Mellen Thomas Near Death Experience

[Solve et Coagula]

Mellen Thomas Near Death Experience

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html

[samwheat]

2Cor.11


[13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
[14] And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

I don't "buy" his story .......

[Ragnarok]

I don't really buy all of the article either, but I take everything with a grain of salt now, after having had a much shorter yet no less life-changing "experience" myself some years ago.

Summary:

I left my body involuntarily from a dream and became fully aware (this may take explaining and I will be happy to do so). Unconstrained by a body under the influence of gravity, I felt unbounded. I didn't see anything but a fog of bright warm light all around which was a little brighter ahead of me, but I realized, I knew, that I was coming home, that my life/home here had been only a temporary "outpost" and that I had never really been home before in my entire life (I don't buy reincarnation). I felt but could not see a Presence before me, and that Presence knew me, and I have never felt mutual joy like that in my life, and I know I never will again until my number's up here (not that I am in any hurry - the transience of this life in this wondrous slice of creation is all too real to me now and even more precious). But what really shocked me upon my "return", as I lay there in my bed was this: nothing here mattered while I was in that place. Time did not exist there. Nothing - family and friends I left behind, what would happen to all my stuff, unkept promises, business arrangements, bills, things left unsaid, you name it, not one thought of them entered my mind. Nor did any dogma or doctrine, debate or arguments about same, such as whether God is male or female. It didn't matter.

Whether one knows it or not, death is merely a door the time-dependent body can't pass through. You, the timeless being, pass through and keep going. To what purpose I don't know. I was sent back. Maybe this is why, to tell you? To bolster someone's faith? I know my faith is almost worthless. Maybe I needed something that I could never doubt, that would keep that candle burning in my heart no matter how hard the storm blows.

All I can say is, if it ever happens to you before your ticket is punched, you will no longer simply believe or have faith, you will know, and the accumulated religious encrustations of what you thought you knew about that Higher Power will go right out the window, and you'll see everything from a whole new perspective. Alas, it still won't eliminate the myriad distractions out there every day that blindside us and smoke-and mirror that view.

In all humility FYI,
Ragnarok