At one point I observed my body, still sitting in the chair
in the radiology department mammography suite, at a distance below and behind
me.
Near Death Experience
Nanci's personal encounter with the being/entity we call God, even to
the point of merging into its energy field. That degree of intimacy revealed
that we are not separate individuals at all--our experience as such is an
illusion and wonderful gift--but rather we are literally part of God's own
self-awareness. That truth removes all doubt about the outcome of life and
how it should be lived.
"My near-death experience was unlike any I have ever read about. It was far
more intellectual: filled with “knowings”, understandings about the “truths”
of the universe, and insights. And I delved deeper into life after death
than I had thought possible in an NDE, ultimately evolving through higher
levels of existence beyond anything I had ever dreamed possible.
My
body’s death on March 14, 1994, was occasioned by some type of reaction to a
needle-localization procedure designed to show my surgeon where to cut to
remove three potentially cancerous lesions in my breast. The procedure had
taken much longer than expected, and had to be repeated in order to get the
wire marker deep enough into the breast tissue. It was painful, and
emotionally traumatic for my body. I was alone when I died, because the
radiologist and radiology technician both left me to perform other tasks,
including getting their eighth set of mammography films developed.
The early stages of the NDE were fairly standard: I left my body, went into
the Light, experienced overwhelming unconditional love, peace, joy, and
acceptance, met Beings of Light, and had a life review. What was
dramatically different about my NDE was what I learned during these stages,
as well as what happened to me during and after the life review.
When I first entered the Light I saw nothing but Light, heard nothing, and
smelled nothing. I was alone with my own thoughts. Those thoughts, however,
were dramatic revelations. Chief among them was the realization that I am
not a human being; that what I had been calling my soul is in fact who I
really am. And who I really am is not human, but rather a separately
existing spiritual being who only inhabited a human animal’s body. Moreover,
the human animal I had inhabited has her own life, thoughts, emotions, and
personality, and is perfectly capable of living out the rest of her lifetime
without me inside.
Many more “knowings” invaded my mind while I was in the Light, filling me
instantly not only with knowledge in the academic sense, but also with the
deep understanding that only personal experience can give. I “experienced”
these truths as deeply as though I had lived them. One of the topics
deposited into my mind was about how time does not exist in the universe at
large, but only for beings that mark time, like humans do, by measuring
intervals of experience.
At one point I observed my body, still sitting in the chair in the radiology
department mammography suite, at a distance below and behind me. I saw it
out of the back of where a head would be on a human body (like having eyes
in the back of my head). Seeing it, and feeling no attachment whatsoever to
it, made me question for the first time whether I had died. To myself I
said: “Nah, I can’t be dead. I didn’t go through a tunnel into the Light,
and I’m definitely in the Light.” Immediately I was surrounded by an earthen
works tunnel in vivid, vibrant color and detail, with the proverbial light
at the end. Though the tunnel was just as real as anything I have
experienced on Earth, I knew for a fact that I was not in a tunnel. So I
wasn’t fooled by its appearance. Upon realizing that I wasn’t “fooled,” a
flood of “knowings” about manifesting reality inundated my mind. I realized
that we all constantly manifest what we call physical reality just by virtue
of our thoughts, and that the only reason we are fooled into believing it is
real is because of the limitations of human senses. You can imagine how
flabbergasted I was by this information, and why I was not inclined to
believe it. So I experimented with consciously manifesting some more to test
its truth. I proved to myself that we do indeed have the ability to manifest
what humans perceive to be physical reality by focusing our attention and
intention on doing so.
After I realized I was dead, I looked outward again for the Light, for at
this point I was back to the belief that we must go into the Light to enter
the afterlife. I had forgotten that I was already in the Light because the
strength of my belief system overpowered my sense of where I was. I then saw
five Lights of different hues in the distance. I thought to myself: “Oh this
figures, I’m supposed to go into the Light and I get five of them and have
to choose the right one.” A voice not my own entered my mind with the words:
“Just pick one and follow it.” I instantly understood that they all led to
the same destination—the Source of our universe. As I looked again at the
Lights, five Beings of Light appeared to have come forward from within them.
I recognized these Light Beings as my most cherished and beloved friends and
soul mates, and knew for certain that I too am a Being of Light, and that I
was HOME. These friends communicated with me by mental telepathy, and
primarily in emotions. Their emotions could be interpreted into English as:
“Welcome home.” “We ran ahead of the ‘rest of us’ because we couldn’t wait
to see you.” “Tell us everything [about human life].” And, of course, they
communicated intense unconditional love, joy at seeing me, and acceptance of
and curiosity about my adventure into human life. My sense was that they
were extremely anxious to observe my life as Nanci. In response, I replayed
every single second of Nanci’s life events and sensory input all at once for
them, not for myself. These Light Beings actually entered into my life
events, as me or others around me, and lived those events as though they
were actually me doing it. I thought it odd at the time, but later learned
how normal this is at higher evolutionary stages.
While my friends enjoyed my life review, memories of my eternal life filled
my mind. They included hundreds of physical lifetimes, in humans and other
species, as well as thousands of what we would call years spent living in
what I was calling “Light Being society,” and what might also be called
“life between lives.” I was astounded that I could possibly have forgotten
all of it. “Knowing” informed me that when a Light Being like me enters into
a human as its soul, only part of its total Energy does so. The rest of the
Being’s Energy stays in the Light and continues to evolve as it observes the
soul part’s experiences. The reintegration of my memories as an eternal
being with those of my just passed human life completed my transformation
back into my natural state as a Being of Light.
Soon, I realized that I had access to all of the knowledge of the universe
(what I call Universal Knowledge) just by focusing my attention and
intention on what I wanted to know. My thought processing was accelerated so
greatly that I was able to absorb phenomenal amounts of information
instantly. I wanted to know the answers to all my most pressing spiritual
questions. So I searched Universal Knowledge for the answers to: what is
Source/God? What am I? How was the universe created? Why? What is the
purpose of life? Of life as a human? What does source expect of me while in
human form? Where is heaven? Hell? What is the correct religion? The answers
fill my first book, Backwards: Returning to Our Source for Answers. Upon
receiving “knowing” on all these topics I was very upset that no one had
told me before how simple life and death are. I wanted to know why religion
had failed me in this regard. In response, a “documentary” of the
development of religion among humans over the course of three Earth epochs,
the third of which constitutes mankind’s future, played out in my mind. My
manuscript entitled Backwards Beliefs sets forth what I remember of this
documentary.
After receiving my fill from Universal Knowledge, I realized that I could
enter into my Light Being friends and live their eternal lives as they had
just done my life as Nanci. So I merged my Energy into theirs as we formed a
collective being of six. I could at one and the same time experience myself
as the personality I had always known as “myself,” as well as experiencing
one of my friend’s lives as though I were my friend. Or I could experience
what it was like to be a collective being. I understood at the time that
living in this manner was an evolutionary stage beyond that of Light Beings,
whose lives we would perceive to be as discrete, individual beings with
spiritual bodies. At this stage of awareness there was no “beingness”—only a
mental or conscious existence.
Ultimately, my soul mates and I decided as a collective being to rejoin “the
rest of us.” I understood this English term to mean the Source of creation,
the entity humans call “God.” For the first time during the NDE I
experienced movement similar to how we feel it as humans. Up until this
point everything seemed to transpire within my own mind. But now our merged
entity of six seemed to move forward deeper and deeper into the Light to
rejoin Source’s core. As we neared it I understood more and more about the
universe and our place within it, as well as my own nature as part of
Source. It became excruciatingly clear to me that the whole of our universe
transpires exclusively within the mind of Source. There is only one being in
our universe—Source. All things that we perceive as physical reality are
really thoughts manifested by Source within its own Energy field. And, most
importantly, none of it ever leaves the Source. So, I intimately experienced
the “knowing” that I am literally part of Source’s thoughts, and the
illusion that I am separate from it is a gift from Source to itself in order
that Source might fully explore its own personality and creativity.
Sometime during this process I decided that I “could do it better.” I could
live Nanci’s life better and give back to the experience more than I had
before I died. And, I passionately wanted to share with my fellow Light
Beings in soul form the truth of who we really are, and the simplicity of
life as part of Source. These emotions apparently impelled my return to the
body in a traumatic process of leaving the Light. But as I whirl winded back
into human flesh I did my best to remember as much as I could so that I
might share it with others in my books."
One most extraordinary aspect of
NDE's is that the underlying pattern seems unaffected by a person's culture or
belief system, religion, race, education, or any other known variable, although
the way in which the NDE is described varies according to the person's
background and vocabulary. There is no evidence that the type of experience is
related to whether the person is conventionally religious or not, or has lived a
"good" or "bad" life according to his/her society's standards (although an NDE
often strongly affects how life is lived after the experience).
Quotes
Dr. Raymond Moody--Thanatologist, psychiatrist and author of many books,
including the ground-breaking book, Life After Life.
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my
personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into
another kind of reality.
Betty J. Eadie--Near-death returnee, transformational speaker and author of
the best-seller Embraced By the Light.
None of this was really new to my spirit. It was a recalling of what
I've always known--how we come up from earth to heaven, how we select our
parents, how we select our life situations, how we are here on earth to
learn to love.
Dannion Brinkley--Near-death returnee, transformational speaker and author of
the bestseller Saved By The Light.
Once we begin to really understand that we are not from here, we are
from there, that we all chose to come here and were chosen to come here,
that we were somebody and something long before we came here, only then do
we comprehend that we are not poor, pitiful, stupid human beings. We are all
great, awesome, powerful and mighty spiritual beings. What then really
becomes important is realizing the true purpose of our lives.
Backwards
is the true story of one big firm trial lawyer's after death face-to-face
communication with God/Source about the mysteries of life and death.
Backwards shatters the age-old belief that we are mere humans, that fate
determines our destinies, and that a task master God demands our obedience
and worship.