While I have not had what is classed as a traditional Near Death Experience (NDE) where the heart stops then begins to beat again, doctors have twice told my parents that I was so critically ill that I may not make it through the night so I have spent some time in that liminal space between living and dying.

I didn’t experience a bright white light at the end of a tunnel or being met by loved ones or spirit guides. Neither did I experience the trauma of a negative NDE that some people have recounted. My NDE involved an overwhelming feeling of bliss, deep and all encompassing love and total peace. I felt like I was being pulled towards something on a Soul level and it felt to me like I was surrounded by a large, moving, sparkling white aura (would love to have had a camera that could capture auras because I know it would have showed up!). Even though I knew I may be dying I had no fear and felt no real earthly ties. My body was suffering horribly but my Soul and Spirit were free and joyful. Wherever I was going I was more than happy to be going there.

Could this simply be the way the brain operates when we’re in the dying process? A purely neurological and chemical process? Sure. But that doesn’t explain the negative and terrifying NDEs some people have.

Like many who survive an NDE, the experience was profound and has changed me forever. Ever since, I’ve been operating on a totally different vibrational energy frequency. I know that my Spirit, Soul & consciousness are outside of my physical body and they continue to exist when my body does not.

People who attend the IF Crowd and the group I belong to who attend the Wyrd lab contain other people who have had NDEs or who have experienced critical physical injury. We have all been changed by it and there is a reason we are drawn to look more deeply into consciousness, psychic phenomena and liminality. There appears to be an increased psychic ability in some people who have an NDE that they didn’t possess before, or maybe they possessed it but it was dormant and somehow awakened during the NDE. I spent 25 years being confused by how I felt and am only now exploring and embracing it.

The most wonderful gift the NDE gave me was joy. I’d had a very difficult childhood, married an abusive man, then had meningitis which had left me bedridden and ill beyond anyone’s imaginings. I had not had a happy life and yet I discovered that I had so much joy inside my Soul that my physical body could barely contain it. I also experienced love so profound words cannot even begin to do it justice. All of that had resided in me all along and can be accessed by me at any time – this knowledge has been transformative.

I can’t prove that our consciousness survives after death and neither can anyone else, but there have been so many reports of NDEs now that they cannot be ignored. We know something happens we just don’t know what or why. Having had a NDE I’m happy to take from it what I do and if it turns out I’m wrong and we merely cease to exist when we die then I’ll be gone and it won’t matter 🤷🏻‍♀️ While I’m alive I’ll continue to explore my Spirit, Soul and consciousness and the love, peace and joy which resides there.

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Didn’t know where else to put this, but for anyone interested
the Monroe Institute have a free podcast entitled ‘Expanding on Consciousness’ here.

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