Swimming in the Ocean.
I would like to share an NDE experience, which happened in the summer of 1973. I was 17 years old at the time and was swimming in the ocean near Los Angeles, CA.I had been swimming for about 30 minutes and was very tired. The waves were getting quite large and there was a very strong undertow. I couldn't get out of the water so I turned to face a huge wave and dove under it hoping that it would carry me to shore. In this wave, I was hit with a wall of water that threw me around like a rag doll in a washing machine. It finally slammed me face down on the ocean floor and knocked all of the air out of lungs. My lungs were spasming and taking in water, so I knew that I wasn't going to make it.
At that point I heard my own inner voice say "all who have died have lived." That made me relax a little and I found that I didn't have to breathe at all, then I was in this gray space and felt very warm and sleepy. There was such tremendous love and wonderful peace and I knew that I was part of the whole universe and that every piece is important to the whole!
Then suddenly I was floating just below the surface of the water. I don't know how I got there because I had no arms or legs, I was just a point of consciousness. The waves that rolled back and forth above me had more dimensions to them. I could think much faster and see further than normal. I thought about my father who was on the shore and wondered how my death would effect him. Suddenly I was above the surface and could clearly see him with his hands on his hips scanning the water wondering where I was. I knew that he would be fine, and that he would get over it.
Then I thought that I had a life review. Someone invisible at this time was with me and showed me a book with pages that sort of flipped through pretty fast, with each page having a little movie about my life. I don't remember anything outstanding except seeing my birthday party when I turned eight. Big deal. I still don't know why I was shown that because it was not a big deal to me at the time.
At this time I asked "what is the purpose of life?" I was told "to help other people." Afterwards I felt that I hadn't accomplished what I had come to earth for, (and I still don't know what that is) and was told that if I didn't go back that I would have to come back in another life and do it all over again. Then I heard the most beautiful music ever heard. Cannot describe it or say what kind of instruments it sounded like. It just sounded like a beautiful vibration is the closest way I can say it.
Then I began to hear a school bell in the distance and the sound of it was drawing me off to the right where I was going into another dimension. Suddenly I was sucked violently back down into my body, and on the way down I was told "It's not your time yet!" When I was back in my body I was still face down on the ocean floor, but I felt two hands, one under each foot, push me to the surface where I stood in chest deep water, ALONE. There was no one in sight.
J.W.
