Samantha Swinglehurst

There seemed to be someone beside me who was giving me answers to my questions as I thought them. 

Near Death Experience

Samantha Swinglehurst, 35, a sound assistant with the BBC from Swansea, Wales, had a near-death experience after attempting suicide when she was living in The Netherlands in 1990.

Really, I couldn't say at what point I was alive and at what point I wasn't, but I found myself in a black place, on a plain like Dartmoor, with no light, no stars, nothing. I couldn't even say whether I had a body. I felt intimidated and scared, and mentally I was asking questions like: 'Where am I?'

There seemed to be someone beside me who was giving me answers to my questions as I thought them. I remember asking: 'Who are you?' and it replied that it was my guide and that I was in a place called The Clearing House where I was going to see my life and what I had and hadn't done right and wrong in it.

I could see what looked like white lines appearing in front of me as if they were the ends of slides, only they were huge, towering above my head, even though they were in the distance.

Some went off down to the left and others to the right. The ones that went off to the left were sharp and clear and the ones that went down to the right were misty and hazy.

Directly in front of me there was a big patch of mistiness and I asked: 'What on earth is going on in front of me?'

I was told: 'This is your life.'

Suddenly, there I was with my nose right up against one of these slides and then I was actually in the image, in the room itself as the event happened, but I was looking down upon it.

I experienced many of the events of my past life like that.

It really was a kind of living nightmare to see the worst side of myself and if there was any incentive not to make me behave in the same way again, it would be that.

As an antidote to this, however, I also saw the positive things and the times when I behaved in the best way I could, often against the odds, and that gave me the best kind of pride in myself, maybe more so than anything I'd ever felt down here on Earth.

The best thing about what happened is that I came away from the experience wanting to do the best in my life. It has totally changed the way that I deal with situations and with other people. It has also changed what motivates me in my life.

I can't rationalize it to anyone and I'm realistic enough to know that I don't expect anyone else to believe me unless they have had direct experience of it themselves.

FROM: Near-death experiences are more common than we think and they are still baffling scientists AUTHOR: Katie Fraser
SOURCE: The Express
DATE: January 24, 2004

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