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Then the doctor walked away and I became aware of another presence nearby.
Suddenly I wasn’t lying on the bed but found myself in someone’s arms. I looked
up and saw a man with a beautiful white beard looking at me. His beard fascinated
me. It seemed to sparkle with a bright light, a light that came from within the
beard. I giggled and ran my hands through the beard and twirled it on my fingers.
I felt perfectly calm and happy with him. He gently rocked me, cradling me in his
arms, and although I didn’t know who he was, I never wanted to leave him (Eadie
This quote, from Betty J Eadie’s book about her near-death experiences, Embraced by the
Light, is just a typical recollection of one’s near-death experience. “Polls taken in the last two
decades indicate that anywhere from eight million to fifteen million Americans have had a near-
death experience. These people recall experiencing a vivid personal journey or have a vague
sensation that ‘something happened’ when t
. . .
NDE” (Fenwick 30).
Near-death experiences differ from culture to culture, but no matter a person’s culture,
race, age, or gender, near-death experiences share many common traits.
Near-death experiences have been recorded for as long as man has had some written
language. The right hemisphere of the brain may also
attribute to the near-death experience. one feels in the presence of light pure love, total acceptance, forgiving of
sins, and a sense of homecoming; that communication with the light is
instantaneous and nonverbal and the light imparts knowledge of a universal nature
as well as enables one to see or understand his entire life so that it is clear what
truly matters in life. Stimulation of the temporal lobes has been shown to create feelings of
leaving the body and hallucinations of people. It is in
India that one finds many differences from the “western” near-death experience.
It may also be with the being of light that the person has their life review. ’ Williams was then thrown back into her body, and the first
sentence she uttered was: ‘It’s ok to die’ (Levine 139). There are many stories throughout history of near-death experiences. The right hemisphere also deals with time orientation, and a person may believe his
or her near-death experience lasted for a long time when it was actually only a few minutes. This information may
also be given by the being himself.
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