The Near Death Experience

What is the near death experience? Some people have labeled it as when you are clinically dead but are resuscitated. When the person is being resuscitated they have visions of going into the light or seeing friends waiting to take them to the next world. Even religious figures like angels or significant deities are inviting them. Some are told they have to go back and others just wake up.

The experts who labeled this phenomenon are incorrect. That should be called the death experience, as the person was dead but brought back. Maybe they could change it to the resurrection experience. The name will probably not change, but I want you to become aware that there is a different near death experience. The near death experience is so much more life changing than that.

So what do I mean by having a near death experience? The real near death experience is when you see death coming and you avoid it, when death is coming for you and misses. To see death coming for you makes you have a lot of instantaneous internal changes. You irrevocably learn what is important to you; you do not see your life flash before your eyes, but you do have a one nano-second review of all your regrets. A very enlightening experience, to say the least.

Now I am not belittling those who have had the former experience, but the fact is they did die. They were dead and then resurrected. However, I do wish to explain the latter near death experience as it will greatly add to peoples understanding.

A large number of veterans have had near death experiences. Many of them more than one. When people ask them what it was like, it is too hard to explain. It is hard to explain because it is emotional, a feeling, and the person uses the statement "I don't want to talk about it". There are two reasons for this: first, it is very possible that the ask-er would not understand the explanation, and second, the answer will sound so weird it may open the ask-ee to ridicule.

How do you explain a feeling? How do you explain an emotion? Sure you can add words together to try to form a vision of a feeling or emotion. Then again how can you create a vision of an emotion? So, you see, words would be just too inadequate.