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It was another dreadfully cold and snowy Monday in Indianapolis; a town far away from home and a place I truly despised. I did not have family near by and I was in a terrible marriage. On that November 15, 1993, the fear of cancer was added to my already, unsettled life and the only option was surgery.
As I woke up in the recovery room, I heard a voice telling me that there was no cancer. Shortly thereafter, I realized something was very wrong. There were many alarmed voices and fast moving bodies huddling over me. I was crying out, “WHAT IS WRONG?,” yet no one would answer. I reached for someone, but my arms would not move. My vision failed me and I could only hear faint voices, the most prominent one stating, “Her blood pressure is dropping, oh my God, we are losing her, get the ventilator!” Panic began to overcome me and I screamed, “PLEASE, HELP ME!”
A beautiful, luminous light appeared. It was so pretty and peaceful looking. As I slowly walked towards the light, I could feel a glorious warmth on my face. It made me feel content and happy for the first time in years and I wanted to stay there forever. However, I heard many noises behind me and turned back. I could see the doctors and nurses working on my lifeless body. At this point, going towards the light was so easy compared to my complicated life.
Once again, I turned to walk into the light and this time I heard some familiar voices behind me. As I turned to look, I could hear my children crying, “Mommy, please don’t leave us!” Both of them were reaching out for me. There was a beautiful light on one side and my children on the other, what to do?
The next thing I remember was opening my eyes and the light was replaced with a green wall. The voice I heard was a nurse telling me, “welcome back.” I had been in a coma for three days.
This experience changed my life. I made many changes and now my children and I are very happy. Sometimes, I can not believe I had to think about the choice of the light or my children, but I am thankful for the choice I made.
Has anyone else ever had to make such a choice during their NDE? Was this a voluntary return or just not my time yet? –T.
This video is part 2 of a series of videos about Howard Storm.
It’s full title is “Near Death Experiences & Atheism part 2 of 5 apologetics.” I decided to post only this video of the series, but the others can be found on YouTube if you wish to view them. I am writing a few posts on Atheism and near death experiences. This video fits right in.
This video is also an example of a not so positive near death experience, which illustrates if you need help just call for it.
When the near death experiencer returns to his body, and recovers from whatever trauma caused his near death experience his perception of life is changed forever. The change is for the good of the individual. Atheists and agnostics become believers, not in religion, but in spirituality. It is now understood that life continues after the death of the body.
If there were some way to safely induce NDEs, we could change the world, in just a few years, from fear and violence, to love and compassion. It would truly be heaven on earth. But NDEs can not be induced, they happen only after the body and brain are clinically dead.
The near death experience heals not only the state of mind, it also heals the state of the body. Doctors have wondered many times how people could recover from such severe injuries and illnesses, after they were clinically dead. It was the healing experience, the touching of the Light that brought health back. I was told I had only about six months to live when I refused surgery for a heart condition. My near death experience returned me to perfect health, not instantly, but in 18 months. My doctor was astounded by my full recover.
The changed life is caused by a new perception that results from an expansion of consciousness. There is now a much larger picture of the world to consider, one that includes both physical and spiritual dimensions. An experiencer loses the desire for material wealth, the goal now is to improve spiritually and to help others in the process. Narrow personal goals just don’t matter anymore. Old beliefs taught in childhood are no longer held true. Actually, most previous beliefs, and perspectives taught in religion, and science of the world at large are no longer considered valid. There is a shift from believing to experience.
The desire is to learn through experience. To learn to love yourself and all others. To show kindness, caring, and compassion to everyone. In the beginning it is not easy to do, much practice is needed, and it is a long path filled with bumps and shallows. The near death experience has clearly shown the benefits of love, and the experience has taken away the fear of dying. Death does not exist, and to not fear death means to not fear life either. There is a sense of freedom and peace not known before. A joy of living a good physical life.
Most near death experiencers are so excited and motivated by their experience they want to tell everyone about it. However, they quickly found many individuals were frightened or threatened by the telling of their experience. So they learn to “keep quite” about what they had seen and heard during the time they were clinically dead. Not so much now, but over 20 years ago it was difficult to find someone to talk to about the experience. There was a tendency to believe the experience was just an hallucination, or dream. Today, people are more open to the experience having read about it or viewed it in the media.
It still takes considerable time for an experiencer to assimulate and fully understand what just happened to them. It took me over three years to come to grips with my experience and to feel comfortable living in the physical world. I made contact with some other experiencers and we formed a group that proved mutually beneficial.
Still today, after 30 years of clear, solid near death experience research, there are those who wrongly believe the near death experience is just an hallucination. I believe this is due mainly to the misinformation taught by science that there exists only the physical dimension, and anything else is nonsense. Of course science has no proof of this teaching.
The quote below was taken from the “Near Death After Effects” of this site. I believe the list to be an accurate description of the results of a near death experience.
–Strong decrease or complete loss of the fear of death as the result of their NDEs.
–Believe that there is life after death.
–NDErs, including suicide attempters do not generally attempt to take their lives again.
–Spiritual growth, a loving attitude, knowing a Higher Power/God, inner peace and a sense of purpose in life characterize the changes most meaningful to NDErs.
–Strong increase in their concern for others, and that life has meaning or purpose.
–Increase in psychic phenomena or healing abilities following their NDEs.
–Greater ecological sensitivity and planetary concern.
–Increased physical sensitivity, diminished tolerance to light, alcohol and drugs.
–The average NDEr comes to regard him or herself as “an immortal soul currently resident within a material form so lessons can be learned while sojourning in the earthplane.”
–A feeling that the brain has been “altered” to encompass “more”, and a feeling that one is now using the “whole brain” rather than just a small part.
–Energy surges up and down the body happen to many, and can be accompanied by “lights” in the air. Researchers usually regard this as the release of “kundalini” (a Sanskrit term meaning “coiled energy at the base of the spine”).
–Electrical sensitivity refers to a condition whereby the forcefield or energy around an individual affects nearby electrical equipment and technological devices.
Miracles happen all the time, and in all places. They have become so common we sometimes dismiss them as chance, or call them luck. Disbelievers may call them a fortuitous event or circumstance. But whatever they may be called they are there in our lives everyday.
Miracles come in all sizes from very small to very large, however there is no order of difficulty in Miracles. There are no chance happenings in life, everything happens for a reason and has a purpose. But we may not understand that reason or purpose at the time it happens.
I ordered an external hard drive for my computer a week ago, when the drive came I took it out of the box and set it by my computer. I threw the box in a trash bin beside my house. When I went out later I noticed the trash had been picked up, but the box the hard drive had came in was on the front lawn where it had fallen out of the trash bin during the pickup. So I returned it to the trash bin.
Later, I was to discover that the hard drive wouldn’t work. Upon calling the store I bought it from I was told to send it back in the original box if I wanted a refund. It was a miracle that I still had the box.
The placebo effect is a miracle; the spontaneous remission of disease is a miracle; the flight of the bumblebee is a miracle; answered prayer is a miracle; the near death experience is a miracle; the changed lives it causes are a miracle; and life itself is a miracle.
We humans formulate “laws of nature” falsely thinking we know all about nature. When certain events “break” those laws of nature man has formulated, there is a rush not to revise the laws, but to discredit the event. These events are the miracles of life. Enjoy the wonder of miracles, be an observer of life.
