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Sam J's NDE

Experience description: 

I am in the ER room laying on the examining table when the nurse over my shoulder said, "We lost him.  He's gone." 

I remember "seeing" the doctor jump on the table, double up his fist and strike me in the chest.  I felt no pain. 

The nurse over my shoulder spoke again and said, "You hit him to hard, you broke his sternum." 

At that point I heard a voice in my head say, "Let go and everything will be fine."  I let go and trusted that voice. 

The next thing I remember was being in x-ray and the staff trying to prop me up to take a picture of my chest. 

The next thing is they are taking me on the gurney from x-ray to ICU.  The lights on the ceiling are flashing as we pass under them.  Then I heard the same nurse over my shoulder say, "We've lost him again." 

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.

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? No      

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes     See below

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?    For most of the experience.

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal every day consciousness and alertness?    Normal consciousness and alertness

If your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience was different from your normal every day consciousness and alertness, please explain:            The thing that I questioned most over the years was if I no longer had a body how could I see or feel anything.  I had none of the five senses without the body.  I knew I couldn't die because I didn't know what unconditional love was.

Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such as clarity, field of vision, colors, brightness, depth perception degree of solidness/transparency of objects, etc.)?  No      

Did your hearing differ in any way from your normal, everyday hearing (in any aspect, such as clarity, ability to recognize source of sound, pitch, loudness, etc.)?
            Uncertain      None of these questions make any "sense" to me.  I had no body.  Thus I had none of the five sense.  I can't tell you how that works, it just does.

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     Yes

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            None.  Once I had let go there was no emotion.

Did you see a light?           Yes     The yellow white light of the room I went to.

Did you meet or see any other beings?           Yes     See the experience above

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          Yes     The doctor came in the next morning and said to me, "We lost you two or three times last night."

Did you see or visit any beautiful or otherwise distinctive locations, levels or dimensions?           Yes            The Library

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Uncertain     

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?     Yes     It's still unfolding every day.  I know there is life after life.

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? Yes     I wasn't allowed to cross that boundary.  There was no choice.

Did you become aware of future events?       Uncertain           

Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience you did not have prior to the experience?     Uncertain      The dream world has always brought me insights.  The most significant moment in my life has been in the dream world.  I have won money in the lottery from dreaming the numbers.  My ex-wife gave them to me.  True story.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     From the first day.  Reactions very and have change over time.  It's my job to share the experience I had.  People take what they will from the experience.  All I am to do is to share it with them.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?    Yes            You can read all you want to about a NDE but until you have actually had one it's like trying to tell another what a ice cream cone is like when the don't even know what ice cream is.

How did you view the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:            Experience was definitely real    From the get go.  That sense of knowing.  I just knew.  The NDE requires no "faith or belief" on my part.  It's plain and simple a fact.  I had watched up until that time four or five people die including my mother.  There experiences of dying were similar, it didn't matter what their beliefs were.  Spirit came to them in a form that their conscious minds could accept.  Whatever that my have been.

Were there one or several parts of the experience especially meaningful or significant to you?    To have had the experience without having a physically body.  To heighten all my sense so every experience is a multi sensory experience.  To learn to be able to recognize unconditional love without a body, ie the five senses.

How do you currently view the reality of your experience:            Experience was definitely real    As I grow older and experience more.  It just confirms more and more what I had experienced.  I have had a couple of more experiences since this event.  Just this year in January I crashed a town car.  Totaled it. I hit a patch of ice and the car hydro plane.  When the car went out of control I heard that same voice.  "Just relax and everything will be just fine."  Well I wound up in the bottom of a ditch looking up at my ass hole and thinking, "This is your idea of 'fine'."  Open my eyes and say no blood.  Wiggled my toes and they worked then my fingers and they worked.  Did a mental inventory and nothing hurt.  Then I couldn't get out of the car fast enough.  Had to go over the back seat and out the passengers back door.  I did not feel that entity there so I knew I was going to die.

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?           No      

Have your religious beliefs/practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?           
Yes            I have walked way from organized religion.  I know there is a supreme being and I know I am protected.

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         Yes     See above.

Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?          Not at this time.

Did the questions asked and information you provided so far accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?         No       I would have to write a whole frig'n book and I am not about to do that.  But what I have share is to the best of my ability and truthfulness.

Are there any other questions we could ask to help you communicate your experience?      Nope