(SERIOUS) Anyone had any near death experiences or encounters with angels/demons?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for responding 00:22, I learned a lot.

I'm enjoying this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:00:38 here...Sorry, I reread your question, and I don't think mine is an angel or demon story...

OP here. That's okay! Psychic visions stories are definitely welcome too!

How can you tell the difference between psychic visions and angel/demon experiences?

[Anonymous]

My mother also had hunches about friends and family. She herself had a serious heart attack. She felt she was going down long tunnel and she saw her mother and sister who had been killed in a car accident many years before. Her mother told her that they missed her, but that she needed to go back.

She survived the heart attack and lived another 5 years, dying of a second heart attack. My mother was not afraid to die after that event.

Sometimes, but not always, I see shimmering entities during communion on the altar at church. It depends on my ability to meditate, the others around me and the celebrant's own level of engagement. They are not distinctive but in human form, but there is usually at least 2 and they shimmer in blue. I was astounded the first time I saw Hindu gods painted in blue, because these are similar.

[Anonymous]

Yes. 2 of my strangest have involved my now deceased grandmother, with whom I had a special relationship. 2 days before she died, I felt that a visitor came in to my room in the middle of the night. I awoke, couldn't see anyone, but, heart beating fast, I felt someone sit next to me on the bed, lay their body down across my middle, in a gentle, warm and comforting way for a minute or two. Then just as "it" came in, "it" left the room again.
The other one was a few years prior to her death, it was more specific and more personal, and I felt the "warning" helped me protect her from serious harm.
I believe that the "shining" often skips generations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. 2 of my strangest have involved my now deceased grandmother, with whom I had a special relationship. 2 days before she died, I felt that a visitor came in to my room in the middle of the night. I awoke, couldn't see anyone, but, heart beating fast, I felt someone sit next to me on the bed, lay their body down across my middle, in a gentle, warm and comforting way for a minute or two. Then just as "it" came in, "it" left the room again.
The other one was a few years prior to her death, it was more specific and more personal, and I felt the "warning" helped me protect her from serious harm.
I believe that the "shining" often skips generations.

Meant to say 2 of the strongest, not strangest.

[Anonymous]

Saw my deceased grandma in the crowd at my wedding. I would have dismissed it as my eyes playing tricks, but later my aunt came up to me and seemed a bit shaken and she she thought she saw her, wasn't that weird? When we compared what we thought we saw, we had both seen her in the same place, wearing the same thing.

[Anonymous]

There was allegedly an exorcism at a church camp I attended around 1990.

[Anonymous]

My boyfriend had died very suddenly. I took up sleeping in one of his shirts to bed, I wore it a lot. One night i felt someone cuddling me in bed. I felt peace and just knew it was him. It was very comforting. But it only happened that once.

[Anonymous]

Woke from the only dream I ever had that had the look and feel of being real. I was in India in my dream (I am european born in USA) and had been in India in real life a couple years before. I argued with myself in the dream that it must be a dream because I went to sleep in Maryland and woke in India. I was saying to myself this must be a dream, but I can see, smell, touch and sense things. Freaky! Got to the doctor the next week. Turned out it was the night my son implanted in the womb, a couple days after conception. I was pregnant. Only ever had that one child. But the experience left me taking this child seriously.

[Anonymous]

I am a Hospice Minister and watch people die almost every day. The things they see and hear sometimes take my breath away. I do not believe in the existence of evil entities. I absolutely believe dying people see loved ones who transitioned before them, angels, and often even God.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Hospice Minister and watch people die almost every day. The things they see and hear sometimes take my breath away. I do not believe in the existence of evil entities. I absolutely believe dying people see loved ones who transitioned before them, angels, and often even God.

Do they all see things like that, or only the ones who believe in the afterlife? (assuming not all of your patients do)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woke from the only dream I ever had that had the look and feel of being real. I was in India in my dream (I am european born in USA) and had been in India in real life a couple years before. I argued with myself in the dream that it must be a dream because I went to sleep in Maryland and woke in India. I was saying to myself this must be a dream, but I can see, smell, touch and sense things. Freaky! Got to the doctor the next week. Turned out it was the night my son implanted in the womb, a couple days after conception. I was pregnant. Only ever had that one child. But the experience left me taking this child seriously.

This is so interesting! Is there a special link between India and your pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Hospice Minister and watch people die almost every day. The things they see and hear sometimes take my breath away. I do not believe in the existence of evil entities. I absolutely believe dying people see loved ones who transitioned before them, angels, and often even God.

Do they all see things like that, or only the ones who believe in the afterlife? (assuming not all of your patients do)

They don't all have that experience. Or if they do, many are unable to express it when they are nearing death. I haven't seen any connection at all between religious belief and experiences during the dying process. Atheists, Christians, Buddhist, etc. all see or hear similar things, at least in my experience. I think it's interesting that so many people perceive a female God presence near death. Even evangelical Christians who always viewed God as male often use female pronouns when describing God when they are nearing death.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Hospice Minister and watch people die almost every day. The things they see and hear sometimes take my breath away. I do not believe in the existence of evil entities. I absolutely believe dying people see loved ones who transitioned before them, angels, and often even God.

Do they all see things like that, or only the ones who believe in the afterlife? (assuming not all of your patients do)

They don't all have that experience. Or if they do, many are unable to express it when they are nearing death. I haven't seen any connection at all between religious belief and experiences during the dying process. Atheists, Christians, Buddhist, etc. all see or hear similar things, at least in my experience. I think it's interesting that so many people perceive a female God presence near death. Even evangelical Christians who always viewed God as male often use female pronouns when describing God when they are nearing death.

Wow. That's amazing. At a feminist conference I went to they were talking about how God is female, and about how women are the life givers to the universe. So how could the ultimate life giver be male, and made a male first, and then made a female? It had never really clicked for me before and then I was just like- wow! Wouldn't the creation story that makes the most sense, be God giving birth to the world?

[Anonymous]

Wow. That's amazing. At a feminist conference I went to they were talking about how God is female, and about how women are the life givers to the universe. So how could the ultimate life giver be male, and made a male first, and then made a female? It had never really clicked for me before and then I was just like- wow! Wouldn't the creation story that makes the most sense, be God giving birth to the world?

Did you actually pay real money to attend this conference?