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The most common descriptions I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever) looking at their body. They usually can't understand why the other people in the room are so upset because they feel so wonderful. The overall sensation is one of exhilaration rather than dread.
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Dolores Cannon (Between Death & Life: Conversations with a Spirit)
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I was surrounded by ripples and cascades of Light, rising and falling all around me, like immense waves in the middle of a huge ocean. I was a tiny girl-child, newborn.
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Cristael Ann Bengtson (Sacred Light Spirit Eagle: My Visionary Life and Near Death Experience)
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An NDE gives a person a conscious experience of a dimension in which time and distance play no role, in which past and future can be glimpsed, where they feel complete and healed, and where they experience unlimited knowledge and unconditional love. The life changes that follow mainly spring from the insight that love and compassion for oneself, for others, and for nature are major prerequisites of life. Following an NDE people realize that everything and everyone is connected, that every thought has an effect on both oneself and others, and that our consciousness continues beyond physical death.
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Ervin Laszlo (The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field)
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I found myself whirling around and falling down and down. My life memories were spinning around me, flashing like thousands of brilliant pictures with bright cascading colors like a thousand tiny kaleidoscopes...
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Cristael Ann Bengtson (Sacred Light Spirit Eagle: My Visionary Life and Near Death Experience)
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So my biggest message (inspired by both my NDE and the life and teachings of my dear friend) is to live your life as an exercise in creativity, as if every discovery, every artistic exploration, matters in the cosmic tapestry of life—because it does. Follow your heart as you exuberantly combine the riot of colors the universe lays before you to make your life into your own masterpiece. You may be surprised by your creation. As when we listen to or play beautiful music, our goal is not to get to the end of the piece. The point is to enjoy the melodious, joyous journey the music takes us on, including the very first note and every single one that comes after it.
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Anita Moorjani (What If This Is Heaven?: How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth)
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Eli’s theory on the causation of EOness was there, but Lyne had added his own notes on the circumstances and factors used to identify a potential EO. To near death experiences the professor had added a term Eli had heard him use before, Post-Traumatic Death Disorder, or the psychological instabilities resulting from the NDE, and another one that must be new, Rebirth Principle, or the patients' desire either to escape the life they had before, or to redefine themselves based on their ability.
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Victoria E. Schwab (Vicious (Villains, #1))
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The newfound insight pertains to what matters in everyday life: acceptance of and unconditional love for oneself (including acceptance of one’s dark side), others, and nature. It also pertains to insight into connectedness: everything and everybody is connected. Because of this sense of connectedness, some people describe the NDE as an experience of unity. They speak of a “cosmic law” in which everything they do to another person will ultimately have an effect on them too, and this applies to both love and affection and violence and aggression.
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Pim van Lommel (Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience)
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Belli ki birisi piramitleri akılda bulundurmamızı istemiş çünkü piramit sembolü düzenli olarak ellediğimiz ya da gözlemlediğimiz şeylerde dikkat çekici bir biçimde yer alıyor. Herhangi bir gün içinde piyasada iki milyardan fazla bir dolarlık banknot dolaşır. Yüzyılın büyük bir bölümünde Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nde içilen sigaraların yarısı Camel idi, yani yılda aşağı yukarı otuz milyar. Piramitlerin modern çağın en popüler iki nesnesini süslemesinin rastlantısal bir seçim olma ihtimali zayıf. Birisi dolaların ve sigaraların geniş çapta dolaşımda olacağını biliyordu ve piramitlerin de onlarla birlikte gezmesini sağlamıştı. Orijinal yapılardan mesafe ve zaman nedeniyle ayrı düşen bir kültüre piramitlerin, eğer almasını öğrenirsen bize verecek değerli bir şeye sahip oldukları hatırlatılacaktı.
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Gerçek hükümetler gece geç saatlerde, İran halılarının en zengin örnekleriyle döşeli penceresiz odalarda yıllanmış konyaklar ve Havana puroları içerek toplantı yapıyorlardı.
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Yirminci yüzyılın son çeyreğinin anonim barbarları gibi-
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Hakikat tınısı seslerin en güzelidir; gerçi kimi kadınlar yatakta kesinlikle onunla boy ölçüşecek gürültüler çıkarır.
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Berberiler şuna inanırdı: Mezarda bellek bulunmadığına göre defin yığınından alınan toprak insanın üzüntülerini, bilhassa mutsuz aşkın yol açtığı kalp kırıklığını unutmasına yardımcı olabilirdi.
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Esasen kitle güdülerini düzenlemek, yönlendirmek ve tatmin etmek üzere tasarlanmış bu toplumda insanın birey olarak sahip olduğu sessiz bölgelere sunulacak ne var? Din? Sanat? Doğa? Hayır, kilise, dini standart bir halk gösterisine dönüştürmüştür, müze de aynısını sanat için yapmıştır. Grand Canyon ile Niagara Şelaleleri'ne o kadar çok bakılmıştır ki, bu yerler bitkin düşmüş çok fazla sayıda aptal göz tarafından emilerek içleri boşaltılmıştır. İnsanın birey olarak sahp olduğu sessiz bölgelere sunulacak ne var? Geceyarısı kağır tabaka soğuk tavuk kemiğine ne dersiniz, emriniz doğrultusunda uzayan ya da kısalan alev rengi ruja ne dersiniz, hiç tanımadığınız bir "kuş" tarafından terk edilmiş suni köpükten bir kuş yuvasına ne dersiniz, sağanak yağmurda arabayla evinize giderken birbirini boş yere izleyen bir çift sileceğe ne dersiniz, sinemada koltuğun altından ayakkabınıza değen bir şeye ne dersiniz, körelmiş kurşunkalemlere, şirin çatallara, tombul küçük radyolara, kutular dolusu kravata ve küvet başında duran banyo köpüklerine ne dersiniz? Evet otistik görüş ile deneysel dünya arasındaki bağı kuran, bu şeylerdir, bu uçurtma ipleridir, zeytinyağı şişeleridir ve meyveli şeker ezmeleriyle dolu Sevgililer Günü kalpleridir. Bu şeyleri hakiki gizemli ışıklarında göstermektir Ay'ın amacı.
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İnsan vücudundan büyük nesneler aleni olma niteliği taşır.
Ay, bir şey ne kadar aleni olabilirse o kadar alenidir. Fakat Ay, mahremiyet duygusu uyandırmakta nadiren başarısızlığa uğrar.
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Aramak, akılsız, nevrotik, deliye dönmüş bir halde ya da korkakça yapıldığında bir saklanma biçimi olabilir.
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-Sen de benim düşündüğümü mü düşünüyorsun?
-Sanmam. Domates kelimesinin kökenini düşünüyordum.
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Haliyle çok yağmur yağıyordu. Meşhur Seattle yağmuru. Aşk, kalıcı olacaksa ayaklarının ıslanmasına hazırlıklı olmalıydı.
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Mutlu bir çocukluğa sahip olmak için asla geç değil.
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Tom Robbins (Still Life with Woodpecker)
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The experience induced by psychoactive substances is often surprisingly similar to a near-death experience, especially in the case of DMT although, depending on the dosage, confusing or frightening perceptions may also occur. These substance-induced experiences include the following elements: a sense of detachment from the body, out-of-body experiences, lucid and accelerated thought, an encounter with a being of light, a sense of unconditional love, being in an unearthly environment, access to a profound wisdom, and wordless communication with immaterial beings. Sometimes the characteristic post-NDE transformation, including the loss of the fear of death, is also reported after administration of DMT or LSD.22 It is a new and surprising hypothesis that DMT, which occurs naturally in the body, could play an important role in the experience of an enhanced consciousness during near-death experiences. Perhaps DMT, its release triggered or stimulated by events in our consciousness, lifts our body’s natural inhibitions against experiencing an enhanced consciousness, as if it is able to block or disrupt the interface between consciousness and our body (and brain).
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Pim van Lommel (Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience)
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A Typical Description of an NDE (Near Death Experience)
I asked Ring to describe for me a typical NDE. He told me:
The first thing is a tremendous feeling of peace, like nothing else you have experienced. Most people say like never before and never again. People say [that it is] the peace that passes all understanding. Then there is the sense of bodily separation and sometimes the sense of actually being out of the body. There are studies that show that people can sometimes report veridically what is in their physical environment, e.g., the lint on the light fixtures above themselves. They could see in a three-hundred-sixty-degree panoramic vision. They had extraordinary acuity. Often when they went further into the experience, they went to a dark place that is sometimes described as a tunnel, but not always. They usually feel that there is a sense of motion; that they are moving through something that is vast almost beyond imagination. And yet they feel they don't have the freedom to go anywhere. They feel as if they were being propelled.
The extreme sense of motion often seems to be one of acceleration. Some describe that they have felt as if they were moving a the speed of light or faster. One NDEr described this as superluminal-moving beyond the speed of light with tremendous accelerated motion through a kind of cylindrical vortex, and then, in the distance, the person describes a dot of light that suddenly grows larger, more brilliant, and all encompassing.
Ring continued:
At this stage of the experience there is an encounter with light. It seems to be a living light exuding pure love, complete acceptance, and total understanding. The individual feels that he is made of that light, that he has always been there, and that he has stepped out of time and stepped into eternity. This feeling is accompanied by a sense of absolute perfection.
Being out of time introduces another aspect of the experience: a sense of destiny. Ring explained:
Then there is a panoramic light review in which you see everything that has ever happened to you in your life. Not [only] just what you have done but the effects of your actions on others, the effects of your thoughts on others. The whole thing is laid out for you without being judged but with a complete understanding of why things were the way they were in your life. The best metaphor I can suggest for this is: as if you were the character in someone else's novel. There would be one moment outside of time where you would have the perspective of the author of that novel, and you have a sense of omniscience about that character. Why he did the things that he did, why he had affected others, and so on. It is a profound moment outside of time when this realization occurs. You see the whole raison d'etre of your life. You may also see scenes or fragments of scenes of your life if you choose to go back to your body. In other words, it is not only that you have flashbacks but you also seem to have flash-forwards of events that will occur almost at though there is a kind of blueprint for your life. And it is up to you at that moment. You have free choice because it is often left to you whether to go back to your life or to leave it behind. The people we talk with of course always make the choice to go back or sometimes are sent back.
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Fred Alan Wolf (The Dreaming Universe: A Mind-Expanding Journey into the Realm Where Psyche and Physics Meet)
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During my NDE, the realization that we are all connected was so strong that even if I had thought about someone who was a murderer or child abuser—someone whom I hated and felt utter contempt for in physical life—I would have felt nothing but total understanding and compassion for them in that expanded state. In fact, I would have felt empathy for the pain that caused them to choose that path in the first place, and I would have felt complete, unconditional love for both the perpetrator and their victims. My NDE enabled me to understand that people hurt others either out of ignorance or because they are in pain, or because they are so disconnected from their true essence that they don’t have the ability to feel emotions (whether that is due to having been abused in some way or because of mental illness).
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Anita Moorjani (What If This Is Heaven?: How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth)
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Because CPR resuscitates thousands today, it is now a commonly known “NDE” or near—death experience, that at the moment of death your whole life passes before you in an instant, with perfect clarity; and in this “life review” everything is seen truly, nothing is covered up. God is apparently sharing a foretaste of His own vision of our life with us, as He will do completely in Purgatory and / or Heaven; and repented and forgiven sins are part of this bitter yet sweet vision. St. Thomas had no CPR, and therefore few NDEs as his data, as we do, but he knew this anyway, if not inductively from data, then deductively from philosophy.
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Peter Kreeft (Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas)
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Life's changes creates confidenc!
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Sue Pighini (Expect the Extraordinary: Angelic Messages, Spiritual Encounters and the Soul of Skye)
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Life's changes creates confidence!
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Sue Pighini (Expect the Extraordinary: Angelic Messages, Spiritual Encounters and the Soul of Skye)
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It takes One... to know One...
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Michael William AngelOh (My NDE beneath the SEA: The Near Death Afterlife Experience of Michael William AngelOh "0828" (1st Printing))
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Kye, Ngbe-gyo, gbe-su. Kye-nb=gbe-ta-wo-nde.”, meaning: Man: To pursue worship, to mature, and become matter without life. Man pursues a cavernous place (i.e. a grave or hole in the ground).
Mandinka script (Clyde Ahmed Winters, Islam in America)
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Anonymous
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Suddenly I was remembering myself, that very night, caring about nothing but getting to Richmond. Was it the same for these people; had their hearts and minds been all concerned with earthly things? I wondered if this was hell. Back to Life The next I saw a city in which the walls, houses, streets, seemed to give off light, while moving among them were beings as blindingly bright.
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Gerard Radcliff (NDE: They Went To Heaven And Back - Stories of People That Got A Second Chance)
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Why didn’t I see my loved ones? Every story I have heard about an NDE involves seeing our loved ones. The answer for this one was simple: “No distractions. You were there for healing, not a reunion.
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Rosemary Thornton (Remembering The Light: How Dying Saved My Life)
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It seems to me the universe continues to be aware of itself after its human form is terminated. The afterlife argument is for egos competing for permanence or annihilation.
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Zzenn Loren
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NDE reports worldwide are striking in their similarity, regardless of a person’s culture, race, gender, sexuality, or religious beliefs. Another commonality is the permanent shift in attitudes and beliefs that follow an NDE. Changes that do not occur with those having reported clinical death who did not also experience an NDE. Most express being more accepting of others and much less tied to the material world, with 75% transitioning into new careers1 and 54% reporting major life changes with follow-up studies 20 years later showing virtually no falloff in the intensity they originally experienced.2
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D.J. Kadagian (The Crossover Experience / Life after Death is Real)
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There had been a time in his life where he was young and innocent and believed in someone greater who was good and loved him. Howard wanted that feeling back that he had betrayed and thrown away.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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Napoleon Hill, perhaps the greatest researcher on success of the 20th century, called this power the “infinite intelligence.” After spending more than 20 years interviewing 500 of the most successful men and women alive in America at that time, he concluded that, without exception, their ability to tap into this higher form of infinite intelligence was the primary reason for their great success in life. Whatever you choose to call it, this power is as available to you at this very minute as it ever has been to anyone, anywhere. I refer to it as the “super-conscious mind,” the mind that is above and outside all other minds or intelligences.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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near death experience is what finally gave Randy the motivation and strength to turn his life around. Seeing what was waiting for him if he changed his ways was so beautiful and peaceful.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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Just before the darkness took over, Mickey abruptly found himself standing in the presence of God. Even though he could not see God, he felt His presence standing beside him. He felt the mercy God offered and an instant understanding that he had eternity; that he would never truly die. He was standing in a river of “golden radiation” that was alive with a current of golden light. He felt the strength of the river going through him and says, “[At that moment], I’m more alive than anyone can imagine. This is the height of the experience of life… Somehow I knew this being was going to take care of me for the rest of my life.” He was filled with God’s love, majesty, and authority. The feeling of God’s nature was vibrating like a tuning fork.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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God explained that the blackness was the historical record of his life. It represented all of the years he had lived in darkness. God gave him the sliver of light as an opportunity to cry out to him. “In that space,” Mickey explains, “it changed my future, my destiny, my whole purpose of living.” Mickey understands that God loved him the whole time and was with him. Mickey now tells his story, saying that waiting until that desperate moment in the spiritual world to make a connection with God is terrifying and a huge risk. Instead, Mickey explains that people should accept God now and form a relationship with him in the physical world.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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Bill had to experience the hopelessness of hell to warn people of its eternal torment. Bill learned that God did not create hell for bad people. Instead, God withdrew his attributes from hell once it was created as a place for the devil and his fallen angels, not man. God’s attributes are everything good in life. Bill explains, “If you want nothing to do with God, there’s a place for you. People send themselves to hell by the rejection of the directions He gives.” Bill says that Jesus allowed him to experience a piece of His heart – the piece that breaks every time someone goes to hell. Bill watched Jesus cry as people fell to hell. Jesus died on the cross so man would not have to experience hell and He cried at the choices of the people that caused them to be sent to hell. He explains God gave people the free will to choose whether or not to follow Him and that he needs to explain to people the importance of following Him. One of the last things Jesus told Bill was, “Tell the people that I am coming very soon.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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roadblocks that kept me from digging further into the NDE. One was not being able to find enough fact-driven data that could satisfy the skeptic in me. The second roadblock was a lack of faith that I could overcome the thought, “If something appears to be too good to be true, it usually is.
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D.J. Kadagian (The Crossover Experience / Life after Death is Real)
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She was told she would face some hardships when she returned but that she must not take her own life. She was told to spread the word that there is nothing to fear on the other side.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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I learned, after the NDE, that I have a choice all the time as to how I want to structure my experience, and I can follow any path I want. It doesn't matter once we cross over to the other side. It simply does not count for ANYTHING.... ever. So why choose a harsh life experience? We don't have to…We use far too much energy trying to live our earthly lives in a way we believe constitutes happiness, but it is such an illusion. I experienced the ease of living without money, status, time,
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D.J. Kadagian (The Crossover Experience / Life after Death is Real)
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She avoids the evil plans set by the dark being by living her life in the light. This choice has improved her life measurably.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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He states that the after–life is under the gaze of God who loves and cares about each of us and about where the universe itself and all the beings with it are ultimately going.
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John J. Graden (Near-Death Experience Series: Books 1-4: Doctors, Suicide Survivors, Children and NDE Trips to Hell (True Near-Death Experiences series))
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After going through an NDE, people reported a loss of fear of death as well as a greater appreciation of life. They also reported stronger feelings of self-acceptance and a greater concern and sense of caring for other people. They had less interest in material things for their own sake. Many tended to become more spiritual - though not necessarily more involved in organized religion.60 Almost all subjects who experienced an NDE found their lives transformed and a change in their attitudes and values, and in their inclination to love and to help others. Dr. Ring was convinced that these were absolutely authentic experiences and noted that since returning, many of them had occasion to think about ‘what might have been.' And their subsequent lives were powerful testimony to our common ability to live more deeply, more appreciatively, more lovingly, and more spiritually.
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Reinerio Hernandez (Vol 1. A Greater Reality: The New Paradigm of Nonlocal Consciousness, the Paranormal & the Contact Modalities (A GREATER REALITY: The New Paradigm of Non-local ... and the Contact Modalities Book 2))
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Faith is hard work. And it is often harder to keep. Yet, for those who have had an NDE, faith is no longer necessary — for them, it is fact. They know there is an afterlife because, as they will tell you, they have experienced that realm first-hand. Many return with stories of meeting a spiritual being — some say they encountered Jesus, some God, and some a pure loving entity. Ninety-six percent tell us that what they experienced was more “real than real.”2 And no one will ever convince them otherwise.
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D.J. Kadagian (The Crossover Experience / Life after Death is Real)
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Life is good and people are good, even when sad things happen.
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Stephen Weber (The Place Between Here and There: A True and Beautiful Near Death Experience)
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The Universe is constantly speaking to us, and as soon as we learn to understand that language, life blossoms like the most exquisite flower.
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Katherine Plant (The Place Between Here and There: A True and Beautiful Near Death Experience)
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By contrast, research into the effects of psychoactive substances such as DMT has found some striking similarities with NDE elements. It is a new and surprising hypothesis that DMT, which occurs naturally in the body, could play an important role in the experience of an enhanced consciousness during NDE. Perhaps DMT lifts the body’s natural inhibitions against the experience of an enhanced consciousness.
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Pim van Lommel (Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience)
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Try to draw an odor using crayons. You can’t even begin to try, no matter how many crayons you have in your box. That’s what it’s like describing NDEs with words. No matter how many words you use, you can’t really describe what an NDE is like. Lying awake in the dark, I tried forming sounds that would explain. Maybe music would do what speech could not. After all, no one can describe the beauty of certain sounds, sounds that move us to action or to tears. Yes, maybe music was the only form of communication that could explain the feelings of peace that never left.
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Bruce Greyson (After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond)
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Like many people, I fear the pain and suffering that the dying often go through. It feels tragic to contemplate leaving behind my loved ones, special places, personal things, travel, work, and all the rich experiences of life in a body on Earth. But I have no fear concerning the kinds of mental experiences I might have during or after my death. After all, even if the NDE is an illusion – a temporary state of wonder and bliss followed by oblivion – it suggests that death will be a gloriously transcendent adventure.
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D.J. Kadagian (The Crossover Experience / Life after Death is Real)