10/22/2026
Around 20 years ago I thought if I could collect data from all over the world, through history to present day about Near Death Experiences (NDE) I could get a good grasp as to what was on the other side. I believed that if I could examine all these NDEs from all different beliefs, cultures, and ages. And if the experience was the same for everyone even though they had a different mindset as humans then that would tell me a lot. But 20 years ago the information I could find on the subject was lacking. I couldn’t find enough or any (especially on kids, who I really wanted info on. I felt it would be the purest).
But now! There is a plethora of information!
So I was listening to one of my current favorite podcasts on consciousness. And I want to share one of the really beautiful stories from Martha Beck, she's a best-selling author with three degrees from Harvard.
And what happened to her while under anesthesia, completely changed the course of her life.
Here is her account…. “I left academia because I had an experience during a surgery where I became very sharply aware and cognizant and could visually see everything that was happening in the operating room. I watched the surgeons operating on me and then realized I was watching my body from a distance. I actually sat up out of it and it was still lying on its back with its eyes closed.
So then I was very perplexed and I lay back down into my body and thought, what is happening? I was looking straight up at these surgical lamps, which are extremely bright. Right in the center of them, another light appeared, it was like the size of a golf ball.
But the most brilliantly radiant thing I had ever seen in my life. It's like trying to draw the galaxy with a box of crayons, to use words to describe this light. And then it started to expand in all directions. And eventually it touched me, my body, and this sensation of absolute love and warmth and home flooded through me. And the light was conscious and it was laughing. And I started to laugh out of pure joy.”
“You know, when you see little kids who just, they can't contain their joy and they're just laughing. It was just like being held by something that knew me intimately. It kept saying, you said you wouldn't forget this, but you did. And I was like, I know, how could I have forgotten? And then it just said, life is not always going to be easy for you. But I want you to remember that you don't wait until you die to feel this way. Your task in life is to feel the way you feel right now, without being able to see it. And then I was awake, sobbing, sobbing with joy at all the nurses trying to comfort me. So I asked to see the anesthesiologist because drug effects”
“I mean, I hadn't lost my mind just because I saw his light. And they brought him in, and he sat down by me and he was just chalk white with fear. I couldn't figure it out. I was like, just asking him, what did you give me? What happened? And finally he said, look, please, please just tell me what happened in there. Because when the light touched me, I started to cry and I was face up. So the tears were running down the sides of my face. And the surgeons who were operating thought I could feel what they were doing. So they said to the anesthesiologist, you've got to, there's something wrong, she can feel this. So he went to increase the anesthesia. And then he told me, he said a voice inside his head that was very clear, something he'd never heard before said, don't, she's crying because she's happy. She's happy.
And he looked at me and said, with these pleading eyes and said, did I do the wrong thing? And I said, no, you did the right thing.”
This right here!!!! ➡️✨But I want you to remember that you don't wait until you die to feel this way.
Your task in life is to feel the way you feel right now, without being able to see it.✨
So don’t let yourself always be future oriented. Find the beauty and love that exist in every present moment.
