I often talk to you about Near-Death Experiences…
But there are also other experiences—just as powerful—that profoundly change one’s life without involving clinical death.
These are called STEs: Spiritually Transforming Experiences.
They don’t always take the same forms.
But they have one thing in common: they transform everything.
I’ve experienced several of them over the course of my life.
And they’ve left a lasting impression on me.
My First Out-of-Body Experience
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 spirit leave my body. I found myself… on the ceiling. Literally. I could see my own body lying on the bed, as if I were just an observer. That moment, outside of time, changed something inside 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. Sharing this brought me relief. I might have been a little “weird,” but I wasn’t alone. At the time, I didn’t know the term “NDE” or anything about research on consciousness. But I knew that consciousness wasn’t limited to the brain.
And that out-of-body experience… cured my fear.
An Encounter with Unconditional Love
A few months later, another experience awaited me.
Even more profound.
Even more moving.
It was in 1986. During a time of prayer.
Suddenly, I was transported elsewhere.
Into another space. Another dimension.
I found myself in a kind of void —total darkness, absolute silence.
But paradoxically, I felt as though I were in an infinite, boundless space.
And then… I sensed a Presence.
An Energy of Light. Indescribable. Unforgettable.
She loved me. With an unconditional, infinite, total love.
It was as if she lived within me, yet was also outside of me.
A love so pure, so strong, that I couldn’t have made it up.
I would have been incapable of imagining such love.
No words can do it justice.
This Entity did not dominate me.
It was on the same level as me.
And it gave me everything it was, holding nothing back.
Out of love.
This love pierced my heart.
I cried my heart out.
No judgment. No conditions. Just acceptance, tenderness, and truth.
To me, that presence was Jesus’s, because it fit with my spiritual context. But I wasn’t told that explicitly. I just felt it.
In any case, ever since that day, I’ve known:
My soul comes from that Love.
And everything within me longs to find it again.
Love is the energy of the universe
In the months that followed, I experienced other out-of-body experiences. Each time, I found myself in a different dimension. A kind of energetic universe, where only Love exists—pure and infinite.
Sometimes, this love was directed at me. Other times, it was everywhere, for everyone.
And that’s when I realized something fundamental: Love is the very energy of the universe.
Not an idea, not a feeling. A life force—both gentle and powerful—that connects everything.
A Night in the Mountains
About fifteen years ago, I had another one of those experiences. I was staying in a cabin in the mountains, near a spiritual retreat center.
In the middle of the night, I felt as if I had been transported to another reality.
An immense love flooded over me. It overflowed from me, flowed through me, and connected 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 compare to it.
It was brief… but incredibly intense.
These experiences are etched in my memory forever
I don’t have an exceptional memory, but I remember those moments as if it were yesterday.
Because they are etched in my mind. Because their truth has never left me.
They gave me three profound certainties:
- There is a world beyond the physical world.
A world without time, without separation. More real than this one, because it is eternal. - This world is a world of Love.
An infinite, pure, unconditional Love. And we can sense its presence right here, in our daily lives. - We don’t need NDE or EST to access it.
All we need is to love. To truly love—even what seems hard to love.
Every act of love makes the veil more transparent… until the day that veil falls away for good.
