Episode 205: Seeing the Future in a Near-death Experience!

I deal with grief, I deal with uncertainty. Life is not filled with rainbows and butterflies for me. It gets difficult, so it's really nice to hear some stories that move the needle for me, make me know that there's a much bigger picture and that life truly is an education for the soul, that we are embraced by loved ones and guides in the world unseen, and so much more. Our episode today features a man telling the story of his near death experience. It's really moved me about his

life review. He talks about seeing into the future, why living life is so important. We often have different numbers that show up in our minds and in our vision, and what's the importance of these numbers. And he also talks about some of the most important attributes of being human. Let's meet him.

jewelry show. But there's time the cold and flu season is in and people are coughing here and there, and I'm noticing this a lot during the first couple of days. It was on the third day of the show. We were working and doing a very very business show. Lady across from me in the booths just collapses to the floor. I'm forty two years old. I jump up right away and I can go to her eight because the old paramedic skills kick in. So basically, she fell and I

couldn't see her. So I went around the booth and went inside. She's on the floor. I'm trying to pick her up a little bit, and I felt the sheet coming out of her body. I don't know what her temperature was, but it was terribly high. So I'm fine all up into this time waiting to the paramedic style. I just wanted to make sure her ear she was breathing properly. That's all I could do. After tire, so

I got back to the hotel. I wasn't too bad first, but as the night the grassed, it started to getting me. Nine ten o'clock, I started feeling worse and worse. To feel what was going up again, I took a couple of hits with the inhaler, and then I remember taking the antibiotic and I must have fell off the sleep. I fell off asleep. I physically remember how I left

my body. You know, they say the eyes of the windows of the soul, and I believe that's the way we come in and the way we leave, because I physically saw myself leaving my body in this beautiful mist fluorescent. It was the color of light. It was so magnificent. So I am that color and I'm inside this beautiful flowing mist. I'm floating above the body, and I'm feeling this s freedom and I'm starting to feel some kind of lungs that I've never felt in my life. I'm

feeling wonderful at this moment. I still recognize my body. Soon as I remember saying physically out loud, that body is not alive, or that body is that, I forgot how I put it. Exactly as soon as I said that, this beam of light came from behind me let everything up, it was all just bright now, and turned me and it drew me into this beautiful gateway, this beautiful tunnel. The tunnel was made up both magnificent colors, and I was moving as it's going along. And now I'm starting

to move faster and faster. You could say the speed you can't feel it. But I'm moving faster and faster. And I see these beautiful lights and wisdom in colored mold and buy me and through me, and all I feel is love and feel like I'm being cradled. I'm being protected by something or someone, and the love is increasing. This love is so wonderful and so beautiful. You feel it like build within your soul. And I'll ne us forget to buy arrival because this part was unbelievable. I

arrived in heaven. I say, I'm home, Thank God, I'm home. And I was so joyous, and there was other spirits there. There were spirits all around, and I was just like an amazement. And all of a sudden, I hear another voice for the first time. I hear a soft whisper and mighty, I'm saying, yes, spill you I talk today. And the hair on my arm stand up about that, because I'll know to get that feeling. Even though I was in spiritual form, I felt like I was in bodies.

I felt tears, I felt things like that, I felt the lungth like you can't imagine here, there's no imagining. It's impossible because it's thousands of time. Who's greater than what we could con see here? And she said today, I'm one of your three guardians. I was with you on your way home. I said, I didn't realize you were with me. I remember speaking with her, But of course we're using telepathy. There's no mouths at this time, there's no bodies. She's a beautiful bead of light and

I'm still a floating mix. But we're having communication that's unbelievable. I think on the other side we use almost one hundred percent of our mind when on this side, I'm not going to say we're dumb people, but I think we only use about six percent or seven percent of our mind that I think some of the greatest minds in the world could always use about nine percent. But on the other side, you feel everything with family and friends in that same illuminated area, and I knew they

were my family. And you're the verse with everyone at the same time, almost like you're all one. But you're understanding different thoughts and you're getting actual thoughts from people. You're feeling love, you're feeling attention, you're feeling like you're embraced. It's magnificent. And then Tonia said that she was one of my three guards, right, She said, I had two other guardians, and all of a sudden, this light starts to approach, and now I'm standing alone with Antonio on

my side. And I said, the love never stopped growing on that side. He said hello Billy. As soon as he said Hello Billy, I knew that was my brother's voice. My brother Peter died when I was I'm fifteen or six, sixteen years old. So we're talking. I haven't seen Peter now and twenty six years and now, Sir Peter, and the embrace was so beautiful. It was wonderful. That's the only one was great. For a minute or two, I

would say. And then he says, we have to leave now where I said why, I didn't know what was going on. I knew that I was in full spirit at this point. I have to bring this up. It was very important. I didn't remember myself here. I had no memory whatsoever of here. All I did remember is that was home and these were my family and friends, and this is my brother. So now I'm at this point and he says, we have to go for your life, and you well, I had no idea what that was,

and we just whisked off again. There was no control. They had complete control over me, and he brought me to this beautiful, illuminated area. And now they're starting to show me things in my life. When I was a little boy, it was amazing. They shown me with my friends. We had Brooklyn. We had a big amusement park right on the beach, right in Coney Island in Brooklyn. It was fantastic growing up. So my friends and I used

to go there all the time. My mom she did all right, my dad did all right, and we weren't enriched by any means, but we were comfortable and she would give me some money. And now I have some money in my pocket, so I'm taking everybody with me because a lot of my friends couldn't afford it. So we went down, We did the rides and everything had a fantastic times and it showed me all things I did through high school life. It showed me the time

right before I graduated art design. It showed me the time where we had to do a storyboard concept where you know, like when they make a movie or a film years ago for commercial they used to do storyboards. They showed me this beautiful thing on Jesus Christ. So I do the whole story of his life from his earth all the way to his crucifix on different piles. And I happened to win nice little award for it.

So that was one. So all this is shown me good things after good things, one more good thing that's very important. When I came down to Florida and I switched my career and Owen became a paramedic, it showed me this call we had and we went down town Miami to pick up our unit and drive it up to our station in North Miami Beach. My partner and I gets there early as usual, We get our coffee. We happen they unit, and we're driving up ninety five

just to go to our station. But we're on ninety five and about ninety fifth Street and all of a sudden, Cole comes over the radio. There's a three seventeen and anything with a three in fun but it means it's an emergency. So when I say three seventeen, a ment car accident or a truck accident, a motorcycle accident, something that happened on the highway, but then they announced where

it is. They say it's on I ninety five and one hundred and thirty fifth Street, and by the time they get that out, I'm probably on one hundred and tenth one hundred and fifteenth Street already. I picked up the microphone and said, we haven't an ATA of less than one or two minutes. I'll never forget, he says. A kid running around frantically, and I see him bleeding a little bit, and I go get the bag, and

we're running towards him, me and my partner, Danny. And as soon as we get by him, he turns around. He says, my sister, and my sister like this. He's pointed to assistance, and we both turned at the same time. I'll never forget this scene. Her physical head is through the window, and we immediately got right on as we

had less than maybe fifteen seconds to assess it. We said out loud, I mean, do we wait for the fire truck to come with the cutterage because he used to have these cutters that cut through metal and glass and everything, but the glass is now embedded all the way back to here. I look at her and she's still breathing inside the car, so I hop outside the car. I said to Danny, we got to get her uns. They'll never get you here in time, she'll bleed out.

I helped slightly, very easing, putting our head due to Danny inside. He's got her inside on his lap. He's holding our head, and then he hands it over to me. We pull her out of the car and put her right on the stretcher, and now we run it right over to the ambulance. I'm trying to wrap a bandage around her, and everything is happening so quick. I'm holding our head. I got her neck brace, but her body

starts to seize. We didn't have much time to do anything because I was just bracing her with my body with my foot up against them the long chair on the side of the unit, so I was braced pretty strong where she can't fall off. But her whole body starts to jump up in the air from a seizure. And now I can't control her head and I can't control her feet at the same time. So I turned around and her brother was in the back with me, and the poor young man he was crying his eyes

out looking out the back window. I yelled, God help me.

right on her head, and it's magnificent. We get there, they rush her off to operating Danny and I took off. We got down to our station. We had a twenty four shift, so the day was pretty busy. The night wasn't too busy. We had a couple of calls. I'm waking Dandy up about an hour before we got to return the unit, and he doesn't know what time it is. I just wake him up and he thinks it's time to go. So he putting his shoes on and everything, and I said, Danny, we got to go back to

the Parkway. And he looked at me like I had two heads. Sent Billy, she's dead. She's dead, And I said, I got to go back to Parkway. I see, it's something I never asked in the years that I was to do this with anybody. When I said there was something I had to go back, he finally agreed with me after I'm not a confrontation, but because we were going six seven miles out of our way that way and then six seven miles south. He was worried about

being late. I said, I didn't tell you. I woke you up an hour early so he wouldn't be late anyway. So we get to the hospital. I know all the nurses on the ships because we're in and out all day long. And I believe it was a nurse by name of Becky, And I said, what happened to that young girl we brought in yesterday? And when she looked at me like this, she says, you want to meet up? I got again the chills. It's the same thing now, the chills stand up on my arm. It's my hair.

You know, it's incredible. She brings us up to her room and she's sitting up in bed eating jellum, and she's got this big turban on her head wrapped around but not on a face. I look at her face. I couldn't see her face because it was covered with book, but she only had little minute scratches on her face. I looked at her since, thank God, and thank God, she's awake and she's up and she's living. You know,

I was so filled, it was so beautiful. My brother wakes up out of a chair sleeping in the corner, jumps up and points, this is the man, I said, your life. And then we just sat a beautiful embrace with magnificence. And that's what the line's review is. They show you the things you've done in your life, and then it turns up and now they start showing me the bedside or the wrong start again. Starts out when I was a little kid, get in a little trouble,

you have little fights and things like that. I was very fortunate, I believe, because I feel like I really never did anything that bad. You know, I did crazy things like every teenager does, but I don't feel like they did anything that cruel. And then it takes me to the time when I was married to my first wife. We had a two year old son. I was still young and not mature enough yet. I guess inside I felt like I never lived life on my own, so

I wanted a divorce. But when you do that, you're selfish. I was selfish at that time. I had no idea the pain that I call this. I caused this pain, and now I am physically becoming the pain. In my neodithic space. I feel the pain inside like you could never imagine I seal tears rolling down my cheeks. It's terrible. I mean, it's getting worse and worse, but it's actually feeling so intense that I've never had a feeling of

pain like this. Emotionally, it was so bad. I remember them showing me a couple of things right after that, and then I started screaming, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Please forgive me. I remember saying that completely out loud. And as I said that, all this brainness just dropped, and we were sitting back in spirit form again, and now it's Antonia and Cheeter there, and then these beautiful glowing beings and Antonia turns to me and she says, Bill, look at yourself. And I remember looking down and I'm

this beautiful green, magnificent, glowing beam of light. I'm just like them. I'm a static, I'm feeling wonderful. I'm feeling light. Now I'm back in spirit. There's only two times in the death experience that I actually saw on myself in my line, and that was in my life review. And then one more thing, Antonia immedia announced or it's coming. So I look up in that direction and now I see this magnificent angel coming at the spirit. At this moment,

I couldn't tell the difference between angels and spirit. They were so old, so beautiful, but I felt wisdom that was so far beyond when I could Sadam, it was unbelievable. But this wisdom was within me my whole life. This Oran was my intuition, and he has been with me my whole life. I always explained or and as the angel on my shoulder that whispers in my ear, the one that tells you that's not the right thing to do,

don't do it. Whenever you're hearing that, you must hate that warning, because that's a wanting from the other side. It's very important that people understand that, know that when they get that kind of intuition, pay attention to it. We might want to do things that are not the right thing, and we veer off a lot of times in our lifetime, but we have to be brought back by the right path by listening to our wisdom, because our wisdom will only give us knowledge from the other side,

and it keeps us right on our life path. It keeps us on our journey. We're showing our journey before we come. We know what body were coming into you know what mother we have, we know what father we have. We know these things prior to coming or and says one more level Bill. I remember we always walk together. And now they bring me to this beautiful, beautiful crystal seed. It's magnificent. It's all crystals reflecting the universe and almost

like exploding stars and nebulas and things like that. But everything's reflecting off these beautiful crystals and we're all part of this. It was basically magnificent. But then they start with flickering screen. They show me the past, they show me the present, and they show me the future. They start showing me wards. There was World War two. Now it's bringing me to my birth. I physically see my birth, and there's in an all life review and the whole

of events. Now, the whole events people know that, as Akasha records today. So they take me past my earth and it's moving and moving again. We're moving faster, and it's whatever you want to call it, a computer screen or whatever, and it stops and it's nineteen sixty three and I'm sitting in my classroom. I'll never forget this.

As a speaker on the wall, Principal comes over the speaker and he says that John F. Kennedy was just shot and dalanced that well, that was our present at the time, and he was loved by lots of people. And I'll tell you that day I got home, my mother for some reason wasn't at the bar because she used to have to go in real early because she was the cook. She was cooking early in the morning. And she's sitting at the kitchen table with Christine, the

lady that helped bring me up. Hear and Christina at the table. They're crying their eyes out and I say, no, Mom, John F. Kennedy just got shot. But now we're moving again. We're moving in time, and I physically see my near depth experience. So we're moving faster and faster, and I'm seeing all events leading up to my birth. But before that, I see major events. I see the Vietnam War ending. I remember the helicopters landing. We stopped at that event

on the roof, the helicopter landing on the roof. I remember Martin Luther King, I remember Bobby. Then I remember my new death experience in nineteen ninety four, and I physically watched myself die. And then we're moving faster again. That speed sat unbelievable. Like I said, it was like a flickering computer screen. And then it would just stop and we were all there. We were physically endless scene while it was happening. Now it takes me up two

what I know now is nine to eleven. At that physical time, I didn't know it was nine to eleven. I had a feeling it was. I come from Brooklyn, New York, and manhattened right across and that's where the twenty towers were, and I remember saying in all the debris as it was falling around us were at the base of one of the towers, and it's read it's just falling, and the little fires and burning, and it was horribly black smoke. You couldn't see it where people

were running. I remember running. I said, my friends, my friends, and they reach out grabbed because now we're in physical but was still spiritual. But we're in physical form. So when you get grabbed, you feel like you're get in grab They reach out and grabb me and said, Bill, you can't do anything. I said, well, my friends are in the building. And basically I think those paramedic skills always kicked in my whole life. They still kick until today. And then when they told me I can't do anything,

I said why, I didn't know. They said, this is not happening, this is the future. At that point I was really a little confused. I didn't understand they meant by that, due it's the future. After nine to eleven and moving again, we're in this computer screen again, flickering, flickering,

and then it stops. What I believed today was bagged down because I remember the bombs going off and we're in the center of the town of the city there, and there's physical bombs going off all around of people are running, and the way I recognize when in Baghdad was because the way people were dressed from there. Again, I started to run at one moment because I was just running from the bombs at this time. Physically, I thought I was going to get hurt because I was

in the body. But days I said, you can't, this won't hurt you. And then they take me through a time I believe it is today, and this time today is so so important because the world is at a crossroads. We're an ascension time frame, so I don't know if something separating or what but we're at a crossroads. People have to make choices. There's things I learned on the other side that's so important. Things about kindness, things about forgiveness,

things about service. These things are so important that people physically start to do this and pay attention to what their life math is and not veer that much for whatever their motives are. This part is insane because now they show me a place that's so so horrible. It's so drastic when people ask me, like it was a movie Mad Max, and the people are physically living off others and they don't mind hurdy feeling. They'll do anything for the juggle, what anything for a scrap of food.

heart where we're going. I think all people would good and love within them are going to this utopia. I know when people feel God is the universe inside them on Earth, this is what they want us to feel. That's why they send us lessons every day. Very rarely do people pay attention to their lesson, but it's very important that we pay attention to our lessons, our intuition. They come to our intuition of things to do. All these things run in this kind of secrets. But this

utopia is so wonderful. I mean, people live helping, caring, serving, They live as much to themselves as for others. They're kind, they forgive, kindness and forgiveness. It's probably the two most important things I say in God's eye. I believe in God. I believe he created the universe. I believe the universe is the light. The light is God. You physically get all the wisdom and knowledge from that light, So that

light is within us. Well, we all have a piece that light and sinus right now, That's what I learned, so the whole events is finished. They show me the two outdomes. They take me in front of this panel. Now, now these are complete angels on this side. I know they're angels and not spirits because these are so right.

They're all magnificent white angels. White in the spectrum is that all the colors in this world together as one, and these angels have so much knowledge and wisdom, and they're pouring wisdom into me like I've never experienced anything like this in my life. This wisdom is growing within me. They teach me nine principles of enlightenment. The first principle is very important. You cannot take another life. You're not allowed to interfere with anyone else's life path. Now, it's

important that you understand why. It's not that it's only wrong. It's probably one of the worst things we could possibly do. But the reasoning that I got from the other side was that you'll will never know what this person's great grandson or daughter of achieved. They might have achieved the real cure for cancer, you know, things like that. I mean, it was on that black toe, that kind of energy feel that I was learning all this on. So that

was wonderful. The second was your intuition is so important. Remember I told you Uren was my intuition. I didn't tell any some of the principles along the way. We all have an intuition. Did you ever have deja vu? I asked this to everybody, Do they have deja vu? And they all say yes, everybody has deja vu. The reason why we have dejahb because we previewed our lives before we came in. We recognize things, people, places that

we'd never been there before. I remember when I was seven or eight years old, we sap in the train and just go different places, me and my friends, because we can do that when we're kids. Nowadays you can't do that. Getting back to the intuition, or or in it, one that sits on my shoulder, everybody has Laura might

not be called Laura. I'd be called something else. When everybody gets there, they'll recognize their intuition as one of the most important things we could possibly have, because it's our intuition that keeps us on a road of choices throughout our life. And this is how our physical spirit grows. Our physical spirit grows in a sequence of choices we make throughout our lifetime, so we hit a plateau of love.

The plateau we're all looking for is love. To understand how we have to live in our lifetime is to try to become love. On the other side. You are loved, so you don't have to try to become love on this side. It's hard because there's a lot of filters and it's impossible to feel that love that if you're on the other side here. But the way we experience and feel love here is through our love, new service, and kindness, of wisdom and forgiveness. All these things are

so important for your soul. Like I said, the spirit grows through a process of this learning. We have this learning through our whole life. And at some point I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe in God, but I also believe in incarnage. I know I will see you before I know Orn. His spirit was so old and so knowledgeable and so much wisdom that you can't imagine to be in that presence. That's what you do. You feel them on the other side, So that part is

just beautiful. And I'll tell you one more that's very important. The Earth itself, she has a spirit. Mother Earth is a lie Without Mother Earth, we don't live. That's where we get our spring water from. For trees are oxygen. We can't live without Mother Earth. Mother Earth these us. So it's a balance. When the Earth is in an end. Balance is when we have things happen on the Earth and they're not too good. The Nine principles are so

important to learn. You have to learn these principles because these principles will keep you on the right road of enlightenment. But you'll keep them on the path and be part of God's love. That's what we want in the end. That's where we want to be. Hot. Okay noo. The beautiful Angel comes right up to me and he shows this number secrets that is so magnificent. Crystal numbers are flowing straight down in front of me. In rows of

crystal numbers, these particular numbers. With light, we would get numbers like the ones, like the eights, would like the threes, the six is the nines with light. These numbers at the time, I thought they must have been significant because they would be bright right in front of me, not stop, but keep bright. The only ones that were bright were these numbers. The other ones would just keep flowing by and symbols. They explained it to me. They showed me

how those numbers they make our earth live. Without these specific numbers, we wouldn't have our seasons, we wouldn't have our tides. And they explained the one to me as God, being of God. They explained eight to me as eternity, so that mean God from eternity. The one, the eighth together is nine. Nine is the highest number in the universe. These are things I'm getting explained over there, and I don't understand much of what they're telling me, but it's

sinking it now. This one was important because I remember this one whole life. They gave it. My alert number was sixty six. The number sixty six was going to be important to me, so very important things that happened in my life. They could be good or they could be bank. It was sort of a like and alert of something to come. I would look down sometimes while I was driving, I'd be at sixty six. The same time I look at sixty six, I look down at

my speed amor I'm going sixty six. I turn up and look at my watch at the time and it's six past six. I would see these numbers in my life at times, and then something would happen. That particular number I knew in my life is that's been with me my whole life. Now they show me the nine principles of enlighten right, I got the numbers from the angels.

They showed me the distances now important. They offer ok her to exist, the mother Earth breads, she breaths, she lives, and she feels, okay, this is so important that people want to stand that part. A beautiful spirit approaches young because I'm feeling old with wisdom. She said, you have the nine principles of in light. You must return. And I said, no, I'm home. I'm part of God's light. I'm home. She said, do you understand the ninth principles

in life? I says yes, I understand them clearly. She says, you must return, And this spear was serious. Well, at the time, my wife was at home pregnant. She didn't comfort this particular show. You know, she usually can to the show every year. But now I'm sticking. Well, maybe it's because of that, because I'm getting glimpses of my life again. At the end, you must return. I'm begging and pleading, but I'm still not thinking in the human form.

I'm begging now, impleading to stay. I don't want to go, Please don't send me back. I remember saying that over and over in my head. She finally says, Dad, you must return, Dad, you must return. I'm being told back to the vortext so fast and so uncomfortable, nothing like the feeling of love going. And then I remember being zapt in my body and the only thing that moved in my body was my throat. I had no idea how long I did not breathe or because I took

a breast like you were underwater for six minutes. And now I was able to breathe, but I couldn't move. My whole body didn't move. I had no feelings in my arms and laths. They were just sitting there, and I thought I was parallaxed. Believe me. Now I'm in the pain with the body again. I'm racked still with all this misery. I got my throat being where I could barely breathe, and I'll never forget. It must have

been probably less than ten minutes, seemed like hours. I finally started getting tingles in my hands and coming up to my arm, and I'm starting to feel my limbs again, very slowly at first. As soon as I got some kind of feeling, I reached over, I grabbed the phone. I picked it up. I said, have someone come in and take me to hospital, her saying to me before I left, I am six of six. Now my son was born that September nineteen ninety four, my son Billy.

But years later, in the year two thousand, on the sixth day of the sixth month, my beautiful daughter Rihanna was born, and she's six of six. I believe that she was the spirit that sign me back. I believe that wholeheartedly. Even when I talked about it today again, I get the chills.

Now I don't think I would win the award for owning the most books about the afterlife, but I bet you I am in the top five. I have hundreds, if not thousands, of books between hardcovers and paperbacks and kindle editions and PDFs, And after hearing Bill Tortorella's story, I needed to own the ninth level of enlightenment because in the interview he mentioned some important ones, but I wanted to know more, and you may also. I'm going to just read some excerpts from it that really struck

home with me. This is after his experience, he ended up telling his wife about what had happened. Bill says, I told her about how I left my body, how I had met my guardians, how I had seen all the events of my life on Earth, past, present, and five future. I was terrified, but I couldn't take it anymore.

Patiently and understandingly, she listened when I finished. She was completely non judgmental, and though she had never heard of a near death experience either, she could see how serious I was when I explained everything to her, and she believed me. After a bit of thought, she advised me to talk to my doctor, doctor Vasquez. It felt good

that she didn't say anything negative about it. She wanted me to go to be able to get some answers, emphasizing that I shouldn't have to feel this way about something so amazing, so I made an appointment for the following week. The appointment came and the doctor asked me what was wrong, and I just said that it was time for a full examination. And he took me in

the exam room and gave me my exam. He was taking my blood for a full work up, and I finally got the courage and I asked him if I could speak to him about something that happened to me during the jewelry show. He had me follow him into his office. I sat down, looking at all the diplomas on his wall. I thought about how I had been with doctor Vasquez since I was a paramedic down in Miami years ago, and I started feeling less nervous and more comfortable talking to him. I explained to him the

whole story of my near death experience. After we finished, we sat there for about thirty or forty seconds in silence. I guess he was gathering his thoughts, and he said, Bill, don't be nervous. You are my seventh patient that has come back from being dead and have a similar story what I died and came back to life.

I'm finally home when they arrived in heaven. At that point, one was told that they had to return, and that the other two went through their full life review just as I did, and then returned. Bill's experience was back in nineteen ninety four, and it was just around nineteen seventy five that the term near death experience was first coined by doctor Raymond Moody. So although it was out there, it wasn't readily acceptable for everybody to know about this.

But how great is it that the doctor told the truth about other patients that had this experience. Bill talks a lot about guides and miracles in his book. He says for miracles to happen in our lives, we must believe in them, and the power comes from prayer. Prayer is our direct line to Heaven. Miracles are given to us every day. So be open to them and they will find you. Ask for them sincerely in your prayers.

When we pray, we actually communicate with our guides. When we talk to God in prayer, it's our phone line into heaven. Those are nice words, and from the Bible, blessed are those who believe without seeing. That's from John twenty twenty nine. I'd like to read to you now the Nine Levels of Enlightenment, but encourage you to get the book because it goes into so much more depth.

God gives us the power of choice, right or wrong, good or bad. It's ours to make. All choices have an outcome that we must live with. The fourth principle, give of yourself through service. Your services are needed in a form of action, not money. The fifth principle, Ask God to enlarge your wealth and he will enlarge your spirit. Sixth principle, Seek the lessons. Lessons are sent to us to help us expand on territories and open new doors.

The seventh principle, unleash the power of love. When you do this, you get a taste of what the spirit world is like. You feel the warmth, love, and peace in your soul. The eighth principle, the body is a temple. Your body is a vessel that you sail from birth to passage. Keep it from harm. And the ninth principle Protect Mother Earth. She is the birth mother of humanity. This earth does not belong to us. We belong to her,

and she is the force that connects us all. There is only one race, and that race is the human race. When we harness the nine principles of enlightenment, we are one with the light and with the love of God. There are levels of ascension as well. The first level is separation, the spirit leaving the body. The second level the spirit hovering over the body, looking down upon it, making sure the body is lifeless. The third level, the spirit is drawn to the gateway, a tunnel of light.

The fourth level, the spirit travels at magnificent speeds. The fifth level arrival, the spirit understands it is home, that it has entered into the light of God. The sixth level, the spirit meets with their guardians and family members. The seventh level, the spirit experiences their life review. The eighth level the Hall of Events. The spirit witnesses past, present, and future events. The ninth level, the spirit is bombarded

with knowledge, wisdom, and the nine principles of Enlightenment. So those are just a few words from Bill Tortorella's book The Ninth Level of Enlightenment, The Wisdom of the Light. Near death experiences have to be one of the top most requested topics for podcast episodes, including mine, and though I have featured a lot of them, there are so many more. I'd love to give you some resources where you can read them, listen to them, and view them. The first is ians dot org that stands for the

International Association of Near Death Studies. They have one of the largest sites and you can read thousands of near death experiences. Also NDRF dot org, you can search almost five thousand near death experiences. If you want to hear one about dogs or cats or whatever, you can type that in the search box. Also some great YouTube channels. One is T and H Afterlife. Our Friends Ians also have a YouTube channel, Next Level Soul often shares near

death experience chiances. There's a YouTube channel called nd Accounts. There's one called Coming Home. We also have the Afterlife Stories, ND Journal, Beyond with Heather Tesh who was a TV meteorologist turned near death experience explorer, and more. Anytime you type in near death experiences into your search, you're bound to find many. A little word of caution listening to near death experiences. If you've studied any of them, you

know they can greatly differ. You see, I believe that that silver cord or whatever it is that attaches us to our body, it's still somehow connected. Our soul and body still attached. So part of people's experiences could be from their own subconscious minds. When we look at near death experiences, you want to for the commonalities in them, the light, seeing the relatives, that feeling of love, those

sorts of things. There's a great book written by doctor Kenneth Ring called lessons from the Light what we can learn from the near death experience. He has not only studied thousands of near death experiences, but he was the pioneer that studied near death experiences of blind people who were able to see for the very first time and give verifiable information of what they saw even though their body had flatlined. So that's lessons from the Light by Kenneth Ring.

the soul. So the first one is William Shid says a ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. And Mark Twain said, twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did do so, throw off the bow lines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sales, explore, dream and discover. My friend, we are living in the ultimate illusion. It seems so real, but we do not die.

We will see our loved ones again, and our life is for a purpose. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.