Have you had a near death experience and what did you see, feel experience and how it effects your life view?
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I have not but have recently been reading up on them...  go to www.near-death.com or http://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=Ai.Ajffve1XddA4PNA7okiQjzKIX?qid=1006030115045 and read the best answer, I found it to be a very good summary of what I have studied so far.
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When i had my near death experience i visualized myself at my own funeral hovering from above and i was feeling my mothers pain of losing me. Then i was surrounded by a bright and very colorful light that surrounded me and that i had become merged with. I was then given a choice of coming back, which obviously i did, but i was told that if i was to come back i would never be the same. Today (4years down the track) i am just getting over my depression since that day and feeling like life is worthwhile. And since coming back i have had the ability to sense things and be able to feel things more intensely and have become a spiritual person.
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I don't experience it as often as I used to, and I've no idea why. Theories abound but as with many strange phenomena I'm not sure there is a satisfactory explanation for it. It's just that inexplicable sense of having lived a moment in time (usually quite a brief and fleeting moment in time) before. Whether it's an unconscious familiarity with something real or imagined or a conscious sense of actually having lived such a moment before is impossible to say with any certainty. (And yes, you have asked this question before... but when and where is another matter entirely... spooky, huh?) ;)
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Several years ago I had an unusual experience concerning an uncle, a distant relative who lived over a thousand miles away. \n\nWhile driving my car I suddenly felt the unmistakable presence of this relative that I hardly even knew. He was more like someone I had heard about than someone I knew. It was very strange; it felt as though I was momentarily lifted right out of my physical body. I seemed to be suspended somehow beyond space and time, bathed in a love so intense It felt like I could have just disappear into it at any moment if It would have let me. It only lasted for a few seconds, but it seemed to last forever at the same time. I realize how crazy this must sound. The experience was so strong that at first I was afraid I was loosing my grip on reality. I finally managed to chalk it up to an over active imagination.\n\nThree days later I got a call from my aunt telling me that this uncle we are talking about had gone into a coma and died the day I had the experience. It felt like ice water had been poured down my back when she told me this. I had lost any real ideas of God or faith and had become somewhat of an atheist. Needless to say this experience caused me to rethink some of the conclusions I had come to. \n\nI feel blessed to now understand that even in our darkest confusion something loves us so much that it went out of its way to assist me and bring me back to a state of absolute certainty about Gods love for us.\nDuring the experience it seemed like there was a vast amount of information that I was somehow allowed access to. One thing that I came away from this experience understanding beyond any shadow of a doubt was that any Idea that God is unhappy with us or would judge or allow us to be punished for any reason is simply impossible. \n\nI can’t explain the love I felt with words. They simply don’t make words big enough or complete enough to do this. The only way I can begin to convey this love to you is to say that there was simply nothing else there. Nothing but love. No hint of judgment, no displeasure of any sort. It is as though God sees us as being as perfect as we were the day we were created. It is only in our confused idea of ourselves that we seem to have changed.\n\n I hope this is of some help to you. Good luck. Love and blessings. \n\nYour brother don
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Yes,  I have had experiences, with entities, paranormal and I know of people who have had experiences with ufo's.. \nwill check out the website.
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I have had a near-death experience, and I gotta tell you, it ain't just over and out.  It is more than just biology.  I can believe in an immortal soul because of this experience, even though I couldn't describe it in the least.
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I lived with a ghost for around 4 months before it became too violent for me..and I had to leave..There were many occurances every day..and night..and I thought it to be rather "cool" living with a ghost..I woke up one night and actually saw an apparition at the bottom of my bed...\nIt was not long after that..the violence began..and I got outta there.. I have ended up back to that very house 4 times since I moved very far away..and of those 4 times  ending up back there..none was my doing......and for each time..the vehicle I was a passanger in died..the engine just stopped..as soon as we began proceeding down the same block as the house...\nParanormal is all around us...Many look at it differently because we cannot explain it...so..it is considered by many as phoney and non-real..people are scared of what they cannot understand..but..from my experiences in this life time..I can assure you...it is all REAL..life certainly is full of endless surprises..just waiting to be found out.
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Yes, frequently.  I'd say it's something I think about a little every day, and I have to say, it amazes me.  In fact, i've thought about it so much, since such an early age, i've stopped being afraid of any spirit world or death - i'm excited for the afterlife (though not forgoing the life I live on earth right now) and to find out what really happens.  I'm curious.  I think it's part of human nature to wonder what happens after death - it's the one thing we've yet to conquor, and I for one can't wait to find the answers.
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I have had experiences.  For all of those who dont believe, you must not have had any.  My dad never has believed until he bought the house he now lives in and unexplained things happened in front of his face.  \n  My aunt died 6 yrs ago and every once in while I look up when I am preparing dinner and see her looking at me. she never stays long, but still comes around every now and then.  \n  I do believe that spirits exist.
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I personally have had very few supernatural experiences, but one of the few was after I came through a particular long “spiritual wasteland experience” that had lasted two years.\n\nFor a few days, everywhere I looked outside, everything (clouds, hills, trees, etc.) was connected by long strands of glowing golden light – like the spiritual symbolism that everything is part of one fabric and interconnected, and I was looking at the fabric of reality itself, as God sees it.\n\nI did not try to force the vision, or “keep” it past its time, it faded within a few days, and I have never had it since.\n\nI know of two other religious experiences that happened to people I know – both are thinkers, one of them being healthily skeptical of such things. The first (now a pastor) had an unexpected encounter with a “possessed” person and cast a spirit out of him. The second was a missionary in Africa and supposedly was used by God to raise a child from the dead (!).\n\nBesides their analytical personalities, I give them both credit for another reason: Neither one really ever talks about what happened to them, unless you go to them and ask specifically, and even then they seem reluctant to discuss it. People tout how wonderful it is to be involved in miracles, but I think it's unsettling (as well as self-challenging) to actually be involved in such things.\n\nUsually someone who fabricates these things is involved in self-promotion, but these men are the opposite. So I give some weight to their words.
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Marko F,\nYes. I have had at least one of those. It was before I became Christian, and I was above my body for a few seconds, I could see/sense my body a foot or two below my spiritual body. \n\nYou know, some people might come to some other conclusion, but what it did for me, after I found out what the f' it was, was that there was no longer any doubt for me that there was a spirit living in me, my spirit.\n\nSo without that major block (for some) out of the way, I could then attempt to find out what it all meant. If there was more to life than what we could normally see, how much more was out there, and was there a purpose to it all, or and order to it all?\n\nYears later I became convinced that IF the Bible was true, I could pray a prayer and recieve an acceptance from God, who would otherwise be against me. And so I tried it when I was alone, and that was a VERY eventful thing! I don't know if I was in my body or not, but I ended up in a place where things were different than the dark bedroom that I was in. And there were others there too. I think that it was heaven, and it was a large enough place, I couldn't see God, but the peace was perfect, and the others were doing whatever they set out to do (I think that it didn't have anything to do with me.) I was there to witness heaven, but I don't know why, though I certainly am thankful for it. Who wouldn't be? lol\n\nI had flying dreams too. They were more like the type of flying that is portrayed in Peter Pan. Where the trees below were at arms reach at times, and there were others with me, not that I knew them. I also don't know where we were going.\n\nBut I am so glad to have been a part of those experiences. \n\nI hope that helped you.
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Yes, I have had an out of body experience, but I didn't go to heaven or hell.  I had a very bad automobile accident, and was rushed to hospital by ambulance with sirens screaming etc.  When we got to the hospital casualty staff were waiting and the ambulance personnel quickly got me out of the ambulance and rushed me into the emergency section.  I was fully conscious (I think, but I have never discussed this with anyone so I'm not sure now).  Anyway, as the ambulance guy pushed my stretcher at full speed into the casualty section - I found myself on the ceiling above the stretcher.  As he and other people rushed the stretcher along a corridor, I bounced up and down on the uneven bricks in the ceiling.  I felt incredibly nauseas.  Then we rushed into an emergency room where there was a doctor.  As we came to a stop, I came down onto the stretcher again.  The doctor prodded and poked etc, but the whole time he was doing it I couldn't really open my eyes, because there was a window behind me and the full noon sun was streaming through it and it hurt my eyes it was so bright.  Then I asked the doctor to close the curtains or blinds on the window and he was perturbed and gestured and I managed to turn around a little and there was just a blank brick wall (ordinary room wall) behind me.  The light was gone the moment I looked and the room was so drab and dark compared to before.  I have no explanation for all of this, but it does make me wonder sometimes.  I obviously survived the accident - I still have scars but I came out amazing well considering.  The doctor in the emrgency room repeatedly told me 'you have been very lucky'.  Was there an angel there?  I often wonder.
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I believe that we are. I have talked to several people who had near death experiences and all of them  told me that they seen their dead loved ones in a bright light. They told me when trying to walk into the light, their love ones told them it wasn't their time, and they woke up inside their own body again.
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Dear Sinful:\n\nIgnore the ignorant.  Goes without saying.  Don't want to post it all here, too private for me.  If you want to know my story then contact me off board:  filmjeff@yahoo.com\n\nIt's quite a unique experience but not "near death" as clinically defined.\n\nJ
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Yes, I had more than one religious experience as a child, but I am now an atheist. I think that those experiences were cathartic realizations and that they did mean something, but they meant something because of my situation, my psychology, and my desire to believe in certain things beyond the physical world. I view them as experiences that were powerful and important, but I no longer think that they were truly supernatural. I interpreted them as supernatural experiences at the time because of the spiritual belief system that I accepted, rather than because there were reasons to interpret them in that way.
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I have to disagree with a previous respondent who said, "What do you remember before you were born? Well that is exactly what it will be like after you die."  Has he been dead already?  How does he know?  I THINK -- although no one can know for sure -- that we will certainly know when we're dead.  When you ask about experiencing the world around us, you're automatically asking about the afterlife, with some interplay with religious beliefs -- there's no separating one from the other.  Because I believe there's an afterlife, I also believe that we will experience the world around us, but on another plane.  Certainly we'll be able to interact after death, but primarily and most directly with those who have already died as well.
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Here's what All About has to say in regards to this subject.\n\n___________\n\nWhat have we learned from life after death experiences? \n\nWe have all heard stories of people who have seemed to be dead - without vital signs for several minutes - only to be revived. Many of these people tell of traveling at high speeds through tunnels or of seeing brilliant white lights or even of coming face to face with God. \n\nThese life after death experiences raise many questions that directly reflect on Christianity - questions like, "What happens when we die?" and "Is it possible to communicate with the dead?" \n\nEven Christian believers disagree on what the Bible says on these matters. Some say those who die fall into a kind of dreamless sleep until Judgment Day. Others say the souls of the dead are immediately subjected either to Heaven or Hell, depending on whether they believe in Jesus. Still others say our souls remain conscious, but exist in a kind of limbo until the Day of Judgment arrives. \n\nLife after death experiences presuppose the soul remains conscious and aware after death. Those who have these experiences often report they retain the ability to see, to hear, to think, to feel - but they are unable to communicate with anyone. While the experience may be confusing, people report they are suffused with joy - partly as the result of being removed from the suffering of the body. \n\nIt is interesting that many life after death experiences are accompanied by a distinct sense of being two people - one physical and one spiritual. And the spiritual being is completely indifferent to the suffering self. \n\nPerhaps this is one reason the Apostle Paul tells us to die to ourselves, putting God ahead of our selfish desires: \n\n"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). \n\nResearchers report that about one in seven of those who are revived in such circumstances report seeing a brilliant light or even beings they interpret as angels, Jesus, or God. Some people report a sense of having their lives "reviewed." \n\nThe effect of the review is often beneficial and may lead some to accept God, others to rededicate themselves to what they perceive as God's purpose for them. \n\nSome Christians have claimed that after-death experiences are beyond the purview of God and are therefore demonic in nature. But it seems unlikely that being subjected to demonic influences would lead so many people to a closer walk with God. \n\nIn Luke 9:50, Jesus is asked by His followers what to do about a man who is casting out demons even though he is not a disciple. Jesus replies, "Do not stop him, for whoever is not against you is for you." \n\nIn fact, for God to be truly omnipotent, He must be in control of these sojourns into death. Perhaps He uses them to direct His people. \n\n\nLife After Death: Why is it Such a Hot Topic?\nLife after death -- Why all the interest? Combine events like September 11th with the demographic phenomenon of the Baby Boom generation reaching its 50’s, and suddenly the reality of death from catastrophe and death from mere old age are upon us in a personal way. \n\nSo, it appears that more and more people are asking the same question that Job asked nearly 4,000 years ago in the Bible: "If a man dies, will he live again?" What could be a more fundamental question of life (and death)? Reincarnation theories are popular in Eastern religions as well as the many New Age variants. It seems people are comfortable with the idea of another chance to return to earth and figure things out or make things right. Some nihilist thinkers believe that death is the absolute end; but contrary to what many might think, most people believe that death is not the end. In some shape or form we go on. \n\nWhen Jesus was talking