ONE FAMILY PLAN
NDEs
Near Death Experiences often assume cultural differences... "Americans tended to view the being of light as a Christian religious personage and Indians perceived it to be a Hindu one." Still, it is not likely these are merely hallucinations... "As with OBEs, when NDEers are out-of-body, they are able to report details they have no normal sensory means of knowing." (Talbot, p 241)
Often they float above their body and are able to confirm many details they would otherwise have no way of knowing. Though hallucinations will register, many NDEs occur in patients that have flat EEGs. Here is the story...
"A summary of a typical NDE is as follows: A man is dying and suddenly finds himself floating above his body and watching what is going on. Within moments he travels at great speed through a darkness or a tunnel. He enters a realm of dazzling light and is warmly met by recently deceased friends and relatives. Frequently he hears indescribably beautiful music and sees sights - rolling meadows, flower-filled valleys, and sparkling streams - more lovely than anything he has seen on earth. In this light-filled world he feels no pain or fear and is pervaded with an overwhelming feeling of joy, love, and peace. He meets a 'being (and or beings) of light' who emanates a feeling of enormous compassion, and is prompted by the being(s) to experience a 'life review,' a panoramic replay of his life. He becomes so enraptured by his experience of this greater reality that he desires nothing more than to stay. However, the being tells him that it is not his time yet and persuades him to return to his earthly life and reenter his physical body." (Talbot, p 240)
"I am the light of the world..." (John 8:12) "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." (John 9:5) "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness." (John 12:46) "To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light..." (Acts 26:18)
Over a 10 year period Dr. Melvin Morse interviewed child survivors... "Over and over they told him the same thing. After going unconscious they found themselves outside their bodies, watched the doctors working on them, passed through a tunnel, and were comforted by luminous beings." (Talbot, p 243)
"I read a long article in a medical journal that tried to explain NDEs as being various tricks of the brain. By then I had studied NDEs extensively and none of the explanations that this researcher listed made sense. It was finally clear to me that he had missed the most obvious explanation of all - NDEs are real. He had missed the possibility that the soul really does travel." (Dr. Melvin Morse, Moody and Perry, Light, pp103-7)
"A growing number of researchers have been gathering and evaluating the accounts of those who have had strange near-death encounters. And the preliminary results have been highly suggestive of some sort of encounter with an extradimensional realm of reality. Our own extensive survey is the latest in these studies and is also uncovering some trends that point toward a super parallel universe of some sort." (George Gallup, Jr., with William Proctor, Adventures in Immortality, p 31)
Experiencers often describe the world beyond as a realm composed of light, frequencies, or higher vibrations. Celestial music often accompanies these journeys. It is a world of pure frequency wherein the light is more brilliant than any they have ever seen. Time and space no longer exist... "all space and time was negated." And another NDEer... "It has to be out of time and space. It must be, because... it can't be put into a time thing." (Ring, Life at Death, p 97-98)
"I believe that this is a realm that is created by interacting thought structures. These structures or 'thought-forms' combine to form patterns, just as interference waves form patterns on a holographic plate. And just as the holographic image appears to be fully real when illuminated by a laser beam, so the images produced by interacting thought-forms appear to be real." (Ring, Life at Death, p 247)
"I think we've come to the point in NDE research where it's difficult to make a distinction between thought and light. In the near-death experience thought seems to be light." (Dr. Elizabeth W. Fenske)
"That our innermost feelings and desires are responsible for creating the form we assume in the afterlife dimension is evident...People who are confined in wheelchairs in their physical existence find themselves in healthy bodies that can run and dance. Amputees invariable have their limbs back. The elderly often inhabit youthful bodies, and even stranger, children frequently see themselves as adults, a fact that may reflect every child's fantasy to be a grown-up, or more profoundly, may be a symbolic indication that in our souls some of us are much older than we realize."(Talbot, p 246)
Hypnotization
"Amazingly, when Whitton hypnotized patients and regressed them to the between-life state, they too reported all the classic features of the NDE, passage through a tunnel, encounters with deceased relatives and/or 'guides,' entrance into a splendorous light-filled realm in which time and space no longer existed, encounters with luminous beings, and a life review. In fact according Whitton's subjects the main purpose of the life review was to refresh their memories so they could more mindfully plan their next life, a process in which the beings of light gently and noncoercively assisted." (Talbot, p 247)
"At first the bodies Whitton's subjects assumed resembled the persons they had been in their last life. But as their experience in the between-life state continued, they gradually became a kind of hologramlike composite of all of their past lives." (Talbot, p 247)
Unknown Vibratory Energy
"Many say that they were not aware of any form and were simply 'themselves' or 'their mind.' Others have more specific impressions and describe themselves as 'a cloud of colors,' 'a mist,' 'an energy pattern,' or 'an energy field,' terms that again suggest that we are all ultimately just frequency phenomena, patterns of some unknown vibratory energy enfolded in the greater matrix of the frequency domain." (Talbot, p 248)
"If you can imagine yourself effortlessly moving in and out among prismatic rays of light and hearing each person's musical notes join and harmonize with your own when you touch or pass them, you would have some idea of the unseen world." (Myra Ka Lange, To the Top of the Universe, Venture Inward 4, No 3, May-June 88, p 42)
The Life Review
The 'life review' is described over and over again as an "incredibly vivid wrap-around, three-dimensional replay of their entire life" Like the Kabbalistic 'aleph,' a mythical point in space and time that contains all other points in space and time, it is a moment that contains all other moments." (Talbot, p 249)
"It's like climbing right inside a movie of your life. Every moment from every year of your life is played back in complete sensory detail. Total, total recall. And it all happens in an instant." (NDEer, from Whitton and Fisher's Life between Life, p 39)
"If they have committed a hurtful act, they become acutely aware of the pain their victim felt as a result of their thoughtlessness. And no event seems too trivial to be exempt." (Talbot, p 249)
"Every thought was there." (Moody, Reflections on Life after Life, p 68)
It is the ability to "simultaneously comprehend the whole and every part." (NDEer, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, ed. Malcolm Elwin, pp 511-12)
Self Judgment
It is much like the judgment scenes found in various sacred texts throughout the world... Interestingly, NDEers universally report that they are "never judged by the beings of light, but feel only love and acceptance in their presence. The only judgment that ever takes place is self-judgment and arises solely out of the NDEer's own feeling of guilt and repentance... We live in a universe that is far more benevolent than we realize." (Talbot, p 250)
"For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged." (1 Corinthians 11:31)
"Like Whitton's hypnotic subjects, after arriving in the realm of light NDEers appear to enter a state of heightened or metaconsciousness awareness and become lucidly honest in the self-reflections... In NDE after NDE they stress two things. One is the importance of love. Over and over they repeat this message, that we must learn to replace anger with love, learn to love more, learn to forgive and love everyone unconditionally, and learn that we in turn are loved. This appears to be the only moral criterion the beings use... That is why we are placed on earth, say the beings, to learn that love is the key." (Talbot, p 250)
"What I learned there is that the most important thing is loving while you are alive." (a child, NDEer, Moody and Perry, Light, p 50)
Of those returning, some are counseled to continually seek knowledge as it related to self-growth. It is thought that learning is continuous even after death and that knowledge is continuous even after death. In the presence of light some NDEers claim to have had direct access to all knowledge.
"You can think of a question... and immediately know the answer to it. As simple as that. And it can be any question whatsoever. It can be on a subject that you don't know anything about, that you are not in the proper position even to understand and the light will give you the instantaneous correct answer and make you understand it." (NDEer, Kenneth Ring, Heading Toward Omega, pp 58-59)
Some say they don't even have to ask the question in order to access the infinite library of information. After the life review, all there is to know, from the beginning to the end, is revealed. However, it is forgotten upon return into the non-void.
"In other words, rather than being strung out in a linear fashion like words in a sentence or scenes in a movie, all the facts, details, images, and pieces of information burst into one's awareness in an instant. One NDEer referred to these bursts of information as 'bundles of thought.' Monroe, who has also experienced such instantaneous explosions of information while in the OB state, calls them 'thought balls.' 'Receiving information in this manner is similar to the way one becomes aware of information while dreaming' they are holographic in the sense that they are instantaneous 'wholes'" (Talbot, p 252)
It is "a world of existence where thought is king." (Ring, Life at Death, p 248)
Predestination... The Life Plan
"Like Whitton, NDE researchers have also uncovered evidence that our lives are planned beforehand, at least to some extent, and we each play a role in the creation of this plan... Frequently... NDEers are told that 'it is not their time yet.' As Ring points out, this remark clearly implies the existence of some kind of 'life plan' 'It is also clear that NDEers play a role in the formulation of these destinies, for they are often given the choice whether to return or stay.'"(Talbot, p 253)
"One thing I learned was that we are all part of one big, living universe. If we think we can hurt another person or another living thing without hurting ourselves we are sadly mistaken. I look at a forest or a flower or a bird now, and say, 'That is me, part of me.' We are connected with all things and if we send love along those connections, then we are happy." (Moody and Perry, Light, p 34)
