Highlights from The International Association for Near-Death Studies’ Conference – Part II
The “high hum of the universe” is how Dr. Cheryl Mackin described the alternate dimension she entered during her three Near Death Experiences. She saw “exhilarated” light beings. They were part of the broader brilliant light, yet somehow distinct from it.
As so many other Near Death Experiencers (NDErs), Dr. Macklin described the sense of love as beyond anything we know on earth. Feeling embraced by deep peace and acceptance within all-encompassing love was expressed equally by those who upon return remained atheists, as well as those who profess a belief in a higher power.
Imagine there are worlds around us, alternate dimensions that we don’t normally see. Yet some have accessed them without the help of drugs, and only through something such as peak states of meditation, or a near death state.
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It turns out that near death experiences are far more common than we might think. “In a near-death episode, a person is either clinically dead, near death, or in a situation where death is likely or expected.” *
These peak experiences usually result in profound psychological and even physical change. Whether children or adults, NDErs typically return with a sense of oneness with all life. And they insist that all lives have meaning.
But what about tough lives, the ones that don’t look like we think they should?
In her opening address to the International Association of Near Death Studies, the renowned Dr. P.M.H. Atwater entranced listeners with the story of two young women in Idaho, one who survived death and the other who died violently in a drunk driving accident. The survivor returned from her near death experience with startling information: she’d learned that the girls had made a contract with each other before birth.
One had never had a violent death and felt she needed to have this experience. The other incarnated to help her do that. That was the reason for their incarnation.
Edgar Cayce, possibly the most documented psychic in history, also spoke to this issue. For example, in more than one reading, he said a child who died from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), had intentionally prearranged a short life because that was all that soul needed.
In another reading, a family treating a sick child was told that their souls had prearranged these circumstances for the learning and compassion it would provide all involved.
What you chose as a soul, may seem unimaginable to you once you’re in human form and forget all else exists. If in the eternal, you were promised double progress during a lifetime just by experiencing a particular circumstance, wouldn’t you accept it?
Remember, to a soul, human lifetime looks like the blink of an eye. In the pre-birth state, you’re still consciously connected to the higher loving forces, and the body (which means so much to us on earth) seems relatively unimportant, and certainly temporary. Like trying on costumes, or acting a part in a play. Consciousness is unlimited and swift.
Once incarnated, we feel an inner longing for something more. Maybe we miss that sense of love and belonging that our body consciousness has filtered out.
Here we’re bombarded into thinking that more is what someone else has, a better car, fame, money, a Kardashian sister, etc.
Science tells us that our eyes filter out a great deal of the the universe. One example: we don’t see anywhere near the same range of colors as bees. It’s all there, we just don’t see it.
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Robert Schwartz, author of: Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born, was born into an alcoholic family in which beatings and humiliation were standard.
Life was a struggle until working with several powerful psychics, he came to see that in the pre-birth state he’d chosen his family. Once he saw himself as an orchestrator of his destiny, rather than its victim, he found forgiveness for himself, and others.
Anger slipped away. Now he believes he has consciously completed relationships and cycles begun well before this incarnation.
“Born to a family that doesn’t love you can sound exciting to a soul,” proclaimed Dr. Cheryl Mackin in her IANDS’ talk. “On this plane, the fleshed out human being would never have chosen that.”
A Wonderland of Love
At the outset I said Dr. Macklin’s Near Death Experiences allowed her to tune into what she called “the high hum of the universe.” She further described this higher frequency as “a wonderland of love.”
In writing this article I tried to find alternate words for love and found few to fit the bill. I thought of unconditional positive regard, and agape, (which the Thesaurus views as ajar).
It reminds me how Eskimos have myriads of words for snow, depicting all its different conditions and features, and yet we have so few to distinguish love, the most core ingredient to our lives and our ability to thrive.
However, not every NDEr experiences bliss. Some people report hellish NDEs; but the majority of what I’ve heard coincide with what I’ve depicted here.
In my own case, I felt a force, gentle but powerful, hold me back as the car I was in careened through a building. (Not only did people not bother with seat belts then, airbags were still a thing of the future.)
Your takeaway?
There’s a preponderance of data (see Kimberly Clark-Sharp’s video below) to support this Near Death phenomena. It tells us that the world exists well beyond what we see.
Angels, beings of light, complete acceptance, a true home–all things the soul seeks (or you might say, remembers)–are routinely found. “We are not alone,” those who died and come back say. “We are protected.” If it’s true for them, then surely it’s reassurance for us all.
Notes from the Near Death Experience Conference – Part 1
Update:
I think you’ll enjoy this short video:
Watch Kimberly Clark-Sharp’s Near Death Discovery
In the blink of an eye, my pages were covered with blood spatter:
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