SPIRITUALITY
How Accounts of Near-Death Experiences Improved My Life in 2022
I never saw it coming.
One evening over the summer, probably right after I finished watching that week’s episode of Tasting History, I discovered YouTube channels where people narrate other people’s near-death experiences (NDEs) or directly interview the people who had them.
I’ve discovered a deep passion for exploring this subject and for doing something with my interest. I’ve never had an NDE and don’t seek to have one, but I, like most people, have always wondered what happens to us after we die.
For most of my life I presumed that once we die, we’re just gone, that consciousness ceases to exist. Heaven was a nice thought, but it couldn’t possibly be real. It was just something religions told you.
Listening to numerous accounts of NDEs has taught me how wrong my presumption was. I say this because NDEs are all astoundingly unique and yet consistent with each other. — staggeringly consistent, so consistent it cannot be ignored.
Sure, some NDE experiencers will tell you they saw the Rapture. Others will tell you they had a very rational conversation with the Source of All. Some people describe conversations with Jesus, while others will say that religion gets it all wrong.