Paulene NDE

Experience Description:

I knew I was taking my last breath for I could feel the air become thicker with smoke than with air (due to the fire). Once I accepted this was it, I felt great peace and everything from my past flashed before my eyes in a matter of seconds and was overcome by the presence of God. When I say God, I say the most beautiful love my heart has ever felt and the feeling got stronger as the body got weaker. I was in no pain physically or emotionally, and as I crossed, which was like blinking or taking a breath, from one world into the next and it was busy with things happening. Everybody was doing their own bit but in complete peace within themselves and with each other. It was so nice it was quite noisy but not with chaos like here.

But there is an order and the knowing of something greater is being built for God and his children. Everyone and we were naked but the naked is a covering that is so beautiful without lust. I say this because this is what I felt when I looked around. I was just the same not even burnt but I knew on earth I was burnt. There were people there without flesh that glided along but they seemed more aware of me than the others did. There were trees and a huge wooden Buddha. Then almost like the next blink, I was in a huge glass house almost like something you see at the botanical gardens like the greenhouse. It was the hospital but not the physical hospital a spiritual hospital. I was led to a room that was white and I lay down, on what I don't know, but I couldn't lie there I wanted to walk around and meet people. Part of me went and met people but part of me stayed in the white room. Someone looked over me and thought nice thoughts of me and for me. Then again, like a blink, I am inside a room full of books with shelves of them in many rooms but everything was wood and smelt natural and clean. Then Martin Luther King entered the room and asked me to sit down so I sat in a leather chair quite comfy but I knew I was in this room to be told something important. (I can't tell you what it was because I really can't remember as I think I'm am not supposed to.) He moved his ladder across the shelf of books climbed the ladder and pulled down a book opened it and placed it on the table.

He talked to me, it was something I had to agree to and it had something to do with something I had to endure and do back on earth. He asked me questions and explained something really deep. I agreed but I remember going (oh no this is going to be hard). He gave me some words of encouragement, then he wrote something in my book, said a few more words to me and then put the book back. Then I remember waking up in hospital.

Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date NDE Occurred: 10 march 1998

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Accident Life threatening event, but not clinical death House fire.

How do you consider the content of your experience? Wonderful

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

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? Yes.

Were your thoughts speeded up? Neither

Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Neither

Were your senses more vivid than usual? Incredibly more so

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

Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? Yes, and the facts have been checked out

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? No

Did you see any beings in your experience? Sensed their presence

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings? Yes

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? No

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? Clearly mystical or unearthly realm

What emotions did you feel during the experience? Great love.

Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness? Incredible peace or pleasantness

Did you have a feeling of joy? Incredible joy

Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe? United, one with the world

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? Everything about the universe

Did scenes from your past come back to you? Past flashed before me, out of my control

Did scenes from the future come to you? From personal future

Did you come to a border or point of no return? A barrier I was not permitted to cross; or 'sent back' to life involuntarily

God, Spiritual and Religion:

What was your religion prior to your experience? Conservative/fundamentalist none

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes

What is your religion now? Liberal I love Jesus

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? Definite being, or voice clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin

Did you see deceased or religious spirits? Sensed their presence

Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion

During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose? Yes

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes Yes and no, for to convey the feelings I felt is hard but what I seen is easier to explain.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? Yes

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience? Uncertain I always knew I was going to die young but never knew I'd come back.

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

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? Uncertain

Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? I'd like to talk to someone about what has happened to other people in regards to spiritual gifts. Also in regards to feeling the other side around you, constantly all levels of them too not just nice ones. Also in regards to this question: Does anyone else out there also feel the other side around them, see them at times, and hear them also just like they did when they were there? Likewise, do they get home sick for that peace that exists on the other side?