Worlds Beyond

hi,

great idea for a thread!

this is partly cut/pasted from my earlier post in another thread... I apoligise for long post, this is the most special thing that ever happened to me and the first ever 'public outing' of my experience ... 'eeek!' lol

The most incredible and truly mind blowing thing I've had was a Near Death Experience, in hospital, 21 years ago, when I did actually die, clinically, briefly, and went to the "other side" for a moment or three!!

I could spend hours chatting and trying to describe fully and in detail what happened, but it probably only lasted a few minutes, but felt like SO much longer! It was the most amazing, wonderful, beautiful thing I have ever ever experienced.. just talking about it still makes my hair go up on back of my neck and makes my whole body tingle talk of it! Even though it happened 21 years ago, it's as clear and vivid as if it happened an hour ago.

Well, there IO was, very very sick ona hospital bed, when I just remember the Doctor saying to someone "nothing else we can do" and I realised I was floating up out of my body, and up to the ceiling. I could feel my back pressed against the ceiling of the hospital room. I was watching the Medics around my own body talking, I could CLEARLY hear what they were saying.. and can still remember to this day. It felt I was floating there for about a few minutes. I felt strangely calm, just observing quietly.

Next thing, I was 'whizzed off" somewhere, at speed of light/sound ? .. So quick! I was floating/flying down a long long long tunnel.. with bright white light at the end.. the tunnel was quite dark, but I felt an OVERWHELMING, and all pervasive sense of Deep DEEP peace, joy and calm, it was like being enveloped in a bubble/blanket of sheer bliss and peace and beauty... like nothing I can ever adequately describe, nor anything I have ever experienced since I came back to earth!!

When I got to the end of the tunnel, and to the bright bright light, I then found myself out of the tunnel but now floating along on what seemed to be thin air ... but felt joyous and uplifted and so so peaceful ... there was a quite high stone wall running for miles and miles on my right hand side, and even though it was very high, I could float up a bit and see over it..

well.. what I saw was simply the MOST BEAUTIFUL, MOST PEACEFUL and most AMAZING place I could ever imagine.. like a wide panormaic gardens/landscape, with rivers, ponds, fountains, flowers, trees, hills, plains, etc etc, the most incredible thing about this place was the colour, it was like nothing at all on earth, it was almost technicolour, really really vivid and beautiful colours, like nothing I've ever seen here!

There were a few distinct features, a few pathways.. they that looked like irradiant glass or something, beautiful colours.. leading off into an invisible distance... and also one very very intruiging building (the only building I could see in the whole place.. it was quite small, quite simple, and I can only accurately describe it as like a cross between a garden gazebo/summer house and a domed temple... it has the most incredible golden light shining out through it ... in fact, the whole sky of this place was nothing like here, it was somehow golden and blue at the same time... the quality of the light was just UNBELIEVABLE! Truly bright!

There were seats dotted around, with quite a lot of people... many sat, calmly chatting, some in small groups under trees, some sat on the grass, some walking down the pathways... I couldn't hear any voices, but they were communicating with each other... there was a DEEP sense of peace and calm amongst everyone... and I felt very clearly like they were "waiting".. like this was some kind of "waiting" or "reception" area...

It felt like a gentle summer day, warm, comfortable, and I was happily floating along this wall, looking over the top into this landscape, then then a gate appeared quite a way up ahead, just an ordinary looking, old-fashioned tall wooden garden gate, the type they used to have in old stone walls.. as I was floating nearer this gate, I could see a figure stood next to it.. it seemed to take a while to get up close (the floating sensation/my movements were not being dictated by me, but by some other energy/power carrying me along, at a gentle pace!) ...

Anyway, I finally reached this gate, and there in front of me, large as life and as real as I am sat here now, was my Gran, bless her soul, who passed away from earth almost 40 years ago .. well, there she was, real as anything, stood there, totally well and real and looking lovely and radiant... (she 'died' of lung cancer)... I was speechless!! She smiled such a warm and loving smile, and I felt her hug me, which was wonderful, even though she didn't actually touch me at all!! I felt the most incredible love and peace and happiness and calm, it's beyond anything I've ever felt here!

Well... I just felt SO happy but also a bit shocked I think, and was speechless, she spoke briefly (telepathically I think, as I know she was speaking but there were no voices at all!), she gave me a message (3 very clear sentences which will live with me forever) and then, she smiled.. and in a fraction of a second I was being 'floated' backwards, at some speed this time, all the way back along the wall, my Gran disappearing in the distance, all the way back to the tunnel and then I saw and felt myself come back into my body, and that was when I "awoke" on the hospital bed... with a massive gasp of air and a major body spasm!


Well, that was 21 years ago. It was a miracle to me! And the start of a lot of things happening for me in my life, including my awakening/interest in spiritual matters (I was 21, had no knowledge or exposure to anything Spiritual or New Age or anything about NDE's or LIfe After here at that time in my life).


I didn't experience anything "other worldly" after that for many many years, apart from sometimes having a really strong sense that my Gran was around sometimes, and also a feeling that I had some sort of lucky streak/serendipity throughout several years of my life afterwards. I didn't talk to hardly anyone about it (just one or two closest friends) for years and years!

Then 3 years ago, I got ill. The first weekend I was ill, I had gone into town to go to the pharmacy/chemist for some remedies, thinking I just had flu or something, when I had another mind-blowing experience, this time my grandfather (he passed about 30 years ago, and I only met him a few times when he was on earth) .. he appeared to me in broad daylight, on this earth, in real time, in middle of town, real as REAL can be! And he SPOKE with me! I swear before God. He was flesh and bone and real! And it was DEFINITELY him! No doubt!

Well, since then, the past 3 years? I never did get over that flu, and got more and more ill, and it was eventually found I have a progressive illness, but that's not what I want to convey on here!!

The past 3 years, since that happened, I've had loads of regular, sometimes TOO Regular (lol), spiritual happenings, some publically witnessed, hard factual evidence of Life after Death, in the form of messages, visits, and 'happenings', from both my Grandmother (maternal) Bless her soul and also my Grandfather (paternal) Bless his soul.

I've also been 'shown' things, taken on 'journeys', I mean off this planet, but REAL journeys, not dreams, and given messages... some of which I'm still trying to understand/work out what I'm meant to do with them (!), and some are, I believe, related to the world's possible future?

I feel so lucky and grateful to have been graced with these events, and some of the wisest, most loving advice/guidance and support I could have ever wished for!

In the last 18 months, I started to talk more openly with friends and family about all these events.. and sad to say that I have been somewhat "dropped" and/or "ridiculed" by quite a few, to put it mildly! .. so, I started to clam up about it all and only chat to a small handful of friends .

But I have felt increasingly in recent months that I need to share this info, not for me, but perhaps because it might help one or two others in some way.. ?? am not sure how I can help, I'm just lil ol' me! am no expert or anything, but if in sharing what for me are my most special and precious experiences, even if it helps just one other person, in some small way, then that's ok for me!

Blessings to all

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