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Pour plus d'informations sur le livre de Muriel, cliquez ici. Following a removal of my uterus, the day after the operation, I felt very tired and fuzzy. While I was checking the container that retrieves the result of the drain, I realized that it was filled with blood. I had time to alert the staff. They ran over and I noted that my condition was deemed very worrisome.The first thing I felt was one of well-being that came over me. Then I saw a white, but not blinding light, intensified. The more light appeared, the better I felt. The light eventually enveloped me like a sheet. As it did, I started to perceive a figure standing at the end of my bed, like a mirage. It was a very tall man who was about 2 meters and who stared at me with eyes as blue as the sky, an intense and deep look that penetrates the soul. This man was of great beauty, his face illuminated by perfect features. He sported a short beard, his hair mingled in the white light.I fell in LOVE before this being of light. A Love I had never met before (At I write this, I'm crying. Despite the years, that event always moves me just as much). He wore on his left arm a large open book and a pencil or a pen; I saw this object as 'living.' He intensified his focus on my eyes and asked me a question:'What do you want?' he asked in a soft, audible voice.'I want time to kiss my 5 children, the time to tell my family how much I love them.' 'What do you want in your life?''I would like to understand my mistakes; why so many trials? I would like to understand nature, science, love.'The man slowly wrote down all my wishes in his books, and said, 'I'll show you your life.'(It still makes me cry ...)I saw my mistakes. I saw trees, nature, oceans, sky, animals as they passed in front of my eyes. I understood, or rather I learned as in a lesson; all my senses were awakened and my entire being reacted. In fact, all was LOVE; even mathematics (which was really not for me!) I felt like I was reintroduced to happiness, LOVE, empathy, etc. I was given a mission with battered women because unfortunately, I was one of those women abused by their husbands. I had no notion of how long both of us spent LOVING one another. It was an unconditional Love without physical contact. It was through all thoughts; in all tenderness, and maybe in all simplicity.The white light dissipated, then I came back to 'the world of the living' with some violence and pain. I was again transferred directly to the operating room where I decided to let go of a body that was painful to me. I felt myself pop out through the top of my head. I hovered over this body that I no longer wanted as I saw the medical team busy itself in silence. The light reappeared, I followed her but saw nothing. I heard again a question, 'What do you want ?' I chose to come back to my body although the temptation to continue on this path of Love was attractive.
Background Information:
Gender: Female
Date NDE Occurred: JUIN 2009 NDE Elements:
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Surgery-related. Illness, trauma or other condition not considered life threatening. Significant hemorrhage
How do you consider the content of your experience? Entirely pleasant
The experience included: Out of body experience
Did you feel separated from your body? Uncertain 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? More consciousness and alertness than normal I was much more receptive and attentive.
At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? When the being of light appeared
Were your thoughts speeded up? Incredibly fast
Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning The notion of time did NOT exist!
Were your senses more vivid than usual? Incredibly more vivid
Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. My sight was only focused on what was happening at the end of my bed, at the end of my feet.
Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. My hearing and my sight reacted only to that Light and the Being standing by my side. Nothing else existed.
Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? No
Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No
Did you see any beings in your experience? No
Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings? No
The experience included: Unearthly light
Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light? A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin
Did you see an unearthly light? Yes A light that was very white, but not blinding. The light was as if it were alive.
Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? A clearly mystical or unearthly realm I was flying above regions such as a forest, a savannah, and beings of all nationalities. I was, at the same time, a spectator and a student, I was learning as I flew.
The experience included: Strong emotional tone
What emotions did you feel during the experience? LOVE and EMPATHY
Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? Incredible peace or pleasantness
Did you have a feeling of joy? Happiness
Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? I felt united or one with the world
The experience included: Special knowledge or purpose
Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? Everything about the universe Everything about the suffering of plants, animals, oceans, but strangely, much less about human beings.
The experience included: Life review
Did scenes from your past come back to you? No Yes and no. The advice I got was that LOVE would help me, to trust in myself and a great departure was to be foreseen.
The experience included: Awareness of the future
Did scenes from the future come to you? Scenes from my personal future I knew that my life was going to change. I saw the ocean, sails, freedom, and a mission to help battered women.
The experience included: Boundary
Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? 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 pulled down by the world of the living. God, Spiritual and Religion:
What importance did you place on your religious/spiritual life prior to your experience? Not important to me
What was your religion prior to your experience? Unaffiliated- Atheist
Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Uncertain I have allowed myself to believe in all religions, since it is LOVE that predominates, in any case.
What importance do you place on your religious/spiritual life after your experience? Greatly important to me
What is your religion now? No comment depuis, toutes les religions me parlent
Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was both consistent and not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience
Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes I made radical decisions about my life, without fear. I have discovered the world of religions and have a great tolerance for each.
The experience included: Presence of unearthly beings
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 That being was very tall and resembled Jesus.
Did you see deceased or religious spirits? No
Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)? No
During your experience, did you gain information about premortal existence? Uncertain j'existais mais j'appartenais à une masse de personnalité, j'étais MOI et TOUT LE MONDE
During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? No
Did you believe in the existence of God prior to your experience? I was uncertain if God exists
During your experience, did you gain information about the existence of God? No
Do you believe in the existence of God after your experience? God probably exists Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:
During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? Yes A message of hope
Did you believe that our earthly lives are meaningful and significant prior to your experience? Are possibly meaningful and significant
During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? Yes
Did you believe in an afterlife prior to your experience? An afterlife probably exists
Do you believe in an afterlife after your experience? An afterlife probably exists Uncertain Since I did not go to the end of that Light, I can't really state that there is LIFE after death. However, I feel an OBLIGATION, when I mention my experience to people, to say (almost with authority) that this happiness can be cultivated while LIVING, without going through such an experience.
Did you fear death prior to your experience? I moderately feared death
Do you fear death after your experience? I do not fear death
Were you fearful living your life prior to your experience? Slightly fearful in living my earthly life
Were you fearful living your life after your experience? Not fearful in living my earthly life
Did you believe that our earthly lives are meaningful and significant after your experience? Are meaningful and significant
Did you gain information about how to live our lives? No Love without judgment, or any expectation that it will be returned.
During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? No
Were you compassionate prior to your experience? Moderately compassionate toward others
During your experience, did you gain information about love? Yes
Were you compassionate after your experience? Greatly compassionate toward others
What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? I have become much more compassionate and understanding, and much more patient, and attuned to human beings. Concerning nature, I'm pretty sure that I feel the pain of trees, plants, and animals.
Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes I avoid superficial people, or if I can't avoid them, I let them know, as diplomatically as possible, that they should ponder the meaning of their lives. My life changed completely. After the NDE:
Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes I cry every time I relate this experience. I think the people in front of me do not understand this emotion 'from elsewhere.'
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 more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience. Every time I relate this experience, I again enter a world of Peace and Love. I cry, and as years pass, it does not change in any way; the feelings that remain as sharp as the first time.
Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Uncertain From the youngest age, I was very sensitive and could feel and see the future of someone close. I often felt I was communicating with dead people in my family.
Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? LOVE is the most valuable thing.
Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes It took me at least two years to tell someone. But each time I do, I still feel as many emotions and I avoid telling too much, because it really shakes me up and people don’t always understand.
Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Uncertain Just a little bit because the media did not mention it much.
What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real What I felt was so deeply anchored into me that there was no doubt about what I had just gone through.
What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real I stand by what I said.
At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? No
Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? These questions were complete.
At the same time that the nurse noticed my state, I suddenly saw at the end of my bed a very white light that seemed alive. Then a silhouette took shape. At the same time, my abdominal pain vanished. I felt total well-being. The silhouette was very beautiful, tall gentleman. He appeared with a big book that he was carrying open on his left arm. He was at least 2 meters tall. He had long, fair colored hair framing a harmonious face. He had a deep look coming from his pale blue eyes. The gentleman had a beard; his outfit looked like a big white coat or a tunic. He emanated enormous Love and understanding. Telepathically I heard his first question, ‘Who would you like me to inform in case of . . .?’ He questioned me kindly. I replied, ‘Inform my mother, she doesn't know that I'm not well.’ He asked, ‘What do you wish of life?’ I replied, ‘I so much would like to tell my children that I love them! That they should love life. I'm so unhappy.’ He said, ‘Look at your life, see how you can evolve; feel your emotions.’ I then saw part of my life passing by. This was mainly my fears of my violent alcoholic husband, maybe my lack of courage to face the rest. Then I felt strength that I didn't know I had. I felt like a little brave soldier in myself and the desire to make a 360° turn. I felt like the doors of my new life were just asking to open. I felt LOVE, an unconditional love, a state of grace. I had no notion of time passing. I remember that at the moment of coming back to this world of the living that this gentleman who was full of compassion disappeared ‘vaporously’ with the extreme white brightness. Each time when a blood bag was influencing my body, my mind went back to the state of bliss. Once roughly stabilized, I found myself in a surgery room, lying flat, with the arms tied up crosswise. I felt that I had to make a decision. The anesthetist saw my tears and assured me that they would do everything possible to get me out of trouble. My only reply was tears, running down my cheeks. I was able to tell him, ‘I want to continue to Love.’ (While writing those few lines, I'm still crying.) I then felt letting go of this sick envelope that was hindering me. I think that my 'soul' found an exit through my breast; I saw the team silently preparing the instruments in haste. I was above the big lamp that lighted the table. Time didn't count anymore. The light came back, I was bathed in it, alone but not abandoned. I didn't see a tunnel. I took the decision with full determination to come back to my body. I felt myself gliding inside through my head. It was very painful. My mother came fast to my side, without anybody from the hospital having informed her. She told me that a strange feeling had stopped her in her everyday work and that she had pestered my father to bring her quickly to my side. She felt that I wasn't well. My father was stunned by such determination and did as she demanded.
Date NDE Occurred: juin 2008 NDE Elements:
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Surgery-related Life threatening event, but not clinical death Following a hysterectomy, I felt strong pain in my belly and I was really tired. I looked at the catheter drain at my right side and saw that the bag was filling with blood too fast. I had time to inform the medical staff. They noticed the state I was in and then everything happened very fast. There was a palpable tension of all the nurses and doctors taking turns at my side. I was getting more and more tired. I heard a nurse saying to one of her colleagues, ‘We will lose her...her blood pressure is down to 4/12...’ I have a rare blood type AB+
Did you feel separated from your body? Yes I felt myself floating above the big lamp that lights the table. The only person I questioned shortly was the anesthetist. I told her what I saw and felt. I told her of the presence of a tall man at my side. She assured me that no such person was at my side, and concerning the operating room, that what I perceived was correct but that I was supposed being under anesthetic. She asked me if I wanted to talk about it, but I didn't want to. 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? More consciousness and alertness than normal I was able to distinguish my priorities, at the most. Which included: to listening to this being rather than to fight and panic.
At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? At the moment when this man appeared at the end of my bed.
Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning The moments of 'resurrection' were due to the fact that blood bags were given and brought me back shortly, and when I understood that there was nothing to fear of my second state, I just let myself glide into it more easily.
Were your senses more vivid than usual? More vivid than usual
Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. Before this encounter, I felt myself dying slowly. I had great fear. Then came the moment when I let go in safety and Love. Everything got bearable and even beyond that.
Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. I heard the medical staff. It resonated like crystal, no echoes, no interference or noises from the corridor, I would say rather sharp and crystalline sounds.
Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? Yes, and the facts have been checked out
Did you see an unearthly light? Yes 'Evanescent' light, it was almost 'alive', white non-blinding, soft, enveloping, physical.
Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? A clearly mystical or unearthly realm
What emotions did you feel during the experience? The strongest emotion was LOVE, calm, assurance of a better future, DESIRE in the sense of the word.
Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? Everything about the universe I felt the suffering of nature, also its life, I understood animals and plants; like a mission that would come.
Did scenes from your past come back to you? I remembered many past events I never doubted it would be like doubting a divine word; I'm sure of what happened without any doubt. But like a treasure I kept it a long time for myself.
Did scenes from the future come to you? Scenes from my personal future I saw myself like a soldier, like a messenger, it would be my duty to inform about the power, which was to help me to overcome my little poor life by any means.
Did you come to a border or point of no return? I came to a barrier that I was not permitted to cross; or was sent back against my will Unpretentious, but I knew that I had to finish my life on earth, in proving to myself that I was strong and committed to promote Love on EARTH! God, Spiritual and Religion:
What importance did you place on your religious/spiritual life prior to your experience? Slightly important to me
What was your religion prior to your experience? Do not know je n'avais aucun avis sur mes choix religieux.
Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Uncertain I still didn't adopt a religion. Anyhow my conclusion is the following: In whatever religion, it's LOVE that is the motor of it. So let’s be HAPPY AND LOVE EACH OTHER!
What is your religion now? Do not know Aujourd'hui, je crois en une forme de force émanant de la Nature. en une protection divine (quelque soi sa provenance). Je suis plus réceptive aux paraboles religieuses d'où qu'elles proviennent ...
Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs? Content that was both consistent and not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience I had no religion, partly repressed the messages of beyond. I feared death, suffering, and was not consistent with all my past and unfounded truths, I think that it's in the simplicity of acceptation that I succeeded to find my ways of life.
Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes I'm much more receptive to religion, whatever kind of religion.
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
Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)? Uncertain The being that I could meet, looked, after all, like Jesus.
During your experience, did you gain information about premortal existence? Uncertain I covered part of my life as a woman and mother that was before my experience.
During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? Uncertain I was always very sensitive with the paranormal without wanting it or working on it. I perceive messages of deceased persons, or people in danger, without being able to control their happening. So this appearance seemed in some way normal to me, but still very intense during the experience.
During your experience, did you gain information about the existence of God? Yes As I approached this experience, which was in a rather supernatural climate, even religious, with the encounter with the being appearing at the end of the bed.
Do you believe in the existence of God after your experience? God definitely exists Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion:
During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? Yes To open the doors that seem closed and let the light come in through them.
Did you believe that our earthly lives are meaningful and significant prior to your experience? Are probably meaningful and significant
During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? Yes The choice to continue towards the light was indicating interior peace, fullness, and the return towards terrestrial life: pain, but also the chance to come back to it with a knowledge and healthy knowing’s for leaving one or more messages of PEACE around me.
Do you believe in an afterlife after your experience? An afterlife definitely exists Uncertain Only the fact that we have the choice at this precise moment, or that we are given the choice to come back to EARTH or leave it.
Were you fearful living your life prior to your experience? Moderately fearful in living my earthly life
Did you gain information about how to live our lives? Yes Never to feel ALONE. Getting to know that beyond our families, we are accompanied and guided.
During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? Yes See 'meaning or purpose' response above.
Were you compassionate prior to your experience? Greatly compassionate toward others
During your experience, did you gain information about love? Yes Of course! But it is there that I also lack the words. It's unconditional LOVE, a look without any judgment. I don't know how to describe this state.
What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Large changes in my life. I like to go to mass from time to time, reading a book about unbelievable destinies, about matters focusing on psychology. I always loved nature, but now I feel the vibrations of the trees, the suffering of a plant or an animal, I'm sure to get in contact with them
Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes I feel stronger, I feel protected, what caused to exchange my life, which was full of violence, for a life on a sailboat in the West Indies. My relationships with others are special, as today I have the impression having proved to my children and parents that I loved them, and now I have this urge to travel the world, to explore nature with no accountability towards anybody. I have this strange feeling that I had left there, where I had to go at the time of this experience. But I try to understand my mission on this earth, if there really there is a mission. After the NDE:
Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes I cannot find the correct adjectives to describe the man and this evanescent light.
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 more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience At the beginning I didn't talk about, and now I find myself years later, talking quite freely around me except to people being mentally fragile, and as if the experience was yesterday, it's inscribed in me like a tattoo on my soul.
Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Yes Premonitory dreams, I always felt being a receiver of messages from deceased people, often messages of love and forgiveness. Today this has intensified.
Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? The appearance of the divine being, the feeling of universal Love, and the courage of one’s own deeds.
Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes I succeeded to talk about it one year after, first to my family, they believed me and listened, as my mother also has a gift of 'clairvoyance', if I can say so. Around myself, I must have been convincing as nobody opposed my saying. But nobody surrounding me had experienced such an experience. In fact I influenced many battered women, or who had been unhappy in their lives. I wrote an autobiography honoring this experience. It will be published this year.
Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Yes But I was doubting, with thoughts like, wouldn't it be chemical, the body wouldn't it be going into a chemical phase in order to avoid pain? Or other questions, more mechanical than spiritual.
What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened? Experience was definitely real For me it is quite real, and the concern with that is that I often feel like being in doubles, the terrestrial part and the one that is no more terrestrial, I rather prefer to name it astral. I'm there without being there. It is a situation that sometimes is embarrassing me in front of others; but that I nevertheless love to take refuge.
What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real
At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? Yes I'm giving you the name of my autobiography: 'LE GALET' (The pebble), which will be published with ’Editions du Menhir' and you will notice all the doors that opened for me, to make room for my new life, following that experience.
Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience? I don't know if many people lived such an experience, but I have the impression that I had been chosen by this Man of LOVE, in order to make a good being of me. I would so much love to meet people having experienced it, and whose life toppled over in a better dimension. I just tell you: HURRAY FOR LIFE! Let’s not fear death.
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