Near Death Experience Reports Excerpted

When you are close to God it is significantly peaceful and beautiful. “Life” does not end when we die; we carry on in spirit. Your life does flash before you as you pass; however, for me I kept going back before my birth to a time and place much like Eden has been described in the Bible. God is with you; even when you think he is not (I could reflect on this so profoundly when I awakened, He was with me throughout my life…) 10a/4018

... and the warm light was "God" or my idea of God. ... This presence didn't tell me it was god - that was my later determination. 21a/4001

At the end of the ladder there was a man, (for me, it was God) who met me. He was of medium build with white shoulder length hair, with a white shiny white beard like angel hair and had on a white robe with sash. He took me by my hand and we walked towards a marble bench where he sat me in his lap. I felt very weak and tired from the long climb. As he sat me on his lap and laid in his arms, I reached up and touched his beard with my right hand and felt the most immense sense of love and understanding, (until this day this feeling has never left me). 37a/3977

There was some sense of God being in control of the situation, however, I did not specifically see any Being. 72a/3929

I didn't "see God," but I felt as though I was sitting in the lap and wrapped in the arms of the most wonderful, loving, giant "parent." God told me―crappy earth translation ahead―to stay true, "follow the clues," and all would be well. The totality of God's love for me was the predominant feeling/understanding, at all times. Luckily that feeling has stayed with me, though I don't necessarily understand it any more ... 73a/3928

This was (when He talked to me) the most intense moment of my experience (God could read my thoughts), it is thus then that I had the highest level of consciousness and alertness. God’s voice was very clear, I could therefore clearly identify the source. His voice was low and deep, as if it filled all, even myself inside. At the same time, His voice was quiet, pondered and acute, but full of authority and love. I say authority because at the time when I wanted to speak, I felt that HIS VOICE PREVENTED me to do so. He read in my mind and answered the questions I had in my head. After talking, things went very, very, very fast: I came back into my body at high speed. 78a/3916

[Did you meet or see any other beings?] I was talked to from within. After it happened, and when I learned religion, I thought it to be of God. I personally feel it to be more of an inner conscience 'talking' to me. But I never saw anyone/thing else. 84a/3913

There was a third entity that I couldn't see, but was with me, everywhere. I could only assume it had to be God. 91a/641

God came. I couldn't see him. But, I knew he was there. He kept telling me how I was special and that I shouldn't think so lowly about myself. 15b/4198

A Large Hand came and held my hand, and then I saw HIM. He was bright and had beautiful features: long silver hair and beard along with bright never-ending gown. He didn't say a word but I heard, "It's OK we are going home." 49b/2735

God was not finished with using my life and that is why I am alive today. I am here because God, Christ and His Holy Angels have taken care of me, protected me and kept me. For this I am truly thankful. 61b/33

If this 'Being of love' wasn't God then who or what was he? 66b/2359

[Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?] I wish I had been older at the time of this event. It has helped me to accept the real presence of Our Lord and know that He is all powerful and that my life is in His hands. I feel that He still has a job for me to do before I depart this earth. Now that I have raised my family, I am ready to go to the task. 77b/85

I did not experience this presence as God (I was too young to understand the concept), but I did experience this presence as that which made me. I knew without a doubt that I was a made creature, a being that owed its existence to this presence. 79b/3183

Then, I heard the voice of God in my head, and all at once he asked me, "Have you loved enough?" "Have you learned enough?" "And have you experienced enough?" I suddenly realized that I had not done the things he had asked of me, and I screamed "No" I need to do more time. And just like that, boom! I was back in my body. 83b/3217

[Did you meet or see any other beings?] There was a third entity that I couldn't see, but was with me, everywhere. I could only assume it had to be God. 92b/641

[How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?] Experience was definitely real. I was a deeply religious man and the experience has caused me to become even more close to God and Jesus. I was deemed to be too damaged to revive and was left to die. GOD explained to the surgeons that I needed the help and that HE had other plans for me. I know that death is a passage, and now I look forward to the day that I join GOD in Heaven. 94b/3853

[Did you meet or see any other beings?] I did not see the being who I believe to have been God, but I definitely heard him, that's for sure! He told me in a stern voice that I must go back. 98b/3740

And heard a voice coming from underground saying “There is GOD, There is GOD, There is GOD” (I still can’t remember if the voice spoke Polish or English). The word ‘ecstasy’ describes the feeling best. Apart from ecstasy I also felt great awe for God. I went further till I reached a tunnel and rays of sunlight. I knelt down and I felt God. 100b/1002

I kept wanting to look way up, straight up at Him instead of straight ahead. But I don't remember actually "seeing" anything larger than a man. Then I wondered why I didn't feel His everlasting love like everyone else does when they see Him. Then the answer came to me as soon as I thought the question: "That's not what I was there for," with no other explanation. Even though I understood the "answer," I still felt disappointed that I didn't feel His love, understanding, and mercy. I felt disappointed, on top of cheated, and undeserving to feel these things from Him, but not angry--just very confused. I received no explanation as to why I hadn't felt these things, just the one "answer." Then He told me that he was going to show me something, as in to prepare me so I wouldn't have a heart attack or something. I immediately felt paralyzed but not frightened, and he showed me several thousand visions at once. The only way I have if figured out how to describe this experience is taking a hand full of bee bees and dropping them onto the floor. The visions came to me as fast as the bee bees would hit at the same time on the floor. I don't remember any of them except the first. He was standing beside me on a mountain top, and we were looking down on a valley. Several hundred people were scattering around as if they were preparing for some big event that was about to happen soon. 9d/Feb. 25, 2002

I realized there was someone right in front of me. The clouds also thickened around that shadow so I could not see him. There are no words to describe the incredibly intense love I felt, standing there in front of him. No one could ever imagine a love so powerfully strong. At that moment, it hit me. I was in heaven standing before our Lord. ... If I could only choose one word to describe our Lord, it would have to be “Love”, an indisputable love. I don’t know how to explain it. I couldn’t see Him through the clouds and light, but I felt His love so deeply. 69d/March 4, 2004

I am a Christian, I have always believed in God, and now I have confirmation that something is waiting out there for me ... . 70d/March 4, 2004

Something "spoke" to me but it was like the words were given straight to my conscience. The things it (god? I don't really know) told me were "New Year, New Birth." I knew it referred to me dying, and that I was to die that night no matter the circumstances. The second thing it "explained" (and this is one thing I am still trying to grasp it's meaning, but nothing makes any more sense to me). It "said," "In heaven (obvious god or Christian reference), what you need to understand is you do not need eyes to see." The rest I knew just from a "knowing” that came with it's messages. The only thing I understand about the second message is it is something I am supposed to share, because so many people don't understand the concept of physical life and non-physical life. ... Then I was back. Boom! My eyes opened. 71d/March 4, 2004

Then, floating in a white robe shimmering in gold was my Mom. She passed away just six months before. There she was and I did not even believe this could happen. I guess there is a god then if she is with me. 82d/Aug. 20, 2004

The next thing I saw was the room become bright and the light behind me was even brighter. I remember turning around crying, and I asked, one more time, “Please, Lord not now.” The next thing I knew, I was inside my body again. 93d/Jan. 3, 2005

In this place, there are no physical bodies; we are some source of energy, which goes toward a gigantic, majestic, and divine fountain full of love. We belong there... in the wisdom of God...for it is our home. 1e/Lucid

All of a sudden I was off the planet and floating way above the earth, although I could feel it behind me. I was looking into a star field--a massive, infinite entity that encompassed all of the galaxies, all of space, and some presence which is right in front of us all of the time that the earth sits in. It was massive and unimaginable. And, I had the thought that all of the dark matter and dark energy in the whole of the void was God. I was overwhelmed by the size of this presence. I understood that it knew everything about me as if it had built me cell by cell. 26e/Infinite Entity

I went into a flow of oneness that I think is God, (I called that the "isness"); it is a state of bliss where I am all there is. It is formless. It is like waking from a nightmare and finding yourself safe at home. Life on earth is the dream and this oneness/bliss is the reality that you wake up into safe and sound. 34e/Oneness

I am writing about my husband's NDE. ... He told me that he almost went to heaven. God talked to him. His voice was loud like thunder. He was huge and behind a cloud. He said he learned that God was the universe. He is love and never ending. He is in every blade of grass. It was calm and peaceful. He told my husband that he had to go back; his work wasn't finished. He was told God sends us people to help us get to heaven, a handle to God. He told me there were several levels; he was on the brightest level. Below are darker and darker levels. He told me he was in an in between place, "the other side," and people were around him in white gowns, like sitting on a train. He saw his brother-in-law that passed away about a year before. Before this experience, my husband was unsure of an afterlife and cussed a lot. Afterwards, he never cussed again. When he got angry, he would say cuss, cuss. He told his daughter, "Jesus sits on the right hand of God." He never would have talked this way before. He was different. He didn't like violent movies, liked different foods, and was very loving and patient despite his handicap. 46e/Almost Heaven

I perceived a holy presence very close to me. I said, "Lord will I go home now?" He answered, "No, it is not your time. Your mission is not complete. You have to return." Immediately I saw my body at a long distance very well and a powerful spiritual hand that touched my chest, exactly over my heart. Immediately it began to work again. In less then a second, I returned to my body again. 47e/Holy Presence

I don't remember having a life review as in other accounts, but I was given the realization that God knew everything about me, every atom in my body and every thought that had ever crossed my mind. He sees through to my pure essence and knows me better than I know myself. 70e/Chance

I told the Being that I knew was there and had to be God, that I couldn't die. 51f/Saundra

I remember feeling as if a tremendous burden had been lifted from me, and remember a sense of another presence. There was something familiar about this "place", as if I had been there before, but more like I had returned from whence I came. Then there was an intense sense of well being, a feeling like immersion in the emotions of love, surrounding from every point. And a sense of belonging, as in one in the same with some divine greatness which binds all matter in the universe. 48f/Mark J.

I arrived in an explosion of glorious light into a room with insubstantial walls, standing before a man about in his 30's about 6 foot tall, reddish brown shoulder length hair and an incredibly neat, short beard & mo. He wore a simple white robe, light seemed to emanate from Him and I felt He had great age and wisdom. He welcomed me with great love, tranquility, peace (indescribable), no words. I felt "I can sit at your feet forever and be content," which struck me as a strange thing to think/say/feel. I became fascinated by the fabric of His robe, trying to figure out how light could be woven! ... The Person who first welcomed me came and placed his hand on my shoulder and turned me towards Him, He said, "You must return, you have a task to perform." I wanted to argue, I wanted to stay. I ... was propelled quickly towards the entrance, at the threshold all became blackness, nothing, no awareness. After: I awoke from my coma slowly ... . Rene

Jesus and God are real. Angels are real. I know because my Dad saw them and was saved. ... It may give comfort to other people who have lost loved ones or who do not have any belief in God or Jesus, it shows that a Man who had no belief witnessed that there is life after death and that God and Jesus do exist amen. 9a/4019

Suddenly the choking stopped and I was completely ecstatic, but I could never really explain all that I felt. I really felt Jesus was breathing for me. I was never aware of any discomfort. Maybe this was God's way of putting my mind at ease. 16a/2048

I sensed/felt/saw people all around me and one of them walked up to me and said hello as if I knew him. Suddenly I did. I had met this man before, when I died when I was four. "Hello," I said, "Jesus?" I asked. He smiled. He explained that he was there as my father of my family tree, that I was his great x many grand daughter. He was not there as Jesus the Messiah, if that makes sense. There was a difference. Finally, Jesus told me that if I was going back I had to go now or I would be too damaged. I stepped backwards to re-enter 100%. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] Jesus, who is my great+ grandfather. 19a/4006

The tall kind man who I knew was Jesus told me with his eyes that everything was going to be okay. ... I looked at Jesus who told me to come to him and I did and he showed me his wrist and there were holes and the witness box clapped and I was sent back. 51a/3956

When I got to the light, there was Jesus. It wasn't visual but there was no disputing who it was. He took me by the hand. The profoundly incredible peace was beyond conception. We walked hand in hand. I also remember not wanting to come back. It was bliss. Jesus told me that only he got to choose, and it wasn't time for me. That's all I can recall before I came back into excruciating pain. 71a/3931

Amidst some commotion, through the back came Jesus Christ, and there was no mistake as to who he was; he looked like the artist's portraits, but not meek and mild, as often portrayed, he was healthy and robust. ... He said that there were many different religions on earth, as one faith would not take care of everyone's spiritual needs. ... I then asked Him if I could go back and tell everyone that He was real, and He said, "No, this is for others to come to know." 75a/3922

I had already gone for about three weeks without food, just on water and prayer. I knew that it was very intense, spiritual activity. Both my sister and myself, both spiritual people, she being a seasoned missionary, and I a young Bible-practicing student, in hot pursuit of Jesus my LORD. ... I was outside my body, surrounded by a landscape of natural beauty. I seemed to be flying without the aide of anything, or anyone. I was aware of my state, I was surely going somewhere, but where I did not know. I was passing over hills and valleys, there were all of these green trees, and shrub. I was taken up by its total beauty, but I knew that was not what it was all about. Then suddenly I saw direct into my room. There on her knees my sister was praying to GOD on my behalf, I heard her say, "LORD you call her to be your prophet, your messenger. She can't go like this. Bring her back." I heard a voice say, "Your time is not yet, go back." At the sound of the words I arrived back into my room. 50b/1944

They were trying to save me...but I still died. Death was not bad. Jesus was really there. He and I were looking over the edge of the pit, sort of looking at where hell was. It reminded me of when I was little, looking over the edge of a bridge to the water below....it wasn't scary, just looking. He put His Arm around me. He loved me. Perhaps we were looking back at earth, I don't know. [Did you meet or see any other beings?] Jesus was there. He was kind, warm, gentle, loving, and he cared about me. He received me. He is REAL. I always believed in Him before, but now I can promise that he is REAL. 76b/40

Suddenly I was in a round Greek style temple that was not roofed. Jesus was before me and I was aware that there were 70 other people there to work with me. There was a mist that hid their faces from me, though I could see Jesus quite clearly. I was aware that each of them was working with me in my soul's growth and various karmic matters I had elected to work on during this body's sojourn. Jesus informed me that I had completed the work I had come in to do, and had "channeled" the three souls who would affect my future. I could now stay with these beings, or I could take on another assignment and return to the earth plane. I don't usually make hasty decisions, and "he" knew that. I told him that was ridiculous. I would need time to consider the pros and cons of both scenarios, and that earthly body wasn't going to last for long. He laughed, snapped his fingers and my three children were standing before. I instantly knew that I had the "keys" that would unlock their memories when it was time for them to awaken, but that their father did not. If I opted to stay, they would have to come into the body again in another life to fulfill their destinies. I look at Jesus and said, "That's really unfair! You know I can't leave them to come back again. This is emotional blackmail!" At which he cocked and eyebrow at me and laughed again. Then he responded, "But you do want them to succeed this time, don't you?" I replied, "Yes, you know I do. But I have a condition. If I go back, I want to be allowed to heal people. Not just their bodies, but their souls too. I want to awaken them to their soul's potential and Truth." Jesus smiled and answered, "As you desire, so shall it be." I awakened to my anesthesiologist cursing up a storm. 58d/Nov. 11, 2003

I was then immersed into this indescribable majestic non-dazzling light in which I felt it was Christ, and without any earthly words, as I described above, I had a conversation with the Madonna and the Divinity. 1e/Lucid

I tell someone every day of my experience with Jesus Christ and how He touched me and cured my cancer. I especially like telling my story to other cancer patients as my story seems to impart a sense of hope and faith in those facing death. I like to think that my story gives solace and comfort to others who are told, "You have cancer and you are going to die and there isn't anything that anybody can do about it." 38e/Jesus

As I walked with a heavenly person, his countenance shone forth with such brightness. I can't even begin to describe it. I knew this heavenly being was Jesus because I recognized him as a familiar friend. He didn't announce who he was because this wasn't necessary. 41e/Communication

A little further off from where I stood was a place where some people sat around a being. I immediately recognized them as the apostles, Elijah and David of the Old Testament. I was amazed to see them. It was like you knew everyone for a long time and just forget who they are. In the middle sat someone that seemed to emit such great light. It was so bright and powerful that you really couldn't look right at it. I just knew it was Jesus. 50e/Living Water

I saw a hand reaching down to me. I could not see a face. I heard my mother say, "Grab the hand." I don’t know if I said it out loud or not but I knew it was the hand of Jesus. 58e/Hand

I knew I was gone. I cried and screamed and fought hard. Then, all of a sudden, rainbow prisms flooded through every cube and I knew in my heart of hearts God had heard my cries. I was lifted up and into Jesus’ arms I went. He held me and told me he loved me and I was his. That is what I remember of the experience. It was an orange hue when I was with Christ. 67e/Cube

My impression was that Mary and Jesus were there in the light to meet me. 79e/Time

I felt as if I was being embraced by Jesus. I cannot tell you what he looked like but I knew who I was with. 84e/Surrounded

I then sensed a presence. I had the knowledge that this was Jesus, and he was assuring me that everything was fine. I felt total love from this presence. 7f/Rob