Jade STE

Experience Description

For a long period of my childhood, I experienced many ailments including fainting. One morning, I woke up and fainted on my stairs.

My perception changed as I started feeling sensations that were humanly indescribable. They were so different that I would not call them human as the sensations did not have physical rules.

My soul was placed above the scene while my body was placed at the bottom of the stairs. My grandmother was trying to wake me up.

I was like an energetic ball that had been emptied of all bad vibrations. By that, I mean I didn’t have negative thoughts such as stress, anxiety, fear, and etc. Everything was positive. The word 'peace' would be the perfect term to describe my feeling.

At that moment, there was only my grandmother with me. In my soul form, I knew what emotions she was feeling. Yet, her worry and concern for me, had no effect on me. In this sphere, nothing mattered anymore. I just wanted to let her know not to worry about me and that it was great here so it was okay for her to keep living. There were no words for these sentiments. Everything worked under energy as if by some sort of transmission from being to being. After a few moments I returned to my body.

I didn't see a tunnel, white light or anything else. I had no notion of time but judging by the scene, it must have lasted between 5 and 10 minutes. When I felt drawn into my body, I was so unhappy because I still had this feeling of peace that I tried to keep inside me. I was so fantastically magnificent, but the feeling dissipated little by little as I settled back into my body.

Even when I feel good and am happy today, it is not comparable to the feeling I felt that day. After this event, I was no longer really the same person. I started to feel emotions from people close to me. It was so odd to feel emotions that were not mine. I can be quietly living my life, when suddenly I start to cry. But I know this emotion does not belong to me. I know who is projecting this feeling and why the person is feeling this way. This has happened three times and I was able to have confirmation afterwards. I am convinced that my soul has made this link available to me because it was not like that before.

I know small things happen in my life that have no real importance. Yet, it impacts me a lot and these small things have also been confirmed to have happened. I also had premonition dreams which exhausted me for weeks. I can also sense illnesses and people close to death. Again this doesn’t happen with everyone but I feel it is not me who decides this.

In the end, I deduce that the physical body, the brain, or thoughts feed us negativity when we are no longer centered enough on ourselves. This causes us to know we are no longer truly happy. And when I speak of ourselves, I am talking about this thing that I describe as an energetic ball, which others would call soul.

Our physical body takes up a huge amount of space because it is visible. But, I think we should take more care of our invisible body, because it is the real engine of our body. I am happy to have experienced this. I am now fully aware of what I am, even though I have always been very spiritual. I feel really lucky to have been able to experience this phenomenon. It helped me to advance in my spirituality and allowed me to be fully interested in Buddhism.

I wonder if it would be possible to acquire such a level of happiness I felt that day; perhaps it would be what we call Nirvana?

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date of NDE: 2020

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? No

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

Did you feel separated from your body? I clearly left my body and existed outside it
I only saw the scene where I was in the room, I didn't go any further than that.

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? When I left my body.
I have never felt so good, I understood everything, I didn't need to think, it was as if I had all the knowledge within me. Nothing can be hidden. (By knowledge I don't mean knowledge like dates from the Second World War etc... but rather energetic knowledge like emotions/feelings : natural knowledge).

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness? More consciousness and alertness than normal

Were your thoughts speeded up? Faster than usual

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning
Time isn't even a question, it's a human principle. It doesn't exist on the other side, at least I didn't feel it.

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 Everything was clear.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience In my memory it's quite clear, there's not really any difference.

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 beings? No

Did you see or feel surrounded by a brilliant light? A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin

Did you see an unearthly light? No

Did you seem to enter another world? No

What emotions did you feel during the experience? An indescribable peace devoid of negativity.

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

Did you have a feeling of joy? Happiness

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? I felt united or one with the world

Did you suddenly understand everything? Everything about myself or others
I think I understand that we are all connected, that we all share one and the same feeling: love (of oneself and of others). We can all understand each other equally, know each other, but that requires full self-awareness.

Did scenes from your past come back? No

Did scenes from the future come? The months following my experience.

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? 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- Agnostic

Have your religious practices changed? No

What is your religion now? Buddhist

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
I didn't really know what to expect, you hear things left and right, but I didn't have any particular idea in mind, no specific belief.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes
We are too hard on ourselves

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? 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
Life goes on without the physical body, not everything is material, that's what this experience made me understand. It remains to be seen whether there is another form after this one.

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? Yes
It is the one that inhabits us, that animates us and that causes us harm. I think it is the most important feeling of ourselves, the one that will follow us until the afterlife. And not inhabited by our thoughts, it is one of the best feelings that can exist. After my experience, I loved the world around me with a madness, I loved myself, but naturally, without asking questions. This feeling was part of me, it was me.

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Moderate changes in my life

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes
Before this incident, I had a lot of friends, I started to detach myself from them, I became very solitary and I focused on myself. It was also during this period that I experienced the most things. Since I resumed a social life, I experience less spiritual things because I am less focused on myself.

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes
This is not a matter of human knowledge because it is not physical. I can put words to it but I know how hard it can be to try to understand it, I understand myself because I have experienced it and I try to put it in the best possible terms but in reality it seems so unreal and indescribable.

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 every detail of that experience.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Yes
Ability to sense others, events; premonitory dreams; sense illnesses in others; + attentive to paranormal phenomena.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? When I felt my grandmother's feelings, and I had no compassion, but not negatively, I only had self-love, only the person mattered. And yet I love my grandmother.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes
I told it to several people in the days that followed, months, etc., all my own, but without any follow-up. Only one person, whom I met two months ago now, experienced the same thing. We were able to talk and share our feelings.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Yes
I had heard about it on TV, the NDEs talked about tunnels, white lights in the distance etc... I didn't experience that, maybe I didn't go that far.

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? No

Did the questions asked and information that you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience? Yes
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