Virginie R NDE

Experience Description

I left my body when my heart stopped beating and I flatlined.

I was rising up to the level of the ceiling and I saw my body in the intensive care room. I went into a tunnel. On each side of the tunnel, I saw deceased members of my family. They made fun of me. I heard very soft sounds and saw radiant colors that didn't dazzle me.

I was advancing towards a very bright, white light at the end of a tunnel. My little brother Philippe, who died 12 years before, took me by the hand and was smiling at me while taking me in front of the light.

A strong, but not nasty voice, asked me why I wanted to die. I answered that the absence of my little brother was too hard for me, and that my mother felt resentful towards me because of Philippe's death. Phillip died of leukemia at the age of 7 and I was not compatible as a marrow donor.

I said that I took all the medications that I could find in the medicine chest, and that my mother didn't do anything to stop me. I know that it was God talking to me, as he said that I had to go back to my family, that I would give birth to six children, and that I still had a mission to accomplish. I wanted so much to stay there because I was surrounded by unconditional love. But, I saw my lifeless body as well as the doctors doing everything to reanimate me. I brutally came back into my body through the top of my head and I opened the eyes.

I was crying a lot as I didn't want to come back.


Background Information:

Gender: Female

Date NDE Occurred: 1989

NDE Elements:

At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event? Yes Suicide attempt Clinical death (cessation of breathing or heart function or brain function) I had been swallowing 120 pills with some alcohol.

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 I saw universal knowledge.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? When my heart stopped beating.

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. Everything seemed to accelerate and to slow down at the same time. I had no notion of time anymore.

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. It was very developed. I saw 360°.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience. Much more developed.

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

The experience included: Passing into or through a tunnel

Did you pass into or through a tunnel? Yes This tunnel was dark at the beginning, then it became lighter the more I approached the white light.

The experience included: Presence of deceased persons

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

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings? Yes Deceased members of my family and the dog of my little brother.

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 It was the whiteness of this light. It was soft and warm.

The experience included:

An unearthly landscape or city

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world? A clearly mystical or unearthly realm. A world filled with love and benevolence towards me.

The experience included: Strong emotional tone

What emotions did you feel during the experience? An immense joy and an enormous love and peace.

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

The experience included: Special knowledge or purpose

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything? Everything about the universe I saw universal knowledge. I had the impression to suddenly know everything.

The experience included: Life Review

Did scenes from your past come back to you? My past flashed before me, out of my control. I saw my complete childhood and adolescence scrolling before me. I saw the day when I got my drivers license and my first job.

The experience included: Future Visions

Did scenes from the future come to you? Scenes from my personal future My children. Then the good that I would do around me.

The experience included: Boundary

Did you reach a Boundary or limiting physical structure? Yes When God talked to me, I couldn't cross a threshold. The one of my going back.

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

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- Nothing in particular- Secular unaffiliated. I believed that God exists, but was not convinced by religions.

Have your religious practices changed since your experience? Yes Before I never prayed. Now I pray every evening.

What importance do you place on your religious/spiritual life after your experience? Greatly important to me

What is your religion now? Christian- Other Christian God talked to me during my NDE

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. My parents forced me to be a Catholic. But I saw very well that the sense of religions is wrong. Only God exists as well as the angels.

Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience? Yes I know that God exists and that he loves all of us. The

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 heard a Male voice.

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

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.)? Yes I saw Buddha.

During your experience, did you gain information about premortal existence? Yes I saw myself being hit by a car in 1929. Then I was a German soldier, killed in 1944, in a French landscape close to an electric post.

During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness? Yes. As this unconditional Love without any judgment is presenting this universal knowledge.

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? Yes It's God.

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 I saw myself getting more human and having an intellectual gift.

Did you believe that our earthly lives Are meaningful and significant prior to your experience? Are not meaningful and significant

During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life? Yes The trials of life allow us to grow spiritually.

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 definitely exists Yes I found my little brother.

Did you fear death prior to your experience? I greatly 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 prior to your experience? Are not 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? Yes There was no judgment of my deed, but much compassion.

During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships? Yes The trials of life allow us to grow spiritually.

Were you compassionate prior to your experience? Slightly 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? Large changes in my life. I had six children. I had a job in tourism, then I got breast cancer. Now after being healed, I'm a volunteer in an association visiting sick people in hospitals.

Have your relationships changed specifically because of your experience? Yes I'm no more haughty and temperamental. I have a patience without limits and I rarely get angry.

After the NDE:

Was the experience difficult to express in words? Yes The colors and the light beings were brilliant but not dazzling. The musical songs resembled very soft classical music. The love I felt was immense.

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. I can see this experience again, as if it happened yesterday.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience? No

Have you ever shared this experience with others? Yes I was telling it to the doctors that reanimated me, but they said that it was my brain inventing my whole experience. My present husband believes me.

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. Because I became another woman. Much more listening to my neighbor.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience now? Experience was definitely real. Afterwards I became aware that other people experienced the same thing during cardiac arrest or while in a severe accident.

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience? Yes A CVA in 2015. I had a cardiac arrest and saw the deceased of my family again. God was at the end of this Passing into or through a tunnel, that I seen for the second time, and he told me that it wasn't the moment yet to join my loved ones.

Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience? There really is another life after our physical death.

Are there any other questions that we could ask to help you communicate your experience? Why doesn't the medical profession take us seriously? Why did I have to see a psychiatrist who had me admit into a psychiatric facility, because I discussed my experience with the doctors reanimating me? Why are religions all saying that this subject is taboo? Is it possible to create associations all over the world, including small towns, for experiencers? In France, father François Brune is dealing with this subject, and the Catholic religion didn't appreciate his stand for the experiencers, and it's impossible for me to get his address and phone number. Do you believe that it could be possible to form this kind of associations everywhere in the world?