There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I died once, (a short cardiac arrest, dropping dead in front of a hospital emergency doctor - Location, location and timing). Didn’t see a thing and didn’t even get a t-shirt.
However, besides getting back the gift of life, my young granddaughter bought me a red and green polka-dotted toy elephant. It stays next to me on my night table. PRICELESS!
You don’t need images of deceased people and angels when you have an angel right there in your family. You just have to see and appreciate them.
I read somewhere that Al Gore once had a “near-life” experience.
I had an NDE- got peritonitis in hospital when really sick, went into convulsions, Docs rushed into room to revive me-and while it happened, I had the NDE-
Didn’t go to heaven though, went to hell- it’s a long frightening story- and certainly not a biblical one- but suffice it to say the experience left me shaken
My personal belief is that my high fever during the convulsions caused the brain’s synapses to fire wildly, giving a ‘lucid dreaming-like’ experience-
The reason I have my doubts about actual NDE’s is due to the fact that my visions while experiencing this near death-like experience were unbliblical- I was ‘given a test’ whiel in hell, where I had to count the sounds- bells ringing- I was covered in sand completely, hard to breath, and I was struggling to breath and trying to hear the sounds over my breathing- I counted for awhile, but they got too fast and I lost count, and began to weep- a voice said “Don’t worry, there is no heaven or hell, you don’t exist
I immediately felt a crushing sense of .. I dunno really how to explain it, other than ‘non-existence’ where I was somehow conscious of not existing- that is what shook me the most when I came to again- and really messed with my mind for a long time-
Bottom line, I had a ‘near death’ experience of some kind, but don’t think it was an actual passing on/over- but rather more aq brain synapse system going haywire, but what has me a bit confused, is why did the brain automatically go right to death/afterlife and not something else like perhaps recalling childhood, or perhaps think about things I liked, or wanted to do in life, or of people I knew etc- why did it go right to death/afterlife visions/experience? Is that just what overactive synapses do? I can’t really say for sure what happened in my experience, but suspect it was just high fever, crazy synapses causing the experience
In 2010 I flipped an ATV over on on myself and the
headlight broke all of my ribs and collapsed both lungs.
They airlifted me to a hospital trauma unit 40 miles away.
Tubes were stuck in every conceivable place in my upper
body and I was intubated for almost three weeks. I was
on IV pain medication (morphine?). It was the second night
and I can’t say that it wasn’t a dream but I saw my
cousin,Tom. He was in a dark place and there was a bright
light behind him. Tom had been killed piloting a plane
he had built the year before my accident. In the “dream”
he told me to go back and it was not my time. It seemed
so formula like, just like the typical NDE story that I
chalked it up as a dream but I really don’t know.
I got to know the hospice nurses well of course (I couldn't have done it without them--I was primary caregiver).
Anyway the hospice nurses said that their patients (some, not all, by any means) tell stories of NDE's and they all pretty much tell the same or similar stories about the light, family members, heaven, and the Lord.
Their patients are often visited by family members before they pass who appear to be there to comfort them and help them go through.