Have you ever had a personal experience with NEAR-DEATH?

Question

Hi,

If you have ever had a personal experience with a near-death-experience, describe what it was like here, everything you can remember about it, where did you go in your mind? What did you see and hear? how long were u clinically dead? What do others around you remember? Would you describe it as a religious experience? (For example, would you say you were aware of God?) What made you come back to your body? How has it changed your life? Thank you for sharing details.

Answer 1

I was shot in the chest when I was 17 years old. I remember standing up and making it a couple of steps and then everything went blank, but they say I made it out to the driveway. I lay on my belly bleeding to death waiting on the ambulance. I remember coming in and out of consciousness in the emergency room and the face of my Dad over me telling me that I would be OK and saying to hang in there. I really lost alot of blood. The bullet went through my upper arm and entered my chest just below the armpit. It went through my left lung and ldged in my spine. After 35 years its still there as they said I would be paralysed if they removed it. While I was out I remember hearing what was going on in the operating room, my most vivid memory is the sound of the hemostadts as they were pinching off arteries to control the loss of blood. But it sounded sort of echo-like as if I was hearing it from another room. I did not "see" anything because seeing in the sense of what we know as sight implies eyes with which to see and being outside or away from my body I did not have access to the faculties of sight but I had an awareness which was multidirectional. It was as if I could see every direction at once. No bright lights, no long passed relatives urging me to a "light."
My life since then has been a path of enlightenment to find out what exactly it was that I had experienced. I studied Zen, Yoga, and a few other Eastern Mysticism "religions" before I finally became a Christian about 1974. It seems ironic to me that it was the writings of Watchman Nee, himself a christian convert from oriental philosophy which answered for me the mechanics of what it means to be human in the breakdown of our Spirit, Soul, and Body and enhanced by understanding of what it means to "walk in the spirit" as a Christian. Outside of a couple of times where I knew something that was happening moments before it was actualised, the only thing that has been residual from my near death experience has been the lack of fear over death. Also the knowledge that there really is an experience awaiting us after our Spirit and Soul departs has been the biggest apologetic and subjective experience that has been an anchor for me in knowing the truth of the reality of God's existence. Jesus saved me for a purpose and it was not my time to go yet. Over the years I have shared Christ with many and had I not experienced the reality of death for just a moment I don't know that I would be the effective witness that I am today. There is a Spiritual Realm out there and I cannot deny its existence any more than I can deny that I am sitting here typing on the computer. The privilege of experiencing life out side of the normal existential truth common to all comes with a responsibility to communicate spiritual truth to others and I don't take it lightly. Today I am truly "in Christ" and can only praise Him for having allowed me to live 35 years after my incident when the doctors said that I would eventually die from the lead poisoning on my spine perhaps within ten years. But they didn't know about Gods plan for my life. He ain't done with me yet.

Answer 2

I will tell you that those moments when the brain is beginning to shut down can be interesting. I've been there twice, 8 years ago the last time. No white light, and no tunnel. As my lungs and heart shut down, I saw my children, as babies. My youngest is 28. Since the soul dies, nothing leaves your body or comes back. The Bible says the soul is the blood, the second thing to develop after the heart in a fetus. Has it changed my life? No. If I died, than I would have been raised in the second resurrection. Whether to judgment or everlasting life on earth is up to God and not for me or anyone else to say.

Answer 3

Too many questions.

A very very bad driving decision that for a second I was outside of the car witnessing what could have been a deadly accident.

I don't know how but the car "righted" itself and me and my baby and the car came out of it with not a scratch.

I'm a much more cautious driver now.

Answer 4

In a word, "yes." And, no, I will not share it in a public forum here in Yahoo. I wish I could tell you more, but not in Y!A. My book is called spiritflight, and I have written about the change but not the cause.

Answer 5

it was not as such..but i was going back to my home after my vacation ans my bus had an accident...everyone wa ok but i can can call dat as a miracle...bus was almost upside down, a tree's brach saved us all....

Answer 6

I was five years old and when I passed through the back porch it came crashing down and I was saved..

Answer 7

Dont want a lot do you