Most near death experiencers find they are totally changed by their experience. They don’t value material things as much, while putting emphasis on helping others.
Some of them go back to school to become counselors. Others write books and/or author web sites of their experience, and a few lecture about near death experiences. They have a need to tell others about the wonderful love and peace they found in their experience.
Unfortunately, they soon find out their wonderful experience is not believed, wanted, or may even be feared by the people they so much want to share it with. They learn to be careful who they share it with, and they feel isolated, alone in the midst of a crowd. Experiencers think differently than most and this can cause depression. They want to go back into the spirit world of their experience. They want to leave this physical world, but they know they must continue their life and fulfill their purpose.
So begins the period of integration, blending the knowledge of the spirit world with the physical world. In my case it took a little over three years with help from experiencers who had already integrated their experiences. It is sadly true that some never truly integrate and live a reclusive life until their time comes to pass into the spiritual world naturally.
Now I would like to write on the process of why we think so differently and the process of integration using my own experience combined with some of the experience of close friends of mine.
I want to start by showing you a recent letter I received from a person going through integration:
Leroy, Supposedly there are a lot of us around, but we seem pretty scarce to me. I do know one man not too far from me who had a much more in depth NDE than mine. We have been in touch occasionally and that is a help.
My NDE happened 9 years ago this April after heart surgery. It was brief as the nurse taking care of me had atropine close by and restarted my heart in about one or two minutes.
I have gotten advice and counsel from such as PMH Atwater who responds to emails. When I first got home from the hospital, the light bulbs in our house began to blow out and would blow again as quickly as we would replace them. She helped with that craziness.
Since then, I have had many other after effects. Dr. Greyson suggested that I choose carefully the people that I share these with. His explanation is that some people are more opened up to the NDE.
It’s these things that I have wanted to talk with other experiencers about. I am a RN but my first degree was in psychology. It sounds crazy even to me. I found a wonderful psychologist who was not scared by the NDE and has been such a help to me, mainly by telling me that I am sane.
I share my NDE with anyone who wants to hear about it, but I keep the rest to myself. Does any of this sound like what you have gone through?
Yes, and much more “craziness” I have seen and heard from other experiencers. I hope to talk about these things that you won’t read about in published near death experiences or in the research being done on them. Experiencers, like the person above, “keep the rest to themselves.”
You may believe, or not. This writing is intended to provide information for those that are curious and want to know more about near death experiences. They are important glimpses into the spirit world.
More to come.
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