Oleg K NDE

Experience Description

I shouldn't have been born in 1970. My mom's health didn't allow her to have a baby. Miraculously, I was born via cesarean section.

When I was two and a half years old, I had an appendectomy. I developed peritonitis and was on the verge of life and death again.

At age 16, I suffered a life-threatening injury that caused severe internal abdominal bleeding. It seemed someone or something was trying to remove me from this life. I was taken to the emergency room while my blood pressure dropped drastically and my pulse was barely detectable. I just wanted to lie down and sleep. I was exhausted. I felt like a heavy, pulling pain under my left collarbone. The ambulance arrived and took me to the hospital.

The doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me. They took X-rays and performed other tests, but nothing helped. They decided to perform an emergency laparoscopy without anesthesia. There was no time to wait, as I was already fading; though still conscious. They made two incisions; one near my navel and another on my left side. Then they began inflating me with air. The pain was so unbearable that I cursed the doctors and begged them to kill me because death seemed like an escape. Finally, it ended. The air was drained, the pain subsided, and the doctors understood the issue. They prepped me for surgery.

I was already on the operating table when they asked about my tolerance to anesthesia. They placed a brace in front of my face and draped a blue sheet over it so I wouldn’t see the injection. Then I blacked out.

Before these events, I was a staunch atheist. I dreamed of being a pilot, and only "materialist believers" were allowed to fly abroad. My father, a military officer and communist, reinforced these beliefs. This was in 1986.

Before losing consciousness, I felt overwhelming pain and weakness. I was completely indifferent to my fate. During the operation, my awareness returned. I thought the anesthesia was wearing off and feared the pain would return. I tried to signal the doctors by wiggling my toes, moving my arms, and blinking. But, nothing worked. I feared I was paralyzed, and started imagining life in a wheelchair at age 16.

Then suddenly, I was outside my body, near the ceiling above the operating light. I saw myself below, surrounded by five doctors. A tube was in my mouth, and the anesthesiologist swore, saying that I was in cardiac arrest and needed a thinner tube. They scrambled. One doctor injected my chest with a long needle. I remembered every detail, including their faces and their words. I felt weightless and euphoric, as if freed from exhaustion.

I woke up on the operating table, stitched up, and too weak to move. The nurses transferred me to a gurney. I kept passing out from blood loss. The next time I regained consciousness, it was night time in the ICU. A light kept me awake. I saw a medic who had been in surgery and called him by name. I described everything I’d seen while out of my body. He was shocked, insisting someone must have told me. But no one could have told me since I’d been unconscious most of the time.

After this, my life changed. The aviation medical board rejected me, ending my pilot dreams. But I also realized death doesn’t exist. This revelation, though traumatic, became the defining moment of my life. It redirected my life path toward a difficult but profound search for meaning.

Background Information:

Gender: Male

Date NDE Occurred: 06.12.1986

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Surgery-relatedCriminal attack While under general anesthesia CPR given Clinical death (cessation of breathing or heart function) I was dying from a lot of blood loss and terrible, unbearable pain.

How do you consider the content of your experience? Entirely pleasant

Did you feel separated from your body? Yes I described this in the text of my experience. I clearly left my body and existed outside it

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? More consciousness and alertness than normal This is absolute concentration, clarity of what is happening and euphoria, all-encompassing Happiness and ecstasy.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? At the moment of leaving the body and observing oneself from the outside

Were your thoughts speeded up? Incredibly fast

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? No

Were your senses More vivid than usual? Incredibly more vivid

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. Here's another comparison - the way you see and hear in this life can be compared to watching an old black-and-white TV, and in that state I saw and heard how in an Imax cinema.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. Our life is like walking in a wetsuit with a cellophane bag on your head.

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? No

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No

Did you see any beings in your experience? No

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings? No

Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light? No

Did you see an unearthly light? No

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? No

What emotions did you feel during the experience? joy and euphoria

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? Incredible peace or pleasantness

Did you have a feeling of joy? Incredible joy

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? No

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? No

Did scenes from your past come back to you? No

Did scenes from the future come to you? No

Did you come to a border or point of no return? No

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Unaffiliated- Atheist I grew up in the USSR, in the family of a military officer, a communist, and was a convinced materialist, rejected God and the afterlife. The reason for this is the general state ideology and upbringing in the family.

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Uncertain I had not practiced spiritual practices before.

What is your religion now? Other or several faiths I searched for answers to my questions for a long time, studied all the religions of the World, and eventually came to my own knowledge.: God the Creator is embodied in every human being and in every living being. Through man, he learns about the world he created and evolves physically and spiritually. God the Creator does not know God the Architect (I do not know what to call the main one in the universe in English), but he is sure of His existence and strives for him, but he can only do this by following the path of spiritual evolution. Over the course of millions of years, it has been evolving from the simplest single-celled to humans, evolving from competition through cooperation to compassion, each time incarnating into new forms and improving itself. I also consider the teachings of the Buddha to be the most important knowledge that has been revealed to the World, and the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus Christ is the most accurate and concise instruction on how to stop the cycle of rebirth on this suffering-filled earth.

Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was entirely not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience Before this experience, I was an atheist and thought that life ends like the life of an old TV set that ended up in a landfill and was run over by a bulldozer. After that, I began to search for God and the answers to my questions.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes I realized that we are not dying, which means that there is some meaning in life that I have yet to understand.

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? No

Did you see deceased or religious spirits? No

Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)? No

During your experience, did you gain information about premortal existence? No

During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? No

During your experience, did you gain information about the existence of God? No

Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:

During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? No

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? No

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? Yes I realized that death does not exist and life goes on without a body.

Did you gain information about how to live our lives? No

During your experience, did you gain information about life’s difficulties, challenges and hardships? No

During your experience, did you gain information about love? No

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life This experience has been a pivotal one in my life, and it has transformed me in many ways. Much later, after conducting research, I finally discovered the truth and found peace. However, that is a different, equally fascinating story.

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Uncertain At the age of sixteen, I had no experience in relationships.

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes I didn't understand the meaning of this question a bit, but I'll try to answer it. Have you ever been scuba diving in a wetsuit, 10 to 15 meters deep? Do you remember your feelings? now remember how you got out tired on the boat, you are thirsty and tired, and now you take off your uhp. a balloon with air and finally a wetsuit, and you plunge into the warm sea - remember your feelings!

How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience? I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience I remember everything in detail, and it still stands before my eyes.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Yes They came up later, as a result of my searches. However, I noticed that someone or something was constantly protecting me from terrible events.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? The realization that death does not exist.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes I always share my experiences with others. Some believe me, some don't, but I don't care. For me, only my own beliefs are important, and I do not seek to impose my point of view on others. I respect each person's personal boundaries. After all, it's all part of the evolution of the soul, and everyone has their own path.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? No

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real I had never experienced anything more real before.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real At that moment, I was fully aware, my thoughts were flowing fast, and my perceptions and feelings became extremely clear.

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? Yes Subsequently, while studying religions and esoteric teachings, I began to practice entering the astral and out-of-body experiences.

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