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Transcendent Experiences

NDE

We live in a world filled with acronyms.  FBI, ATM, RSVP, NBA, NFL, CIA, DOS, FTP, HTTP...Yowsah!  (That's a technical term meaning "wow.")

In some ways YHWH is an acronym, which stands for the entire Universe and all domains within it.

My life would take yet another utterly unanticipated turn when I began to study NDE.

As near as I can tell I've always had these visions...glimpses...like mental pictures that flash for a second and were gone...like trying to remember a word or a name that's just "on the tip of your tongue."

Pictures, feelings, impressions...of a place, so real, so MUCH more real than here...Our real home.

You see, I know how it feels to die.  "It slips through into the very depths of my soul."  I have been to the next world.  I remember it.

NDE stands for Near Death Experiences.

In common conversation you will often hear people say something to the effect of "But no one has ever come back from the dead to tell us what it is like..."  Statistically, nothing could be farther from the truth.  All across the world, in every continent, across all religions and traditions, literally hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of people have died and come back to tell about it.  

Clinically dead.  No EEG (brain), no EKG (heart), no pulse, no vital signs whatsoever, at all.   Declared really, totally, clinically, fully, and legally dead.  Sheet over the head, stuffed into the morgue, turn-out-the-lights-the-party's-over, dead.

And have come back to life.

Many of the larger hospitals actually have staff to talk with the newly resurrected.  

Council them.

Interview them.

Record what they have seen.

And while each and every experience is individually personal, there are common elements that cross all statistical boundaries.  No single person has all the elements, but the common aspects of the Near Death Experience are:

• The departed finds themselves floating above their body.  
• They often hear the voices of those in attendance, and have been able to successfully report the statements made.  Some can even report the exact minute they were declared dead.
• They "turn around", and see a black tunnel.  They enter the tunnel.
• In the tunnel they experience no pain.  Sometimes they float, sometimes run, sometimes fly.  
• And as they move through the tunnel they often report a feeling of freedom and perfect bliss.  And a change of state-of-being, as though they are moving through and to a world more real than the earth-plane they have just left.
• At the end of the tunnel is a light that grows in brilliance and (sometimes) geometric complexity.  
• When they reach the end of the tunnel the light becomes all-consuming.  
• There they are usually met by a loved one.  Sometimes a dead departed (Mom, child, Grandpa), sometimes a religious figure (Jesus, Buddha, God).
• Their life is reviewed in full 3-d, complete with all sights, sounds, smells, and thoughts and feelings.  The review appears to happen instantaneously.
• Sometimes there is a second review, where the person experiences their life from the perspective of all the people around them.
• For some, the experience is quite hellish.
• And then "The Voice" speaks to them.  Some report gaining spiritual insight, some have a vision of the future, some are given clear instructions for their remaining mission.
• They are sometimes given a choice, sometimes simply told that they must go back.
• Some fly through the tunnel, some have to search for their body, some just find themselves jolting-alive in their body.

This list is hardly exhaustive.  There have been many, many books and articles written on this, many from reputable scientists and physicians.  And if you are really interested you can read them for yourself.

All I can tell you is that I as did this research, and read more and more of these accounts, I found people describing with words exactly the visions, glimpses and mental images I've had for nearly as long as I can remember.

I have simply always "known" that death is nothing more than stepping out of the physical body, much like abandoning a broken-down car by the highway.

There has never been any fear in me about the next world.  Odd as it may sound to you, when life gets tough I have regularly found comfort in the assurance that someday it will all be over, and I'm going back.

Back home.

To Heaven.

Also known as the Astral World.

And you do not need to have a NDE in order to experience this.  When I started reading about the people who claimed to have the ability to leave their body here and now, and travel through the "next world", I realized that their tale was essentially similar to both the accounts of the NDE survivors and my own personal "memories." 

What can I tell you, Dear Reader?  What words of wisdom, insight or comfort can I offer you?  How can I possibly relate this to my devout Christian faith?  Or yours?

The "Transcendent Experiences" for me have not been the memories or mental pictures I'd had for so long, but rather reading verbal accounts from the NDE and the Astral Travelers that are so oddly consonant with those images.

I have the impression of having had all of those experiences myself.  Including experiences which I could only call Astral Projection.  Oh, so you want me to describe it?  Go get one of the countless books on the subjects.  They essentially all say the same things.  It's all in there.

Call it imagination.  Go ahead and say that all of this delusion has been planted into my head by demons.  Hold on to the fantasy (and statistical error) that these people weren't really dead.

You can draw your own conclusions.

But on your way to casting your Judgment Day vote against my soul, pause to ask yourself just one question...Why are you still reading this?

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