Copyright1999 by Dr. Jeff & Jody Long
NDE Experiences and Comments: These are summaries of the accounts.  The expanded version can be found by clicking on the link for the experiencer's name.
 

737. Lou F's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  & 1999 People were upon this Earth and appeared happier and more content although seemingly living like the Native populations of old. Cities, built by the Ancient Ones, that were buried beneath the Oceans were now being populated by the surviving people in this new world. I saw Tribes joining tribes and small Nations forming, but it was what I didn't see that made my heart burst, there were no more wars, true peace and happiness had finally befallen on mankind. Gabriel now tells me that this is His message that I must take back, to let others know that there is little to fear, for the Earth will go on forever, as did all the Planets I had visited... "MAN WILL PREY ON MAN ~ UNTIL MAN PRAYS FOR MAN!"
Remarkable NDE as a result of car crash 42 years ago.  This is an integration experience where you can see changes over the last 6 years.

736. Christine S's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  ...the most life threatening was my right shoulder. It had been torn open and was bleeding profusely. I don't remember the accident, but I do remember seeing my dad. He passed away June 2002, but that morning I saw him very clearly. He was standing above me, looking down, and he said "not now little one, we need you here." There was a bright light all around him and behind him. He was glowing. I felt very safe and very loved.
NDE as a result of auto accident.

735. Cody S's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  Two cars slammed into me from the side. I hit my head on the steering wheel. Then I saw something bright. I looked up and saw a bright light and then I felt like I had no pain.   Then I was flying through a tunnel and I kept on seeing flash-backs of my life. So then I knew I was dead.  Then I was standing in a meadow. I looked around the meadow and someone was walking toward me.  When they reached me, I noticed that it was my grandma. She came up to me and I said to her, "where am I?" She answered, "you are in heaven, but you are not ready to die yet." I asked her if I would ever follow my dreams but she said she couldn't tell me and then she was gone.  I started to look for her. I could see flowers all over and animals where running but then it all started to fade away.  I found myself in the hospital. My mom said that I had died.
NDE from car accident.  NDEr is 15 years old, and this experience happened just two months ago.

734. Amy P's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  At this point it is confirmed on my EKG reports that I flat lined.  I remember being in a space floating almost I didn't feel my legs. It was dark but there was a green light in the background, It wasn't a brilliant bright light it was a soft green. I saw three silhouettes, I didn't recognize who or what they were but they spoke to me and said "you can come with us or you can stay" I remember getting really mad because I was so young and there was no way I was going to let myself die. I remember thinking of all things I didn't want to give up like the sound of ocean waves and thunderstorms, even the taste of hose water when I was a kid. I thought about my family and The smell of campfires. I wasn't ready to give that up. I remember knowing that my life would be different from that point on and knowing that physically my life would be challenged but that I made the decision to live. Someone else at that point told me "no matter what happens in life just go with it" just roll with the punches, life isn't that serious "and it will all make sense in the end".
NDE due to complications of meningitis.  Courageous choice to return, in spite of awareness she would have handicaps.

733. Joseph M's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  I had died three times in the Saint Mary's Hospital of Yakima Washington. I had ninety percent bodily injuries and was reported that I some how had gone a quarter of a mile falling down and getting up with this pelvic bone its self broken and the L-4 and L-5 area vertebras completely smashed in my lower back area... Soon as I had entered this tunnel of light its self here immediately. I had a pulling sensation on me what told me was the hell and fire pit pulling at my sole till I had done some quick and tall praying to god not to let me die here. Then that pulling on me stopped right away and I was pulled further down this tunnel where I saw my grandparents at and a rev war battlefield.
NDE associated with tractor accident.

732. Perry R's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  This is my perception of what happened when I arrested. If you can imagine a huge, tall smoke stack (no heat or fire thank goodness - just a feeling of being in a tunnel) and you are at the bottom facing upward. It is dark all around you except at top of the stack there is a bright light in the distance. You are rising rapidly up through the stack moving towards the light. There is no fear in your mind at the time, just an awareness of flying toward the light. I remember the light as being white and bright. As I reach the light I seem to pass into a state of awareness that I have now transitioned into a room "filled" with hospital staff. I look to my bedside and the nurse has tears in her eyes.
NDE associated with cardiac arrest following heart attack.

731. Teri's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  I was walking underneath a multiple-story building that was being built. They were working on the second floor. As I passed underneath, one of the steel poles used to hold up the walls slipped out of the men’s grasps and fell. It smashed me on the head and knocked me unconscious. Those who saw it said my head slammed into the pavement pretty hard as well.  As soon as my vision faded to black, I saw these strange beings. They were on a landscape of white and seemed to be made of fire. However, something about them was rougher and scarier then fire. They were screaming as I was falling, a terrible sound, and they were throwing blood everywhere. The blood became an ocean. The fire beings remained until I came to with an oxygen mask pressed over my face.
NDE from head injury at age 16 two years ago.  Frightening imagery.

730. Richard H's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  One of the things that were impressed upon me was a different view of religion. I sensed that I was given this because of dissatisfaction of the power that gave it to me. Religion was created to teach humans the basic laws of Nature or God. God being the intelligent being that he is; understood that humans in different Society’s, needed  different instructional manuals (so to speak). i.e. French, English, Spanish, Hebrew, Islam, Chinese, etc, God knew you can’t explain to a Jewish person in Chinese why he should not eat pork. I felt that the fighting between religious groups was very distasteful, and that man was using religion for his own personal gains of power. Massive power in the hands of a few seemed to be one of the major issues of my enlightenment. This is was what came across to me while in the light.
NDE from explosion during Vietnam War.

729. Catherine R's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  A skier came off a ski jump at a fast speed, screamed "watch out", & crashed on top of me. I remember feeling incredible pain everywhere, and then, 'it stopped' just like that.  My last thought was "So THIS is what it's like to die...." and I became this 'head'. Not a weighted down body, more like a light, free, thinking, silent-talking (no words spoken, but message understood), head.  I went 'up' until I reached this white world. All white with a brighter white 'hole-like' opening off in the distance. From that hole, while I was 'stuck' as this 'head' just able to watch, two figures slowly came towards me. They were dressed in long white robes, including hoods that covered their identities as they held their heads downward while they walked. When they were within 10 feet of me, they both looked up to reveal themselves as my deceased uncle John (whom I LOVED!) and my grandmother  behind him. I was SO EXCITED to see my Uncle John.
NDE associated with skiing accident.

728. Helga's NDE. English expanded version  12/25/05  Original in German, translated by Karleen  The nearer I came to this light, the lighter the burden that was on me seemed to become.  When I got to the light I reached into it with my right hand first, and it was pleasantly warm - in contrast to the tunnel which was cold as ice (I was sweating anyway).  As I stepped through the light everything became very bright , airy and wonderfully beautiful around me, and I lost the burden that was previously threatening to crush me.  I felt happy and free, as if I was lying in a fragrant meadow with a slight breeze on a warm summers day.  In the next moment I was lying in my grave, I could clearly see the walls next to me.
NDE with a twist, but the description of the quick change to the grave is closer to a dream-like state such as ICU psychosis.

727. Pascal C's NDE. English expanded version  12/21/05  Original in French, translated by Jean Peter I’m rocketing through the stars and behold the beauty of this known universe, but maybe not that known. I am following the shooting stars surrounding me, are they all dead souls heading for the unknown, never mind. I don’t want to go backward, leave this for a life of questions and loneliness, pooh! It’s not worth. I am dashing, when all of a sudden I feel something, someone who holds me back. I hear a voice telling me not to proceed, it pulls me by this light string trailing behind me since I entered this new world. I look back and see that entity, calm, faceless, with womanly ways, who tells me:  “Wait, what are you doing? You can’t decide yourself the time when you leave, you have a mission to fulfill, no way they will let you leave that world this way. You have to go back and do what you have to do.”

726. Cristal's NDE. English expanded version  12/20/05 Then very quickly I started moving toward the sky. It seemed the further I went, the faster I was traveling. The stars seemed to moving very quickly past me. And then I saw a bright light.  The light I saw was one that could never be described with words. It was not like any light I had ever seen here. If there was a light here as bright as the light I saw that night it would surely be blinding. But instead, this was the brightest, softest, most white, peaceful light I have ever seen and have not seen anything close since.
NDE associated with asthma attack.

725. Padma's NDE. English expanded version  12/20/05 Next thing I knew, I was being pulled with a force like a hurricane or tornado and was trying to hang on to the ceiling with my nails, both with my feet and hands.  I was being pulled towards the wall facing me, and when I came close to there, I saw this most beautiful, rotating light, like that of the universe, in fact, it moved like the universe.  It had life and knowledge and it felt like a loving parent beckoning me. Coming close to it, gave me the most warm, loving feeling, and I came close to it numerous times, but somehow knew, that if I went through that light, there was no coming back.  So even though the feeling was indescribably beautiful, I had too many things to accomplish and the desire to do that made me fight to get back into the body and that was no easy task.
NDE as a Hindu 47 years ago in India (now Tibetan Buddhist).  Rare non-Western culture NDE, though she now lives in Canada.

724. Ron K's NDE. English expanded version  12/4/05 Instead of restricting the mysteries of love to psychological or philosophical studies, science will someday discover the all-powerful force of love and measure it as they now do electricity, gravity and geo-thermal forces. When science discovers the forces of love and learns how to release it from the bars of the ego, they will have the answer to every question and ill that has plagued mankind.   The love we feel on Earth is limited. We delve it out piecemeal to a few, with conditions. But on the Heavenly Plains, love is boundless. Male and female identities are equal because the human sex drive does not exist to complicate emotions. On the Plains we love our neighbor as ourselves, because our neighbor is ourselves. Every spirit everywhere, Heaven and Earth, is equally deserving of our love.   I was made to understand all of this in one flash of communication, in one emotion, from this entity...  The sole purpose of life is spiritual growth, and that, put simply, is the process of learning the wisdom and power of universal, unconditional love. All of the dogma of various religions just get in the way by infusing a judgmental and egotistical brand of separatism that satisfies man’s archaic and barbaric disposition. In the end, the only things that matter is the people we help and the people we hurt. This revelation is not fully understood until we return to the Plains and examine it under the light of absolute truth.
Among the most profound NDE we have ever encountered.  Author indicates: Have just had a book published about the experience called A Higher Good, available from PublishAmerica.

723. TJ's NDE. English expanded version  12/4/05  I could see a big long grassy field.  Trees grew at the edge in the distance and I could hear water from a running stream.  A low cobblestone wall separated two parts of the field.  On my side of the wall was a dirt path and didn't have to walk along it.  I heard children laughing in the distance, and they came into view on the other side of the wall.  They were chasing and kicking a ball with dots on it.  They were each getting a turn and the "game" seemed like everyone got to play. I could feel their joy like a physical thing, and it was contagious...
NDE at age 3 ½.  Vision of other children playing in heavenly realm.

722. Bonnie L's NDE. English expanded version  12/4/05  One of the things he was teaching me was that we would contact people while they were sleeping who were shortly going to die, to prepare them. We would draw them out of their bodies and have friendly conferences, and they seemed to know us.  They would not consciously remember this, but they benefited from it nonetheless--and I was also made to understand that this happens to everyone.
Multiple NDEs over a span of many years.

721. Guan W's Probable NDE. English expanded version  12/4/05 From Northern China, Original in Chinese, Translated by Charley.  It was a very black darkness (It contrast strongly with the castle in my another NDE). I think the appropriate words to describe it as the "windmill" and "black hole" visual effect atmosphere in the software "windows Media Player".                       

There were extreme disordered noise, images and feeling. I only say it was chaos. Then I shouted loudly: "Let me go! Let me go!!" (After the event my mother told me.) It was fearfully terror. My parents were impressed by my emotion and were scared.

720. Rachelle G's NDE. English expanded version  12/4/05 From the Dominican Republic, Original in Spanish, Translated by Estela.  I lost consciousness and then I felt like a fight within my body and then an escape towards a black tunnel, which had bronze color stripes, at an ever increasing speed. There were unexpected bifurcations inside the tunnel; I turned to the right, went straight for some time and then changed directions again.  I felt as if I was disintegrating inside the tunnel, i.e. my body lost consistency and I felt that the tunnel completely wrapped around me. I felt dizziness and was moving in spirals inside the tunnel. It is something indescribable. After a blow, I found myself in a viscous sea of mud.
This started out being a hellish NDE.  The tunnel description is fascinating.

719. Sam J's NDE. English expanded version  11/26/05 Once in ICU I left my body and went into the corner of the unit and watched as they shocked my chest.  3-2-1 pop!  Again 3-2-1 pop.  Then I left the room. No tunnel.  For me it was like going to sleep and going right into a dream.  I went into this room bathed in gold white light that reminded me of a library.  There was this entity (who I believe was my God) sitting at a large table that looked like an architecture table.  I was below the table looking up at this entity.  He looked down at me and said.  "What are you doing here?  When I want you I will come and get you.  Now go back."  Then he stuck out his foot and kicked me in the head.  His foot had a sandal on it that looked to be made out of an old tire.  The next thing I remember then is looking eye ball to eye ball at the doctor.
NDE associated with overdose.  Unusual elements in NDE.

718. Jeff's NDE. English expanded version  11/26/05 As I had already passed into unconsciousness at 2 a.m. in my auto asphyxiation suicide attempt I was at the edge of a cliff stepping into an deep abyss of darkness filled with thousands of people with their arms outstretched to me. I could see no faces but I saw the arms outstretched. As I began to step into the void I was snatched back from the edge by an unseen force and I heard the words, "It is not your time; I am not through with you yet." The very next moment my wife was pulling me from the car and resuscitating me.
NDE due to suicide attempt.  Suggestive of hellish imagery.

717. Santo C's NDE. English expanded version  11/26/05 I was wounded in Vietnam by a mortar round (another half-inch and I would have been dead). All of a sudden I was above my body looking at myself on the ground. I thought I was dead and the first thought that came to my mind was how the three women in my life were going to cry. There was a warm and secure feeling, like everything will be all right; but once I thought of those women crying I was hurled back into my body and was up and running.
NDE from mortar round injury in Vietnam.

716. Cynthia W's NDE. English expanded version  11/19/05  He said "you are very very sick and need to go to sleep so I can help you. I went to sleep but lost a lost of blood.  I remember feeling like I was laying down but I felt nothing under me. It was dark around me but I wasn't scared. I felt peace. no memories of worldly pains emotionally or physically. There was like a door to the right side of my legs. Just beyond it there was a male being.  I didn't see him but I felt him and heard him. Not The way we hear though. I still heard him and I knew it was male because the voice was deep. He told me I had a choice to stay or go.  All of a sudden I felt this urgency.  I said no! Robert needs me!  I then felt like I jerked back into my body. When I came to one of the nurses came to me and asked me who Robert was.  I told her he was my boyfriend. I asked her why.  She got a funny look on her face and told me she and the doctors were very concerned about me because I was very very sick, and suddenly out of the blue I yelled at the top of my lungs "No Robert needs me!"  She said it startled them.
NDE from internal bleeding (ruptured ectopic pregnancy)

715. Yvonne W's NDE. English expanded version  11/19/05  At some point during my surgery, and before the actual cutting began, something happened to me physically on the operating table and I felt a strong pull upward and the next thing I knew I was in a tunnel and it was somewhat dark in the tunnel, but there was a brilliant light at the end of the tunnel, which provided light all the way down to where I was in the tunnel.  The tunnel slanted upward toward where the light was coming from. The tunnel was made of brown bricks, about the size of regular house bricks.  I got the impression of wetness or shininess on the bricks in the tunnel but when I touched the bricks, which I did as I was advancing upwards in the tunnel, they were not wet. I remember as I was moving through the tunnel I looked up toward the light and I saw the outlines of several people, probably six or seven people, standing in the light.  I recognized one of them as my grandfather, who had died the year before.  There was one person who was a child of about seven and female.  Looking back on the NDE I began to believe that she was my deceased sister who died before I was born, but during the NDE I did not know who she was beyond that I knew she was related to who I was here on earth just as I knew that the others there in the light were related to me somehow.
NDE from attorney.  Surgical complication about three months after cesarean section.

714. Jim Co's NDE. English expanded version  11/19/05 Since I tended to be somewhat mischievous I kept going out into deeper water. I intended to stop once it was up to my chin area. What I didn’t realize was that there was an immediate 5 foot drop-off just after the area enclosed by a line with buoys on it.  I went immediately under and was fighting to get to the top. After thrashing around for a short period I distinctly remember a tremendous jerk within my mind----almost like something automatically was occurring that was a natural part of the dying process. And then suddenly I was outside of my body floating in this semi-conscious state. I was completely content and was not struggling anymore---in fact, I was unbelievable happy and felt like I was enveloped by a loving presence.  The next thing I remember was my father dragging me out of the deep end into the shallow area. Quite honestly I was disappointed because I did not want to leave this state--I was so happy there.
NDE at around age 10 from near drowning.

713. Marcia LS's NDE. English expanded version  11/12/05 From Brazil, Original in Portuguese, Translated by Rio.   Suddenly I was out of the water, dry, feeling happy and seeing a 360 degree movie.  It started in the present (that very day) and went backward very rapidly but I was able to see all the moments of my life, with all the smells and tastes and sensations.  When I arrived at the day of my birth I saw myself transported, without knowing how, through a tunnel that was spinning but without making me dizzy.  The tunnel appeared to be made of clouds that changed color the whole time and was immensely wide and long.  People were going through in this tunnel,  gliding along, and I was gliding also toward a light at the end of the tunnel.  The light was very golden but was not blinding.  It was an embracing, comforting light.   I went along without understanding why, but I had never felt happier. 
NDE from child drowing.

712. Fulvia B's NDE. English expanded version  11/12/05  I was in a space or entity filled with Golden light. It was peaceful. It surrounded me.  I was in it. Although I did not have a body form, I was floating and moving forward and backwards and all around.  Everything and Nothing was in this space which seemed magnified. I felt like I had been there before so I was not afraid at first.  As I floated, I looked around and said to myself "WHERE AM I?" and "WHY AM I HERE?"( even though I had felt I had been there before) " SO THIS IS IT?"  (Referring to knowing that I had died and entered this place)....
NDE due to cardiac arrest.

711. Rodney O's NDE. English expanded version  11/12/05  At first, it seemed like I had risen upward from myself lying on the floor of my bathroom and moving across this beautiful valley filled with green grass and flowers all over.  It was like I was flying, like I don't know. Maybe like superman did. I felt like something was behind me.  I was not sure if what was behind me was good or bad.  I know I was very much at ease. Towards the end of it all I felt like there was something following me and it made me feel like I was being led to some other place or direction. Then, I was all of a sudden being pulled backwards at an amazingly fast pace. The field I was flying over was just a green blur.  Then there was a really bright flash of light and then I was being shook.  I was back in my house on the floor of my dining room with paramedics everywhere...
NDE from individual who has been pronounced clinically dead five times.

710. Suranna's NDE. English expanded version  11/12/05  All of a sudden I was walking through a desert feeling strangely confident. It was dark there was no sun but without hearing or feeling them I was aware of the people surrounding me. There was no pain and I could hardly even feel myself. It was silent and completely still I was the most relaxed I've ever been. I no longer craved anything I was completely satisfied...  I was using new senses and it was completely dark tho I could see everything.
NDE from criminal attack (was beaten up and mugged).  Contributor is 14 years old, and experience happened at age 23.  From England.

709. Marinda G's NDE. English expanded version  11/12/05  From South Africa.  The feeling of peace, could be at best, described as follows:  Try and think of THE MOST relaxed & calm state in which you have EVER been!  I compare it to being totally alone, with my ears submerged under the water in a bath.  There is no sound....you're completely relaxed.... well this comparison to that of the peaceful experience I encountered could be compared to still sticking yr head in a bee hive!  I asked God, that if it was truly not my time yet, to please tell me what my purpose on earth was.. then I woke up in my hospital bed... for something that felt like hours, my mom told me I was just "gone" for about two minutes!  I woke up smiling telling her, I know what my purpose on earth was!  To find joy and spread joy!
NDE due to post surgical complication. 

708. Sara-Charlotte's NDE. English expanded version  11/12/05  I came to a halt and it was some kind of "Limbo" where my sins where dealt with. I felt sensations of sadness and witnessed my first sin being committed. I was aware of almost some kind of judge being present but not visible. I felt scared and was pleading to help me. Again, the 2 angels were next to me and I was sort of lifted up to a mountain like top with them. I was told to look down and witnessed heaven and hell. Yes, I know it sounds insane to someone who maybe has not been there. I found my faith very fast right there on the mountain and realized very moment when God had tried to speak to me but I was too busy with material things. It felt like someone had cleansed me off completely. I felt like an almost magnetic pull with the angels and wanted to move forward but the angels told me I had to go back again. I had to tell what I had seen.
NDE associated with allergic reaction and cardiac arrest.

707. Donni H's NDE. English expanded version  11/12/05  Once emergency room staff got into the room, they zapped me a couple times before I came back and got things going as they should.   From my point of view, once the room started to spin, it was collapsing in a funnel shape and spinning faster and faster as it collapsed, kind of like sucking everything into itself. Then I was in a field of dandelions in full bloom with the Grand Tetons in the background. I remember walking through the field looking up at the Teton range thinking to myself, "What a strange view this is" as I've been to the Tetons a number of times and there isn't any field that even looks close to that for many a mile...I had also noticed all the pain in my body had gone and my vision and become very sharp and clear, but also I couldn't see much out of the sides of my eyes, some type of tunnel vision going on....  Then I guess they were zapping me and I remember  my wonderful vision in front of me being destroyed and the vision was being stretched out of shape and focus, like stretching a rubber band around your finger to shoot. that kept getting more out of focus and then I remember opening my eyes with a whole crew of people hovering over me and a nurse calling my name. I went to try and sit up but they all pushed me back down and told me to be cool, lay still.
NDE from cardiac arrest.

706. Daniel RS's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05 From Peru, Original in Spanish, Translated by Rio He told me to stay but I said "no."  He then carried me to a paradise, a beautiful forest full of phosphorescent colors, yellow-blue waves.  The colors were alive.  I was a few feet in the air.  I no longer had a body.  I was pure vision.  Suddenly, something like a butterfly came toward me.  It wasn't a butterfly, it was a large angel.  I don't know what gender it was.  It was beautiful.  It had large wings.  It carried me into paradise for recreation.  It also took me to a clear, transparent river.  The truth is I didn't believe in angels at the time.  Now I do.
NDE from spinal meningitis.

705. Sevín's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05 Original in French, Translated by Nelly  Two phases for my NDE:  First one : flight in an extremely bright space, the very mild impression  of a muffled, fuzzy ambience, no awareness of a physical body, surrounded by other beings similar to me,  flight at a rather low speed, no noise, no air rubbing, all is white, flight lasted around ten minutes.  Second one: Suddenly I see a tunnel and dive into it at very high speed.  No noise and no rubbing, as previously said. On arrival at the bottom, I decide to go up again. I believe that this is a decision to live taken at this very moment and, suddenly … nothing. Everything stops. I remember my family’s visits, my eldest daughter speaking to me, caressing me and writing her surname on my arm: I seem to react since I move slightly. 
NDE from surgery complications.

704. Teri V's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05 I had been in labor with my son for 12 hours, and suddenly I could take no more. I remember seeing my doctor push a red button on the wall, at that time I was in pain but suddenly there was no pain . (out of body experience) I could see them working on my body. I was above myself looking down. I then moved away from my body very quickly and toward a light through a tunnel like area, I felt at peace there could not really see anything but to hear someone talking to me. This male voice said I had to go back that I had some things I still Had to do. I said I don't want to do that. and as fast as I left my body I returned to it . I could then feel pain . I could see everyone around me in the room . It was weeks before I could really understand what had happened to me . at my doctors office I asked him what had happened ,he said my heart had stopped and that I had had a near death experience.  I have had no fear of death since this happened .
NDE associated with complication of childbirth.

703. Dove's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05  I was training a horse and took a fall while jumping a creek and only remember falling but not landing. I woke in darkness and saw about 15 feet away from me a circle of beautiful light with 7 figures that I could not make out. They seemed to know me and did not talk to me but only to each other and without words. The one in the middle made the final decision that I was to go back and not come into there or enter the light. I consciously wanted to go there and begged with my mind to please take me. The light was glorious! I fought coming back and as I did so it was with lightening bolt crashes of painful light and I fought it and then it would go all black and then the lightening bolt of a little reality bit by bit over and over. It was PAINFUL coming back and I fought it the whole time to no avail. I saw the trees down the lane from birds eye view and then quickly back into the spot where I laid. The people were pounding on my chest and breathing in my mouth and a lady was screaming to call an ambulance.
NDE from falling off a horse.

702. Robert W's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05    During a tilt table test my heart stopped for 17 seconds at the 8 minute make of the test. During the 4 minutes before I recovered I remember hearing the hospital PA call out a code blue then I went into my experience where I found myself floating or standing in the center of a giant sphere the color was gray and it seemed to be spinning at a tremendous rate of speed. I could hear voices but could not find a way to get to them, there were no doors or openings. I felt as if I were well and safe but I remember trying to hear the voice of my brother who passed away a few years ago. I was fully aware of what had happened to me, I knew that I had died on the table and yet I wasn't afraid of it I just kept trying to find a way to reach the voices that I could hear. When I recovered from it there were doctors from the ER all around me and the doctor told me what had happened.
NDE with cardiac arrest during medical cardiac testing.  Experience happened less than five months ago.

701. Robert B's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05  What others call a tunnel I have concluded is absence to such a degree the mind gives it texture. I saw the Light approach, I was enveloped by the light and an entity that was to prepare me for what I call my Interview with a supreme being later in the Light. This first being appeared to be the Virgin Mary. Only after asking, "Are you truly the Virgin Mary it instantly manifested true identity. I was nearly paralyzed with fear until again asking "please, what  is happening to me what is going on here?" From that point all flowed out. Humor functioning far beyond its role here, sites and images coming together with reciprocals to produce physical music. There is no time. Time is a  parochial concept for humans existing in truncated physics.
NDE associated with electrocution at age 13.

700. Fena D's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05  Now for the experience:  The first conscious thing that I remember is that there was a swooshing sound...very light...sort of like when a parachute opens and the calm that follows while you are floating to the ground.  There was a light....not blinding but like a soft light shining through a fog.  The feeling was so peaceful...no pain, calm, happy and there were "people" or spirits of people that I knew.  There was a feeling of happiness and laughter and camaraderie of all that were there.  I saw no bodies but I knew some of the people and felt friends all around me.  I can't say who they were but I know that I knew all of them and that they knew me.  They were happy to see me.  I was so very happy to be there.  I was rejoicing and ready to stay.  It is at almost the moment that I knew that I wanted to stay that "someone" said to me..."no, you can't stay...it is not your time".  I argued that I didn't want to go back but the voice said in a commanding yet loving tone...."no...it is not your time".
NDE associated with suicide attempt.  This experience was shared about three weeks after it happened.

699. Katie B's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05  My liver, kidneys & heart quit. I was shocked 3 times and put on life support...  I was in a dark moist place that was warm. I felt totally peaceful there. Then a man in a blue shirt showed up and picked me up, and we went walking. The further we walked the brighter the light became, and he did, too. He carried me over a void place, and I was given to understand that it was hell, because there was no God there at all. It was a featureless plain that the person carried me through, all the while glowing brighter and brighter and the road we were on glowed brighter and brighter as well. Finally we were out of the void spot and the person was so bright I couldn't look at him anymore. He carried me until we reached an area that looked like to me three windows onto heaven. There I was given to understand my place wasn't there yet, and I had to go back to my body. When I did, the pain was immense and immediate. I am no longer afraid to die.
NDE associated with cardiac arrest.

698. Brenda G's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05  He must of hit me and knocked me out because this is where my experience begins. It felt like I walked through a door of some kind it was all dark but not a scary dark I didn't feel no fear I felt calm and started to wonder were I was all of a sudden there was a very bright light as I turned toward the light the things that happened next, happened  really fast this voice came out of the light and at the same time I slammed back in my body...
NDE associated with criminal attack at age 15

697. Terence E's NDE. English expanded version  11/8/05 From Australia I felt that I was falling horizontally "Down" a tunnel or long hallway towards a bright light. I seemed to want what was at or in that light. I told my parents that the light was something "sweet", something good and wonderful. I felt no fear, in fact I felt strong love, a wanting that was so incredible I find it hard describe the intensity of that feeling. Suddenly I felt I was going back, not back up the tunnel, somehow out of it. My next memory was slowly being aware of my surroundings, nurses etc. It was another week before I able to talk of my experience as until then I was on a respirator with tubes down my throat etc. The moment I could talk all I wanted talk about my wonderful light.
NDE at age 11 from explosion with metal fragment injury to chest and lungs. 

696. Marietta S's NDE.   English expanded version  11/8/05 And  I was standing in front of the door, and of course its in the floor of a hayloft, I started toward them and they started to come n get me. They were fussing at me. So I started to back up, and by they time the screamed at me to stop I fell out backwards. I fell on my head and neck, and I've always had trouble with my neck since then. Just that I was not n my body when they got down to me, because I was above them looking down. They thought I was unconscious or dead but I wasn't.  I was just watching them. But, I was ok and didn't get why all the excitement, I was there and safe, and I didn't like them being upset. But it is strange how I felt I still remember that after all these years and with me being so little u wouldn't think I would. I knew there was someone with me. I felt them holding me, and they loved me even more then my family.
NDE at about age 3-4 due to fall and head trauma.

695. Sheila L's Azrael Encounter. English expanded version  11/8/05  On September 8th, 1999, an online acquaintance, who used the screen name, The Infernal Emissary, sent me a poem he wrote.  This poem filled my mind with tormented imagery, so I asked him what the poem was about.  He told me the poem was about his experience with Azrael.  I didn't recognize the name, so I asked him, Who is Azrael?  He told me that Azrael was the Angel of Death.  I didn't understand this, because I became fascinated with the name... From this relationship, I learned Biblical Hebrew and the forms that evolved later.  I found almost every one of his original records, and the records that were written about him, which first exalted and later, demonized him - each process making it almost impossible to discover his original identity.  I laid these records out in chronological order on a website and began the process of inquiry and debate with the current day scholars and religious leaders.
Dream, and later ongoing relation with Azrael, angel of death.

694. Pilar L's Probable NDE. English expanded version  10/19/05  From Spain, Original in Spanish, Translated by Rio Afterwards I remember that I found myself in a state of total freedom and happiness, surrounded by an infinite Love that I don't know how to describe.  There are no words.  I only know that my body was not at all important to me.  I didn't even look at it.  But all of a sudden someone was wetting my lips trying to give me water and I choked.  Then they sat me up in bed and I screamed at them to leave me in peace.  I knew that they wanted  to make me return.  I shouted "No, I don't want to!  My body hurts!  If you don't love me why do I have to return?  I don't want to.  My body hurts!"  But they didn't hear me and someone gave me a hard slap on my back between my shoulder blades destroying my wings.
Child age 5 went into coma from tonsil infection.

693.  Jessica B's NDE. English expanded version  10/19/05 I grabbed one of the lights while still on my hands and knees in an attempt to turn it off and the next thing I know a lightning bolt of electricity is running from the clamp light through my arms, chest and head and then all of the sudden I am surrounded by this white glowing beautiful light, it is a peaceful amazingly comforting feeling, I feel so safe and whole, part of the universe, it as if i am somehow part of a fog or mist of the universe, I am not scared and actually feel the most peace I have ever felt. ...and then suddenly, I am jerked back to my body.
NDE from electrocution.

692.  Melanie W's NDE. English expanded version