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Intense Emotions and the Near-Death
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In my own NDE research, intense feelings of
love is the number one most common characteristic
found in NDEs. Along with feelings of love,
there is also a wide spectrum of feelings that
people may experience during a NDE. Many of
these emotional states experienced in NDEs cannot
be experienced in the physical realm. I have
heard more than one experiencer mention that
there is no love in this physical world in comparison
to heavenly love. One experiencer, Reverend
Ken Martin, returned from his NDE only to discover
that his life on Earth, his ministry, his calling,
his wife and family, everything - is insignificant
compared to what he had just experienced in
his NDE. As it is with many other NDEs, the
experience is something that is completely out-of-this-world
and cannot be described with words. It is an
experience involving thoughts and feelings that
have no real comparison in this physical world.
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1. Playing
Harps and Floating on Clouds |
Someone wrote to me this interesting comment: "When
reading about all of this eternal love and happiness,
it sounds beautiful and amazing; however, it sounds
like there are an infinite amount of spirits with plastered
smiles on their faces floating around heaven ... What
everyone seems to say is that in heaven, EVERYONE goes
around like they're high on drugs. This is what it comes
off as! Eternal bliss and unmatched feelings of love?
Sounds amazing. It really does. The stories on your
site make it sound as if when you die, Jesus tells you,
"Tough shit. This is the way it is whether you like
it or not," and our spirit automatically transforms
into a state of sheer, pure bliss without second thought.
It scares me."
Kevin Williams' reply:
Nobody forces you
into eternal bliss or anywhere to do anything. There
are many levels of love and happiness where you can
choose and where you can fit in. It is the same principle
found here on Earth. Just follow your bliss. Let me
cite some of the best NDE references, in my opinion,
concerning the tremendous ecstasy found in NDEs:
"Sexual orgasms can't compare. You are so high. Magnify
that to infinity!" (Carter
Mills)
"One woman told me that when she found herself in the
light, 'The feeling just became more and more and more
ecstatic and glorious and perfect ... If you took the
one thousand best things that ever happened to you in
your life and multiplied them by a million, maybe you
could get close to this feeling.' Another man wrote,
'Then there was peace. Peace, but in order to give an
idea of what one means by that, the letters would have
to be written thousands of miles high in soft glowing
colors ... It is a complete happiness, total happiness,
beyond the realm of happiness.'" (Dr.
Kenneth Ring)
"Then I simply remember I became more blissful, more
rapturous, more ecstatic. I was just filling and filling
with this light and love that was in the light. The
dynamics of this light are not static at all. They are
so dynamic and so much going on in there of love and
joy and knowledge. As you take it into yourself, or
as it goes into you and you receive it, your ecstasy
level just becomes tremendous ... I reached the point
in the rapture of it all where I thought to myself suddenly,
the first thought, 'I wonder how much more of this I
can stand before I shatter?' With that thought, the
light began to recede. So, the universe will not let
us shatter. We cannot take in more of this bliss and
joy than we are able to handle at a time." (Jayne
Smith)
During Arthur Yensen's NDE, he had a discussion with
a heavenly being who resembled a Greek god. Yensen had
the following conversation with him:
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Yensen asked, "How
do you explain this intense happiness?"
He answered, "Your
thoughts are vibrations which are controlled
by the Master-Vibration. It neutralizes all
negative thoughts and lets you think only the
good thoughts, such as love, freedom and happiness."
Yensen asked, "Then
what becomes of the old grouches?"
He answered, "If
they are too bad they go to a realm of lower
vibrations where their kind of thoughts can
live. If they came here, the Master-Vibration
would annihilate them. After death people gravitate
into homogenous groups according to the rate
of their soul's vibrations. If the percent of
discord in a person is small, it can be eliminated
by the Master-Vibration; then the remaining
good can live on here. For example, if a person
were 70% good and 30% bad, the bad could be
eliminated by the Master-Vibration and the remaining
good welcomed into heaven. However, if the percentage
of bad were too high, this couldn't be done,
and the person would have to gravitate to a
lower level and live with people of his own
kind.
"In the hereafter
each person lives in the kind of a heaven or
hell that he prepared for himself while on Earth.
If you threw a small pebble into a threshing
machine, it would go into the box - not because
it is good or bad, but because of its proper
size and weight. It's the same way here. No
one sends you anywhere. You are sorted by the
high or low vibrations of your soul. Everyone
goes where he fits in! High vibrations indicate
love and spiritual development, while low vibrations
indicate debasement and evil." (Arthur
Yensen)
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"They are brought to a path that heads up toward heaven
and are committed to angel guardians there. Then they
are accepted by some other angels and introduced into
communities, and there into many forms of happiness."
(Emanuel
Swedenborg)
"The happiness and ecstasy in NDEs are like nothing
we can compare to on Earth. God will not let us have
more of this ecstasy than we can bear. There are many
realms in the afterlife corresponding to the many levels
of bliss that souls can choose from. In general, the
level of bliss we realize after death is basically determined
by our choice between positive vibes or negative vibes
here on Earth. And no one is locked into a particular
vibrational level and each of us can choose higher and
lower levels of bliss. The higher the vibrations we
desire, the more our negative thoughts and feelings
are replaced with positive thoughts and feelings." (Kevin
Williams)
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2. NDE Intense
Emotions Conclusions |
The following are the main conclusions I gleaned
from the NDE insights above and my own research: |
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We can choose to rise to higher realms of love
and happiness when we are ready and when we
have earned it. No one is forced to dwell in
a realm for which we are not compatible and
for which we don't desire or belong. Nobody
forces light and happiness upon us. |
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In the higher realms where souls are more united
in love, only perfect oneness survives. Many
experiencers describe the lower hell realms
as a condition where self-centeredness and darkness
reigns supreme without inhibition. In my view,
this suggests that as the soul rises to higher
realms of vibration, the more the forces of
oneness are applied to the soul. This means
everyone becomes more and more on the same wavelength
as the soul vibrations rise higher. That wavelength
is the love, joy and peace of the light of God.
Souls who dwell there want only the force of
perfect unity, love and happiness to reign.
This certainly does not mean that everyone goes
around with plastered smiles and playing harps.
However, I believe it does mean that souls desiring
something different can find a realm to express
their vibrations. In the lowest realms, there
is no oneness - only self-centeredness and misery.
Because unity increases as the vibrations of
the soul grow higher, no negative vibrations
exists - only positive vibrations. This allows
for a freedom and happiness that cannot be compared
with the Earth experience. |
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The key to entering the higher realms is to
desire only perfect love and happiness for everyone
and yourself. This perfect state of the heart
and mind certainly must involve experiencing
the full range of love and happiness that exists.
In the same way, there probably exists in the
lower realms a full range of low vibrational
emotions that can be expressed. This is one
reason I believe that this physical realm is
a vibrational level somewhere between the highest
and the lowest. Perhaps one of the reasons we
are here in the physical realm is to learn how
to cope with these high and low emotional vibes. |
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God doesn't force anyone to any level of bliss
they don't desire or don't belong. We are free
to choose and create our own level of bliss.
And the saying birds of a feather flock together
certainly applies to all levels of the heart
and mind. But there is evidence from near-death
accounts that all dimensions of reality are
on a path that eventually returns to the oneness
of God. |
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Perhaps our citizenship in this half-way to
heaven realm means we need both experiences
of higher and lower emotional states for soul
growth. Mellen-Thomas Benedict once commented
on how we are all here to help each other to
attain a higher level of consciousness. He said
that we are going to "link up, hold hands,
and walk out of hell together." |
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3. The Nature
of Heavenly Bliss |
The same person wrote to me this comment: "The
big problem I have is not with happiness and joy. It
is just that I WANT to have some type of negative feelings.
Wouldn't you think that around hour number two of being
blissful and joyous to no extent, you would start to
get, frankly, bored? What is any positive without a
negative. It is undefined ... boring. Sheer bliss without
periods of non-bliss would not be good to me at all.
This is what I'm afraid of."
Kevin Williams' reply: "There is evidence
suggesting that others agree with your desire to experience
less than higher realms of bliss. For example, during
Jayne Smith's NDE, heavenly bliss was not forced on
her and she concluded that God will not let us shatter
from more bliss than we desire. We cannot take in more
of this love and bliss than we are able to handle at
a time. So you see, some people experience exactly what
you are referring to in their NDE - not becoming blissed-out.
We all come to Earth on a mission from God. I am convinced
that those who come here from higher realms are probably
trying to bring heaven to Earth. Those who come here
from lower realms are probably trying to remove the
influences from their previous experiences in the lower
realms. NDErs who visit higher vibrational realms of
bliss often carry these influences back with them to
share with the rest of us for the purpose of our enlightenment.
Many NDE accounts involve people voluntarily returning
from these higher realms to our lower realm. According
to one particular experiencer, she had a choice between
remaining or staying. She decided to return because
she preferred experiencing physical things than experience
higher levels of bliss (See the NDE of
Dr. Dianne Morrissey
below). Not all people experience ecstasy during a NDE.
Some have very negative experiences when they find themselves
in a realm where God appears to be nowhere around (as
in the lower hell realms). Some of these realms are
totally devoid of love and happiness and there are those
who belong there because they fit in. According to
Dr. George Ritchie,
those who prefer to entertain negative vibes can and
do flee the light and bliss of God after death because
they are too uncomfortable to have their inner thoughts
and feelings revealed to everyone. When
Rev. Howard Storm
was rescued from hell by Jesus, he felt very uncomfortable
in the higher realm." (Kevin
Williams) |
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4. Examples of People Choosing
Lower Realms Over Higher Realms
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The following NDE accounts involve experiencers preferring,
for one reason or another, to return to this lower physical
realm rather than experience the bliss of higher realms.
"I reached the point in the rapture of it all where
I thought to myself suddenly, "I wonder how much
more of this I can stand before I shatter?" With
that thought, the light began to recede. So, the universe
will not let us shatter. We cannot take in more of this
bliss and joy than we are able to handle at a time."
(Jayne
Smith)
"I felt torn between two desires: wanting to go into
the light and wanting to touch something tangible and
retain my connection with all that was physical. (For
this reason, she returned to the physical realm.)" (Dr.
Dianne Morrissey)
"In my NDE I was also shown that there are many souls
in heaven who are more than willing to come to this
place regardless of the state it is in." (David
Oakford)
"At a time when I felt the closest to accepting my death,
I experienced a resurge of sorrow and pain, longing
for my son, for my life. I couldn't let go of my human
life. My guides tried their hardest, they never gave
up, they never became discouraged. It is unbelievable
the amount of patience and love they exuded. Finally,
my hysteria was calmed by a higher spirit who seemed
to envelop me in love. My guides were instructed to
allow me to return. Despite their pleas to allow them
more time, they were told that at this point, my spirit
would not rest. It was best to let me return, to settle
my spirit, learn further lessons. My pleading won my
return for the time being. I understood before my descent
that my friends and family had lessons that were being
postponed, but they would have to learn the lessons
at some point that my death taught." (Karen
Schaeffer)
"Then I made the decision to come back to Earth. And
I remember that it was such a hard decision. It was
so difficult because everything there was so beautiful
and there was so, so, much love. I had the feeling of
freewill, yet a feeling of duty was present - of obligation.
And the second that I realized that I shot back into
my body." (Brian
Krebs)
"This man was not able to tell us how long this reunion
lasted. He was so awed by his family's health, their
beauty, their radiance and their total acceptance of
this present situation, by their unconditional love.
He made a vow not to touch them, not to join them, but
to re-enter his physical body so that he could share
with the world what he had experienced. It would be
a form of redemption for his two years of trying to
throw his physical life away." (Dr.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)
"During his experience he had seen images of people
he knew ... I wanted to get there but there was just
some part of me that wanted to [pause] go back with
these images ... When I woke up, the first thing I thought
was Oh, God. Thank you. I made it, and I was extremely
happy. (He had been severely depressed before his suicide
attempt.)" (Dr.
Kenneth Ring)
After Sandra shot herself and during her NDE, she was
told that she could remain in the light, provided she
later is reincarnated to re-experience and overcome
all that brought her to the point of suicide. Or she
could be revived to live out rest of her life and overcome
her problems here and now. Obviously, she chose not
to stay in the light so that she could resume her life
and not have to face the same problems in a future life.
(Sandra
Rogers)
"So, in conclusion, nobody forces us to experience a
particular level of bliss we don't want. It appears
from NDE accounts that people are given the choice to:
(a) reincarnate or (b) be revived from death to return
to Earth (c) or experience a particular vibrational
level that we desire and have earned. If we desire to
remain in the physical realm, we are allowed to do so.
But because the core of our being is perfect love and
joy (God), I don't believe we will ever be truly satisfied
until we reunite completely with God and others in the
higher realms of bliss." (Kevin
Williams)
The same person wrote to me this comment:
"Descriptions of heaven do seem overwhelmingly blissful
and simplistic. One cannot be blamed for getting the
impression that the next life is hyper-happy, bright
floaty white and churchy ... I believe many of us, deep
inside, are a bit frightened of a perpetual white happy
Jesus heaven."
Kevin Williams' reply: "The idea of heaven
as being a place where people float on clouds and play
harps is one of the biggest misconceptions about heaven.
It certainly has nothing to do with any NDEs that I
have read. One particular experiencer had the opportunity
to visit many of the heavenly realms that exists on
the other side during his NDE. He stated something that
came to my mind while reading your comment. Here it
is:"
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"I saw the Christian
heaven. We expect it to be a beautiful place,
and you stand in front of the throne, worshipping
forever. I tried it. It is boring! This
is all we are going to do? It is childlike.
I do not mean to offend anyone. Some heavens
are very interesting, and some are very boring.
I found the ancient ones to be more interesting,
like the Native American ones, the Happy Hunting
Grounds. The Egyptians have fantastic ones.
It goes on and on. There are so many of them.
In each of them there is a fractal that is your
particular interpretation, unless you are part
of the group soul that believes in only the
God of a particular religion. Then you are very
close, in the same ball park together. But even
then, each is a little bit different. That is
a part of yourself that you leave there. Death
is about life, not about heaven." (Mellen-Thomas
Benedict)
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"Those who have visited higher afterlife realms state
that the physical realm is but a shadow - a lesser reality
- when compared to the higher heavenly realms. Some
of these realms are described as being far more dynamic
than anything experienced on Earth. In conclusion, the
saying to each his own certainly applies. We always
create our own reality based on our own desires. If
one desires worshipping eternally before the throne,
they will be allowed to do so until they begin to get
the feeling that what they desire is an illusion. For
these reasons I say follow your bliss but be careful
what you wish for because you will probably get what
you ask for." (Kevin
Williams) |
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"If I lived
a billion years more, in my body or yours,
there's not a single experience on Earth
that could ever be as good as being dead.
Nothing."
- Dr. Dianne Morrissey
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