Gary G NDE

Experience Description

I woke up with a headache, so I took two pills.

I then went to work, which is one and a half miles from my house through some double-S bends where many accidents occur. I went into the wrong lane an ended up against the curb. I tried to steer away from the curb for about 5 seconds.

Then, I felt like I wasn't in my body. I was in blackness but with hundreds of sparkly lights. I was a little scared because I could see my hunched-up body and knew that I'd passed over. To my left and in a field, there were many people. I saw my grandma and her sister who had passed in the previous year. The colours were so vivid! In front of me was a medium-sized stream with a white bridge over it. Jesus was standing on the other side of the bridge. There was a huge, sunlight OBJECT shining down on his left side. But it didn't hurt me to look at it.

Meanwhile, a man stopped and ran over to my body. He cradled my head in his lap, telling me to wake up.

I heard in my head, Jesus asking me, 'Gary, would you like to stay for eternal peace and happiness or go back?" I thought, 'I'd like to go back.' I floated straight back into my prone body while the gentleman was still rocking me.


Background Information:

Gender: Male

Date NDE Occurred: 1978/79

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Auto accident

How do you consider the content of your experience? Entirely pleasant

Did you feel separated from your body? Yes. I clearly left my body and existed outside it

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness? Normal consciousness and alertness. I saw both sides, the earth and the other side, at the same time.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? As soon as I was through the blackness

Were your thoughts speeded up? No

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning. I don't think time exists over there. I have no idea how long I was out of my body over there.

Were your senses More vivid than usual? No

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. very good

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. very good

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere, as if by ESP? No

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No

Did you see any beings in your experience? I actually saw them

Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light? No

Did you see an unearthly light? Yes I saw a beautiful, white light in the sky

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? A clearly mystical or unearthly realm. Heaven? I have no idea. But it was clearly a higher earth-type place.

What emotions did you feel during the experience? scared

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? No

Did you have a feeling of joy? No

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? No

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? No

Did scenes from your past come back to you? No

Did scenes from the future come to you? No

Did you come to a border or point of no return? I came to a definite conscious decision to return to life. I was scared my mother would have been extremely upset.

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Atheist

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes If an experience like this doesn't change you, then there's something wrong with you.

What is your religion now? No answer.

Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was entirely not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience. I was a young atheist, not believing in anything. But seeing what I did in my experience changed everything

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes my outlook changed and got the better afterwards

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly origin. I stood before Jesus

Did you see deceased or religious spirits? I actually saw them

During your experience, did you gain information about premortal existence? No

During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? Yes There was a field. There were trees at the end of the field. There were dead relatives who had passed over before me. The scene is hard to put into words

During your experience, did you gain information about the existence of God? Yes I saw Jesus

Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:

During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? No

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? No

During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife? An afterlife definitely exists. To me, our body is a vessel. So when it's our time, we go back home through the veil that separates us from this realm.

Did you gain information about how to live our lives? No

During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? No

During your experience, did you gain information about love? No

What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Moderate changes in my life

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? No

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? No because despite what happened, I was allowed to come back.

How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience? I remember the experience as accurately as other life events that occurred around the time of the experience

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Yes I did discover healing afterwards. But having seen spirit since the age of 10, I consider it normal.

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? Knowing that there's no such thing as death. Seeing my two relatives and seeing Jesus.

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes I only started to tell people if ghosts or anything spiritual came up in conversation. This was after reading Elizabeth Taylor's experiences of her NDES. At the time, I would only explain it to those who had NDEs

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? No

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real. Wow.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real. It's one experience I am never going to forget.

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? No

Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience? I look forward to sharing this amazing thing so people can read about what I went through