Many scientists believe the light and peaceful feeling are the result of certain chemicals flooding the brain as it shuts down rather than a spiritual experience. Not that that's a bad thing, just a different perspective.

You can search Youtube for a lot of testimonials on going to the light and being thrown back into body because it wasn't yet time.

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Have any of you reported these? If I can post and receive the following responses, I wonder how common these really are?

any NDE "support groups?"

And if you did share your experiences, how did people react?

I had one. I wouldn't say I was profoundly affected by the experience, but I certainly was by the event that led to the NDE. If anything, the NDE showed me that the dying experience is far more peaceful than I had ever considered it could be. I'm not afraid of death anymore. I also haven't believed in life after death or a deity since it happened.

I had one following a surgery. Watched the whole resuscitation effort from the vantage point of floating in the upper corner of the room.

I also had two almost fatal experiences - a very near drowning after getting trapped underwater and a near miss by a street racing car (I was a pedestrian crossing the street).

I don't think they've changed me. I've never had a fear of death and I think my experiences just confirmed that more.

DH has had 4. 2 as a child, 2 as an adult. He is the most low key person I know as a result (unless there's a thunderstorm since a lightning strike was one of them.) It really helps him keep things in perspective, and as a result, me as well. He also had very humble beginnings (welfare, food stamps, sleeping on the floor as the house was too crowded) and while we have lots of "stuff" now, he knows it can be gone in an instant and is absolutely willing to do anything (legally) to make ends meet.

Anonymous wrote:Is it good? My heart stopped during my c-section. It was a life changing event for me. I had to go into therapy for about 6 months.

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I really like it. I read Heaven is for Children and then started researching NDEs before discovering this book. There's a part that basically states that if you're "stuck" in life, you'll be stuck in the afterlife, which makes sense b/c your soul never evolves fully.

Personally, I believe that we're in this shell of a body to learn and that we make our own heaven (or purgatory, I suppose) once we leave this body.

It's fascinating and makes me believe that there is no "death" - that we have only new beginnings.

PP, there are people in the book who were distraught. So you're not alone in how you feel. This book focuses on young children (even babies!). But she does track adults. Here is her Amazon page - http://www.amazon.com/P.-M.-H.-Atwater/e/B001H6IZY4/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Yes I believe. I have read lots of books on the subject and am pretty well convinced

Anonymous wrote:Is it good? My heart stopped during my c-section. It was a life changing event for me. I had to go into therapy for about 6 months.

Why did you have to go into therapy?

I have known serveral people who have had near death experiences and it changed them and it changed me, in that I am no longer afraid, and I do believe that my soul survives.

Yes. My mother had one when she was pregnant with my older brother. She had technically died, flatlined. It was an amazing, moving, vivid, spiritual experience for her and one that she shared with very few people. She wanted to stay, but God sent her back. She lived the most truly pious and holy life of anyone I had ever met. I am sure this experience had something to to with her inate goodness and spiritual approach to every facet of her life.

I believe. For those who've had one - would you mind sharing how it changed you? Thanks!

I had a near death experience. I guess medically, I was "dead". It profoundly changed me.

i have not experienced one but my brother, who was ill for years, did. i believe.

Is it good? My heart stopped during my c-section. It was a life changing event for me. I had to go into therapy for about 6 months.

reading this:
The New Children and Near-Death Experiences
P. M. H. Atwater L.H.D.