“Spiritually Transformative Experiences” (STEs)

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

***  Don’t forget the big near-death conference, 

held near Phoenix, AZ

August 28 through September 1.  I’ll be speaking twice.  On that Thursday giving an hour talk about Kenneth Ring’s work with THE OMEGA PROJECT:  NDErs, aliens, Whitley Streiber’s story of being taken aboard a space ship and “examined,” then some of my own research concerning NDEs and aliens.  That Saturday I’ll be part of a panel to discuss the full range of UFOs, Alien Beings, and NDEs.  

QUESTION

“Miss Atwater, I had two SDEs.  I watched you on YouTube.  You said the same as I have felt after my SDEs.  They have a message for me.  First question:  SDEs are more common than we are now aware?  Further, I was more Happy after my SDE, just like Elisabeth Taylor and you.  But in the Network NDE in The Netherlands, often NDE people are doing so dramatacalie, you will feel the only thing they want is to get back.  I think this is because they had drama (fysiek) and cannot deal with it.  Thank you so much for letting me know this!  Life is Super in all.  Warmly, Lieke.”

ANSWER

You ask a big question, Lieke.  It is only recently that “Spiritually Transformative Experiences” (STEs) are being considered equal to near-death experiences.  They seem the same, but they are not, not really.  Death can alter a person’s body and mind in ways beyond speech.  Yes, spiritually transformative events can too, but…………………….

I’ve had numerous STEs.  Each one changed me utterly, and made significant alterations in my life.  Three of them came from Kundalini breakthroughs.  Another from an unusual harp concert that totally changed me to the point that I no longer knew who I was.  Took me two weeks before I could “come down” and be a human again.  Yes, indeed, a 

spiritually transformative event can be more than transformative.  It can turn you around in ways that seem above and beyond anything you can explain.  And indeed, I was never quite the same again - after each one.  Radical changes can indeed occur.

But in comparing the two kinds of transformative events, I must admit my three near-death experiences were so radical, I didn’t even know who I was afterward and was incapable of memory.  It took me a year just to accept my body and the life I supposedly had.  If you read my new book, EDGE WALKER:  THE MANY LIVES AND DEATHS OF PMH ATWATER, you will see how much I went through after my three NDEs - just to be a human again.  Although my spiritually transformative events were also quite radical, after each I was able to resume my life in meaningful ways.  That is not the case when I died, again and again and again.  Sort of like a “heavenly sledge hammer” effect.  In my case, I had tremendous physical changes to contend with.  In many ways, there simply was no coming back.  My three children made note of this and did not like the extent to which I changed.  My oldest daughter was very outspoken about that.  She wanted back the mother she knew.  We both looked for her.  Never did find her.  Now, four decades later, she finally decided I was okay.  Phew!

Everyone is different, Lieke.  Don’t let others define your experiences nor your aftereffects.  Just because one person is radically changed, doesn’t mean yours is any less or you any more or less changed.  Spiritually Transformative Experiences can turn a person around to the extent that they seem as if they “died.”  I am glad this kind of experience is now accepted by IANDS and most other groups.  Changes like this are radical in their own way and they change people to their very core.  Experiencers can even look different and act different afterwards.  I still say and feel that an NDE is even more transformative, though.  It is really up to the individual to decide.  And why decide?  It’s enough that you’re not the same as before.  It’s enough that you’ve had to make some big changes in your life, and that now you think and act differently.  Don’t let anyone make you feel “less than.”

NDEs and STEs are now accepted as radical change agents in a person’s life.  No one is “less than” if their changes seemed somehow less.  Look at your life.  Bless your life.  Feel good about your new self.  And be thankful that now you can talk about that - and not feel weird or that you have mental problems.  Science has now shown us we are more than okay afterward.  Yes, afterward changes can be difficult or even more than hard to handle.  That’s where IANDS and other such groups “shine.”  They show us - not only are we okay, we are better than okay.  We have shifted, and we can learn how to make that shift as incredible in our life as it was during the event we had.

 

Thank you for contacting me.  I hope this helps.  I like to put stories like yours in my blog.  I never use anyone’s full name.  Pick a name that I can use.  That’s all it takes.  Blessings, PMH