Andy Petro had a profound IME while drowning in a lake as a child. Decades later, he recounted it in his book “Alive in the Light: Remembering Eternity”. Here are a few short extracts. The radiant light, which looks like a thousand exploding suns, invades the darkness. My retinas should be burned by its brilliance, […]
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Anke Evertz had an NDE after being accidentally burned alive. She tells it like this: “It happened on a cold September evening. My whole body – lighting the fireplace – caught fire in an instant. Everything in me went up in flames, and after a few seconds, all I could do was breathe in the
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Sylvie Cafardy, a geriatrician, has accompanied many people – and their families – at the end of their lives. Her work is based on a fascinating and rigorous study of IME stories and their possible explanations. In particular, she shows how these stories can sometimes contribute to calming people at the end of life. Her
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Louisa Peck, an alcoholic and cocaine addict, had an NDE in her youth. But the experience didn’t fit in with her professed atheism. So she repressed it as a hallucination. And yet, in the rest of her life, she had many, many spiritual experiences. She finally let go and entrusted herself totally to the Higher
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George Ritchie experienced an NDE in 1943. He was one of the first to testify to it, as early as the 1950s. Here are some short extracts from his book Return from Tomorrow. I’m not asking you to believe anything. I’m just telling you what I’ve seen. And I have no idea what the next
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NDEs, like mystics of all traditions, tell us that God loves us unconditionally. We don’t have to “buy” or deserve His love. Nothing we do can deprive us of His love. Nothing, not even the most horrible things you can imagine in your worst nightmares, can deprive you of God’s unconditional love. Easier to write
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Jeffery Olsen experienced a profound NDE following a car accident in which his wife and one of their two children died while he was at the wheel. In his book Knowing, he recounts what he experienced and the magnificent path of reconstruction and healing – physical, psychological and spiritual – that he has followed. How
In her magnificent book 45 secondes d’éternité – Mes souvenirs de l’au-delà, Nicole Dron gives a detailed account of her NDE. Her brain only stopped working for 45 seconds, but her experience filled his whole life. Here are a few nuggets, and I urge you to read the rest. He can give you many answers,
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Mary C. Neal is a surgeon. She had an NDE while her body was drowning in a kayaking accident in Chile. She detailed her experience in her first book, To Heaven and Back. In her second book, 7 Lessons from Heaven, she explores the implications of NDEs for our daily lives. Here’s a selection. Mary
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