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

[Anonymous]

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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?

I sure did. Money well spent

[Anonymous]

If you don't want skeptics commenting, why bother? Supernatural beings don't exist, OP. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Interesting. The hospice workers who visited my uncle when he was dying said using that death was near would be when he would seem to be talking to deceased relatives. I didn't think, and they didn't imply, that he was actually communicating with spirits, just that this is something that they had seen frequently in their work.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Actually, the idea of a Feminine Godhead is a pretty popular concept in various religious traditions.

[Anonymous]

I have had several vivid dreams, these dreams have a different quality from normal dreams.

I dreamed about 9/11 before it happened. I was so shaken I woke my Dh up and told him about the dream. About the "demons" on airplanes and the planes crashing. This was maybe a month before the event itself.

After that I dreamed we invaded a country - couldn't tell which one, where I was - but I was begging a woman not to let it happen, "because this is what the demons want!". Then the announcement came about the start of the Iraq war.

I've always had a bizarre dislike of anything touching my neck. Scarves, turtlenecks, smocks at the hair dresser. I get this feeling of panic. I had a dream one night that I was a prostitute, wearing old fashioned clothes, and one man held my arms behind my back in an alley while another man slit my throat with a pair of scissors. Then I woke up.

I wouldn't say I believe in past lives but this last dream made me wonder.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Only that on the trip I prayed at every temple and even when not in a house of worship, for the right husband and father. I met him within a couple weeks of returning to the states. Dunny thing is, a seer back in his xountry told him he'd have a son. He grew old with no son... until that night. He didn't remember that prediction until his ex, the mother of his daughters, reminded him that he was promised a son.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Interesting. The hospice workers who visited my uncle when he was dying said using that death was near would be when he would seem to be talking to deceased relatives. I didn't think, and they didn't imply, that he was actually communicating with spirits, just that this is something that they had seen frequently in their work.

I would never in a million years suggest or imply to anyone present that the dying person was communicating with a person or spirit. I'm an interfaith minister, meaning I minister to everyone from the atheist to the very faithful and devout believers. I make no judgements. In my mind, it's all love anyway. I'm just sharing my personal experience and belief here. I believe there are too many similarities in the experiences for it to be coincidence, medical, or drug induced. I truly believe they are seeing what we cannot possibly perceive. I think the veil between those living in this world and those who have transitioned is very thin. But again, those are simply my personal beliefs and not something I would ever share at work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not with angels per se, but I felt the exact time down to the minute when a relative died. The relative was in another city at the time. I was in a meeting for work and suddenly felt the need to urgently leave the meeting at the moment she died to "be with family." I left immediately (the feeling was compelling) and shortly thereafter, I received the call informing me of her death and the time of death was at exact time I felt compelled to leave.

This happened to me when my grandma died. My mom died this year and though we are extremely close, i did not have a similar jolt.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Interesting. The hospice workers who visited my uncle when he was dying said using that death was near would be when he would seem to be talking to deceased relatives. I didn't think, and they didn't imply, that he was actually communicating with spirits, just that this is something that they had seen frequently in their work.

Im the pp whose mom died this year. She had this experience. We are Hindu.

I would never in a million years suggest or imply to anyone present that the dying person was communicating with a person or spirit. I'm an interfaith minister, meaning I minister to everyone from the atheist to the very faithful and devout believers. I make no judgements. In my mind, it's all love anyway. I'm just sharing my personal experience and belief here. I believe there are too many similarities in the experiences for it to be coincidence, medical, or drug induced. I truly believe they are seeing what we cannot possibly perceive. I think the veil between those living in this world and those who have transitioned is very thin. But again, those are simply my personal beliefs and not something I would ever share at work.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Interesting. The hospice workers who visited my uncle when he was dying said using that death was near would be when he would seem to be talking to deceased relatives. I didn't think, and they didn't imply, that he was actually communicating with spirits, just that this is something that they had seen frequently in their work.

I would never in a million years suggest or imply to anyone present that the dying person was communicating with a person or spirit. I'm an interfaith minister, meaning I minister to everyone from the atheist to the very faithful and devout believers. I make no judgements. In my mind, it's all love anyway. I'm just sharing my personal experience and belief here. I believe there are too many similarities in the experiences for it to be coincidence, medical, or drug induced. I truly believe they are seeing what we cannot possibly perceive. I think the veil between those living in this world and those who have transitioned is very thin. But again, those are simply my personal beliefs and not something I would ever share at work.

This sounds like something that physicians and nurses and others who spend a lot of time with the dying have observed. Sounds like it's time for a serious medical study. Clearly something is going on. It would be useful to know what -- to the extent medical science can tell.

[Anonymous]

When I was a very young kid, I had some kind of experience I will never forget. I was maybe 4, 5, 6? I was in bed asleep, and I woke up and next to my bed was a figure. I can't explain it well, but it was definitely a human shape, but it was all sparkles. Yellowish sparkles, but in a very distinct human shape. It made no noise at all. I remember being super scared, and I kept saying to myself "its just the sand man", over and over and over, because of all the sparkles. I kept squeezing my eyes shut, and every time I opened them it was still there, not moving, just kind of hovering over me. Finally I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them one more time and it was gone. I got out of bed and turned on the TV in my room for the light, and finally fell asleep. I never told anyone about it, not even my parents or anyone! Not sure why.I know someone will probably say I was asleep, but I definitely was not. I think I think about that night every day of my life. Seriously!

The other night I think about a lot (and try not to becasue it was way scarier)--it was about 6-8 years ago. I was sleeping, and I remember it was a night I was very stressed about my daughter (she has an illness). I woke up and it was like 3am. Suddenly, right into my ear, I heard this terrifying whispering. I actually am shuddering right now typing this! It was a raspy sort of voice, but like, the voice enunciated every word really distinctly, like a hissing weird hyper-pronounced thing. Im sure that makes no sense lol. And all it did was whisper these super disgusting, really offensive, terrible things in my ear. Like nothing I've ever heard before in my life. I couldnt repeat what it said, (I dont remember) but I can remember what the voice sounded like. When it was happening, i knew that I had to say something, some sentence about God (dont recall what it was anymore). And the first time I said it,I said it in my head, and then suddenly I knew i had to say it out loud, and I repeated it out loud over and over again. I am not at all religious and never have been. I remember my heart was absolutely pounding and I was super nauseus. Then suddenly it was all over. I had to get up and shower because I was all sweaty. It was absolutely terrifiying.

And now that I wrote that out, I sound like a total lunatic!! LOL.

[Anonymous]

23:06 That is terrifying

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was a very young kid, I had some kind of experience I will never forget. I was maybe 4, 5, 6? I was in bed asleep, and I woke up and next to my bed was a figure. I can't explain it well, but it was definitely a human shape, but it was all sparkles. Yellowish sparkles, but in a very distinct human shape. It made no noise at all. I remember being super scared, and I kept saying to myself "its just the sand man", over and over and over, because of all the sparkles. I kept squeezing my eyes shut, and every time I opened them it was still there, not moving, just kind of hovering over me. Finally I squeezed my eyes shut and opened them one more time and it was gone. I got out of bed and turned on the TV in my room for the light, and finally fell asleep. I never told anyone about it, not even my parents or anyone! Not sure why.I know someone will probably say I was asleep, but I definitely was not. I think I think about that night every day of my life. Seriously!

The other night I think about a lot (and try not to becasue it was way scarier)--it was about 6-8 years ago. I was sleeping, and I remember it was a night I was very stressed about my daughter (she has an illness). I woke up and it was like 3am. Suddenly, right into my ear, I heard this terrifying whispering. I actually am shuddering right now typing this! It was a raspy sort of voice, but like, the voice enunciated every word really distinctly, like a hissing weird hyper-pronounced thing. Im sure that makes no sense lol. And all it did was whisper these super disgusting, really offensive, terrible things in my ear. Like nothing I've ever heard before in my life. I couldnt repeat what it said, (I dont remember) but I can remember what the voice sounded like. When it was happening, i knew that I had to say something, some sentence about God (dont recall what it was anymore). And the first time I said it,I said it in my head, and then suddenly I knew i had to say it out loud, and I repeated it out loud over and over again. I am not at all religious and never have been. I remember my heart was absolutely pounding and I was super nauseus. Then suddenly it was all over. I had to get up and shower because I was all sweaty. It was absolutely terrifiying.

And now that I wrote that out, I sound like a total lunatic!! LOL.

Wow, that is so frightening.

If it makes you feel better, I have had an experience, definitely not as bad at that, but where I was having this horribly, horribly intense nightmare. They were these things that I knew were evil- demonic would be a better word. I can't remember all of it, but I'm a fairly good lucid dreamer, and I rarely have nightmares because of that, i can steer the dream or, if need be, wake myself up. So haven't had a nightmare in years. But this was different. It was like there was no way out of it. And the scary part was- the nightmare was taking place in my room, and I could see myself sleeping and the whole thing kind of taking place. But, as dreams are, it was very fractured and didn't have a linear narrative. Finally, it popped into my head that I needed to say God's name- my friend who is very into spirituality taught me the names of God and Jesus that are supposed to be "unutterable" because they are very powerful, and only to say them if I was in dire need. So I remember, at that point, being very "in control" of the dream in that I was aware of what was happening as you would be in a lucid dream, but unable to get the evil to stop or the dream to end or change course. Finally I was able to say the names (it was like whatever it was could sense I wanted to say them, and was trying, almost pleading, me not to) and it took a few seconds but the evil things vanished.

It totally sounds crazy, and maybe it was. But I was very shaken, for the whole rest of the day. I just KNEW something had legitimately been in my room with me, and I was living with a very negative person, and I feel strongly that it was this person's energy that allowed this evil thing to come in. I actually had had prior experiences while living with her with bad "entities" (never had any experiences like these before or after I moved out from living with her) and it took me a while to realize that it had something to do with her.

[Anonymous]

I had a near death experience, but it didn't include any angels or demons. It was a floating though space kind of thing, watching images of my life pass before me. The peaceful and loving feeling was like nothing I have ever experienced.

I was a Christian at the time, but am now an atheist. I wasn't actually near death when it happened. It was in response to trauma. Pilots experiencing extreme g-forces have an unusual amount of near death experiences when they black out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a near death experience, but it didn't include any angels or demons. It was a floating though space kind of thing, watching images of my life pass before me. The peaceful and loving feeling was like nothing I have ever experienced.

I was a Christian at the time, but am now an atheist. I wasn't actually near death when it happened. It was in response to trauma. Pilots experiencing extreme g-forces have an unusual amount of near death experiences when they black out.

Did your experience have anything to do with your change from Christian to atheist?