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I was skiing and racing downhill. I was not wearing a helmet because I was sizing the course up and not doing serious downhill racing. The course went into a forest and out onto a jump. When I took the jump, I ran into someone standing in the middle of the gate. We collided head to head and both lost consciousness. This is many years ago and is first time I write about it. I broke my teeth and lost consciousness for 20 minutes. I left my physical body and saw myself lying down in the white snow, surrounded by the contrasting red color of the blood. I went into a tunnel and had a 'once in a lifetime' feeling of peace with the world. I felt no pain. I saw the brightest light and then had a big choice, 'Should I let go?' I was fully aware of what was going on around me. My reaction was to return to my body. I felt a lot of pain from the broken teeth and headache. I woke up in a helicopter going to the hospital. My life went on to build a wonderful family with a loving wife, four magnificent children, and a grandson. The experience clearly changed my life with full certainty of having gone through the afterlife passage and returning. I have never felt a similar peacefulness since that time. Background Information: Gender: Male Date NDE Occurred: 1982 NDE Elements: At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? No. Accident. Direct head injury. Life threatening event, but not clinical death 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? 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? More consciousness and alertness than normal Full level of lucidity and awareness but yet in a coma At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? All during the 20 minutes I was out Were your thoughts speeded up? Faster than usual Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Time seemed to go faster or slower than usual Faster 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. Brightness Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. Big crash Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? Yes, but the facts have not been checked out The experience included: Tunnel Did you pass into or through a tunnel? Yes 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: Darkness The experience included: Unearthly light Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light? An unusually bright light Did you see an unearthly light? Yes Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? No The experience included: Strong emotional tone What emotions did you feel during the experience? Peace until resurrected 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? I felt united or one with the world Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? No Did scenes from your past come back to you? No I saw history from my lifetime history Did scenes from the future come to you? No The experience included: Boundary Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? Yes Did you come to a border or point of no return? I came to a definite conscious decision to return to life 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? Christian- Catholic Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes What importance do you place on your religious/spiritual life after your experience? Moderately important to me What is your religion now? Christian- Catholic 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 Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? No 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? No During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? Yes 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? Uncertain God definitely exists 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? Uncertain 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? Uncertain Did you believe in an afterlife prior to your experience? I was uncertain if an afterlife exists Do you believe in an afterlife after your experience? An afterlife definitely exists Yes A feeling of peace integration, with a different perspective. Definitely a feeling of continuity. Did you fear death prior to your experience? I greatly feared death Do you fear death after your experience? I slightly fear death Were you fearful living your life prior to your experience? Moderately fearful in living my earthly life Were you fearful living your life after your experience? Slightly fearful in living my earthly life Did you believe that our earthly lives are meaningful and significant prior to your experience? Are possibly meaningful and significant 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? Uncertain 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 Unlimited sense of love Were you compassionate after your experience? Greatly compassionate toward others What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Moderate changes in my life I've become more spiritual. Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Uncertain After the NDE: Was the experience difficult to express in words? No 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. Very lucid memory 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 Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? Need to share Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes 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 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? No Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? Maybe emphasize a little more in the time it took to share the experience, for me it took 33 years to tell my story after reading Anita Moorjani. I am afraid to lose lucidity in what really happened. That is why we need to write and tell it now.
Background Information:
Gender: Male
Date NDE Occurred: 1982 NDE Elements:
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? No. Accident. Direct head injury. Life threatening event, but not clinical death
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? 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? More consciousness and alertness than normal Full level of lucidity and awareness but yet in a coma
At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? All during the 20 minutes I was out
Were your thoughts speeded up? Faster than usual
Did time seem to speed up or slow down? Time seemed to go faster or slower than usual Faster
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. Brightness
Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. Big crash
Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere? Yes, but the facts have not been checked out
The experience included: Tunnel
Did you pass into or through a tunnel? Yes
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: Darkness
The experience included: Unearthly light
Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light? An unusually bright light
Did you see an unearthly light? Yes
Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? No
The experience included: Strong emotional tone
What emotions did you feel during the experience? Peace until resurrected
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? I felt united or one with the world
Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? No
Did scenes from your past come back to you? No I saw history from my lifetime history
Did scenes from the future come to you? No
The experience included: Boundary
Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure? Yes
Did you come to a border or point of no return? I came to a definite conscious decision to return to life 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? Christian- Catholic
Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes
What importance do you place on your religious/spiritual life after your experience? Moderately important to me
What is your religion now? Christian- Catholic
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
Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice? No
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? No
During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? Yes
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? Uncertain God definitely exists
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? Uncertain
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? Uncertain
Did you believe in an afterlife prior to your experience? I was uncertain if an afterlife exists
Do you believe in an afterlife after your experience? An afterlife definitely exists Yes A feeling of peace integration, with a different perspective. Definitely a feeling of continuity.
Did you fear death prior to your experience? I greatly feared death
Do you fear death after your experience? I slightly fear death
Were you fearful living your life prior to your experience? Moderately fearful in living my earthly life
Were you fearful living your life after your experience? Slightly 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? Uncertain
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 Unlimited sense of love
Were you compassionate after your experience? Greatly compassionate toward others
What life changes occurred in your life after your experience? Moderate changes in my life I've become more spiritual.
Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Uncertain After the NDE:
Was the experience difficult to express in words? No
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. Very lucid memory 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
Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you? Need to share
Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes
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
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? No
Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? Maybe emphasize a little more in the time it took to share the experience, for me it took 33 years to tell my story after reading Anita Moorjani. I am afraid to lose lucidity in what really happened. That is why we need to write and tell it now.
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