NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES
NDE
WHAT IS A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE NDE?
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Heaven Scent
As you come out of the light you will simultaneously feel the presence of God yet also you will know that your loved ones surround you. For most people, this stage in the transition to the afterlife is experienced in an objective way. For example, you may feel that you are running across a glorious field toward a wonderful place. There in the distance you see forms you recognize as all the people you love. Sometimes a pet runs ahead and is the first to greet you. Soon you feel the embrace of those you may have lost, your mother and father, your wife or husband perhaps, and children who may have passed on before you.
You will hear the wind blowing through the trees, see light dappling on the landscape, and touch the foliage. All of your familiar five senses will be involved in the experience--you may even be able to differentiate somehow the varied scents of Heaven’s flowers! You will have super-sensitive perceptions that are far superior to the senses of the body. For example, your eyes will not only see all things clearly, they will seem to “touch” all they encounter. The world around you will not be something remote. You will experience it as if you are “living” the world around you. As you breathe, the world will breath. It’s all you! And this realization will fill you with joy.
 NDE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE ACCOUNT
A point will come when you approach what might be called a border, or limit. You will feel yourself moving toward this demarcation as you experience your loved ones gathering around you and guiding you onward. The border can take many forms. You may see it as a body of water to be crossed. Perhaps you’ll see a gray mist, a door, or a fence across a field. Some simply see a line. I remember one account from a NDE patient who saw her grandfather leaning across a garden gate. If she were to walk into that beautiful enchanted garden, she would never have returned to earth.
At the heart of these similar experiences is the root experience that is the crossing-over point between earthly life and the life beyond. Different individuals express it in different ways. In all cases, it is an actualized representation of the transition into the next life. If you cross the threshold you do not return.
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES - ACCOUNTS FROM NDE PATIENTS
Many NDE patients have come to this point. The accounts we have are, of course, from those who have “come back.”
The first stages of your future near-death experience may have seen you desperately wishing to return to the physical body that you left somewhere “below,” at the scene of your earthly demise. However, the tremendous pull of the blissful world that awaits you will draw you towards the afterlife. If this is the time for you to make your transition, the way will be opened for you and you will experience the next phase of your heavenward journey. However, if your destiny is not complete, you will be told to return to earth. Many NDE patients who have reached this point have told us how difficult this return can be. They feel the conflict between the irresistible power of love that draws them like a magnet to the next world and the opposite pull the earthly life and the suffering body they have left behind. In most NDE cases, it is the thought of their loved ones, children, or the spiritual work that they must still do that catapults them back into the physical body.
 Dr. Raymond Moody in his book Life after Life quotes a patient who reached the transition point after her heart attack:
“As I approached more closely, I felt certain that I was going through that mist. It was such a wonderful, joyous feeling; there are just no words in human language to describe it. Yet, it wasn’t my time to go through the mist, because instantly from the other side appeared my Uncle Carl, who had died many years earlier. He blocked my path, saying, “Go back. Your work on earth has not been completed. Go back now.” I didn’t want to go back, but I had no choice, and immediately I was back in my body. I felt that horrible pain in my chest, and I heard my little boy crying, “God, bring my mommy back to me.”’
 It would be reassuring to think that we only go to the next world once our earthly plan was fulfilled. Perhaps there is a time determined by God when we are meant to die and nothing will postpone that fateful day. However, there must be many people who pass over the demarcation line between this world and the next without the feeling of completeness. Maybe the things we feel are important fall away and seem as nothing against the magnificence of the world ahead of us. I hope that when I stand on that threshold and know that I must leave my loved ones behind, I will have the feeling that I have done much of what I set out to do.
The thought of this situation inspires me to make the best of my life here. Life is so short. We have so little time. It is our duty to ourselves to do the things our heart knows we must do in this life– even if it means sacrificing our comfort and complacency.
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