In the typical near death experience, right after becoming aware of being out of body and floating around, a light appears far off down a tunnel. The experiencer begins to gravitate towards that light, enter the tunnel and start going faster and faster toward the light. In the tunnel may be seen others going toward the light also.
The Light is very bright, but doesn’t hurt the eyes to look upon it. Entering the Light the experiencer is surrounded, permeated by the golden Light. The Light has substance, texture, and as it envelopes the experiencer love, caring, and compassion are felt. Total love, unconditional love is heaped upon the experiencer along with total acceptance. The experiencer feels at home, the place he has always belonged, and never wants to leave again.
Questions begin to flow from the experiencer: “Where am I; What am I doing here; Am I dead; Is this heaven; Where is God?” All these questions are immediately answered in a consciousness to consciousness transfer, to ask is to receive. As each question is asked, it is answered, the knowledge of the whole universe, and its full meaning are available. Huge amounts of knowledge pass from the Light to the experiencer. This is the enlightment part of the near death experience. However, when the experiencer returns to his physical body, not all of the knowledge given can be brought back with him. The physical dimension doesn’t have the language, nor the concepts to explain all of what the experiencer learned in the spiritual dimension. But while all is not remembered there is enough retained to change the experiencer’s life forever. His perception of physical life will never be the same again.
Some believe the Light is God, and some don’t. There is a realization that the Light contains everything, all consciousness including themselves, all energy, everything that exists, in both spiritual and physical dimensions. It is All-That-Is, and some call the Light by that name. Some call it the Oneness of all things in which they are a part.
Next, the experiencer will notice “Beings of Light”, coming toward him.
See “Beings of Light.”
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