NDE has been described as a blissful experience

NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE)

Posted by Jon King on Dec 04, 2008

Tagged with: astral travel, ghosts, nde, near death experience, out of body experience, psychic, supernatural, unexplained

Closely allied to the phenomenon of Astral Travel, Near Death Experience, or NDE is undergone by those who have seemingly ‘died’, often at the scene of an accident or perhaps on the operating table, and then been resuscitated and brought back to life.

In some NDE instances people claim to have ‘remembered’ what happened to them during the few minutes they were ‘dead’, most accounts telling of an indescribably peaceful and beautiful world in which the near death experiencer enters in a state of “incomprehensible and fully cognizant bliss”.

Other NDE accounts describe the experiencer floating up out of their ‘dead’ bodies, looking back down on the scene below them and witnessing friends and family mourning their demise.

Others speak of travelling through a dark tunnel towards an intense white light, and in some cases encountering a Christ-like figure or an ‘angel’.

Certainly in most accounts the near death experience is described as a consummately blissful experience, leading one near death experiencer to claim on her return: “There’s nothing better than death.”

So far as we know, however, no one has yet managed to film an NDE and post it on the web. We’re wondering if you might be the first…?

Before you do, though, check out these accounts of near death experiences…

PETER SELLERS

In 1964, Peter Sellers suffered the first of a series of 8 heart attacks, and for a brief period the Pink Panther star ‘died’.

He says that during his near death experience he remembered floating up out of his physical body and watching as his ‘dead’ body was carted off to hospital.

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“I went with it,” he later recounted. “I wasn’t frightened or anything like that because I was fine. It was my body that was in trouble.”

As the doctor desperately tried to revive him, Sellers says that he became aware of an “incredibly beautiful, bright, loving white light” above him, and that he felt compelled to move towards the light.

“I wanted to go to that white light more than anything. I’ve never wanted anything more. I know there was love, real love, on the other side of that light.”

He said that a hand then reached through the light towards him, as if to pull him through to the other side, but at that moment his heart started beating again and he was forced to return to his physical body, where he woke up “bitterly disappointed”.

He said that after his near death experience he never again feared the process of dying.

ROBERT PASTORELLI

The late Robert Pastorelli, star of TV’s Murphy Brown, had a near death experience following an horrific car accident when he was 19 years of age.

His injuries were so bad that his lung collapsed, all his ribs were shattered and his kidneys, spleen and gall bladder all ruptured. For several minutes Pastorelli ‘died’ on the operating table.

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“I was in excruciating pain,” he later recalled. “Then, in the next second, there was no pain. Suddenly I realized I was out of my body … I could see tubes down my nose and throat. I knew I was dying and I thought, ‘Well, this must be death’.”

He went on to describe his near death experience as “the most peaceful feeling in the world”. Only when he saw his father collapse with grief did he find himself returning to his body and waking up.

“When I looked down and saw my father’s pain it had an effect on me. I firmly believe that at that moment I made a decision to live, not die … Later, in the recovery room, when I was fully conscious, I told my father what had happened, his fainting and all. He was astounded.”

DONALD SUTHERLAND

Star of MASH, Kelly’s Heroes, JFK and countless other blockbuster movies, Donald Sutherland underwent his own NDE when suffering from meningitis in 1979.

Evidently Sutherland was struck down with a particularly vicious strain of the virus, which left him fighting for his life. He recalls:

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“Suddenly the pain, fever and acute distress seemed to evaporate. I was floating above my body, surrounded by soft blue light. I began to glide down a long tunnel, away from the bed … but suddenly I found myself back in my body.”

It wasn’t until later that the doctors informed Sutherland that he had actually died for a short time.

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