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I felt as if I was floating in a bright, very comforting light, and I could hear a type of musical sound—not like anything I have ever heard here on earth before. I felt a “peace” descend upon me that I had never experienced, before or since. The word “peace” is inadequate; it doesn’t even come close to describing what I felt—the “peace that passes all understanding.”
In an instant, the pain was gone. There was a bright white light, a floating sensation and the feeling of peace. He heard voices below him. He looked down to see the patient on the operating table and the doctor trying to revive him. Suddenly, he realized that he was staring down at himself. There was a fleeting thought that he didn’t want to be dead; he wanted to be alive. A pulling sensation startled him and he was back in his body. Alive again.
I flipped through your web site and thought it very interesting, because like many who have had a NDE you often feel alone, or even crazy sometimes.
Mine happened when I was 23 (10 years ago), and I remember it like it happened yesterday. I shared a bedroom with my twin sister, and she and I had twin beds.
I was sleeping when all of a sudden, I felt my body sliding down this long slide. I started to become scared, and as I went deeper down, I saw poltergeists and such trying to catch me, they really didn’t have faces but where scary anyway. On the sides I saw burning flames, when I stopped I saw a huge TV with pictures flashing really fast with all these big destructive bad things, like abortion, earthquakes, volcanoes, wars with dead bodies everywhere, the Holocaust. Then I realized I was in a place I really didn’t want to be so I started praying for God to help me out of there.
Then all of a sudden my body was lifted up and I was in a gray tunnel, I was at a 45 degree angle and kept floating higher and higher. I didn’t feel scared anymore and felt at peace, felt weightless as I drifted towards a bright light. The closer I got to the light, the more peaceful I felt, then I heard young boys singing, like the Tabernacle Choir, and wind chimes. It was the most beautiful sound I ever heard in my life.
As I drew closer to the light, I came upon a Gold Gate, then a man in a white robe with a gold belt appeared, he reached his hand out to me and asked me if “I was ready?” I told him no, that I thought I was too young, had too much in life to do yet, then I literally dropped back into my body.
When I realized what happened, if it was a dream but yet seemed so real, I cried. I cried for Jesus and how he sacrificed himself so unselfishly for us, now I knew that the most important thing in life was LOVE, that it was the only thing that mattered.
I hope that this story adds some difference, in that I believe I went to Hell, then Heaven and not many people who have had a NDE claim to have done that.
I do believe there’s a hereafter. I used to pooh-pooh all that otherworld stuff, but I’ve had six patients in my career have near-death experiences and come back—and they all told the same story. And they never feared death after that. I don’t make light of that stuff anymore, I’ve just seen too much. It’s just another interesting facet of this life.