Episode 189: Life is a Stage for our Souls!

in his lifetime plays many parts. Today we're going to be talking about our life being the stage for our souls. I have four very different stories of four men who each had a near death experience. Let's start with Andy, who had his experience when he was just a teenager but remembers it vividly now at the age of eighty four.

I can't stay above the water. They're waving back, thinking I'm playing a game. And then I'm sinking down. From that point on, I never came to the surface again. As I'm going down deeper and deeper into the lake, it's getting really, very very cold. This is June, and lakes in Michigan in June don't know about summer. And I'm shivering and shaking, and I'm falling deeper and deeper, and all of a sudden, I can feel the weeds in my feet and now I can't see any more.

And then finally I hit the bottom of the lake and I hit in the sitting position, and I say, oh, this is great. Now I can just use my hands to push me up. And as I'm pushing down, my hands now get stuck in the mud. And now I'm there in terrible pain to death. And then I hear this voice. Someone's talking to me in my head and the voice is, Andy, you have to relax and let go for just a minute. And I said, no, I can't. I need one breath of air, that's all I need.

Then the voice says, to make no, Andy, you have to relax. You have to stop. You have to let go. And then I said to the voice in my head, okay, I'll let go, but do you promise to let me continue to fight, and the light says yes, okay, we promise,

and then I let go. And the minute I formed the word go in my head, I popped out of my body, frozen, cold, shivering, shaking, and in a minute what I call a moment of no time, I'm now in a tunnel and I'm looking around and I'm not cold, I'm not freezing I'm in a body, but I don't recognize the body. And I look around and I see down. As I'm looking over to the left, I can see down at the bottom of the lake, there's my body. I'll say, well, that's strange because I couldn't see down it.

But I see it, and I look away, and I was not concerned, and I turned into the other direction and I see the tunnel and at the end of the light, the tunnel is a bright light. It's so bright. I say to myself, you know, this thing should be burning my retinas. This is the brightest thing I could ever imagine. It's like a thousand suns all exploding at the same time. And then I'm drawn. I'm pulled into the tunnel like by a gentle magnet. And I'm pulled

into the tunnel. And as I'm moving into the tunnel, I can feel a breeze on my face. And then at the next moment of no time, I'm now in a giant sphere, in a ball the size of a basketball coliseum. I'm hovering in the center of the ball, and next to me, I can't see it, but I know it's there is the light, and the light and I are talking now with my mouth because I don't have a mouth, March. I don't have eyes, I don't have ears, but I have things that allow me to

communicate and to see and to hear. And as I look on the inside of the giant ball giant sphere, are countless, maybe hundreds of thousands of like little TV sets or movie screens, and each one has a specific action that I had taken in my life. As soon as I would focus on one, I would immediately, almost magically, be there. The difference is every time I relived one of my life experiences, I relived it in such a fashion that I knew and understood what everyone was thinking

and how they were feeling about our interaction. And then all of a sudden again and I'm mowing of no time. I pop out of the sphere and I'm in the tunnel now and I'm featuring very close to the light, and the light is in front of me now, and it's like a giant silhouette. There was no gender to it. It was just a way, but it was very loving and war when it was pulling me. And as I got close to the light, the light said three things that I could understand, and the light said to me, Andy,

don't be afraid. Andy, I love you, and Andy, we love you. And when the light said Andy, we love you, in back of the light, there were billions of other lights just like me, holographic pieces of the light, and they all said in one because Andy, welcome home. I can tell you that is the best I've ever felt as I was in existence. It was so wonderful to behold. And at that point, when the billions of other pieces of the light said Andy, welcome home, I was absorbed

into the light. I didn't go into the light. I was absorbed into the light. It was like if the light was a large glass of water, and if Andy was a peacefoon of sugar, and you put the sugar in the water and spin it around, and then look at it. Where's Andy? Everywhere? Where's the light? Everywhere? I became the light. I was not greater than the light. I was not lesser than the light. I was a holographic piece of the light. And I was ecstatic. My whole body right now as I am speaking, is filled

with chills. I remembered as if it just happened ten seconds ago, not sixty five years ago. That feeling has never left me, and it has been the thing that has kept me going when I really felt that I didn't belong coming back. So then the Light says, Andy, let's go. Do you have any questions for me? And my answer was no, I don't have any questions why because when I was absorbed by the light, I knew

everything I did. I knew everything about everything. When I was in the light and we went around and to travel through universes, it seemed like I was there for maybe years. In Earth time, I was there for about ten minutes, because it took ten or fifteen minutes for somewhere to find my body bring me back up on Sure, I didn't know any of that that was going on because I wasn't there. The body was there, but I was in the light, and I'm having so much fun

in the life. It's funny. And we were talking and laughing, and we were talking about were viewing my life. We were laughing at Andy, you spent so much of your time on all these planets being too serious. Life is to be enjoyed. That's why you've come. Because in the light, there are no highs and loads, there are no fat and thin there is no light in day. It's all unconditional low that consumed you and absorbed you. And that is the pinnacle of what it feels like to be

an entity. After that point in time, the light says to me, Andy, it's time to go back, time to go back. No, no, no, I said, no, no, no, I'm not going back. I'm sorry. The answer is no, And the light says, for the second time, Andy, you're going back, And I said, uh, excuse me, did you hear what I said. I'm staying. I'm homeing. Why would I ever want to go back? And the third time,

the light said to me, and you're going back. When I heard the k in back, I was stuffed back into my body, which now was no longer in the mud at the bottom of the lake, but was laying on the sand of the beach. And during that entire process, from the moment I drowned until the moment I was still back into my body, I never lost one second of consciousness. I have no voige, no dark spots. No I can't remember. I remember everything, every moment, every second of that time. And now I'm in my body and

I start to cry. All my classmates are around me, though. They're so glad that I am alive. I'm not that happy about it, but they're so glad that I didn't die on senior Picnic day. And so I look around and I say, why are you crying any It must be pain? Yeah, yeah, it must be pain. So I said, well, tell me what happened. What do you remember? And I said, my first, great lie, I don't remember a damn thing. It's a complete blank. Because I couldn't tell them about

the light. I didn't even know what was How am I going to explain that. I was brought up as a Catholic, I went the confession every week. I was very very religious in capital letters person. What I saw and experiencing the light did not correlate or relate at all to what I knew and what I was taught on earth. So okay, that's it. I know that eventually i'll forget about this. So I started a journey to forget, and I couldn't forget. I dream about it every night.

I felt like a stranger in a strange land. I didn't belong here. I belong in the light. That's what I can remember. That's where I want to go. That's where I want to be. Well, it's been over sixty five years and I'm still here. What are you waiting for? And that experience is with me twenty four to seven all the time.

I'm saying, Okay, now I know what it is. It still took me ten or fifteen years before I spoke about it first time. I never told anyone for almost forty years, and then I started talking about it. The point is that that was such a wonderful, blissful thing, and the things that I remember from the light telling me and he remember everything on the planet is an illusion. It isn't real. Reality is in the light when you're

on Earth. It's like being in a Broadway play and there are eight billion actors and everybody doing their part.

But that's not reality. And so as a stranger in a strange land, I'm saying, that has really been the most significant thing I could have ever experienced of earth dying, because there is no death earth dying, going into the light and coming back, and even through all the years of trial and struggle and trying to understand, in the back of my mind, in the back of my memory, at the back of forever will be my near death experience.

nothing but and swirling everywhere. It was as if things went into slow motion and literally relived my life at that point, only fifteen years of it, but relived the whole thing. That's how much time slowed down. I went down for the last time, and I knew it was I just didn't have the energy. There was no energy left in me to fight it. And at that point,

this incredible, profound sense of peace overcame me somehow. I had this sense that I was going to be okay, no harm was going to come to me, distinctly, a feeling that I was loved, which begged the question by whom at that point in my life, I was a profound dignostic. I just couldn't tell you if there was a God or not. I, as far as I was concerned,

I didn't have enough information. So it wasn't like I carried with me this belief in God, which makes it all the more interesting that I had this sense of profound peace and the feeling of being loved, because it begged the question by whom I knew I was leaving the earth. And just as if I were to say to you, picture yourself on a lake, you would draw a mental image in your mind of being on a lake. You're not physically there, you don't see it, but we

use words and then we draw pictures in our minds. Well, just like that, I pictured myself leaving the Earth, and I pictured myself out in space looking at the Earth from not a considerable distance, but you know, there's the Earth right in front of me. And what was so strange about looking at the Earth like that was that at that moment, you could have asked me any given

moment in my life, because I just relived it. But you could have asked me any given moment in any person's life on that planet, and I could have told you. All of that information was right there, it was available. And what kept going through my mind at this point was, oh, of course I was, if you will, remembering what I had forgotten very intentionally in order to be on this planet, which is what we all do. In point of fact,

I don't think that this planet exists. It's a figment of our imagination, and we have a very good imagination. We're incredibly creative beings. The analogy I make it because I think it works so well. It's like when you're sitting in a chair reading a book that's a really good book that you're really involved in. Somebody could walk in the room and talk to you, and you don't know they're there. Your focus of attention is on the story in the book, and you can get so preoccupied

with that you lose track of everything around you. You just tune all that out and you focus on one thing. Similarly, you know everything about what your life's going to be like here from beginning to end. You knew it before where you got here, and you will know it again when you leave here. But while you're here, you're focused on it, and you're focused on each given moment in it, And when you leave here, it all comes rushing back and you say, of course, yes that. And it's also simple,

what is your life like when you're not here? At that moment, I no longer had any awareness of any of my senses. I didn't have a body, I didn't see anything. I could picture the Earth in my mind, but I didn't see the earth. I didn't see blackness. I saw nothing. There was no sight, there was no touch, there was no taste, there was no smell, there was no feel. Didn't have any of those senses at all, and yet my mind was functioning. So in my mind I pictured turning away from the Earth and going out

into space. That's the way I pictured it in my mind, because all of a sudden, all your senses are cut off and you feel very disoriented. And at this point, the white light in the tunnel plays in. I sensed that I was loved. I sensed that I would be fine. Where is that coming from? And how do I go to that? Well, initially, that's a very small thing, if you will, and yet as you try to turn your focus on it, and I don't mean your visual focus, but you focus your mind on that and wanting to

go there, it becomes bigger. And so it's as if it is a little ray of light off in the distance with dark all around it, which could easily be described as a tunnel. It somehow seems distant, although it seems to be getting closer, because with all your other input cut off, you focus on it more. It's the only thing you have left to focus upon. And so

you move through the tunnel and towards the light. And I won't say that you're greeted there by some people who walk up and how you doing, fred and shake your hand. No, there's no bodies there. There can be. You can picture them that way You pictured them the air, and you can picture them there if you want to. This gets really confusing because we are creating our reality here on this planet, every last bit of it. We're creating it in our mind, and science is starting to

bear this out. If you've seen the movie What the Bleep, the quantum physicists will tell you look at water and you change its molecular structure, You're creating your reality here. If I was going to try to describe what I believe we are at our source, what we are like. We are extremely creative beings. We can sit and do absolutely nothing and be as little as possible if we want to, but it just doesn't seem to be in

our nature. We like to create things. And if you made the analogy that your life was like a movie that you made where you picked all of the characters and the actors to play in your movie, and you wrote the script out and said, this is what I want to have happen and how I want it to be, that would be a very good analogy. And that's where it gets really interesting because from this perspective, we're very much used to the idea of looking at things and

judging things. I like that, I don't like that, and we of course assume that there is a universal good and bad out there. I agree there's a universal good and bad out there. But here's the strange twist to it is that the universal part of it is the fact that good is what you like and bad is what you don't like, and it's different for everybody. And that's where life gets really strange because people then say, well, but there's no universal good or evil. No, there isn't.

Well what about good and bad? There aren't any. That sounds kind of harsh and really twisted from what most people think, because we're all pretty much brought up to believe that there are good things and bad things in life. Well,

that's true from any given perspective, but not universally. If this is all a stage play and none of it's real, none of it truly exists except in our minds, and we are all co authoring each other's plays as well as our own, and getting together and putting this play together, then what happens here is all an experiment in what it's like to focus on a given set of circumstances of our own making. And it's okay, doesn't make any difference how it turns out, doesn't make any difference what

you do. You came here to experience those things. Well. It has the distinct disadvantage that you don't get to blame everything that's gone wrong in your life on God or the devil, or who whoever it is you want to try to put in that little slot, if in point of fact, you're the author of it all and that you agreed to it all long before you came here. It has the distinct advantage that you can never be a victim unless you chose to be one, and even

then you aren't truly a victim. You're experiencing what it feels like to be one, but you aren't. This has got a real distinct advantage to it, if you think about it, because you have nothing to fear, which is a lot better way to live your life than running around scared all the time. That you could become a victim. There are things out there that could happen to you that are beyond your control. The first place, what I

experience tells me that that's not the case. But just as a practical matter, here we both hope that that's not the case, because if it is, you could be a victim. And in my world, I can't be Which world did you rather live in? As a practical matter, I'd rather live in my world. Now. These things were obvious to me when I was there. No, I didn't get mad at the pearly gates. No I wasn't in heaven. No I wasn't in hell. No I wasn't in purgatory. I was in a wonderful place. I felt completely loved.

I was in touch with a vast array of other beings. I was part of it, they were part of me. We're all one. If I was going to try to address the question of whether or not there is a God, I would say to you that if there is a god, first off, what you're doing in your playtime on this playground, he doesn't care about anymore than your mom worries about what it is you're doing on a playground. If you're simply out there playing a game of ball and nobody's

getting hurt, and there's no problems. She didn't care about every little detail, And it doesn't make any difference whether you hit the ball directly into center field or off in the left field, doesn't matter. And so I'm on the other side, and I'm in this sea of beings, and all of a sudden, I felt somebody grab my arm, which at this point threw me because I didn't have an arm anymore. And I just kind of got used to the idea that I didn't and I felt my body get tug which I didn't have at least I

didn't a moment ago. And the very first thing that I saw right after I felt that was my eyes open, looking at the beach and I'm in a wave and being pushed towards the beach, and no one's got a hold of me, and I started swimming, and when I got to the beach, I was just totally spent, laid there in a heap for I don't know how long, probably fifteen twenty minutes. And I've had many people ask me, so, who pulled you out? I don't know. Within me, it

doesn't matter, It makes no difference. It was my time to go, and then no, it isn't your time to go, it's your time to go back. Okay, fine, I can tell you I've never looked at life the same again.

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the story sounds like a six year old boy. Here's Aaron Green.

try to get help because I couldn't breathe. I'm not sure what happened, but my consciousness, or my soul, whatever it is that I really am, it came out of my body and I watched as my body fell to the ground, and I was just kind of floating there, looking at my body on the ground and looking at my friends. Very quickly, I had a life review, like my life flashed in front of me complete detail those

six years as a kid. And what really stood out was that not only did I re experience everything I had been through and relived my life, but I could like literally feel my parents' emotions and feelings and what they had been through dealing with me. It wasn't just that I relived my life, but I like experienced the life of the people I had been in contact with.

When that was over, I was still just floating there and I noticed a light in the distance, and I knew it was really important, but I didn't understand why or what it was. I just continued to float there. As I did, I started to remember things that I had experienced as a soul. One thing that really stood out was that I relived an experience of how I came into being as a soul, kind of like a newborn soul, and I was inexperienced and ignorant, but otherwise

pretty happy. I was asked if I wanted to see the face of God, and I agreed, and I was shown a huge sun like entity, and there was millions and millions of millions of faces all kind of merged with God, and each face was a soul kind of like me. They maintained their own individuality, but they were

also merged with God and part of God. God explained to me that I was a new soul being created, and that God had a wonderful existence for all of us, and that God was loving and kind and compassionate and honest and caring, gentle, and very kind to me, and that in order for me to enjoy the experience that God had in store for me, I needed to also freely choose those same kind of characteristics that God had.

I needed to freely choose to be loving and kind and compassionate and honest, and that the God had an experience prepared for me and for all these other souls, and that it would help us grow and to become the kind of souls we need it to be, so that we could appreciate the kind of existence that God

had in store for us. This was going to be very very short, It was going to be very difficult, and when we got through this process, we would be free to enjoy God's creation and to really enjoy our existence, and we could get all the bad stuff out of the way very quickly. I agreed with the plan, and I was shown during my experience that I chose this life that I chose this body. I was shown that I could have picked like anybody out there, and I picked the parents that I was going to be born into.

I picked the body. I wanted to be really intelligent, but there was downsides. If I had been really intelligent, I would have been kind of arrogant and I wouldn't have been as nice of a person. I wanted to be like a really good looking person, but I was shown that if I had been like a really really good looking person, that would have changed the way I lived my life and it wouldn't have been as good for me in my development. So I chose a more

average looking body. And I was shown that a lot of events in my life they were like planned out ahead of time, and certain events that were going to happen to be For example, I got my nose broken when I was a teenager. I got hit me and broke my nose, and I was shown like a brief clip from a previous life. I was shown that I had gotten in the fight and I had hurt another person.

I had beat them up pretty bad, and it's kind of like this life, I was going to have my nose broken as a result of something I had done in the previous life where I had hurt somebody, and I saw that I was going to break my shoulder and dislocate my shoulder. I was going to have some

arm problems. And I saw that some of the relationships that I would have, like some of that stuff was planned out ahead of time, and like different souls were making agreements about the role that they would play in each other's life, and some of that was planned out.

And I saw souls preparing for the life, and some of them requested challenges and difficulties, and the reason they wanted these challenges and difficulties was because it would help them to grow and to become a stronger, wiser soul, and so that they would be able to progress further. I was shown that we're all progressing a little bit, and the difficulties we face and overcome, they like help us grow as a soul. And that was all perfectly

clear to me. And I was shown that different souls are at different levels, and after life is over, some souls are going to be pretty happy and some souls are going to be kind of unhappy. I was also shown that the souls that are unhappy after life. They're not stuck. They can continue to progress and move on, like no soul is ever stuck in one state forever. But all of us have opportunities to grow and to

progress and become better. But eventually all of us are going to leave this cycle and be done with this place, and we'll be able to go to a much happier form of existence. But all this was shown to me very clearly during my experience. I'd floated there next to my body for a while, an angel or a being of light came to me and told me that I wasn't supposed to leave my body and I needed to go back. I quickly went back to my body and

I stood up and went home. That was back when I was six years old, and here I am forty eight years old, and I'm just trying to explain my experience to people that I saw for myself that we all exist independently of these bodies, and we're going to continue to exist after this life. What was really clear from my experience was that we need to try to be good to each other, you know, just try to be kind and compassionate and loving and helpful to other people.

And if we do that we help ourselves progress spiritually towards becoming the kind of souls that we're supposed to be, and we help other people as they do the same. It was very obvious that we're more than just these bodies that we all exist as the eternal beings. Like this physical body restrains us or kind of like holds us down. And when we're done with these bodies, we're more free and we're more intelligent and we can do

what we want to a lot more. But this body, this life, it's a big opportunity to grow spiritually and to become a better, more evolved soul. And the other thing that was really important was just, you know, it's really simple. We just need to be good to other people. We need to be kind and compassionate and honest and caring and try to help other people if we can. And that is really important that we just try to

be good to other people. I saw other souls, and it looked like souls were at different levels, Like some souls were very simple and some souls were very advanced. The level of progress that each soul was at was completely dependent on their own efforts and their own own experiences, and they needed to grow through their own actions and learning. There wasn't a shortcut. And God was beautiful and just extremely loving and kind and very much cared about me

and all of us very much. It was just wonderful to be with God. With God, there was no hate or judgment or meanness or anything like that. It was all positive and good. Had interactions with God and with other souls and with I guess they were angels and also guides, you know, Gouids helped the plan this life. They helped me prepare for what I was going to be going through. Why do we come here to this difficult planet with it where there's so many difficulties. The

reason is because we start out very simply. We're simple souls when we're first created with no experience, and we need to come to a place like Earth so we can gain experience and wisdom, and doing so, we're able to gain education and understanding. And by going through something difficult and witnessing all these negative things that we see on Earth, it grows us spiritually and helps us to understand that murder is bad and love is good, hatred

is bad, and kindness is good. You know. It helps us to identify what's good and what's bad because we can see it and we have that experience that then helps us to grow and understand at a deeper level. And without the experience like we get on Earth, we couldn't really understand it so easily. Our souls are like eternal entities. We exist in like a timeless state, and to go through life, which I know feels very long, but from a spiritual perspective, it's very short. It's kind

of like ripping off a band aid really fast. We can get the difficult parts of our existence over with very quickly, and then we can go on to enjoy what's in store for us. If we start to make better choices of love, kindness, compassion, honesty, then we're going to get the benefits of those choices and we'll experience a much better planet. And so it's kind of up to each of us to choose more positive things and we can help build a better planet for ourselves and

for others. To me, life is like a kindergarten for souls, or a preschool or a boot camp. It's like an education for souls, and by coming here we learn a lot. We learn very quickly to be good to others and not to hurt others, and to me, that's the purpose of this life is to educate us and to help us to become higher level, happier souls in the end. I see life kind of like if you see a person go to the gym to lifting heavy weights, it's

not because they're a bad person. It's because they want to get really strong and they want to grow their muscles the most well. I see it as the same way for people in life. Those that are going through really difficult experiences, they're going to get the most spiritual growth out of their experiences. Yeah, it's difficult, but they're

going to gain the most muscles. I know it's difficult and frustrating to see good people go through bad things, but there's a flip side to that where they're going to get a lot of spiritual benefit and someday they're going to appreciate those struggles because it has allowed them spiritually to grow in a way that people with easier lives and be able to grow. A lot of people are only focused on what they can do for themselves

or how much money that they can get. But I'm thinking more about how can I grow myself spiritually and so I guess my whole worldview and my approach to life is now a little bit different. I'm more focused on just trying to live a good life, just trying to be a good person, and I guess less focused on material stuff.

that we have. Some say that there's a silver cord that ties us between this life and the next, and when we fully are dead, that chord is broken, and near death experiences people come back. So sometimes our beliefs, our thoughts, our feelings could be tied in with it. Let's now meet Adam Tap nineteen years a paramedic.

I find cathartic and emotional release to some extent. And I was doing sort of a technique on wood etching called the Leechtenberg device, where you take a microwave transformer and basically strip every possible safety feature from it and hook it up to involve moder and ten both things see and it basically turns it into twelve thousand bolts DC, and this highly dangerous machine basically atches these interesting petterns.

I was with a good friend of mine. We had had a beer, and we were sitting by my shop and we were actually this piece of wood, and conveniently enough, he had taken a high bolt of safety course about two weeks before, which is profamily convenience for a number of different reasons. And I remember I was talking to them and I was moving the electrons one by one and it just barked into my hand and it was just a snap from reality.

I think it was like I'd being electrocuted. And then I think I thought I'm falling, and I felt like I was falling for ages. And then it was just like waking up from a nap someplace that I'd always been. It was this perfect in key blackness. It was almost like deep space where it was like there's lights in ad distance, like these twinkling stars to something extent, but it was just this perfect blackness. It was like I was seeing spherically from a single point outwards, like I

had just become a single point of awareness. And I wasn't at him, I wasn't dead, I wasn't anything. I was just perfect, like absolute contentment, and I was just in this space. It was just simply existing and awareness. And then I felt sort of this frequency start washing

over me, and it was like what more. It was like this fractal patterns and it was like gasoline on water, this rainbow effect that this aridescent to some extent, and it was just thoughts and cheerlings and emotions, and I felt myself sort of being holding to peasants and deposited into everything. It was like basically becoming fabric of the universe. And it was absolutely perfect, like there was no fear

and it was nothing. This was just the natural progression of what every single one of us is going to do. Just back to the source, back to this into consciousness or hypid complexity. All of a sudden, I started being electrocuted again. And at the time I didn't understand what was happening, but in hindsight, it was me being defabriilited.

of bird flash, which would have been my hands. My finger was burned off third degree burns all over in his hand, and I was in a coma for eight hours, which was fine for me, but problematic for everyone else who thought I was brave that And you know, I remember waking up in the ICU and I was innovated to into my lounges and I had it in our auxious and Engle driller to my shoulderbone. Like my first

thought was how long has it been? I remember like sort of being able to write something down by Andrael bandage and like eight hours.

great lengths to hide it. But I was so hyper aware of my smell and the texture of my skin, and I felt so deeply that I just gote downgraded from this crazy supercomputer to this commado or two shows and this pixelated screen, and that stuck with me for a long time, Like it was months of just feeling this way, and I remember saying to my wife, like, this isn't real, but this isn't real. And eventually it just came back to the acceptance of being my body,

of being in this space. But you know, I was left with this overwhelming sense that this is just the stage. This is simply an evolution of consciousness. This is simply transient why we exist right now. And there wasn't any antimorship figures or people on roads. It was just simply going back to the source of everything, which is this interesting consciousness that permeates everything. Simply the space between subatomic

articles is consciousness. I didn't want to read anything about other people's near death experiences, but it wanted to change my interpretation of lot it happened to me, But you know, I had the traditional phonophobia where I was right sine glasses at all times a day, like it was even the light inside of house, which almost be blinded to me. And anotherly interesting thing too, is that the burns on

my pants actually accelerated healing. I was told I would need skin brabs, and in a very short period of time everything wevascularized and started healing, which was interesting that I can't necessarily state that that's a consistency amongst people. But it was very much this process of getting used to what I have to call the munty suit now, because it very much is. It's very it's a limitating filter in which I currently existed at the limitations of

my biology. But at the same time it's so deeply beautiful that I can simply just experience emotions and games. The one thing that I took from all of this was in that place when I was devoid of a body, I was very, very highly aware of the amount of anxiety, the amount of weird emotions that rich Sish through us on any specific moment, the biological mechanisms, the hormones that make us do things. It was a state of absolute

tread cluinality. Again, it was one of those things when I was back in my body, just feeling these emotions come up and not necessarily knowing what the dealish them, because it seemed that I just completely disconnected from everything that is this biological mechanism data, and now it's back

into this foold. I started doing psychedelics subsequently afterwards, and I feel that the very nature of death experiences is so integrally related to these psychonlic compounds and die metical trip to meaning in our bodies, and our brain is responsible for dreaming and depth. And I feel that the experience itself has made me so deeply spiritual, you know.

I think I was superficially spiritual before, in a sense that we just privily use the word, you know, without necessarily understanding the deeper meaning behind it.

in a space and appreciate what's going on. I noticed that with my daughter in law, just simply being in a space and enjoining every moment of it. One thing I also want to mention in this is the similarities to psychedelic experiences and being dead. You know, one could artically suggest that my death experience was just an indogenou steinmfil trip to mean release, which is commonly referred to as n NDMT and such court psycholic experiences have been death.

They've been versions of this. And I think that at the end of the day, the one thing that I would say to someone if they asked me what I took from this or the advice associated with it, is that death is quite possibly the most natural thing that happens. Being dead was easy, it was perfect, It was beautiful. You know, It's being alive it's difficult and hard. I think that death in itself is just simply a transition. It's becoming the fabric of the universe. It's being perfect.

Wanted could argue that we're all perfect already, but we just refuse to acknowledge that. And being death was just absolute perfection. And I think that the common fear that we all have is our mortality, and it's understandable, it's genetically motivated. You know, if we didn't have a share of death, we won't be a species that we are today. But again, death just was simply perfection. It was become by everything and it was perfect. And I think that

it's made me spiritual innocence now. I think before I was spiritual but superficially, whereas now it seems that spirituality has taken on a very significant place in me where I viscerally know what we all are and where we're all going. And that does onlyvate a lot of the share that we all exist with on a day to day basis. And yeah, I guess to summarize everything was being dead was a state of absolute perfection.

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