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What Happens After Near-Death Experiences: Study Reveals A Dark Aftermath From Seeing The Light
Study Finds ^ | Oct. 13, 2025 | Steve Fink

Posted on 10/14/2025 7:49:54 AM PDT by Mean Daddy

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Sarah’s heart stopped for three minutes during surgery. When she came back, everything felt different, just not in the way anyone expected. She returned from what felt like unconditional love, only to find she could not connect with her own husband. The trivial concerns of daily life felt meaningless. Her marriage ended within two years.

Sarah isn’t alone. A new University of Virginia study finds that near-death experiences often bring deep spiritual shifts and can reduce fear of death. They can also strain the closest relationships and leave experiencers feeling isolated in a world that suddenly feels hard to relate to.

Published in Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, the research surveyed 167 people who had near-death experiences. These are episodes reported by people close to death that can include leaving the body, meeting deceased loved ones, or feeling overwhelming peace. Prior work suggests that roughly one in six critically ill patients report such experiences, so they are not rare.

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KEYWORDS: afterlife; kennethring; michaelsabom; nde; neardeath; neardeathexperience; raymoody; wearesouls
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To: Mean Daddy

I like to watch interviews shown by Randy Kay Ministries. He vets them and only presents Christ-honoring NDEs. If you are interested, this is his explanation about what he looks for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzGOtXrNIBQ


101 posted on 10/14/2025 11:30:57 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Sounds similar to movie HEAVEN IS FOR REAL.


102 posted on 10/14/2025 11:34:00 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: real saxophonist

That’s pretty much my experience, too. “Wow, look at my guts! Cool! Look how clear the pic is. What’s that dark spot? Uh oh. I sure cleaned everything out for them. Clean as a whistle.” Then (I think) back to sleep.

The video was as clear as my car’s backup camera, LOL.


103 posted on 10/14/2025 11:59:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Mean Daddy

Yes those that have been through it knows it’s happend to many.


104 posted on 10/14/2025 12:20:02 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: HamiltonJay
"Here’s the twist: the same insights that bring peace about death can make everyday life feel distant."

What this means to me is physical life and the physical universe essentially has no meaning.

105 posted on 10/14/2025 2:11:51 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: tired&retired

Bump


106 posted on 10/14/2025 2:13:35 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: mosaicwolf
What this means to me is physical life and the physical universe essentially has no meaning.

Its a school of hard knocks.

107 posted on 10/14/2025 2:48:36 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Openurmind; HamiltonJay
Losing the fear of death would absolutely and fundamentally change one’s perspective...

Yes, it does.

The trick is to not get in a hurry.

108 posted on 10/14/2025 2:50:19 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK; HamiltonJay

“The trick is to not get in a hurry.”

True, you don’t want to go out and try to do it on purpose and delay it as much as possible if your work in this realm is not done yet. But no longer can anyone psychologically terrorize, enslave, or control you by using it as a threat or possible risk.

All that goes away and no longer occupies your head or dictates how you live when you do not fear death. When you do not fear death you fear nothing or no one... This absolutely changes everything and everyone around you. Bring it on, I got it covered...


109 posted on 10/14/2025 3:22:07 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind

Yep, we’re there together.


110 posted on 10/14/2025 3:25:35 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

It is actually a great perspective. No one can dictate how you live your life. Not religion, not society, not the powers that be, no one. They all count on you being afraid to die to control you. Not fearing death nulls all their threats, efforts, and extortion right from the get go. It all becomes inert and completely ineffective. If no one feared death they would have nothing to work with anymore. :)


111 posted on 10/14/2025 3:37:06 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: TiGuy22

“I think biblically, most would disagree stating you only die once.”

“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:” Hebrews 9:7


112 posted on 10/14/2025 3:45:11 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: TiGuy22

it shook me for many years- still kinda does- certainly caused doubt- like maybe i hadn’t ‘received Christ ‘correctly’

I grabbed the doctor when i came to- covered in wet towels and ice, and yelled at him telling him to get right with God because hell was waiting if he didn’t- He excoriated my parents for ‘filling my head with fables’. the thing is though, they hadn’t-

when i finally got back to school- (after 87 days out of school) I tried to tell others about the experience,e but they just dismissed it- I couldn’t understand the lackadaisical attitudes about eternity in hell-

I don’t talk about it much these days- but every now and again a thread will come up about the issue- I have my reasoning concerning what happened- and think it is a combo of hallucinations and misfiring synapses causing vivid imagery-


113 posted on 10/14/2025 4:32:09 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: TiGuy22

and thanks for the sentiment- it was a world shaking experience-

[[I can’t imagine what you thought you saw.]]

I saw myself descend into hell slowly- and felt myself being engulfed in burning hot sand, with insects and worms somehow crawling arou8nd in it- it then became pitch black- but i could hear things happening

I was then given a test- to count the sounds- if i was successful i would be let out of hell (which is totally unbiblical)- i was counting the sounds, a bell ringing- but couldn’t keep up an it sped up too fast- I began to weep- thinking i was stuck in hell forever- then a voice said “Don’t worry, you don’t exist” (again, totally unbliblical)-

Then i went into deep space- as ‘nothing’ it was hard to explain- I felt complete abandonment, but nothingness at the same time- and it was even more frightening than being in hell- not existing’ but somehow aware- totally alone

That’s when i started regaining consciousness-

I just know one thing- Hell is a gamble I’m not willing to take-


114 posted on 10/14/2025 4:39:13 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: cgbg
Years ago, in order to occupy some time on a very long flight, I picked up Dennett’s “Consciousness Explained,” a seemingly intriguing title. An entertaining read, it more or less spent chapters full of this and that, to come in the end to summarizing, “well, we can't.” A hammer to study a horse, sort of. And therefore a disappointing read, for the title was marketing.

This "American philosopher" took some silly stances in other works, and later I came across a recorded statement of one of his goals, which was more or less to crush religious thought. Jackass. But he's the now-deceased darling of the atheist liberals.

Point being, if one makes an assertion, then one should support it. Hammers indeed can kill horses, and sometimes other men. And taking apart radios got my older brother onto his lifelong path as an serious electrical engineer. The assertion I quoted from another on this thread is certainly illustration that things tiptoe from fact to belief, as in "a soul's operating frequency of consciousness...." Someone repaired the horse with a hammer.

115 posted on 10/14/2025 4:45:08 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: glennaro

only if there is an ETA


116 posted on 10/14/2025 4:48:26 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Aria

I agree there are some pretty unexplainable anecdotal evidences- I do think the evil one can influence people unaware- giving them ‘insight’ where their visions are more correct than normal folk’s guesses- but that’s not to say that someone like the fella who saw the girl sought the evil one- or delves in the occult or anything- but i do think folks can be influenced and given visions by the evil one without realizing where it came from- there’s a slight chance it came from God, but the question is why? what message if it was? Not sure why God would do that- but i guess he could- for his own purposes


117 posted on 10/14/2025 4:57:39 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: GingisK

“Its a school of hard knocks.”

It is a school, a school for the soul to grow.

Even death is just another learning experience for the soul.

There are many levels of consciousness. However, to access them you must cleanse your soul to access these higher levels of consciousness. Thus the importance of the virtues taught by all religions. Sin acts as an anchor or ballast to hold us from raising to higher levels.

The basics to understanding the human soul are relatively simple. There are two aspects of consciousness at the lowest earthly level. They are masculine and feminine and they spin in opposite directions. Masculine to the left, feminine to the right.

Love is the most important thing in achieving soul growth as just as it binds two souls together in a relationship, it binds both aspects of consciousness together in each individual soul. (This is why Paul stated that husband and wife become one in the eyes of God, i.e. souls merge to imitate wholeness. However, it is better to remain single.)

Sin creates obstacles to Love in the soul and destabilizes it. It begins to wobble and shake if consciousness is pushed to increase frequency while sin is knocking it out of balance.

There are three stages to soul growth while in the physical body. First is dependency where we develop our emotional feminine consciousness. Around age 7 or 8, roughly third grade when the brain develops sufficient to perform long division and multiplication, consciousness begins to shift into the logical masculine consciousness development. This is development of the ego self. (Each level has corresponding frequencies of consciousness in the brain, i.e. Delta, Theta, Alpha, and Beta)

The ego self identity is not bad. It is a necessary stepping stone in soul development where you take the power over your will from others in dependency relationships and own it yourself.

No one can surrender their will to God, i.e. a higher level of consciousness that can only be accessed by going within, unless they first “own” the power over their individual will.

The prefrontal cortex of the brain that is responsible for logical analytical thought does not fully develop until around age 25. Souls cannot go beyond ego identity until this is first developed.

The next stage of development is mid-life crisis. It is very important as the ego creates a bubble of consciousness that must be diminished before a soul’s consciousness can transcend self and directly perceive Jesus and God. This is why humility is so important in spiritual growth as pride builds the ego, humility diminishes it.

During the mid-life crisis or diminishing of self identity, the masculine and feminine aspects of consciousness begin to merge. The dark-night-of-the-soul experience is where the ego identity is totally diminished and ready to begin the shift to higher consciousness.

An NDE is an instant diminishing of the earthly ego identity. This is why a person experiences the Love and Bliss of the next higher level of consciousness. For some reason unknown to me, my NDE was different than the many thousands of other NDE experiencers I have spoken with. I never fully returned to my physical body.

The problem is that most people who experience the Love and Bliss of an NDE think that they are someone special, owning the experience as a possession, writing books and creating a following. This is the spiritual ego that turns a person back in the growth process if they are not ready to move forward into transcendence.

At this point, people “Play God”, developing an ego identity stating that they are on a mission from God. Many ministers fall into this trap.

Nothing is more important than your own individual path to seeking the Kingdom of God. As if you play God from your individual ego identity, you “assume” you know God’s Will, but really don’t. In John 14, Jesus explains that He is in Our Father, and Our Father is in Him. Later on in the same scripture, Jesus explains that if He is in us, that Our Father that is in Him is also in us. This is exactly how it works.

The best analogy to explain this is Russian Nesting Dolls, where we are the little doll in the middle and God is the big outer doll. Jesus is a doll between us and God and we cannot reach God without going through Him. (There are many dolls or teachers which represent the many religions. No matter our religion, we cannot reach God without meeting Jesus. I have discussed this with people of many different religions who shared that they met Jesus during their NDE.)

Think of our individual soul as being a seed of Divine Consciousness, planted here in these seed pod physical bodies in the darkness of earth, to sprout and grow, learning to utilize the Light from above. (Love and Light are natural attributes of higher consciousness. The higher you go, the greater the Love and Light. Consciousness functions very similar to the attributes of electrons around the nucleus of the atom as discovered by Neals Bohr, the father of atomic physics. When Higher Consciousness comes to a lower level, we perceive it as Light, just as when an electron that goes from an outer orbital to a lower orbital yields a photon or light.)

As you go through the soul cleansing process after the dark-night-of-the-soul experience, it is a roller coaster ride. You cannot go through this stage of development without the Holy Spirit being in you as it is what cleanses the obstacles to Love from your soul. This is why the Bible states that rejecting the Holy Spirit is the only unforgivable sin as without it, you cannot cleanse your soul.

I see and feel sin consciousness in a person’s soul as a dark fog of consciousness that blocks the Light. The greater and darker the cloud, the more the soul is off balance and wobbles, unable to grow to higher consciousness. The soul is similar to a washing machine containing a wet blanket on the spin cycle that wobbles as it tries to speed up.

If we invite the Holy Spirit into us while we contain a lot of sin, the soul consciousness starts quaking and shaking as it cleanses all the garbage. This is why the Quakers and Shakers earned their names.

As we approach “Wholeness” where our masculine and feminine consciousness has fully developed at each level of consciousness, held together with Love, it feels as though a rubber swim cap is pulled down over our head. You feel it every time you pray or meditate. This level must first be experienced in order for the soul consciousness to stabilize sufficient to reach the gamma frequencies of consciousness.

Achieving the gamma frequencies of consciousness, as shown on an EEG, creates transcendence where we are able to perceive directly with our consciousness beyond our physical body. This is the true “Born Again” experience. The experience of the Love and Bliss that most call the Born Again experience is really just the beginning of the pregnancy.

Just as when you are born from your mother’s womb, you can see, but have no idea what you are seeing. You can hear, but have no idea what you are hearing. Same with feeling, tasting, and smell. You must learn to understand your new environment. The same is true when your consciousness transcends your physical body.

When you are born, you cannot walk or crawl to move around on your own. The same is true when you transcend self. You are very limited in your abilities.

As your soul grows, you gradually begin to move around within the greater Christ Consciousness that we exist within. It’s like being connected to the internet as you are instantly wherever you send your consciousness. I’ve moved people’s physical body in Europe while I am here in the States.

It is a real tough phase of growth as you feel all the physical and emotional pain of everyone around you. You truly feel like a pin cushion. It is empathy to the extreme.

You cannot hide from it, as when your consciousness of your soul expands, everyone exists within you. This is why Jesus stated “My Father and I are One’ after His expansion of consciousness in the Wilderness. Buddha basically said the same thing when he stated “I am One with Everything.”

The only solution to avoid the pain and suffering is to rise above it. By climbing to a higher level of consciousness where the Love and Light is sufficient to transmute any low level frequencies of consciousness such as guilt, fear, anger, or physical pain before it reaches your physical body. At this level, you can become aware of other people’s difficult experiences without feeling them in your physical body.

Thus, if I say a prayer for them, the higher consciousness of the prayer transmutes their pain consciousness. This is the glow the artists showed around Jesus and the Saints in the paintings. It is real.

The reason the Bible states that a prayerful blessing for an evil person is like placing hot coals upon their head, is that the higher consciousness of your prayer is like the high frequency of a microwave to their low frequency consciousness. It heats up and catches on fire.

I will end here, although what I am describing is only the beginning of a much greater experience. There are many levels of consciousness beyond the physical body. Each one is another level of heaven. I have visited many of them.

The anatomy & physiology of the soul is the same, no matter your religion or lack thereof. I follow Jesus as I have found His teachings the most accurate, describing what I actually experienced in my own individual journey of soul growth. Religion(s) are just theories and philosophies describing the growth process of the physical soul. They are for the most part correct, just incomplete.

The tribulation that earth is about to enter is necessary to crush the ego’s that are blocking the growth of individual souls. I wish everyone could see consciousness the way I do, as it becomes easy to understand. Think of the ego as a theater in the round, a big projection screen, that we project all our individual identities upon to define who we are. That screen blocks us from seeing beyond it to see who we really are and blocks us from seeing and experiencing God.

Blessing on your own individual journey of soul growth.


118 posted on 10/15/2025 3:55:39 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired

Thank you for that! I will prayerfully read it often.


119 posted on 10/15/2025 5:39:31 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Bob434

That’s when i started regaining consciousness-

I just know one thing- Hell is a gamble I’m not willing to take-

Wow, what a story. What came to mind on the unbiblical parts is that Satan is the father of chaos and confusion. Thank you for sharing!


120 posted on 10/15/2025 8:46:20 AM PDT by TiGuy22
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