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Date published: November 11, 2008 |
 A Near Death Experience, also known as NDE, does not happen to everyone. Not everybody has to be shown firsthand there is life after death and that they better get their act together! I know that I am one that had to be shown. I had been seeking answers to life and questioning since childhood.
There are various accounts of near death experiences but all seem to have the common thread of finding oneself in a place bathed in brilliant, iridescent light. The other common thread they seem to share is there is no fear of death after a NDE.
A grandmother now, I find myself even more awestruck by the experience than I was at age 25 when it happened to me. I had to have emergency surgery for an ectopic pregnancy; it ruptured and turned into a serious, life threatening situation.
In the middle of surgery, I found myself waking up on the operating table with the doctors around me. I remember thinking, I have to let these guys (the doctors) know I am awake. I attempted to open my eyes but could not. I attempted to wiggle my hands, my foot or even a toe and just could not. I remember thinking: "Oh brother, now what?"
The next thing I knew, I was out of my body;looking down on that scene (the doctors standing around me) but before I had much time to process that, I was going through a tunnel at top flight speed. The tunnel was very light filled and seemed like just seconds before I found myself in another place unlike anywhere I had been before (or since for that matter).
I found myself at what appeared to me, to be a level of heaven. The light was bright and beautiful! I did not see "the pearly gates;" but what I did see was the outside of a great university type building, akin to an ice sculpture in brilliance. I saw many souls milling about, as light shaped figures, none that I recognized, but the area looked like the downtown of a major metropolitan city at a noon lunch hour, with folks moving about here and there, as they go about their business or shopping. The light is brilliant but not blinding; it's a sight you do not want to leave, or cannot seem to stop watching.
I did not see the instructor who spoke to me clearly. I was so amazed by all that was going on. The voice was calm and soothing. I remember feeling a bit of fear but not to the hair raising level that a horror film can bring about. The voice calmed me. I did look in the direction of the voice, but the light all over was so glorious that it captured my eye, and distracted me from trying to see where the voice was coming from.
I was told many things, that must be recorded in my subconscious, I have not been able to consciously remember all I was told. I am certain the experience lifted me spiritually. I now call it "a saving grace."
The only words I clearly remember were: "You have a job to do so you are going back to raise your children" and I felt a great relief. I was the young mother of twin daughters, 8 months old and a son 20 months. My great concern was for my babies; once I figured out that I was witnessing heaven and in order to be doing that, I must be dead. I was completely overjoyed to hear I was going back and just as instantly (it seemed) the visit was over.
I awoke in my hospital room, not remembering leaving the recovery room and returning to the hospital bed. That night, in a conversation with my aunt, she told me "the doctors, said they almost lost you, recovery might be slow, so take good care of yourself."
I did not instantly remember what happened. When I did a few days later, I thought it must have been a dream or the result of the drugs I was given. It was not until I read Betty Eadie's book "Embraced, by The Light" that I completely understood what happened. The whole experience still fills my heart with awe.
I believe it was a great help to me spiritually and continues to be even to this day. At the time of the surgery I was not following a religious path. My mother was found dead the day I brought the twins home from the hospital and I decided God must have it in for me, so I was going to be mad at Him too. I know now, that I had to have a profound experience to awaken me to the fact that spiritual life is as important as the physical life I was living and there certainly is life after death.
©Patricia Lite Hickman 11/07/2008.
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