I often talk to you about Near Death Experiences …
But there are also other equally powerful life-changing experiences that don’t involve clinical death.
We call them NDEs: Spiritually Transforming Experiences.
They don’t always have the same shapes.
But they do have one thing in common: they transform everything.
I’ve lived through several of them over the course of my life.
And they’ve left an indelible mark on me.
My first exit from the body
It was during my military service. I was home on leave, consumed by anxiety at the thought of returning to the barracks. A dark fear, an almost physical despair.
And suddenly… something snapped.
I felt my mind leave my body. I found myself… on the ceiling. Literally. I could see my own body lying on the bed, like a mere observer. That moment, out of time, changed something in me. When I “came back”, I knew it wasn’t a hallucination.
It was real.
I told a few friends about it. One of them introduced me to someone who had had a similar experience. I was relieved. I might have been a bit “weird”, but I wasn’t alone. At the time, I didn’t know the word “NDE” or about consciousness research. But I knew that consciousness wasn’t limited to the brain.
And this exit from the body… cured my fear.
An encounter with unconditional love
A few months later, another experience awaited me.
Even more profound.
Even more overwhelming.
It was 1986. During a time of prayer.
Suddenly, I was transported to another place.
Another space. Another dimension.
I found myself in a kind of void – total darkness, absolute silence.
But paradoxically, I felt I was in an infinite space, without limits.
And then… I felt a Presence.
An Energy of Light. Indefinable. Unforgettable.
She loved me. Unconditional, infinite, total love.
It was as if she lived inside me, yet outside me.
A love so pure, so strong, I couldn’t have made it up.
I couldn’t have imagined such a love.
No words can describe it.
This Entity didn’t dominate me.
She was on the same plane as me.
And she gave me everything she was, without holding anything back.
Out of love.
This love pierced me.
I cried my eyes out.
No judgment. No conditions. Just acceptance, tenderness, truth.
For me, this presence was that of Jesus, because it corresponded to my spiritual context. But I wasn’t told this explicitly. It was felt.
In any case, since that day, I know:
My soul comes from this Love.
And everything in me longs to find it again.
Love is the energy of the universe
In the months that followed, I experienced other ESTs. Each time, I found myself in a different dimension. A kind of energetic universe, where only pure, infinite Love exists.
Sometimes this love was for me. Other times, it was everywhere, for everyone.
And then I understood something fundamental: Love is the very energy of the universe.
Not an idea, not a feeling. It’s a life force, both gentle and powerful, that connects everything.
A night in the mountains
About fifteen years ago, I had another such experience. I was in a chalet in the mountains, close to a spiritual retreat.
In the dead of night, I felt transported into another reality.
An immense love invaded me. It overflowed from me, flowing through me, connecting me to the Being of Love and to all living beings.
It was an unimaginable joy, a bliss so powerful that no earthly happiness can match it.
It was short… but of incredible intensity.
These experiences are engraved forever
I don’t have an exceptional memory, but I remember those moments like it was yesterday.
Because they’re etched in my consciousness. Because their truth has never left me.
They gave me three profound certainties:
- There’s a world beyond the physical world.
A world without time, without separation. More real than this one, because eternal. - This world is a world of Love.
Infinite, pure, unconditional Love. And we can feel its presence right here, in our daily lives. - We don’t needNDE or EST to get there.
All we need to do is love. To really love, even what we find hard to love.
Every gesture of love makes the veil more transparent… until the day the veil falls for good.
