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A brief theoretical experience;

A man is dying and as he reaches the point of great physical distress, he hears himself pronounced dead by his doctor.  He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing, and at the same time feels himself moving very rapidly through a long dark tunnel, After this, he suddenly finds himself outside of his own physical body, but still in the immediate physical environment, and he sees his own body from a distance, as though he is a spectator.  He watches the resuscitation attempt from this unusual vantage point and is in a state of emotional upheaval.

After a while, he collects himself and becomes more accustomed to his odd condition.
He notices that he still has a “body” but one of a very different nature and with very different powers from the physical body he has left behind. Soon other things begin to happen. Others come to meet and to help him.  He glimpses the spirits of relatives and friends who have already died, and a loving warm spirit of a kind he has never encountered before - a being of light - appears before him.  This being asks him a question, non-verbally, to make him evaluate his life and helps him along by showing him a panoramic, instantaneous playback of the major events of his life.

At some point he finds himself approaching some sort of barrier or border, apparently representing the limit between earthly life and the next life.  Yet, he finds that he must go back to earth, that the time for his death has not yet come.  At this point he resists, for by now he is taken up with his experiences in the afterlife and does not want to return.  He is overwhelmed by intense feelings of joy, love and peace.  Despite his attitude, though, he somehow reunites with his physical body and lives.

Later he tries to tell others, but he has trouble doing so.  In the first place, he can find no human words to adequately describe these unearthly episodes. he also finds that others scoff, so he stops telling other people. Still, the experience affects his life profoundly, especially his views about death and its relationship to life.

Many people describe extremely pleasant feelings and sensations during the early stages of their experiences.  After severe head injury, one man’s vital signs were undetectable.  

As he says,  At the point of injury there was momentary flash of pain, but then all the pain vanished.  I had the feeling of floating in a dark space. The day was bitterly cold, yet while I was in that blackness all I felt was warmth and the most extreme comfort I have ever experienced.....I remember thinking “I must be dead”
A woman who was resuscitated after a heart attack remarks,

I began to experience the most wonderful feelings. I couldn’t feel a thing in the world except peace, comfort, ease-just quietness.  I felt that all my troubles were gone, and I thought to myself, “Well how quiet and peaceful, and I don’t hurt at all”
                                                                                                               
               

Another man recalls;

I just had a nice, great feeling of solitude and peace....It was beautiful, and I was at such peace of mind.


A man who “died” after wounds suffered in Viet Nam, says that, as he was hit he felt; great attitude of relief.  There was no pain, and I’ve never felt so relaxed.  I was at ease and it was all good.

Many have experienced meeting others.

One woman recalls; I had this experience when I was giving birth to a child.  The delivery was very difficult, and I lost alot of blood. The doctor gave me up, and told my relatives that I was dying.  However, I was quiet alert through the whole thing, even as I heard him saying this I felt myself coming to.  As I did, I realised that all these people were there, almost in multitudes it seems, hovering around the ceiling of the room.  

They were all people I had known in my past life, but who had passed on before. I recognised my grandmother and a girl I had known when I was in school, and many other relatives and friends.  It seems that I mainly saw their faces and felt their presence.  

They all seemed pleased.  It was a very happy occasion, and I felt that they had come to protect or to guide me. It was almost as if I were coming home, and they were there to greet or to welcome me.  All this time, I had the feeling of everything light and beautiful.  It was a beautiful and glorious moment.


Many religious people will pray when some loved person is near death, in a few instances, persons have expressed the feelings that the love or prayers of others have in effect puled them back from death regardless of their own wishes.

 

One woman recalls;

I was with my elderly aunt during her last illness, which was very drawn out,.  I helped take care of her, and all the time everyone in the family was praying for her to regain her health.  She stopped breathing several times, but they brought her back.  Finally one day she looked over to me and said  “Joan, I have been over there, over to the beyond and it is beautiful over there and I want to stay, but I can’t as long as you keep praying for me to stay with you.  Your prayers are holding me over here. Please don’t pray anymore”  We did all stop, and shortly after that she died
                                                                                                              
Reading these many experiences, there was little difference in the belief system of the cases I read in books, the only thing was; a person who was religious, knew it was God, the others, who were not religious referred to love and light.

Ancient Egypt

Within my research I have encountered the legend of Ancient Egypt.  The giant pyramid of Giza, has a shaft that reaches to the constellation Orion, they believe this to be the gate to the after-life, and the Milky Way is the ‘river of the dead’.  Souls enter through the gate of death, to be transferred into the after-life.

Long before I ever read about the Milky Way, being the after-life, somehow I already knew this.  As a child I always looked at the stars, and knew this to be where the people who died went!!

Another interesting area of my research, is where Jesus refers to (in the Aquarian Gospel) all the secrets of life and death will be found in Egypt.