Online, I found a fascinating website for the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF), https://www.nderf.org/index.htm. Researchers at NDERF collect NDEs from around the world. I thought you might be interested in reading more about this group.
The website has a lot of information, but you have to look for it. One place to start is by reading the “Frequently asked Questions,” FAQs page, https://www.nderf.org/faqs.htm. Here you will find answers to questions such as, “Do you think that hospice patients who see deceased relatives are merely hallucinating on morphine?” and “Are there any medical or emotional explanations for NDE, such as lack of oxygen to the brain or images produced from fear chemicals of a dying brain?”
Or, you can start by reading about actual experiences on the “Exceptional Experiences” page at https://www.nderf.org/Archives/exceptional.html.
Here are few of the stories from people I know:
Rhonda Gibony-Harford:
“I had a car accident and when I walked through the Light, I had a life/death experience. Walking through the Light was like trying to stare into the sun. When I walked through that Light I met a woman who said, ‘Come walk with me.’ I remember the beginning of the experience and I remember the end, I don’t remember anything in between. In the beginning of the experience, she told me I was okay, I was fine. There was a beautiful, peaceful brook. At the end, I remember there were a lot of people I knew and it looked like we were in ancient Greece, although I knew we weren’t actually in Greece. There were pillars for the house, but no ceiling. There were animals everywhere, including dogs and horses. I have a gift with cats and I know that they are my protectors. I know that I have lion cats who sometimes sit around me, but are not always here. I knew people on the other side, but I couldn’t tell you who they were. At the end of the experience, she told me it was not my time and that I had to make a choice. I could either stay or go back. She told me that I had not yet done my greatest work. I asked about the guy I had been with in the accident and about his children who had also been in the accident. As soon as I thought about them, whoosh!, I was out of there and I was waking up.”
Richard Schickel has had three NDEs and described two of them this way:
“The first time was when I was five years old and had an out-of-body experience. I was in a children’s ward at the Cook County Contagious Disease Hospital. Because I was contagious, I was in a ward where the children had been taken away from their parents. I could see myself laying in my bed while I was floating up by the ceiling. A silver cord was attached to the base of my spine. A lot of children were dying and I could see myself just laying there. I remember a large white presence off to my right and then I was told that I could float around for a while, but that I had to go back to the body on the bed.
“When I was 12 or 13 years old, I nearly drowned on a rafting trip. I was caught in a hole under a rock under the water. That was the first time I saw my life flashing before me; like a wide-screen movie. It was scary. Then I felt them grab my ass and push me up. There have been three or four times when I could have died, but I just didn’t die. People have ‘exit points’ throughout their lives when they can die, but they don’t die because it is just not their time.
“After the three near-death experiences I have had, I realize it is just a natural thing. Nothing to be afraid of. You are just afraid for the people who are left and you worry about how they will react. It’s a win-win situation for the dead person.”
Ruth Red Eagle shared:
“When my mother passed over, it was totally different. A couple of days before, she stopped taking her medication. She had a low blood sugar and she crossed over. She came back with the biggest smile on her face. She said, ‘Oh my G-d, Ruth, you have no idea. It is so beautiful!’ ‘Yeah, mom, I know.’ She said, ‘You don’t understand! How can you come back here when you know all the love and devotion and beauty and light? The love is so powerful. The peace is so powerful.’ She added, ‘How can I come back to all these regular human beings after I’ve been over there?’ Then she asked me, ‘Is it okay if I go home?’ I said, ‘Of course you can go home, Mom.’ Of course you can go home."
Finally, John Hunter told me:
“When I left my body, I went into a room with other beings and I was educated. This was a quick, efficient process. My time there was limited because I had to go back into my body while it was still able to function. I went to this not-very-fancy little room. People were just sitting there. I received a download of information. That was enough. I had to go back – time sensitive.”
I often heard from people who had been through near-death experiences that dying didn’t hurt, it was coming back into their body which hurt. When they died, they felt light-weight and extremely peaceful. Coming back into their dense bodies, which had been ill or in accidents, was very painful.
To read more stories like these, check out the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation site.
Feel free to tell me about your NDE. I love hearing these stories.
Gail
gail@MyPsychicSearch.com