there was an instant shift
inside of me - a higher energy was over me and inside me at the same time. I
felt a tremendous swelling of love within me and it kept growing. The best
analogy I could use is blowing air into a balloon. The balloon expands and
gets larger, the more air you put into it. I felt like I was expanding with
love and joy as this energy (which I identified as my angel) was inducing this
sensation. Love and joy are words that have been used repeatedly when
describing these experiences. As such, it probably sounds trite. But the
sensation I felt far exceeds the human concept of these emotions. The love
and joy kept swelling and I knew I was approaching ecstasy.
Wonderful contact with her guardian
angel through meditation!
38. Ann
C's Experience
5/29/04 The
presence was LAUGHING at me b/c 1)I had forgotten concepts that were so obvious,
and 2)I had been living my life as if my identity as a human was real and fixed,
when in fact it was all just an ILLUSION. Somehow I had forgotten that though
there are intense/sorrowful dramas on this earth, our REAL natures are
completely untouched by the sadness of the world. None of the stuff we believe
to be important is even real! It's as if we're on this earth playing roles,
following scripts -- but in actuality we're OK and not who we think we are. I
"saw" internally a panorama of all the humans on earth, and how we're all caught
up in our dramas, fictions of our own making!
An encounter from
the other side that left her transformed.
40. Pepe
M's Experience
5/22/04
From Spain
I then found myself inside
of this incredible HUGE and VERY, VERY BRILLIANT PURE WHITE LIGHT, although the
center of it seemed to be a little further away in front of me.
Pepe is one of our Spanish translators on
www.nderf.org
His spiritually transformative event has led him on a spiritual quest and he
does a wonderful job spreading the word of love and peace to others!
39. Cousin's Experience
5/22/04
From Spain
Basically, in about a
second (as she says), she had instant access to ALL KNOWLEDGE regarding her own
life questions. She means all the questions she has wondered about all her life,
and she tells me that now she has no doubt whatsoever about anything which is
important to her. She also received a high dose of PURE DIVINE LOVE which was so
wonderful that cannot be described in words. That being so, right after the STE
she started to explain her husband the meaning of EVERYTHING (regarding her life
questions), things that she did not know before, and she kept talking to him
non-stop for a long time (more than an hour I think)… she also told me she would
like to write the whole thing down and tell everybody.
Resultant experience from reading
about the near death experiences on
www.nderf.org
38. Debra
M's Experience
3/22/04
When the
light rested at the foot of the bed directly at my feet it pulsed a light up
over my body engulfing it and penetrating it. The light spoke inside my body,
telepathically I guess. It said ( I am the virgin) be not afraid , the
universe is unfolding as it should. Come i have something to show you. I was
pulled from my body and overcome with a sense of innocence and wide-eyed wonder
and I was filled with a feeling of all-knowingness and love. I felt utterly
comforted and safe with this being and felt shrouded with a divine essence.
This wasn't
just a dream!
37.
Malcolm C's Experience
3/22/04
I woke up from being asleep, felt
that I was not breathing and lay for what seemed a few seconds not able to move
or breath and it was dark and I was laying on my bed. Then I saw a
brilliant
light to the upper left of my vision that seemed distant. It was
incredibly
hot and bright but I could look at it and I felt warm and safe. I remember
feeling very calm and happy and very emotional. I wanted to be in the light and
I felt like what was in the light was reality and the life I have I did not want
to go back to. I felt that everything I ever wanted to know about me was inside
the light and that there were people there.
A transcendent
dream
36.
Keith F's Experience
2/20/04
Then far away I saw a tiny dot of
white light. I stopped rolling and focused on the light. I was glad to not be
alone in this infinite space yet I remained emotionally neutral. The white light
became larger and larger as it got closer until I saw that it was a person. This
person continued to come closer. It was a male spirit being wearing a white robe
looking much like Jesus with his arms outstretched downward at a 45 degree
angle, palms facing outward.
This is the
beginning of a spiritual journey.
35.
Cindy G's Experience
1/26/04
I remember entering a light,
indescribably bright, brilliant. I was part of this light and it was part
of me. The light was made up of souls...like me. We were all
communicating with each other.....they were all in me and I was in all of them.
The communication was too fast for me to discern what was being said but the
feeling that flowed through me from in the light.. was love...more intense than
anything I have ever felt. I was 'home.' I had the feeling of
belonging....of being...that was of indescribable peace.
She prayed to God
for the first time - and what an answer!
34.
Mark C's Experience
12/19/03
I did not want to leave and knew
not even to ask if I could stay because I was to back...I just was so happy to
experience my home again and I just enjoyed the peace, the joy, the love and the
knowledge that flowed through me. Truly, there are no words to explain this. I
then felt presence to the right of me...a communication of pure love. I looked
to right of me and saw two golden transparent globes floating next to me. They
loved me unconditionally and I loved them just as much and in the same way.
They communicated to me that I need to go back now and that I will never be
without them. They were my angels that were to watch over me in my life...and I
will see them again when I return.
News of cancer
diagnosis prompted intense prayer and this experience.
33. Mark B's Experience
011/14/03 I looked around and saw the figure of a man approaching me. I knew right away who it was (Jesus, but being the stubborn person I am, had to ask just to be absolutely sure. I asked Him, "Are you who I think you are?" He said "Yes I am". Not really knowing what to do, I shook His hand and said "Cool!" I then asked, "So, do I get to stay or
what?"
An experience where he encountered Jesus, and it has drastically changed his life.
32. Gloria
J's Experience
09/7/03 The
communication was a telepathic clear voice between the heavenly being & my inner
spirit. Wow! I was and still am totally amazed, that my spirit has its own
voice, it was clear yet not verbal. We were talking but I never opened my mouth.
I want to call this spiritual being an Angel and just like in the Bible in
Isaiah 6: 6 the Angel touched my mouth with what I believe to be a piece of coal
-it actually clicked on my teeth. I was awake during this experience , laying
flat on my bed, on my back, face up yet unable to move anything but my eyes,
kinda frozen in time. I saw only the bottom of his long light grayish robe, with
blue circular stripes around its bottom. I saw feet & sandals just like men wore
in biblical times.
Prayer at a time of crisis
was the precursor to this STE.
31. Cathey
L's Experience
08/10/03 A
shrouded skeleton, much like the pictures we see of the “grim reaper” appeared.
The doctor told me not to be afraid, he was a friend. He then gave me a large
bouquet of pink roses. The shroud picked me up and we began flying back to my
home. While flying I saw the stars and cosmos surrounding us. As we got closer,
I saw the earth, then the city, then the streets of my town. As we flew closer I
saw a cemetery that was close to my home. The thought came into my mind “this
was your old life, it has been buried”. The roses the doctor had given me began
to shrivel and die; the petals began dropping onto the cemetery grounds.
What a remarkable experience
with NDE-like imagery!
30. Christina
C's Experience
06/14/03
Suddenly I was bathed in a bright
white light which came from my right, I felt that the light went on forever and
within it was a presence, (the only way I can describe it), and complete and
pure love. I lost track of time and was aware of my current physical
surroundings but unable to see them as I could only see the light. Within what
must have been a few seconds I felt completely comforted and able to walk under
the bridge as many times as I needed to, I felt I could do anything alone as I
was never really alone. There was no voice, no vision of a being, just the light
and the knowledge that we are loved and never alone. I told no one of this event
until years after.
Spontaneous visit
that helped her to cope with life's difficulties.
28. Ann
J's Experience
05/31/03 The
next coherent slide was an outdoor image, of an immense Buddha carved out of the
side of a mountain. I still remember it very clearly. The exposed stone of the
mountain was a light to medium gray (not red or yellow like sandstone) and the
Buddha was carved in a cross-legged position (that I now know is the Lotus
position, though I didn't know it at the time). He wore robes over one shoulder
but the other shoulder was bare, and the wrinkles of the robe were very finely
carved. The statue was probably about 75 to 100 feet high.
Buddhist flashback occurring in a
Lutheran Church that was a STE that established a firm belief in reincarnation.
27. Robin
D's Experience
05/31/03
Suddenly, the staircase I was
looking at "morphed" as it were, into a shaftway or tunnel, extending upward. I
saw a light blue sky at the end. Then, out of nowhere, appeared a light. It
looked, I thought then, like the sun. But I could look right into it. It shone
very brightly and it rippled or pulsed-that's the best way I can put it. It
remained at the end of this stairway/tunnel extending skyward. I never moved
any nearer to it. It spoke without using words. It communicated a lot about
universal goodness, God, the universe, life in this plane.
Answer to
depressed teenager's pray to God.
26.
Sari T's Experience.
5/12/03 The
prayer was if I should fight to save the marriage or let it go and move on.
Then, I turned off the lights and laid down to fall asleep. I had the first
and only dream I remember of the time for weeks. In this dream, I was above
looking down and watching a scene play out before me. I was in the scene and a
man who I do not know I could not "see" all his features was in the dream. He
reminded me of a boy I dated as a young girl, but it was not him, only
similar. I can't describe the feeling but I "knew" him.
Soulmate lucid
dream precipitated by prayer.
25.
Jonathan F's Experience.
5/12/03 It
seemed almost at the end of these words I opened my eyes and was enveloped in
the most intense light I had ever known. I had the feeling that I was no
longer where I had been, I could see nothing but this light, I have no
recollection of seeing my body or anything else but this light. With the light
though came a feeling of love, peace and understanding I had never know at any
other time in my short life. I have no idea how long this lasted, if I
remember right it was three or four minutes real time, but it seemed to last
for hours and hours. Nothing was said to me I did not hear voices, nor did I
see any beings, people or otherwise, just the light and the overwhelming
feeling of peace and love.
Prayer to God
right before suicide attempt.
24. Donna
M's Experience
05/11/03 I
was at a place that was space, filled with light. From afar my eyes were
watching me (in light form) communing with a brilliant Light Form. This Light
Form and I were communicating our pure Love for each other. No words were
exchanged. This was done
telepathically.
Light filled all space. This Light Form was revealing Itself to me. I understood
I was being blessed to "Know" this.
An experience with
tremendous love and light.
23. Kathy
V's Experience
04/19/03
What I saw was
shocking, stunning, beautiful and horrible and out of this world all at once:
Laying beside me I saw not my husbands physical body, but his light body. The
light was blindingly beautiful, and the matrix of the outline of his body was
blue-white and pulsing and vibrating and flowing. Shockingly, at the area of
his heart was what I can only describe as a "cannon blast" from the inside out,
a giant hole (bowling ball sized) in his light body, and the edges were torn and
ragged and burnt black-red in color with the very edges burnt black, bending
outward as from an inside blast. His "light" was streaming out of the hole,
leaking out so fast like blood pumping from a severed artery.
Marriage trouble from
husband cheating on her. This vision during OBE changed her life.
22. Rob
G's Experience
04/19/03
After about ten minutes laying
there with my eyes closed, I began experiencing a bright, beautiful
greenish/blue light. Almost like a dimmer, it took about ten seconds to start
from dark to a super bright light, although it didn't hurt my eyes. My eyes are
still closed! I then felt a presence in the light, a very loving energy. I
remained calm. I didn't move, yet in hindsight, I don't think I even tried to
move. I didn't want to scare the wonderful experience away.
An transcendent
experience as a teenager is amazing!
21. Cindy
B's Experience
04/19/03
Immediately
after praying for Jesus to come into my life, I felt myself being raised up in
the air, and I was looking down at my body down there praying, and sitting next
to me was a man in white. I could only see our backs, but he had his arm around
me. Then the voice said "Everything is going to be okay now". Suddenly it was
over, and I was left with a feeling of indescribable peace. I suddenly KNEW
things, and saw experiences in my past and the true meaning behind them. I
cannot put into words this sense of knowing and seeing, but it transformed my
life and my personality was changed in an instant. I had no FEAR anymore - fear
had ruled my life in the past. I felt SO free. And full of forgiveness.
Spiritually transformative
event!
20. Norma
B's Experience
04/19/03
We
stopped and he motioned with his arms. I knew that he meant for me to step
back, the ground was going to open. I looked down and the ground separated.
Below my feet was a beautifully clear pool of water, clear all the way down
without a muddy bottom. I saw a fish and as it moved through the water
sprinkles of colors rippled through the water which I could feel through my
body. It was wonderful and I didn't want to return.
Encounter with a being during a dream/obe was
spiritually transforming for her.
19. James
K's Experience
04/19/03
In the corner of the bedroom, a
small flame the size of a candle flame was burning. It looked just like a small
candle flame. Then I heard a male voice that seemed to come from behind the
flame not from within the flame. I saw no one. And it said, "I am the way,
the truth, and the light, follow me." Then vanished. Then slowly, I seemed
to float downward. There was a sensation of re-entering my body, which is why I
say it was an OBE, though I couldn't tell in the darkness.
Pentecostal
Minister's STE occured during a SOBE.
18.
Peter W's Experience
12/22/02
Before one particularly odious
court hearing, I could not sleep for five nights in a row, worrying. Lying in
bed about 3 a.m, puzzling over something, I suddenly felt myself lifted into
heaven. God answered the puzzle in my mind, then began to explain a few things
about life. God described man as going through a difficult transition, which
many species have gone through on many planets through-out the universe. God
revealed that as the sun heats up in the coming billions of years, life is
intended to migrate to the out planets: First Europa (a moon of Jupiter), and
then around Saturn, etc, as the sun continues to heat up. Whatever beings are
around a billion years from now will seed the outer planets with life, to
continue the party out there.
Although described in terms
as being a psychological near death experience, the events (no matter how they
are classified) are spiritually transforming.
17.
Patricia C's Experience
12/7/02
When I arrived in the classroom I
lay back on a row of chairs and felt myself ascending again I opened my eyes and
could see a light and the clouds in the sky. There was a point when I could see
or feel as though I was struggling to pass some beings that did not want me to
continue upward the beings were like clouds themselves. After I passed that
level I felt confident and looked ahead and saw someone dressed in like platinum
in the distance one hand was outstretched and I think I was being beckoned to
come.
A couple of SOBE
experiences associated with praye.
16. Nora
P's Experience
11/24/02
He began to
speak to me through his mind; his mouth or body never moved. He said "do you
know where that road leads to?" I just answered "yes." I just knew it must be
Heaven. He said, "do you want to get there?" I answered, "yes." He went on
and said, "Jesus was given a cross to carry, he carried his cross. You've
been given a cross. Are you going to carry it or are you going to leave it
there?" Of course, I wanted to get to Heaven. I felt a little sad
because I thought I was getting ready to escape my horrid life.
What a wonderful affirmation
from the other side for coming through life's difficulties!
15.
Sam J's Experience.
11/9/02 TOGETHER WE BURST
THROUGH THE DOOR, AND FINALLY ENTERED INTO MUCH LIGHT. But only i emerged,
clothed and alone. A group of brightly lit individuals passed me, giving me a
knowing and loving welcome. But why was i embodied, clothed, and not dressed
like the welcoming committee? I was bewildered. There was no where
to go other than to follow where the LOVING souls were leading me. The new
arrivals (like me) flow through the line, but I am stopped. I saw a man who
resembled the son of God, himself. Or maybe it was Peter, who welcome you
at the gate. Whoever it was, gave a silent wave of a finger.
Drug and alcohol excess caused this
spiritually transformative event. Although it is unclear as to whether he
died or if the intoxicants influenced the experience, it is certain that it
caused positive change in this man's life.
14. Mary
B's Experience.
10/29/02 & 2/15/03 And then HE spoke to me. I didn't hear a voice nor
see a form. But I was clearly and intensely aware of a communication directly
into my consciousness from an OTHER of indescribable goodness, kindness and
power.. and I recognized him as I would my mother or father. I felt I had known
him before but had somehow forgotten him until that minute. I trusted him
completely with no apprehension for he was, I knew, completely to be trusted.
This is one of the most amazing spiritual
encounters with God - which both, she and her friend, experienced at the same
time! Another handprint of God was that when Mary opened her e-mail from
me asking for permission to post, she was listening to a song entitled, "I
Love to Tell The Story."
13.
Gail K's Experience.
10/13/02 I
was asking Jesus to help me. Alternately begging Him and daring Him that my
heart and soul were open and to come into my heart. Well he did. In a moment
and I felt it physically!! happen - I felt Jesus in my chest, in my heart, I
couldn't see Him and didn't need too. I felt his warmth radiate through me. I
knew it was Him and He knew I knew it was Him.
This experience
shows the transformative power of prayer through contact with Jesus.
12.
Aaron W's Experience
10/1/02 "Yes.
I realized how little I really knew about life, and how I was closing myself
off. I really started to pay attention to looking through other people's eyes.
The experience changed my life, and was profound."
A lucid dream with
a tremendous impact on his spiritual path!
11.
Joey P's Experience.
9/4/02 "As
the chill reached the top of my head I felt a flick with a "ping" sound. I
looked to my right and saw a figure. It was dark. I focused in and saw the
face of a terrifying demon. It had horns twisting out from its forehead. It
had green/black, beat up skin, was hunched over, a human, evil face and snarling
scary teeth. It was strong to the bone. You would not think of touching it."
Frightening
experience from attempted suicide really changed this fellow around!
This experience has two components, the first story was submitted 4/29/02 and
the second time he submitted the story shows more integration and a change in
how he views the world. 9/4/02
10.
Tony S's Experience.
7/22/02
"In healing it is gentle, subtle,
but this was fizzing, raw power rushing through me, 10,000 volts compared to the
12 volt trickle-charge of healing. It had a striated texture, like the run-off
from a dam, and a feel of blue, white, yellow color, but I could not say whether
it passed up or down me, it seemed to be both. It was awesome, ecstatic, not
threatening, and I seemed to know it would stop soon."
Wow! This is
one amazing account with some deep insights about the in-between world - not the
least of which is how sex feels in the OBE state!
9.
Traci's Experience: 5/25/02."When
I realized this boy could be of the spirit world I was so overwhelmed with
complete shock and fascination that I believe it caused me to re-enter my body.
Instantly after this revelation I re-entered through my head and I was back in
my body.( This was the feeling of my head instantly being raised as described
before). I had been changed forever and instantly picked up phone to tell
someone, anyone all about it."
This is a striking newby SOBE (12 days ago), but the after effects are what
place this into the STE category. There will still be a lot of integration
and would be interesting to have a follow-up in a year to see if there are any
changes or new insights.
8.
Bob A's NDE.
5/14/02. "I was asked to use my psychic gifts to help
police find a murderer. . . The last one was
working on a missing girl case in Moose Lake, Minnesota. I was working
in Cincinnati, Ohio at the time, and my brother called me up about a girl
missing in Moose Lake, as he was telling me her name I was able to see the
killer and exactly how he did it. My brother told me to call the police up there
and I did, they said if they need help they will call me!"
Although Bob's
NDE is highly noteworthy, the aftereffects are truly astounding! This is
an excerpt from a murder case that occurred 900 miles from where he was
working a construction job. His methods have a strong and recurring
theme of prayer and solid belief in Jesus and the Bible. He talks of
incidents involving healing, reincarnation, and future events.
This is one of the more astounding cases
that I have ever run across. I want to express profound gratitude to Bob
for sharing his story. Although he is a bit shy about his dyslexia
handicap that prevented him from filling out the NDERF form, and apologized
over and over again, he did e-mail us and indicate that he really wanted to
share. I cannot tell you how humble I felt in the presence of such a
unique and highly spiritual fellow. It was such an honor to interview
him so that I could help him share his experiences with others. -
Jody
7.
Mary N's
Experience 5/5/02.
"I
told my parents and they said it was the devil messing with me. There very
superstitious. I know that's not true. Actually the experience helped me live a
better life."
Although an OBE, the effect was one of a spiritually transformative event.
6.
Marilyn E's
Experience 5/2/02.
"Yes, something was moving in there!!! I had
to steel myself to try to find out what it was. With amazement I realized it
was the new flesh actually GROWING! It began to fill the hole as we watched
-as though many weeks of new, clean flesh was growing in the space of as many
minutes. I had seen many other miracles happening during healings here, so
perhaps I should not find it so amazing this time. But it was!"
This series of events goes far beyond the
power of prayer, and is extremely instructive in charity, the Christ light,
creating heaven on earth. Such an amazing and powerful story from
England.
5.
Phillip L's
Experience 4/13/02.
"Incidentally, before my experience I had no
prior experience, belief or even interest in anything ‘spiritual’, nor did I
acknowledge any higher power. (My early religious ‘teachers’ insisted that the
love I spoke of within me was essentially different and invalid before the love
of God. A belief which left the best of the Self out in the cold, and which
immediately estranged me from religious teachings.)"
One man's spiritual journey that is utterly fascinating.
4.
Tony W's
Experience 4/4/02."One night I had a strange dream.
I dreamt that I told my wife I needed to tell my father about our daughter, and
in my dream she said 'Well why don't you phone him'. I answered saying that the
number I had for him was quite old and that he probably wouldn't be there
anymore and my wife said ' Give it a try anyway'. I did and he
answered."
This is one amazing set of coincidences, before and after telephoning his
deceased father in the dream.
3.
Jason G's
Experience
3/14/02. All of a
sudden there I was suspended over what I can only describe as a "Celestial Ocean
accompanied by the most magnificent symphony I have ever heard... but...I didn't
actually hear it... there was no sound... (the sound of silence ? or the
soundless sound ?) it was more like totally experiencing it with all of my
senses AND my sense seemed to cross over... I mean I could actually taste, smell
and feel color and sound.... there were no limits or boundaries... I was It and
It was Me.... I suddenly knew what it was to be one with the all that is...
at one with the universe.... what a profound peace... awesome....
exhilarating.... spiritually moving.
Great description of what it is like for the soul to be at one with the
universe.
2.
Bill
W's Experience.
3/9/02. It was only when
I knew that I was being returned (sent back) that I suddenly realized
my existence. I cried and cried and pleaded bitterly, with such anguish to God
that He NOT send me back. I did not want to leave the peace I had been placed
in, the light of which I was now a part.
NDE-like
imagery, but an awesome transformation from agnostic to firm belief in God
and Jesus.
1. Jena's
Experience. It occurred during the month
of August '81 or '82 while in a "sleep state" but, it is far
more vivid than anything I have ever consciously experienced, far more vivid
than this glassy faced monitor that sits before me. There has not been a waking day since, when
I have failed to remember.
This
seems like a lucid dream with a lot of subconscious imagery, but the content was
so vivid it transformed her life forever.
DEATH
BED VISIONS -
(DBV) - Death Bed Vision is one
in which the person may see scenes of the afterlife, beings and bright light at or as far as 6 months
prior to time of death. This is a new OBERF research category, although
these experiences have been reported throughout history. The
definition may change as we learn more about this type of experience. So
far this part of the experience is after a near death experience but before an
after death communication.
53. Stephen I Experiences 11/19/11 I came into work the next morning and noticed he wasn't in his bed. I was informed that he was in the ICU (intensive care unit). They had had a heart attack. They coded him 3 times (coded is when the heart stops and they have to shock them to bring them back). His family didn't want to let him go so they would not sign a "do not resuscitate" order. They made 3 attempts to bring him back and he and I did 3 "pulls" in our tug of war in my dream! He survived. Two remarkable shared death experience dreams from a nurse with his patient. One day, a couple of weeks before she passed, she was chatting away with this unseen child. I asked her to ask him what his name was. She turned her head away from me and said in the direction of the little boy, “What’s your name?” I asked her if he answered her and she said, “He said his name is Lolo.” I broke out in a sweat…Entity encounters at age 4 and later. Deathbed vision of mother who described being she saw as same name contributor used for entity as a child.
52.
Lee M's Grandmother's Experience
5/22/11
All
at once, she began smiling and was extremely happy, and began talking. I asked
to whom she was talking, and she began naming names - they were all people who
had died. She said they were all around her bed, and she was very, very happy
to be seeing them again… There were more than just one person there - there were
several, and they were her deceased relatives - I think a husband, a child,
maybe others. I got the feeling it was a family reunion!
Deathbed vision by individual who was about 103 years old at time of death. The
deceased was a traditional Cherokee and respected elder.
51.
Janice R Mother's
Experience 1/16/11 My
mother was in a coma & had a round the clock nurse on duty in her room, the
nurse observed her reaching up, while in the coma and shortly after regained
consciousness, she told the nurse that she saw her deceased brother who she was
very close too prior to his death at the age of 22. She said that in her dream
or whatever occurred that she saw herself standing on a cliff with nothing below
and her brother was across from her on another cliff and he was reaching out for
her and told her to take his hand so he could pull her over to the other side
and she was trying very hard to reach him but said she couldn't. This is what
the nurse observed her doing, trying to reach him. She then awoke and told the
story to the nurse who believed that if she had been able to take his hand and
he pulled her over to the other side that he was on that she would have died.
Mother’s deathbed vision.
50.
Eileen C's
Experience 10/16/10 But
let me just say that when she was dying, I asked her if she saw the light and
she nodded yes...and when I told her not to be afraid and to walk into the light
because it would heal her, she glowed...literally...like a halo appeared around
her...and her eyes turned sky blue (they were hazel) and her skin was like a
babies pink skin and everybody including the hospice nurse who was present...saw
it. The hospice nurse said that she had attended over 200 deaths and never saw
anything like it. She fell to her knees and wept and said she would never walk
the same again and called her husband to bring her 4 month old baby to the house
so that he could be in the presence of the miracle that she saw. Even my
brother, who, like my father, was very cynical about spiritual stuff and
believed in nothing but the here and now...saw it. And when she passed there was
the most amazing smell of flowers...roses...in the room. This is all true. There
are 4 witnesses.
Remarkable shared deathbed vision and also multiple dream ADCS.
49.
LJ's
Experience 9/11/10
I
stood in the same void with my Father on my left and an unknown on my right.
Until this particular rest period, I did not visually see my Father standing on
my left and the light had been at a distance, but this time the light was upon
us brilliant and there. Dad stepped from my left side into my range of vision
and stepped into the light. I watched as my Father moved away from my side into
the light. He stepped into the outer perimeter of the light and looked into its
depth for a few seconds then turned to face me and as he smiled he raised his
arthritic arms high above his head and beamed with the greatest joy I had ever
seen on his face.
Remarkable shared deathbed vision with dying father.
48.
Barbara M's
Experience 9/11/10
I signed him up with the local Hospice on the Saturday before his death. I'm
sure he was tired fighting and he lapsed into a state of semi-consciousness on
the following Tuesday. My daughter, sister and I gathered around his bed for 3
days. We talked to him and read him short stories of angels. During this time,
he would occasionally raise his hand high over his head and wave frantically.
He kept repeating the word "no, no." This happened multiple times over the days
of Tues, Wed & Thurs (the day of his passing). The Hospice nurse was due to
visit that Thursday. As soon as she arrived and I left the room for a short
break, he took his final breath. We are convinced that he was waving off the
angels who had come to escort him to his heavenly home. He had waited until
someone (other than my sister and daughter) could be with me as he passed away.
DBV with husband.
47.
Veronica M's Mother's
Experience 6/20/10
When
they got in the room, they were shocked to see us watching my mom open her mouth
and make a surprised expression. She then started smiling and grinned from ear
to ear. We were stunned, but once again thought she had rallied and her
struggle would continue. Then she tried to open her eyes, but couldn't, then
mouthed the words "good bye" and then took her last breath. She was totally at
peace. We all sat there stunned and even waited to get our bearings before we
could go get someone to declare time of death. Her face was literally glowing.
I just wanted to pass this along. If I had been by myself, I would have thought
that I imagined it, but there were 5 of us who witnessed it. And amazingly
agreed on exactly what we had all seen.
DBV from mother.
46.
Carol M
Experience 2/18/10
Just before midnight I had a "dream". A
tornado moved over me. It was dark purple at the bottom and went up very high.
Looking up inside the tornado I could see the top of it with bright (not
blinding) light. The tornado was not violent, did not suck me up. It was not
scary but quite beautiful. But I was INSIDE the tornado. Later I wonder if this
was a vertical tunnel like so many talk about. As this "dream" ended I started
to slowly wake up and I realized my dad's breathing was slowing down.
DBV at the time of father’s death.
45.
Gina D
Experience 2/12/10 I
was sitting in a recliner in the corner of the room when suddenly I felt a
presence and for one split second heard a voice that said "Daddy" from the back
of the house near the back door. I got the impression it was my deceased
brother. It was as though he was saying something else, but I heard his voice
for only a second or two. It was like a roulette wheel (or a fan) spinning very
fast and for a few seconds I could see into it. It was like that was all I was
allowed. It's all very hard to put into words. Also, the presence I referred
to wasn't one presence but many. I strongly felt outlines of people/shapes
encircling the house. I was startled rather than frightened. One minute they
weren't there, the next they were and they stayed until Daddy passed from this
life into the next.
DBV around time of father’s death.
44.
Kathleen B
Experience 2/3/10 I
began telling my grandfather that it was okay to let go and God would take
care of him and to go toward God when I felt like I was being pulled toward
a great bright light. Not a harsh light but a light filled with warmth and
peace. I remember feeling and seeing my grandfather's had in mine and him
telling me he was scared and he needed me with him. It was bizarre as I was
not dead or dying but I was having this feeling as if my spirit/body was
being pulled toward the light at the same time as my grandfather was. The
light got brighter and then enveloped us. We were standing in a place that
was illuminated but not with regular light or lamps or candles and there
were other people there but I could not make out who they were nor was I
frightened or surprised to see them. My grandfather was on my left and we
were still holding hands.
Exceptional experience of transitioning with her dying grandfather into the
afterlife. These types of experiences, along with shared NDEs, are among
the strongest evidence that what happens in NDEs is what happens at the time
of permanent, irreversible death.
43.
CD
Experience 1/14/10
After closing my eyes and beginning to meditate on correcting these three
conditions my sister gently appeared smiling at me while gently floating in
front of me in the blackness of my meditation. I could see her whole body as if
suspended in mid air. The vision was totally silent and hyper real, more real
than anything I had ever experienced including daily life. She was wearing a
long white gown that covered one shoulder and surrounding her whole body was a
beautiful golden translucent glowing envelope of light that was about three
inches thick. This Light was fully conscious.
Meditation experience near the time of his sister’s death.
42.
Elizabeth M
Experience 1/2/10
HOSPICE CAME THAT EVENING AND TOLD ME IT WILL GET WORSE BEFORE SHE PASSED, OH MY
GOD! THIS IS THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF THE JOURNEY THAT EVENING I SAW GRANDPA AND
ABOUT 200 TO 400 OF THEM IN MOMS ROOM, BOTH BECKY AND I LOOKED UP AND THE
CEILING WAS A BRIGHT ORANGE AND THERE WAS A SOUND OF DRUMS THE LATER IT GOT THE
LOUDER IT GOT!
DBV apparently witnessed by one other at time of mother’s death.
41.
Cathy W
Experience 11/21/09
I woke up and this is
when I had my experience.
I
was lying on my back and my husband was on his stomach (the way he always goes
to sleep). I awoke and turned my head in his direction and I saw a blue/grey
light surrounding him. He was raised off his stomach (arched from his back), and
was literally vibrating. Not shaking but vibrating. I was looking at his face,
his eyes were closed and his lips were protruding. At the time, I was witnessing
this (and I WAS NOT dreaming), I had such a sense of calm. I could not hear any
noise at all and I felt no movement at all and yet I saw this vibration movement
of my husband.
Empathic DBV with unexpected death of husband, after they had been married only
1 ˝ days.
40.
MRG
Experience 11/8/09
Aug
2008- As my brother passed, I was leaning over the side of his bed hugging him
and telling him it was ok to go. His partner was on the other side of him
leaning over and hugging him, saying similar things. His partner felt this
sensation as well, but he no longer has any contact with me, but he confirmed it
as it was happening, that he could feel it too. The rushing feeling I had go
through me was right about where my torso was hugging him. It felt very fast
moving and almost felt liquid like, but not really. It was almost a slight
sensation of being breathless, like at the top of a roller coaster hill, but I
had no problems breathing, it was just a slight sensation like that as this
rushing sensation was occurring. It was very much not a part of me, it felt
"other". Like belonging not to me. It began a few seconds before his machines no
longer detected a H.R and stopped very shortly before his Dr. "pronounced" his
time of death to the nurses.
Shared DBV and possible ADCs.
39.
Judith G
Experience 9/20/09
From Australia
While I was standing next to Dad, with my hand on the bed next to his hand (I
did not want to touch him in case I hurt him - blue skin and very delicate)
space changed around me and I felt a love coming into my numb body. It grew
very strong, extremely blissful and beautiful. The love expanded out into the
room. I was this love and I became the furniture and everything in the room. I
did not go thru the walls. My mind was repeatedly saying 'What is happening'
over and over again. I was outside my body, I was observing in a detached way
inside my body and I was everything. There was no time. I felt I knew
everything (knowledge) but was unable to pick out a thought. There was no
sequence. I saw a light. I then started coming down and my thoughts were very
clear. My mind was clearer than my normal state. If that light was a bomb
everyone would be frightened, but, there is no need to run because 'LIFE GOES
ON; NOTHING MATTERS'.
DBV with father
that was also a STE for her.
38.
Iris S
Experience 6/7/09
My
sister died at home of kidney cancer following an illness of approximately six
months. As she was dying, I was alone with her in her bedroom for a time. I
was sitting next to her, my eyes closed, in a light meditative state. Suddenly,
I moved from my own body and was actually inside of her body. The experience
was absolutely terrifying. I could feel myself shrinking! The life force in
"my" arms and legs was slowly shrinking, and I was horrified by the sensation
that I might shrink so far as to entirely disappear. Locked inside of my
sister's dying body, I could not tell if she was inside with me. I began
screaming, "Help me! Help me!" Suddenly, I realized that nobody could hear me,
and that even if they could do so, that there was nothing anybody could do to
help. I felt deep, deep despair and utter horror. At that instant, I found
myself back in my own body. I fled the room in terror, and to this day, after
four long years, I still cannot sleep in a fully dark room.
Submitted by a college professor (Ph.D. in theology). Rare frightening DBV.
Two points could be made. First, this is the first experience with this type of
content we have received. Thus, the meaning may be more for the experiencer
than us all. This makes hesitant to speculate on the meaning of this
experience. Second, with any spiritual (or other) experience that is associated
with a long-lasting problem in life after the experience, consideration could be
given to counseling.
37.
Jo-Ann T
Experience 5/11/09
This
is not really MY NDE, but rather a "vision" that occurred when I was lying in
bed next to my dying mother. I was called to the hospital at 6pm, and arrived
from Pennsylvania at around 11pm. My mother was unable to speak. She had tubes
in her throat and did not open her eyes. I asked the nurse to leave, turned off
the TV and the lights, and crawled into bed with her. I began to sing some songs
that my grandmother (her mother) had sung to me as a child. I noticed a light on
my mother's side of the bed. It wasn't bright-more like an aura, but it was
white. I saw my grandmother, flanked by her other daughter and son. All were
wearing white robe type garments. Their faces were young and unlined, but not
real distinct. They seemed to be walking through an orchard with a canopy of
trees. In the trees and on the ground were blossoms (I think apple
blossoms-white and light pink), and I smelled a sweet apple smell. I told my
mother it was okay to go - and I saw a white wisp of her going to them. I then
heard the hospital machine beep continuously - and the vision was gone - and my
mother had died.
Empathic DBV shared at the time of her mother’s death. Interesting account in
the spectrum of near-death experience.
36.
Liz S
Experience 5/3/09
It
was around 1:00 AM and I was asleep. I thought I was dreaming a very "real"
dream. In the "dream" I was lying flat on my back with my hands stretched out. I
was in a place that seemed like a beautiful green grass field, bright sunlight
coming from above. Everything was crystal clear and at the same time slightly
unclear. I felt the feeling of being there -everywhere- and also of laying down
in the field to my right. I could feel my arms heavy. I could feel the sensation
of something in my throat. Nothing hurt, I just knew I wanted to get "up" and
join what was there. But at the same time I could feel a sense of "peace" unlike
anything I have ever felt before. There was no struggle. No sense of time. I was
not cold, hot or uncomfortable. I was observing and yet being observed. I could
feel the presence of everyone that had ever been.
‘Dream’ at time her father was dying.
35.
Rose
Experience 4/24/09
That
evening as we went to sleep on a pull out sofa in my sisters home, lying back to
back, I heard a radio playing in my head, it's hard to explain but it was just
as if a radio was on in the house, I even rolled over to ask my daughter if she
had on her walkman radio, which she didn't. The song that was playing was by the
"Doors" and it was "Touch Me". The words are touch me babe, can't you see that I
am not afraid, I'm going to love you till the heavens stop the rain, I'm going
to love you till the stars fall from the sky. Well the next morning I asked my
sister if she had a radio on upstairs and she said no and I replied well then
mommy sent me a song last night to let me know that she is OK, she is not afraid
anymore.
ADC
from mother, and DBV.
34.
Sandra C
Experience 3/3/09
A final
window opened and as I was crying I watched my father walk into the window of
new dimensions. He was younger, early 40’s, well groomed and very happy to see
everyone. He walked straight to this father who was standing in the middle of
the receiving line with my grandmother to his right. My grandfather was
standing there with a huge smile on his face, with great love and joy with his
arms straight out ready to embrace his son. My dad embraced his father as if to
say….so good to see you again. And the window faded and closed.
DBV with father.
33.
Catherine Z
Experience 2/15/09
Patient asked me to be with her at her time of death… With the patient, I was
standing by the side of her death bed with her laying there, alone, when
suddenly, out of the blue, I experienced her presence as pronounced as if she
were standing there. She was wildly joyful, totally whole and healed, and with
God. I heard the words, "Thank you" and "Good Bye", and then I sensed her
spirit leaving the room through an exterior wall and then total emptiness in the
room.
DBV with patient and ADC from mother.
32.
Marcine
B
Shared Dying Experience. 11/28/2008
And
someone of great power said to me “ that is for the living to worry about not
for you, you are now among the dead.” And I knew that I was dead and forgot
totally about living and was going out and never returning. It was exactly what
I wanted to do. I could not have turned around for any reason. I was gone.
But then, Marilyn’s mom dropped my metaphorical hand and said “you can’t go” and
I dropped incredibly hard and disappointed back into my chair. I was still in
mediation and I tried with all my might to get back out but it was impossible.
The thought then came to me was that I could find the first dying person and go
with them. To get back was all I wanted to do. Just then Marilyn broke the
experience by saying” she’s gone”. I told her that I knew and that I had gone
with her.
Experience during meditation beside individual dying. Apparent shared
experience with them.
31.
Catherine F
Experience 8/30/08
I suddenly felt COMPELLED to go to
my father! I am not kidding at all -- it was as if some unseen force were
MAKING me go down that hallway. I almost literally felt myself being pushed
from behind, as if by angels! I went to where my father was resting, hugged him,
and told him that I loved him. As he looked back at me, his body appeared gray
and already dead, but his eyes! They shone from his face brighter and greener
than I had ever seen them. All his life force was contained in them. He said,
"And I love you, too. You know that, don't you?" I replied that I did, and
told him that one of my two sisters and I fully believed that he was but simply
walking through a doorway, and that on the other side would be all his departed
loved ones, even his childhood dog, waiting to greet him.
DBV - This is a good
example of what the Chinese call, "the light returns."
30.
B's Shared DBV
6/30/08
He
consciously watched me until 4 breaths before his last exhale. By that breath I
was TOTALLY aware of how perfectly calm everything was. As I sat there holding
his hand I witnessed a unexpected sight. I SAW not with my natural sight,
however I SAW what looked like a whitish, wispy, cloudy human form lift out of a
lying down, to sitting, to lifting form leave his body. It went upward and
diagonally across the ceiling corner. I even said aloud ‘This is wild’. And I
KNEW he was no longer inside the shell of the human body. No question about it.
I even felt like I was a part of it. Everything seen and unseen was connected in
perfection, and a joyous peace. I am also positive that T and another presence
were in the room, located in the corner of the ceiling behind my left shoulder.
I felt like I could join them. I was connected I sensed knew that T needed to be
sure that I was okay with his leaving before he could/would leave to go on.
Dramatic ADC with husband immediately after his death.
29.
Thomas P
Experience 5/27/08
From Australia
I
was sitting in the chair facing my Dad and holding his hand {I had been for
sometime] when my sisters changed positions. My youngest sister sat next to me
and very shortly afterwards a flash of light just appeared, very bright but not
blinding about a meter above his head and just below the ceiling, I'm known to
be a COOL character however my instant response was quote " What the f...k
was that" This happened directly in front of us and my sister Jean's reply was "
I don't know what was it" The centre of this was what I saw clearly, this was
roundish/oval shaped and kind of crystal like, clear however not see-through,
like one of the small jelly-fish found on the beach. the closest thing to
compare it to would be a camera flash in your face however that would kind of be
blinding, this wasn't. The light was kind of clear, white and bright. and it
lasted about 1.5 seconds. and the light would have been around 1 meter across.
Death Bed Vision witnessed by two people present.
28.
Roseann Experience 4/17/08
Original in
German, Translated into English by Iris.
About two hours
later, after the ward round, I asked her what she meant by referring to the
letter. She responded that she sensed from what I had written how much I liked
my mother and she described me in detail what I had written. I insisted on the
question how she could know about all this and she told me that she had watched
me from above, from the ceiling. I had written the letter at a desk and worn a
green bath robe. I wanted to know if she could speak Spanish. She said that she
did not speak Spanish but she again accurately described what I had written. She
described my pen, how everything was arranged on my desk, the writing pad which
all exactly matched how it really was. She even could describe the Roman style
of my chair. I asked quite desperately: “How can this be possible?” “I do not
know, I have never experienced anything like that”, she answered. I could not
find an explanation and finished the conversation.
This is a second-hand report, but what
a REPORT!
27.
Natalia Experience 1/30/08
Original in
Spanish, Translated into English by Mariana.
Something impulses me, pushing me towards the tunnel, at the end of it there is
a white light extremely shiny. In the tunnel I completely forget about the time,
I am slowly suspended, I feel wonderful in peace with myself; at the same time
my whole life goes in front of me like a flash of lightening. All people I met,
situations I have lived, sensations that I felt, it is overwhelming, so much
that I want to reach the light…I feel that my people is there, that after all I
will see each other again and will be together and I want to get there, but at
the same time I feel for the one I leave in life, yet I perceive that something
is missing with the alive people, I have the sensation that I can decide and
everything ends…
She has advanced
stages of AIDS and walks in both worlds so this is a DBV.
26.
David M Experience 9/13/07
When
he came out of the coma he told me that he had taken a trip. He did not know how
he got there but when he arrived he saw two very large doors. He did not go
inside the area that he called the most beautiful garden he had ever seen. There
were birds and flowers and trees. He said it was wondrous. He said he sat down
next to the doors but he did not go in. He said it was funny but, "I saw people
of all ages, male and female, and all different nationalities go in the doors,
but I only saw babies going out of the doors." These were his exact words.
Death Bed Vision from father.
25. repeat of 24.
24.
Sammi G Experience 8/18/07
I
had my face toward the lamp, and heard Carol's breathing stop...I say her head
and face in three views...on the left side I saw her right profile, on the right
side, her left profile, and in the middle (larger) her full face. She was
looking down at something...and behind her was the most beautiful landscape I
have NEVER seen. There were rolling hills, a blue sky, a stream, and strong
clear "sun" light. She had her normal hair in this vision...like when she was in
her thirties. She was looking down at something that made her break into a
pleased, delighted smile. There was no sound, but I felt flooded, swept away,
snatched up and filled with love. I was pushed back...but knew it was going to
be OK for her, and I felt the connection between us stretching like a string. I
sat up as her body started breathing again...but I knew she was not in it.
Shared DBV with partner who was dying of cancer. Remarkable experience!
23.
Lynn's Experience 8/17/07
On her last day, she had been
lying on the sofa watching television. Her mother heard her speaking and
thought she was talking to the TV as she had been known to do that on occasion.
She walked into the room to ask her if she wanted some juice or something else
to drink. Lynn then asked her mother why Dorothy and Cookie were there (Dorothy
was my mother, who Lynn dearly loved, and Cookie was her grandfather, my
great-uncle, and she was closer to him than anyone. My mother died in 1969
and Uncle Harry, aka Cookie, died in 1975.). She also named several other
people, all of whom had been dead for years, said they were all there looking at
her and she wanted to know why. The
thing is, Lynn had NO long-term memory and very little short-term memory. Under
normal circumstances, she would never have remembered the names of those people,
so even if seeing them jogged her memory so she'd be able to actually name them
all, the question is...what or who was she seeing???
Cousin's DBV as
told by Lori D.
22.
M B Experience 7/7/07
When
the vibration reached my chest, I knew that I had to “open the doors” of my
chest cavity. I purposely allowed the chest to open -- as if it were enclosed
behind two large oak doors. At that very moment of knowing, my chest was raised
as my back arched, the sound became even louder, and then a wide ray of white
light connected me/my chest to the heavens. At this moment I don’t recall the
sound being there anymore. As I’m arched in the recliner, breathing very
heavily with some difficulty, I look up to my right and I see the profile
outline of Jesus, who is very far away (but not small as normal human perception
would have it) , but who is seriously looking down and watching the being who is
in front of me.
Vision shortly after death of spouse.
21.
Kathleen N Experience 11/10/06
As I stood at
her bedside, it seemed as though a wall in the room opened above her head. I
looked through it and at that moment I could feel the presence of another being
standing over my right shoulder. It felt like my Aunt (deceased and no direct
relation to my cousin). I couldn't see the presence. I could only feel and
mentally hear it. I watched the activity through the wall. Bright sparkling,
radiant lights were bouncing in the distance over a green landscape, like birds
and butterflies but undefined. The landscape was green and the sky was a
cloudless beautiful brilliant shade of blue. A sense of more than one planet in
the sky. Could not see or just don't remember but the feeling was there. The
presence over my right shoulder told me that this was my 'gift' for helping my
cousin and that I would share in this experience now.
Cousin
was dying of Hodgkin’s disease. Contributor had OBE, traveling an enormous distance
to be with her cousin as she died, where this profound experience resulted.
20.
Sandra S Experience 10/6/06 Suddenly
I heard my name being called very clearly, Sandy, Sandy. It was a man's voice
but didn't sound like my dad. It sounded like it was coming from a computerized
place or a long hollow tunnel. It was being heard inside my head but not by
anyone else in the room (verified later). I turned around as I suddenly felt it
must be Dad calling me but the only thing was he was still on the bed going
through the death process. I had turned to my right and as I turned back around
my eyes glanced up toward the corner of the ceiling on my right and I saw a
circle of mist hovering in the corner.
Death Bed Vision which was experienced by daughter around the time of her father’s
death.
19.
Sydney A Experience 10/6/06 I
went to sleep I immediately felt a warm loving peaceful feeling wash over me and
felt myself go out of my body to the hospital, I seen the hospital hallway and
went through the door to my grandmothers room I seen my aunty on the other side
of the bed who was reading a bible and I was opposite her .Then my aunty got up
and went out the door… I described the room to my mother and where the other
lady in the room was. including my aunty reading the bible and leaving and found
out it was as I seen it.
Dream OBE and DBV (Death Bed
Vision).
18.
Linda L's Son's Experience
9/7/06
After a few minutes, everyone was
in the room with us and there was complete silence as everyone watched in awe as
Grant appeared to be answering to someone. It was if he was being asked
questions and with a very intense look in his eyes was answering with his head
movements of yes and no being very pronounced.
After a few
minutes, I sat by Grant's left side and started talking to him. I asked him if
he "saw" someone....he looked at me and gently shook his head "no". I then
asked him if someone was "talking" to him. Again he looked at me intensely and
shook his head "yes". Due to the intense look in his eyes, I asked him if it
was scaring him...he again looked at me and gently shook his head "no".
Son
near death at age 26 communicated he heard voice that did not frighten him, and
appeared to be significant. Of note, medically he was not on medications that
could cause hallucinations.
17. Snowy's Experience
2/04/06 At about 7:00 pm
Snowy suddenly sat up bolt upright, looked as if she was looking at an object
very, very intensively and following that object with her eyes and her head
slightly moving from side to side. If a dog could smile, she was smiling. You
could see there was a certain happiness radiating from her. She began to wag her
tail and within seconds she then plopped down and went back into coma.
The family witnessed "The light
returns" phenomena in a beloved family pet. This is identical to the
phenomena in #8 Andrew's mother's DBV below, except occurring in a dog.
16. Doug
H's Experience
12/25/05
Once my son’s
aunty has left the room, I was sitting quietly holding his right hand and felt
the need to close my eyes which I did. I felt very calm and began to move very
fast through space, similar to a tunnel effect, where there was a brilliant
white crystal clear light. I didn't seem to be going anywhere other then forward
through this space at a very fast speed. I felt I was in control and could get
off anytime. I don't know exactly how long it lasted but I would say about 30
seconds to almost a minute. I didn't feel shocked, surprised at all just very
quickly accepted it was a sign from my son that he was going to be OK when he
passed.
Experience in son’s hospital room shortly before 15 year old son died of
leukemia.
15.
Cathy R's Father’s Experience.
11/8/05
My father was
dying of esophageal cancer... One night, he was lying in his bed and suddenly
started talking to Kenneth and William.....his brothers that had passed away
over 70 years ago. He asked my mother why she wasn't offering them a seat, and
told her that she was being rude. My mother asked him what he was talking
about, and he got really upset with her. She brought in 2 chairs from the
kitchen then walked out and closed the door. She was very shook up. The next
day, she asked my father about what had happened the night before. He was very
lucid, and told her that Kenneth and William are there to take him home. He
died that night.
Father dying of cancer, and
he spoke to two of his brothers who died 70 years ago.
14.
Sherry M's Grandmother's DBV
10/8/05
The amazing thing about this was
the last 18 hours of her life was like she had no sign of her Alzheimer's, it's
hard to believe but it's true. There was so many family members that was there,
they all thought the same thing. As I said the last 18 hours she was alive she
was talking to family members that had past on before her, but I was so happy to
hear her say, look look how fast he can run, look look at him go. I looked at my
Aunt Barbara then I looked at my cousin and thought what is she talking about?
Then She said it again, I said Granny what are you talking about? And she said
it again. Then I said Granny who are you talking about? She raised her hand up
and spread out her fingers. I new then she was talking about my son Brian, he
was buried in the number 5 jersey. She could have not knew this because. She
didn't even go to his funeral, so she had know idea that he was buried in his
jersey, and wouldn't have remembered any way.
Death Bed Vision where she apparently identified a deceased great grandson who die
very recently, and who she could not have know was dead.
13. Florence P's DBV 8/8/05
My mother had been ill for quite some
time with different ailments, such as CHF and other Heart problems. she had been
in severe pain for about six months. three weeks ago she became confused (a
normally very sharp minded woman) we took her to hospital and she was admitted
with pneumonia and heart failure. we were told she would most likely not make it
through one night. all of us gathered around and even the nurses were sad. any
how she was like this for three days so confused she did not know what the heck
was going on. when she woke up on the third day she was so peaceful and stated
she had had a dream and she was no longer afraid of death. this 78 year old
woman had such a since of peace it was overwhelming. mom told me her dream and
it went like this:
She dreamed she was in a boat on the river of death, she just wanted to get to the shore and die, these large arms drew her out of the boat and set her on the shore and she say the brightest sunshine she has ever seen, she said god then sang to her all night and put her back in bed he did this for three nights, my mother is a changed person , before she was bitter at times and now every thing is wonderful she sees the good in ever single thing she talks different she has told everyone how much the mean to her and she doesn't care if people don't believe her she knows god was there on the river of death with her. she says now she is afraid of nothing she is at peace . and she is well her heart looks great and she is in no pain she is walking again and enjoying life.
12.
Marion C's Son's Experience 4/16/05 My son was not expected to live. A friend & I were sitting by his bed, when he whispered, 'She is calling me, she is beautiful'. I asked my son 'who is calling you? He said 'the angel'. A cold chill went through my body. I felt my son was about to cross over. In desperation I begged my son not to answer the angel. He then whispered "I can't' with that I went to the corner of
the room and prayed for his life. After a few moments, his friend said to me," Cam said the angel shook her head". Without a shadow of a doubt I knew from that moment my son would live.
Deathbed vision in which the experiencer did not die.
11.
Keith F's DBV 3/7/05 My very severely retarded cousin died recently. He was so retarded that it was impossible to administer an IQ test. He lived in his parents' home for 60 years. While lying on the hospital bed during the last few days of his life he pointed to the ceiling three or four times (he commonly pointed when asking a person to look at something) and said in his idiosyncratic way of speaking, "Hello John." John was his nephew who died about two years earlier.
10.
S.A.'s DBV 11/16/04 My wife, aged eighty-two, two days before she died, visited me at my breakfast table, entering at the closed door and stopped at my side. She was absolutely beautiful and looked age thirty, not eighty two. Looking at me, and pointing hard at her chest, she said very plainly, "This is the real me, the other, (meaning her own body at the nursing home, sixteen miles away) is but a carcass." She then walked from my side to the front of me, bent down and kissed me on the lips, which I felt. She then vanished. Although her body and brain had deteriorated to child proportion, her mind was absolutely intact. She wished to see me and her mind controlled all her subsequent actions. It took away all fears
of her passing to the beyond and it was a joy to see her.
9. Carolyn's Experience
011/16/03
My husband was dying or had just died from a heart attack. I had an experience that changed my life forever. It was a cylinder of light. In the cylinder, I experienced the tremendous energy of love, great peace, understanding, truth and knowledge of everything anyone ever needed, given to me in an instant. Plus, I experienced a journey through and around the earth, and into the realms
beyond the earth. Then great wisdom and knowledge instilled in my soul you can't even imagine just given to me through this light. I was not aware that my husband was dying or dead yet I was experiencing an out of body experience and left with things so strong that the world could never have taught me. This was given by a superior spirit. Great beauty, peace, understanding, LOVE, absolutely everything. It happened
on July 18, 1984. this was not of my mind. I could have never imagined. It can not be put into words. But others have said it came from the grace of God. A gift to me. I was not dying, but saw the tunnel of light as clear as day.
This experience is a variant of a DBV (Death
Bed Vision) with very vivid NDE-like imagery.
8.
Andrew's Mother's DBV 6/22/03
Chinese Account. There
is well recognized phenomenon among the Chinese which is like a DBV. It
is called HuiGuangFanZhao (The Light returns). This is a commonly reported
situation where a dying patient would be comatose or confused but suddenly
becomes alert and lucid, often acknowledging the loved ones around him/her
before dying. During this phase, they may or may not have a vision of their
departure. My mother was dying of Ca breast with liver mets and was going in
and out of a coma but was very lucid and alert and could recognize the people
around her seconds before she drew her last breath.
7.
Sharon G's Experience
06/14/03
I looked back at mum and there
was a light forming around her, the color is hard to describe but it was like
a golden pale lemon color. The light seemed to be completely around her.
Then the light started to move up towards her head and then it was completely
above her. When I looked at the light above mum I couldn't believe what
I was seeing as mum was in the light, floating above her body!!
Then she moved slowly towards the corner of the room she was reaching for
before, and once again stretched out her hand to greet someone, then she was
gone.
Wow! What
an interesting death bed vision (DBV)!
6.
Myra E's
DBV.
8/6/02.
Wow! This is a Death Bed Vision (DBV) where the granddaughter walked with her grandfather through
the death experience - described just like a typical NDE. The interesting
part is that Myra describes it as a dream, yet didn't realize it was her
grandfather with her until someone later told her that her grandfather had died.
5.
Randi N's DBV:
"When her breathing got
irregular we both took her hands and I kissed her forehead. She took her last
three breaths and the room was absolutely silent. I felt locked to her for a
minute or two and could only focus on her. While looking down at her face I
saw a very soft yellow glow and my peripheral vision saw it in the whole room.
Then the feeling I actually physically felt was the most calm feeling of
warmth and well being that came from somewhere inside me."
It is not
uncommon to experience a loved one passing through one's own body, leaving
feelings of universal love and connection when they go to the other side.
7/23/02
4.
Judy R's DBV: "During
his illness, he complained frequently about the little girls chatting so much.
At dinner one night, I asked if they had wings because my husband
thought they might be angels. His eyes widened and he said he never
looked at them, but he knew they were girls because it was "yakety-yak all the
time." I asked him what the little girls wanted him to do.
And he choked emotionally, and said he already felt overburdened and they
wanted him to go to another planet. "
He was hearing angels after he found out he was dying of cancer, and the
neighbor was seeing angels outside the house in a tree. 5/20/02
3.
Pansa N's Sister DBV: NON-WESTERN
FROM INDIA - When
she came back home after 6month one day at about 11.20a.m, she was laying on
the floor and she started shouting and screaming, i don't want to go with u -2
and she cried also. I was sitting next to her and i asked what happened. She
said there were two -three person in white cloth, they came here to take me
and was fighting with them, than they said they will come again.
Not only does
this account have a death bed vision, but also music heard at the time of
death. 5/14/02
2.
Marilyn E - Husband's
DBV: "I
think his motto was "If you can't see it, it doesn't exist" So I was keen
to find out what he now thought about the previous night's experience, of
course. "Do you believe in life after death now, then, Den?" "Why on
earth should I?" "Well –after what happened last night!" "What
happened last night to make me think any differently?"
An amazing story that shows how memory in an altered state of consciousness may
not be accessible in our every-day state of wakefulness. The conversations
were with people on the other side, and he knew things that nobody knew - yet
when confronted the next day, he had no recollection of the events. 5/2/02
1.
Marilyn E - Mum's
DBV: "I
then asked her several other questions which she immediately answered with her
thumb. Was she comfortable? "Yes." Was she worried about any thing?
"No." Was she hungry? "No." Did she know she was I going
Home? "Yes." Was she afraid? "No." Was she able to see her Mother,
my Grandmother, who had passed on several years before? Mum had nursed her to
the last and who 'died' with such a lovely smile on her face seeing someone she
obviously loved very much and was very special to her, who was waiting for her
there: Her answer to this last question was a very clear "YES!" with a very firm
thumb press, twice. "
The hospital staff considered her mother unconscious, but she was able to see
everyone in the room (even in a coma with eyes closed) and her mother was
conscious enough to communicate through a thumb press on her daughter's hand.
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