Near death experiences (NDE) are very intriguing, so much so that there are loads of books written on this topic. I have read a few myself. I am as interested as the next person in reading, listening or watching people recount their personal account of momentarily going to toward the other side, of going into the white light.
Accounts of NDEs seem to give the audience as much comfort as the actual person who describes his/her experiences as a profound epiphany. What I have found is that while there are many common similarities of people's journeying through the light or leaving the body and floating above the ceiling, there are on the other hand lots of personal differences.
Eben Alexander, M.D a neurosurgeon wrote a book "Proof of Heaven" about his NDE while in a coma for seven days. It was published in 2012. I found the book in a bookshop in Melbourne and the words on the back cover "....a moving account of facing death, and a compelling case for rate survival of consciousness beyond the demise of the body" were enough for me to want to read this book, so I bought it. While his physical body was totally under the control of a terrible bacteria his spirit or soul was we over the Other Side having the most surreal experiences. Here is a doctor, who is a science based man experiencing a NDE. It is up to the readers to decide whether it feels right for them, whether it fits their perception or not of the after life. There are medical colleagues who have been most critical and unbelieving of his story stating that his experiences were due to his brain state etc.
Another NDE account that had an impact on me was one I watched on a TV show one afternoon. I do not normally watch daytime TV but on this day it was on and my ears pricked up when the them of this show was NDEs so I continued to sit in my chair, it had my attention! This particularly story was shared by a middle aged man:
To me there are NDEs, experienced by so many people, confirming that there is a greater universal force, a connectedness and oneness to a universal Divinity, to a bigger picture that we humans are part of. I have not had a NDE, I can only read and listen to others, all part of my own journey of growing self-awareness. I believe in life after death.
Happiness guys.
Cheers
I am reading journeys out of the body now by Robert A. Monroe interesting indeed. I heard Terence Mckenna say he got a Buddhist monk to smoke DMT, he said 'this takes you to the place, where if you went any further, you would not be able to return' and you hear people speak of this 'waiting room' all the time. Even Monroe in his book speaks of a waiting room place that you can travel to as an astral projection.
I am not sure what DMT is? I will look Robert A. Monroe up, the waiting room place and astral projection both sound very inviting to read. Thank you.
DMT is a plant extract, chemical is also found in humans in smaller amounts... Di-Methyl-tryptamine. Botanist Terence Mckenna talks a lot about it. The scientist that first did experiments with it called it 'the spirit molecule'. basicaslly if you smoke it, it gives an out of body experience and people often talk to dead relatives or feel that they visit this 'waiting room' before heaven. all sorts of other very strange and unusual stuff, but yeah I remember when I came across Eben Alexander's stuff I found it fascinating as well.
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Howdy angiemitchell! oh this is so real. There have been so many accounts where the people died and told of things going on in other parts of the hospital at the time that they were being operated on and unconscious and things like that, I know you've read about those also, it's irrefutable proof.
And so many great accounts of people going to heaven, just inspiring.
Knowing that there is life after death is a comforting feeling isn't it? I have a friend who has had a NDE, she talks of the incredible feeling of love that pervaded her whole being.
yes Ma'am angiemitchell I hear that alot, it's quite amazing and comforting!