Near-Death Experience

which one????

 

The one where you were questioning religion! :mrgreen:

 

What ??? the one I was educating you on???? no way.... :jester:

 

I had an experience back in 2001 that was not a typical "near-death" event but was bizarre to say the least. I was driving Millbrook Road around near Shelly Lake heading east from Lead Mine Road. The road curves several times around the southern part of the lake (as most probably know) and I was approaching the stoplight between the lake and Six Forks.

My wife and I were driving toward Six Forks approaching the light when I was literally struck dumb. I began putting on brakes and my wife (who was eight months pregnant) asked why I was stopping for a green light. Suddenly, a large 80s style sedan blew through the red light at about 50 mph. I believe if I had not stopped, I would have been in the middle of the intersection and would have likely taken a direct hit in the side of the car.

We looked at each other for a moment with our eyes blaring and totally speechless. I contribute it to a Heavenly miracle myself. Others may say it was ESP or something. All I know is that there was no way I could have ever seen that car coming nor can I offer a reasonable explanation why I stopped at a green light.

 

Here's mine:

Not near death but interesting:

My father passed away a little over 18 years ago. A few months after his death, my mom was house sitting alone for a relative while they were away on their honeymoon. In the middle of the night, she was awakened by a loud noise downstairs. She's all alone up in the woods and isn't exactly a spring chicken able to defend herself. She "talks" to my dad and tells him "I'm frightened, Bob!!!" and she feels his hand on her hip and hears him say to her "It's okay, Love. Just go back to sleep..." which she does. As it turns out, it was probably their cat who had knocked a mixing bowl off the counter down in the kitchen so she wasn't in imminent danger but feeling his presence and hearing his voice was enough to calm her down and reassure her.

And, there have been SO many times when my children were still little babies I would be changing them or getting them ready for bed on the changing table and they would fixate on corner of the room, up by the ceiling and smile and laugh that I've actually turned around and asked my dad "Hey, Daddy isn't he/she cute?!?!" It's just weird and when that happens the hair on the back of my neck stands up and it's just freaky.

 

Sorry - I probably should have just attached a link, but I wanted to share with everyone part of an interview I came across while researching NDEs. Here, Dr. Raymond Moody is describing what happens in most NDEs. This is after the heart has stopped beating and a person is in cardiac arrest:



MOODY: Absolutely. (the interviewer asked Moody to verify that most people describe what they see as beautiful, beyond words) They say they become aware of what's described as a tunnel, a passageway, a portal, and they go into this tunnel, and when they come out, they come out into a very brilliant, warm, loving and accepting light. People at this point describe just amazing feelings of peace and comfort. In this light they say that relatives or friends of theirs who have already died seem to be there to meet them and to greet them and to help them through this transition. Another thing they'll often tell us is that at this point they are met by some religious figure -- Christians say Christ, Jews say God or an angel. They say in this setting that this being, in effect, asks them a question, and they all say that words can't convey it -- that communication in this position does not take place through words as you and I are now using, but rather in the form of an immediate awareness. The way they summarize this question, or try to put it into words, is they say that he asks, in effect, "What have you done with your life? How have you learned to love?" At this point, they say, they undergo a detailed review of everything they have ever done in their lives. This is displayed around them, they tell us, in the form of a full-color, three-dimensional panorama, and it involves every detail of their life, they say, from the point of their birth right up to the point of this close call with death.


Think about the part I put in bold. Can you imagine every detail of your life being displayed right in front of you?!

 

8)8)

 

If it were displayed, I'm sure that I'd be disappointed in the opportunities I let go by, the people who deserved better than I gave. Somehow, it seems to me that reaching a certain age offered me a liberating ability to evaluate the past, and try to recompense.

My regrets, if it were to happen today, with finality is that I didn't have enough time or patience for others. That any legacy that I leave is still yet to be completed. Working daily to do it better.

 

:hurray: Well said