NDE Video · Jul 8, 2016 · 66K views
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What NDEs say
We come to Earth because struggle teaches us about love in a way that being immersed in love cannot. This is a classroom where absence sharpens what presence means.
Heaven is home, but home doesn't teach you what you need to know. One person who died four times said we learn far more here than we can there, that pain and joy teach us about love and goodness by experiencing the lack of it 1. Another described the other side as love so intense that your best day on Earth, multiplied a million times, wouldn't come close, yet even she said this is a classroom, a stop on the way home 2. The lesson requires the contrast.
Multiple people describe Earth the same way: a laboratory 3, a place where we apply what we already know 3, where one test follows another but also one joy follows another . We come here many times, they say, because the material world teaches something the spiritual world cannot . The absence of love, experienced here, sharpens our understanding of it in a way that being soaked in it never would.
The accounts cited above, with the relevant quotes
Timothy has a heart condition called cardiogenic syncope that causes his heart to stop randomly. This triggered multiple near-death experiences starting at age 17. At 17, after wisdom teeth removal, he fell in the bathroom and left his body. He enter...
Heather Vander Maiden was a 20-year-old woman who had a near-death experience due to severe ulcerative colitis. This led to her large intestine being removed in surgery and multiple complications during a three-month hospital stay in late 1999 and ea...
So you are here because being here changes you. It's hard, and the people who have been to the other side admit that openly 2. But the difficulty is the point. You are not trapped. You are learning something you cannot learn anywhere else, and when you leave, you return to a home that was always waiting.
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Brian Barry, a 31-year-old photojournalist, suffered a stroke from inhaling polyurethane fumes while working in a closed house. He fell unconscious for three days after a fight with his wife. During the near-death experience, a silver-haired man appe...
The person experienced a near-death experience after suffering from severe abdominal pain and dehydration, which led to fainting. During the NDE, they left their body and entered a place of golden light filled with love. They met deceased relatives a...
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