What does the afterlife actually look like, according to people who've been there?

“The afterlife is such a big place.”23:10

“So, what I saw in the afterlife was the most beautiful, unconditional love and purity. I think one of the things that was so overwhelming in so many ways because of our human experience is the colors that were experienced in the Heavenly Realm. They were beyond anything that I've ever seen here on Earth. There were so many additional colors, and the the clarity and the depth of colors were so incredible. Again, it's hard to even articulate because we don't have words for what I experienced. And the other was how clean everything was, how crystal clear everything was. The blades of grass, the the rolling hills, the, um, it seemed like the the streets were lined in gold and and silver, and the buildings were made of platinum, and I'm getting goosebumps just talking about it because I'm remembering so clearly, so vividly, which is again, so different from any dream I've ever had. Normally, if I dream, I forget within a few minutes of waking up, but this out-of-body shared death experience is something that is so helpful, and so I can tap right into it by just remembering it, and it's, um, it's so soothing and gives me great hope about having no fear about death in the future because I just absolutely know that that's where I'll be going when when I do take my last breath.”6:09

“Now, we think about this life as, 'This is real. This is the real thing.' And things like heaven, that's just, that's imagination. But once you've been there, once you've actually been in that dimension, you realize it's flipped. It's actually the other way around. That dimension is so much more real than this dimension. It's so much bigger, it's so much better, it's so much stronger in every sense. Being here is really an inferior existence to what it is after death. So I think people really need to um, try and understand it. I know it's like easy, but try and understand that where we are now, it's not as good as it will be if you live a good life and love God. It's going to be a better life once you've died.”24:50

“So, uh, so there, uh, is, according to near-death experiencers, certainly a realm of the afterlife that involves, uh, profound love and well-being and completeness and reunion with those, uh, we love.”28:12

“In contrast to so many near-death experiences where you hear about people going through a tunnel and seeing dead loved ones, maybe they're in a beautiful heavenly landscape, sometimes not, but, you know, they might be in the stars, they might be in a void, but basically, they're not usually fairly non-threatening environments, sometimes it's beautiful, they may see angelic beings, and then they have a life review, they might get some big message, and then they come back.”6:48

“I don't know what heaven looks like, but I know that when we finally leave these bodies, I don't like to use the word "die," I like to use the word "transcend." Once our spirit transcends out of the body, and then we return back to that place of love and light, because what the most powerful thing that I learned, most important thing that I learned during my NDE, is that God expresses and experiences life through us, because God is not here, God is inside us, and this is how God gets to experience life through us.”21:20

“I can now be freer, and I would like people to know they can be freer to be who and what they truly are, you know, which is a reflection of God's love. We will live forever. We, you know, we're part of God's creation. Now, I don't know exactly how we'll live. I'd be lying if I said I did. I don't know if I'll be reincarnated on Earth, if I'll go to some other place. I know that place, though. I, to use a bad joke, I'm dying to get there one day, because it was, it was like, if you can think of the best feeling, the most comfort, most acceptance, and love you've ever had in your life, and for each of us, it's probably, you know, an individualistic thing, it's all different for us. But if you've had anything like that in your life, if you could magnify it by a million times, it wouldn't be close to what I felt there.”19:09

“Yeah. So at the lowest level, what I saw was like a rocky plane. There was a dark sky, and the only thing in the sky was a couple of angels who were monitoring the situation, you know, just dark and rocky, I guess, is how I describe one place. And the other place, everything was just dark. You couldn't really see anything. It didn't look like anything was there that I could see other than the unhappy souls standing around. And another level, you know, it looked like Earth, but with ugly buildings and kind of like dirt roads. Um, so those are kind of the lower levels. At the higher levels, there's another place that looked like Earth except it definitely was not Earth, and they had buildings that were very nice and roads. And I remember looking at a lamppost. And it was almost like a recreation of an Earthly town or city, only much more beautiful. And then the other place was like a city made of light, with translucent buildings and streets that looked like they were made of gold light to me, and you could kind of see through them, yet at the same time, you could see them. It was absolutely beautiful, and people were there, were very happy. But then at even higher levels, it seemed like the souls progressed beyond the notion of these physical objects that we're used to on Earth, like physical buildings and physical roads. And as they got to higher and higher levels, the only thing that mattered to them was God and the souls around them, and that's what gave them happiness. And they didn't have any need anymore for like a physical building or anything like that.”44:24

“I thought it was expressed so nicely, and the afterlife conception of my own, that we all would come to a beautiful place where we are all so well, and that it cannot be more perfect, and that this would be the ideal condition. In the meantime, I'm not so sure of this anymore because I had encounters with deceased who were clearly burdened and who were not doing well, and who tried to make amends for their lives, for their wrongdoing, who wanted to get rid of what they were suffering from, who also asked me to take, take away from them everything that they were carrying around with them, to help them, and to take an interest in them, for that, to pray for them. And from this experience, I conclude that people are not all in the same place, but they have very different tasks to fulfill and have to do and deal with very different things. The deceased have very different experiences in the hereafter.”32:06

“Here and my biggest thing that I would like to share from my experience is that I know that when we die, there's somewhere else that we go. There is something after this, and it's beautiful. I mean, it's peaceful, it's overwhelmingly calm. I felt no anger, I felt no pain. I felt, I can't think of a better word for the beauty that surrounded me or for the peace.”15:34

“afterlife visually until my experience. Writing about it does not capture how I saw the light or those beings. My earthly eyes were not with me. My soul saw the beings. When I found myself in that golden place, I simply knew I'd come home from where my soul belonged. There was emotional healing for me in that golden place. Love heals, and that's a truth I've known since my father lovingly held my foot when I was sick as a teenager. My experience confirmed the healing power of love, though I can't explain how. I”5:22

“literally spiritual beings having an earthly existence at this time. When we die, and we all will, then we're going to return to our real home, that spiritual home, which is so often and I think aptly called heaven. And that is going to be an absolutely wonderful existence for each and every one of us. We began with a question. What happens when we die? Perhaps the answer is this. Death teaches us how to truly live. [Music]”57:09

“The matter is quite different. It, it actually is a more solid seeming matter than is the matter of the Earth, but it's all in the same place. We are in the afterlife. That's what it's like to die.”14:48

“The soul doesn't go to a place like heaven or hell. The soul goes back into the void, where there's no pain, there's no suffering, there's love, um, and there's peace. It, I have never in, in the three NDEs I've had, never once was there fear or gnashing of teeth, like like is described, or, you know, chaos. Um, it just is. The void just is, and, and we become like the stars. We go back into the void.”27:17

“I saw another between life period where I had been in a place that looked kind of like Earth. It had streets and roads and buildings, and the souls there were very happy. And I saw that that was somewhere I had been between some previous lives. And then I saw this other place. It was kind of like a city of light. The buildings were translucent, and they were like made of light, and the beings there, all the people, they were made of light. It was just absolutely beautiful, and they were extremely happy. Everyone there was really, really happy.”18:45

“just proceed to uh higher level realms, happier realms. Uh this isn't some endless cycle. Um what I saw pretty clearly is that we're all going to end this cycle of lives and then we're going to progress on to to much better happiness. Um, I I wanted to point out what what I saw about appearance appearances in the afterlife, the way souls look in the afterlife. Um, here on earth, the way I look doesn't really have anything to do with my internal uh spiritual nature. Um, but in the afterlife, the way souls”59:05