Profound Near-Death Experience and Aftereffects

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An NDE'r Shares the Experience of a Lifetime

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Moon Shares Her Story

I had a NDE at birth and experiences similar to those described in your work and I didn’t let on too much.  Until recently, something has drawn me to you again.  I had a feeling that I needed to reach out to you, and this time, I’d like to share a little more about what has happened to me throughout my life.

When I was a little girl, I suffered terrible nightmares.   Two in particular stayed with me.  The first, I was trapped in a cave red and glowing, with no way out.  The walls seemed to close in and go out and I could hear a rhythmic banging sound as though the cave itself were alive and about to collapse on me.  No matter how I ran, I couldn’t escape.  In the second dream, I was rushing so fast through a tunnel.   Ahead of me was a bright light.  As I approached it, I was suddenly thrown out into a large lake of water.  I panicked and I couldn’t swim and always woke in terror.

It wasn’t until years later that I learned what had happened when I was born. The umbilical cord was wrapped tightly around my neck three times, and I was unresponsive.  I was born at home, and a student midwife was struggling, not knowing what to do and was trying to remove the cord with scissors!  Thankfully my mum’s midwife burst through the door, unwrapped it, and began working on me.  My mum said it was a long time which seemed like forever before I finally took my first breath.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I bought a book called Life of the Unborn Child.  As I read this book the images describing the womb, I remember my childhood dreams as they had never left me, the red glowing cave, the rhythmic beating, brought back the memories and the feeling of being trapped.  I realised it might have been a memory of my own birth.  Likewise, the dream of the tunnel and the light seemed to echo that same experience of entering life.  I now realise it could have been going back into my womb rather than the memory of it.

Throughout my life, I’ve been psychic.  I have such vivid  dreams, some that come true and meet my loved ones who have passed.  I have seen, heard, and felt spirits especially in other people’s homes.  I have had some extreme and scary experiences, where strange things often happen around me.  I’ve also seen animal spirits.  Many of these experiences mirror what you have described others after near-death experiences.  

I have never had any direct experiences with UFOs, other than a single dream in which I was taken to a spaceship and then safely brought back.  It felt incredibly real, but then again, so do many of my dreams.

I have also had out-of-body experiences, times when I’ve felt myself 

between heaven and another place.  One of the most powerful of these happened after my dear nephew died of meningitis at the age of two.  I longed to find him, and one night, in my dream, I found myself in the most beautiful garden imaginable.  The colors of the flowers, the air, everything felt alive with peace and light.  In this  garden, stood a beautiful woman wearing a long yellow gown.  Her hair was long and dark, and there was a gentle, comforting energy about her.  I approached her and told her that I wanted to find my nephew.  She said he was not on this plane, he was in another place.  She could take me to him but the experience might frighten me.  She told me to think carefully about it.  She would take me there and bring me safely back.  Then I decided that I wanted to go.  She asked me to lie down on a bed made up with pure white cotton sheets.  For some reason I remembered the pillow which was strangely so perfect.  As I began to lie down, she started to sing.  Her voice was unlike anything I’d ever heard, unworldly and beautiful beyond words.  As she sang, I began to drift.  I saw colors ahead of me, swirling and drawing me upward toward them.  That’s when I realised I was leaving my body.  I panicked.  I told her I felt as if I was shouting out that I wanted to come back.  I kept repeating, “No,” I don’t want to go.

Then suddenly I was back, and I woke up.  It was six o’clock in the morning.  Then, a couple of months later, I finally saw my nephew in another dream.  I was standing beside a road, with large park gates behind me.   A car pulled up and he was inside.  I held him and cuddled him, but only for a short time before he had to return.  I have often wondered if those gates were connected to that other place, just a feeling that has stayed with me.  Many years back I lost my best friend.  She had died in a car accident.   She comes to me in dreams and in one dream she came, she sat and spoke to me.  She gave me proof of something specific to share with her mum and dad so they would know it was really her and to tell them she was happy.  But I was too afraid to tell them.  I didn’t want to cause them any more pain.  After that, I stopped seeing her for a while, and I felt as if she might have been upset with me.  These are just some of the experiences I’ve had powerful, mysterious moments that have stayed with me ever since.  I know these are just dreams but they are all part of my life’s experiences.

I’ve always felt different from the crowd.  I’m also ambidextrous and was scolded at school for using both hands.  I am also left eye dominant.  Which may mean nothing, but I put it down to everything about me.  I only realized this, as I love photographing the moon especially.  I realised that I use my left eye on the lens, only realizing it was different as most others use the right eye, then did the eye dominant test in which I am left eye dominant.  I am very artistic and have created designs in art and wire.  I am a creative writer of stories, songs, and poetry.

All my life, I’ve felt that I’m somehow different, though I rarely speak about it.  I now have 5 children of my own and 13 grandchildren.  I am very artistic and created designs in art and wire.  Although my friends and family do know so much is intertwined with who I am, my experiences have shaped me profoundly.

        

Thank you Moon.  PMH

An Experiencer Story

 QUESTION AND/OR EXPERIENCER STORY

“Hello, I have a very important question that I have been wondering about for years.  I know that you interviewed George Rodania many years ago.  The man was allegedly dead for three days and had a very detailed NDE.  I am wondering if his clinical death has been verified as being dead for three days and if the morgue and hospital record as well can verify this?  What do you think of his NDE?  I’d love to hear back from you.  I read the handbook of near-death experiences and watched many of your videos.  Looking forward to hearing from you.”... Jana

ANSWER

There is no question that George died as stated, and returned to life as stated.  What cannot be proved is the temperature in that Morque in Georgia.  At that time in our history, the state of Georgia was controlled by Russia, and authorities there did indeed call in the KGB to get rid of him.  Since his own uncle was part of the autopsy team and his wife Nino was privy to what was going on, researchers as myself are comfortable with the story told.  

Once the family was in the United States and settled down, I was able to spend time with and often talk to George.  But also spend some time with Nino, his wife, and meet their two children.  In my talks with Nino, she confirmed many stories - especially the time, as a widow, she was standing in front of his grave and thought to herself of who might take his place as her husband.  She had a list and was going over that list to make certain whoever she married would be a good father to her children.  

When he was quite alive and home with her, she could not sleep with him or be near him for nearly a year.  I asked her why.  She said it was because she had no privacy.  He was in and out of her mind all the time and she could not handle his “invasions.”

No, myself and other researchers were unable to contact the hospital in Georgia, gain the verifications on medical matters from them.  It was as if he never existed and nothing like this ever happened.  The Communist party would not allow any such information out.  Sorta like what Putin is doing now in Russia.

You may find it interesting that both George and I, as near-death experiencers, had electrical sensitivity of about the same strength.  We could and did bring down telephone lines, transmissions, telephone interviews, and so forth.  As a single interview we were okay.  Have the two of us together - pow - we simply could not be filmed or recorded together.  Equipment would quit.  

Blessings, PMH

Why are we here?

 QUESTION

“In one interview, when asked why some people have a near-death experience and others do not, you responded that those who need it have a near-death experience.  I find that very interesting and it makes me think.  Would you share your thoughts and insights on this?

“I have often wondered why I experienced the lights for as long as I can remember, why they were with me through my childhood, and why, after disappearing for decades, they fortunately reappeared a few years ago (I am now 56).  As an infant, I was in the hospital for some time.  There was no rooming-in in the 60s, plus I was in quarantine.  My only explanation is that God didn’t let me die alone in the hospital and from then on showed me love and compassion so that I could cope and find comfort.  Does this make sense to you?”....Gabriele

ANSWER

Well, as a researcher I must say “I don’t know.”  But as a fellow experiencer and one who has spoken to or contacted thousands of others, I admit what everyone told me somehow “fit” into their life pattern.  I base that on what they told me, what I could see about their aftereffects, families, life rhythms.  Then, if I allowed myself to look deeper, comparing what they said with what I could see and feel of their energy pattern, bingo!  I say bingo because I could see how things in their life “fit” what I could see of their soul.

Involve yourself with metaphysical mystical people, take some classes, even attend a Unity Church or Center of Spiritual Living (used to be called Science of Mind churches), you will see and hear people, classes, ideas, thoughts expressed that affirm the who and what of our existence.

In looking back over your own life, you are now beginning to see how things that didn’t fit are coming together.  There is a flow to each of our lives, choices that aid or hinder that flow.  This is how we learn, how we improve, how we expand.  We either go backward in our growth, sideways, stagnate, move ahead, or take giant leaps.  Once you get a feel for this, you’ll see it in yourself and others.  The Edgar Cayce groups are good for this:  their “Search for God” Study Groups are excellent for covering the basics of spiritual growth, finding out more about ourselves and how we can alter or change the track we’re on (growth pattern).  Go over to my website.  In The Marketplace are instructions about how to reach the A.R.E. (Association for Research and Enlightenment).  This group is the center for the Edgar Cayce Readings, and also a broad range of prayer and/or meditation, spiritual growth, etc.

It is never too late to begin your journey into the deeper aspects of yourself.  Once you see how incredibly wonderful you are and what a privilege you have to live the life you have (even if it’s crappy), life itself takes on a whole new meaning.  Try it.

You are a wonderful person here to mend, bridge, heal, test, rise, and enjoy the life you have.  Have fun exploring you and your life!  ~PMH

Different Reactions to NDE's

 QUESTION

“My landlord had an NDE on 3-17-2019.  Here is what happened.  She somehow cut her left inner thigh with a circular saw, cut the artery, but managed to put a tourniquet on it.  They say it was a miracle she is alive.  She lost 10 liters of blood.  They put 9 into her.  She woke up the next day in the hospital amongst the mountains.  Another time, she told me that ‘they said that heaven is here and now.’  I asked her what else and she said that she couldn’t tell me - you understand it as you experience it - something like that.  I asked her about all the other people’s NDEs and she said they are all bullshiht, even her own.  PMH, she seems like the complete opposite of you as a person who had an NDE, the aftereffects.  Yes, she is sensitive to light.  I’m looking forward to what you have to share, and whatever divinity puts on your consciousness.  Oh, while you’re at it, my 33rd birthday is April 7th, and it is also a super full moon.  Is there something special going on?”....Chuck

ANSWER

A super full moon on your birthday means energy that date will be bigger, more present and interesting than usual.  So, enjoy your day.  Energy has a way of going either really high on such a moon, or super low.  Do what you can to enjoy your day.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Not everyone is glad to have a near-death experience, and not everyone responds to such an event in a positive way.  A man I met in Mason, Georgia, big guy at a truck stop, said to me:  “I still drink and I still chase women, but I want you to know about what happened to me when I died.”  He told quite a story, lit up when he told me, yet he wasn’t about to change his life or his habits because of it.  Some people “hold tight” to what happened to them, lest it somehow fade.  Others are careful who they talk to, as if their experience was a secret.  Nor are they willing to take the time to process it, or even admit they had the experience to begin with.  I know in my own case, when I started to tell friends of mine about what happened to me, they were somewhat interested but they did not believe me.  I could tell.  So, I quit telling anyone.

The Voice Like None Other, in my third NDE, told me to do the research on the phenomenon, so I made sure that somehow that would happen.  Once moved to the Eastern part of the U.S., I did tell my story to colleges and community meetings, just to find other experiencers, yet, responses to my story frightened me.  Yup, people were so mesmerized, so excited and interested, even wishing something like that would happen to them, that I freaked out.  I felt as if I had somehow betrayed the work I was to do.  I did not want people to feel that they had to die to change their life for the better.  They could pray, meditate, get involved in metaphysical studies, and so forth.  The “adoration” people heaped upon me became such an issue that I quit telling my story altogether.  By then, my real work was in full swing, so I continued with that - doing the research, my job.  Been at it for over 44 years.  Nobody paid me a dime to do what I have or taught me anything.  I just followed guidance and did what I was led to do.  Keep in mind that I am a cop’s kid raised in a police station.  I used police investigative techniques as my protocol because I trust that method.  It works and it works without prejudice.  Thousands of people have benefitted from my work.   Guess I made the right decision.  Chuckle.  ~PMH

Living the Aftereffects Without Remembering

“Sorry, I know everyone is very overwhelmed right now by the pandemics.  Whenever you have a little bit of time, could you, please, address this question”

“Here it is:  what if someone has been experiencing most of the aftereffects, but has no memory of this wonderful ‘home’ we all go back to when we die?  I actually lost consciousness during my accident, and I don’t even know for how long because I don’t remember the accident.  I woke up at the hospital, very happy for some reason, with a big smile on my face.  I made a policeman smile.  I remember that!  Why was I so happy and calm?  This pickup almost killed me.  You are so right about the long period of putting it all together, because it’s been almost 6 years since the accident.  I have been reading, watching materials (like your YouTube videos), and I always thought it couldn’t have been my case because I have no memory of the “home,” or the tunnel. . .  but when I heard your research results, it just struck me.  I do have almost all these aftereffects!  So, I guess, my question is:  have you done a study among people who have had a similar experience like mine?

“Also, if you could address the dimensions’ crossing (space/time)?  Thanks again and God bless you.  Be safe!”....Anna

ANSWER

Yes, there are many like you who exhibit the full pattern of aftereffects yet have no memory of the actual episode.  This often is true with small children, as well.

The pattern of physiological and psychological aftereffects holds true regardless of age, background, or belief system.  It is that pattern that validates the near-death experience - not the other way around.  I have spent 44 years watching people/experiencers, not just interviewing them.  My police officer father made it very clear:  “The body says more than the mouth does.”  If you want to validate the real truth of an NDE, watch for aftereffects - and include families, friends, neighbors too, for you want what they observed as well.  It is not enough for a researcher to ask a few questions or submit possible experiencers to a computerized questionnaire - or any type of prepared questionnaire.  You must observe, listen, watch, as well as speak - then double-check.

Children can forget even a dramatic episode if they are often or constantly panned or bullied by relatives, school kids, friends.  Children want to fit in, belong, but they can’t if they’re noticeably different and simply “don’t fit.”  I go in-depth about this in my latest book, THE FOREVER ANGELS:  NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES IN CHILDHOOD AND THEIR LIFELONG IMPACT.  I confront what no one wants to hear in that book - that aftereffects can lead to a desire to leave this earth and go back - to commit suicide.  Not that many actually try to take their own life, yet they harbor this deep desire to return “Home” - their Home - they’re real Homey Home - on the Other Side.  Please read that chapter in the book, in fact, the whole book, so you’ll better understand the mind of a child and how they think.  Suicide is not bad in their mind.  Most have no sense that what they are contemplating is in any way harmful.  In their mind, they were in that wonderful place full of love when they weren’t breathing.  Now that they’re breathing again, that world is gone.  Aha!  Obvious to them - the way to get back there is to stop their breathing.  There is no sense of guilt about this to a child.  That can come later as they age.  Remember, for the little ones (ages birth to five years). . . there is little if any “before.”  Their near-death experience occurs during the time when the basic flooring is being laid in the brain for the brain-mind assembly, nervous and digestive systems, and skin sensitivity.  This discovery says we haven’t even done our basic work with little ones.  They simply do not fit the adult model.

With teens, young and older adult experiencers, the cause of “dis-ease” often has the simplest observation:  life is different, they’re different, so, where is the model, instructions, or any kind of understanding or suggestions, that is helpful in “dealing with it.”  Certainly, on my website at www.pmhatwater.com there is a section on the Home Page called NDE Aftereffects.  Go there for basic “first-aid” in helping you know what can occur, how that can screw up a life, and what to do about it.  Good suggestions.  Read all of them.  Try them out.  I also wrote a book for everybody, not just experiencers, in turning your life around on every level, rather than confusing it.  That book is A MANUAL FOR DEVELOPING HUMANS.  The drawings (the main ones) are thoughtform drawings.  Yes, I, like many other experiencers, can sometimes see thoughts in the air.  In this case, I simply drew what I saw when a particular thought manifested.

To find out if you are a near-death or near-death-like experiencer, consider these questions:

• Did you go through a life-threatening illness or accident or deeply felt fear “attack”?
• Afterward, were you in some way decidedly different than before?
• Have your family and friends noticed different changes in you after the event, as well?
• Do these differences grow with time?
• Are the first three years the most challenging, as if you no longer fit the human race?  Much less your own family?
• No matter how wonderful the effect of the changes, are people around you “spooked” or somehow wary of you, like you’re no longer the same person they once knew?
• Do you make or want to make radical changes soon after, or, more specifically years later, like seven to ten years later?
• Do you divorce or move away or somehow turn your life around in what seems to be a way that can manifest not only change, but “miracles”?
• Suddenly become more spiritual, rather than religious, and can develop a personal relationship with God or what you perceive as The One, The Creator, The Fullness of All That Exists (names can and often do change about this massively huge and important Being)?  Some move the other way, as well, convinced that there is no God and the whole thing was a joke of some kind.  Less than 10% of experiencers are like this.

I’ve written a lot about aftereffects.  But I think my early books, COMING BACK TO LIFE and BEYOND THE LIGHT, are my best on the topic - for I cover both positive and negative changes and the pattern to look for, and what you could do about it.

Yes, you can manifest the pattern of physiological and psychological changes, and still not remember even a glimmer of what happened to you- even with evidence, even proof that either you died or came close to dying or radically changed and quickly for whatever reason.  Denying such “evidence” is difficult to do, still, some people do just that.

Blessings, PMH

Whatever leads you to God

QUESTION

“Howard Storm started out [in his talk about his NDEs], and it’s in his interviews about his book, that he asked Jesus what is the best religion and the answer that he got was ‘the one that brings you closest to God.’  Now, he is sounding more and more like an evangelist. So are others who are telling us that if you aren’t a Christian, that you will go to hell. Betty Eadie [another well-known NDEr] never said that, so I’m wondering what gives.

“A lot of people are getting upset over the drastic differences in the stories that we are being told, including me.  I have been so depressed

over this, even though I consider myself a Christian, but my husband and daughter are not Christians.  I hate to think that they will go to hell.

“There are a lot of these people on YouTube.  I’m not getting it.”

...Linda

ANSWER

My goodness, dear, you’re exposing yourself to a few people, a few ideas and testimonials, but not the larger picture.  Get the book, “Dying to Know You:  Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience."  That book is the people’s book.  I call it that because it is a summary of what almost 5,000 adult and child near-death experiencers said.  Yes, a lot of them still use the term “God” because that is what we are familiar with in this society. You could just as well use “The One” or “Great One” or “That Which Breathes Me.”

The near-death experience has nothing to do with religion (did you get that?), and everything to do with the way the world really is.  There is a Divine Principle (call it what you will), that is behind and in back of everything. Any great visionary anywhere in the world tells us this, and has been telling us this since records were kept.  What you have been reading in the words of those who shared what happened to them. . . is not gospel for everyone. . . even though there is a common thread that runs through all. Betty Eadie’s books and book tours were financed by an organization or people of her Morman faith.  Look again at Howard Storm. “Whatever leads you to God” is his way of saying “religion” makes little difference, doesn’t matter in the broader scheme of things. What really matters is you and how you live your life, what is in your heart.  You cannot decide for your husband or children or friends. Whatever happens to them will be in accord with whatever is right for them.  The spiritual path is a loner. . . we each walk alone. Take what you can learn from NDEs, from visionaries, from great poets and those who were illuminated, and learn from them.  Read Meister Eckhart or Ernest Holmes or St. Theresa of Avila, or Rumi, or Kahlil Gibran.

Near-death experiencers, each in their own way, bring us snippets, capsules, bits of what they experienced on the other side of death.  No one experiencer has all of it or even a slice of it (contrary to what some claim). What they bring back is a “piece” of a truth, a “something,” they cannot fully describe.  It is up to us in the living of our own lives to “fill in the blanks.”

I hope this helps.  Blessings, PMH

Forgiveness and NDE Aftereffects

QUESTION 

“I have been very interested in NDE accounts for some time and read about and viewed many testimonies over several years. I am not an NDEr myself. My interest is in the topic of forgiveness. I have found it challenging to find NDE accounts that speak specifically to this topic in any particularly deep and thorough manner. I have searched on YouTube and the Internet as well as read many books by NDErs, but still no great success so far. I also just recently found your website and tried using a tag word search to find some NDE accounts on forgiveness, but it only turned up two. (Perhaps I am not searching correctly?) I am now in hopes that you may be able to point me towards accounts that focus on this topic. I think I can understand the no-doubt substantial demands on your time, so if you cannot respond to this request, I certainly understand. That said, if you can, thanks in advance. Either way, blessings to you and thanks for the good work you have been doing on the important topic of NDEs”.....Tom

ANSWER 

Tom, I don’t recall very many near-death cases that centered around or focused on forgiveness as the main topic. Yet, the vast majority of all of them feature forgiveness in one way or another. Even though the trait as a “word” is not encountered that much within the experience, you find it central to all the afterwards/aftereffects. In that context, forgiveness can and often does “slam you in the face.” It’s as if all that happened, before/- during/after, centers around forgiveness and demands, literally demands, forgiveness. Especially with Life Reviews. Forgiveness powers the Life Review and is central to it.

True, you seldom hear the word “forgiveness” as its own topic, but you do hear love, unconditional love, the love of forgiveness and kindness.

I rather suspect you are thinking in strictly linear terms by searching for specifics termed “forgiveness.” If you read the renderings and then the stories about aftereffects, surely you would find “forgiveness” as a central topic. Not being “a child of the digital age,” searching for key words seems foreign to me. I can’t imagine doing that. Rather, I search for feelings, emotions, what people actually did and how that affected them and others. Forgiveness leads, no matter how it is termed. Don’t be so tied to “words.” Search instead for the healings that often come once aftereffects are faced and dealt with.

I invite you to change your “research tools.” What you want is there, just not in the word use you searched for. Blessings, PMH

Synesthesia and NDEs

QUESTION

“Some time ago I spoke with you by phone, and you most graciously were able to point out important aspects of my NDE which provided clarity and understanding.  Many years later, and after several reviews at various times, of Beyond the Light - which has been tremendously helpful and beneficial in my journey of coming back - I find I am currently having a spiritual crisis.  I find that I have extreme tonal sensitivities, and I am so open to energies around the globe, it is painful to be in the world.  Also, I realize for 18 years I have kept this NDE experience to myself, other than indicating I had an NDE - as I feel most people would not understand sitting in the light for two weeks and then the experience of traveling through the tunnel at the speed of light to reconnect to my physical presence.  I have a successful life.  I do very powerful Soul Sessions and Past Life Regressions while bringing forth this light in the sessions.  However, I find working with people is becoming so taxing as everyone wants the connection immediately, without having done any work on themselves.  I am finding it painful to be in this world.  I am an energy expert in this life; and my ability to be in the light is effortless for myself; however, I have not had anyone cross my path who can address this.  I do work with Ascended Masters energy, St. Germain, Sananda, Buddha, and more; and the pure light of God consciousness.  Any suggestions you have to offer would be greatly appreciated.  Much appreciation for all you have gifted to the world and much light”.....Amaranth

ANSWER

First of all, know that you have synesthesia (I suspect that by your letter).  Most of us do (NDErs), as that is one of the aftereffects to a near-death experience.  Just having synesthesia makes you unusually sensitive to energy, what’s happening in the world, and to how your body responds.

Second, know that we are “caught,” all of us, in the cross-over between The Age of Pisces and The Age of Aquarius.  Cross-overs double energy displays or more, and their impact.  Cross-overs literally mean a span of time when BOTH Ages are on top of each other.  Cross-overs can last around 500 years, but who is to say, really.  This span could be shorter or longer.  I do not think that the real Age of Aquarius will even begin until around 2132/2133 with the 33rd passage of Halley’s Comet.  Until then, we deal with each change the best we can and learn in so doing different and better survival skills.

Third, our country is headed toward a Pluto Return.  In the astrological chart of our country, that Pluto Return is slated for 2022.  People do not have Pluto Returns, but countries can (the orbit is too long for human standards).  Pluto means, quite simply, death of the old, birth of the new.  It is a time of extremes.  There is no “middle” to be had except what you can provide and open up for yourself.  Because of the power of a Pluto Return (transiting Pluto back to the same position it was at birth), I tell everyone to be prepared for 2020 through 2024 for how this unique energy may affect our country and our citizens, and each person individually.  Trump is taking us right into this energy with his own unique style - which will either crush or remodel or remake virtually everything.  And right on time with Universal turns during this, the turning of the Great Cosmic Year.  We are exactly where we need to be at this moment.  How this will change us only time will tell.  For you, dealing with your clients and how you are able to feel and perform, will change dramatically.

Fourth, my third book that I was told to write during my third near-death experience is done and now available.  It has many answers and suggestions.  A Manual for Developing Humans takes us where most people hardly notice, but where the real power is.  It was written in partnership with The Voice Like None Other, which spoke to me during my third NDE.

Fifth, there are a number of IANDS support groups in your area, and throughout your state.  These groups will be a touchstone for you, to openly talk about your own experience, and be around others who went through and are still going through similar experiences - and have the feedback and support that could make a tremendous difference for you.  Many times, people attending will know someone or have a referral that could help you deal better with your growing sensitivities.  I do not have names and addresses but you can obtain some by e-mailing services@iands.org.  Proceed from there.  I know you and anyone else can obtain the help you need.  Also, in your area, are various Centers for Spiritual Living (formerly Religious Science or Science of Mind Churches), and Unity Churches.  These are incredible places to be in or around, be in community with the like-minded, and learn about alternative healers and other similar folk who might be just the checker for you.  

I sincerely hope that at least some of this material will make a difference for you.  You may wind up changing your diet and making some other changes as well.  I believe in the Article Section of my website at www.pmhatwater.com, is an article about Natural Lithium.  I highly recommend that you read this article and then take some steps to bring more natural lithium into your life.  Most of this information is also in the Resource Section at the back of my book Beyond the Light.  With your description, I suspect that you are low on some vitamins and minerals - which are easy to replace.  You cannot handle the workload you do with beings from other dimensions without enough natural lithium in your system (not the pharmaceutical kind).

Do some door knocking, some reading, and move your feet.  There is a new world aborning and we all must learn how to ride the waves.  Many blessings, PMH

Seeing Spirits

QUESTION 

"I was reading your book, The New Children and Near-Death Experiences. The experiencer, Clara, mentioned seeing people in spirit-form at night. I have now read this numerous times from not only near-death experiencers but also from those who are starting to have psychic abilities. Do you have any theories why the spirit-forms can be seen more easily at night time?”....Laurie

“P.S. I have avoided the use of certain terminology and used the term people in spirit form for a reason, since my own son is passed away. Some terms that are very old-school tend to provoke fear and misperception (use of disincarnates, ghosts). I think it is rather odd to be afraid of the form we all will one day assume. And I don’t care what form my son is in. He is still my son. Just an aside.”

“P.P.S. from your book: Clara Lane, Belmont, Ohio. NDE at age ten, complications during surgery for acute appendicitis. ‘Many times I have awakened in the middle of the night to see people standing in my bedroom and in the hallway. They turn to look at me, then vanish. I do not feel afraid. Several times we have lived in houses that were haunted. I could sense things. Seeing people in my bedroom at night still happens to me thirty-eight years later. I believe they are watching over me all the time, but only at night do they become visible.’”

ANSWER 

Laurie, seeing spirits, during the day or at night, is common for near-death experiencers of any age, for those who have undergone an intense spiritual transformation of any type, and for our new children (the present generation - detailed in Children of the Fifth World). Children, however, report this happening more often than do adults.

Why is a good question. From esoteric literature and legend, we are taught that children are more open, question less, and are exquisitely curious! Most of us tend to lose this particular openness as we age. Usually it is taught out of us by our schools and by our culture. At night “the veil thins” as the wise ones say: energy patterns and flow change: we have more negative ions in the air (a slower, finer, more indirect yet penetrating freshness/stillness. During the night our own bodymind rhythms alter as well, with the most discernible change occurring between 3:00 am and 4:00 am, for most people. Termed “The Hour of the Wolf” by medical people, it is a time when many die or have more problems with major illnesses and heart failure. Conversely, this same timeframe is also known as “The Hour of the Muse,” when creative people wake up and are the most inspired, a time of vision and fine spiritual connection, when angels and guides speak more openly and easily. Don’t forget, 4:00 am is the first prayer of the day for Muslims. Our bodies and our brains are made for this - a time when the spiritual reigns. . . either in upliftment or decline.

The intuitive, the spiritual, the creative, the innovative - all heighten after any type of intense transformational experience that engenders the pattern of physiological and psychological aftereffects I have described in all my books, including the one you read. Plus, the human species is changing, an evolutionary shift that is causing similar characteristics to “blossom” in children everywhere on the planet. Indeed, we are in a time of change - for everyone. It is the children, though, who are more upfront and honest about the world they see, which, to the upset of their adults, is not the same world the adult sees.

If you read Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience, you’ll have a more direct dialogue from experiencers themselves (the collective), as they open up and most directly, to what happened to them and what life is like for them now. You’ll sense your son in this, a soul very much alive, although not encased in the body form you are used to. As you said so perfectly, your son is your son, irrespective of form.

Many blessings, PMH

Dealing with NDE Aftereffects

QUESTION

"There is a closed Facebook NDE group that I was invited to join. We are such great support to each other. We have all been challenged by missing chunks of time during our waking state. Another common issue is that we feel like we are going to fall asleep and center an alpha state (or deeper), while watching our beta activities (waking state). The two issues do not occur at the same time, not that we are aware of anyway.".....Jan

ANSWER

I suspect two things are happening to all of you (us).

Number One  -  the earth's magnetics are now at their lowest ebb in thousands of years. Don't forget, we are presently in the time of The Great Shifting (happens once every 25,920 years). That means energy, frequency domains, weather, climate change, water resources, human relationships, children, travel, the ability to concentrate and remember, are being seriously challenged. There is no longer the buffer time once allowed, for us to think things through, find meaning, respond. It's as if everything happens at once (not literally, but almost). Near-death experiencers, and those like them, are super sensitive. We pick up any type of changes right away, and can zone out if there's too much to process. We're like the "canaries in the coal mine." We pick up changes before the larger portion of society does.

Number Two  -  experiencers seldom think about or feel any need to understand how they have changed or try to refine and train their new sensitivities. We ignore what we should pay attention to. I'd love to see every experiencer, especially children, take a psychic self-defense course, or something like it. We toodle along in our lives, relating here, acting out there, without the slightest notion that we are an "innocent ball of light" waiting to get stomped on. We've forgotten basic cautions or simply ignore them.

We all must have a sound diet, that means grounded foods (root vegetables), not just salads; and that also means either meat or all eight amino acids that make up a full protein. The smart know how to create that from the vegetable kingdom. The rest of us would be wise to learn how. Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. That means fresh air, doing chores, gardening, mending, walking, joining groups that have lively discussions, going out on field trips or nature walks. Check your hormones. If you continue to get regular zone-outs, have a checkup with your favorite energy practitioner. I have such a checkup for two hours each month, every month, year in and year out, with Jeanne Greening. She is incredible, and can work with energy non-locally. Her contact information is on my website in the Marketplace (press for "Healers"). My website is www.pmhatwater.com. If not Jeanne, then someone else like her. .....Blessings, PMH

You are Right for your World

QUESTION:   “I hope that I have found someone who can help me at last. I had an NDE when I was an infant. Because it was when I was an infant, I didn’t think much of it. The thing is, I had no way of thinking of it as ‘before NDE’ and ‘after NDE.’ The abilities that came with the ‘after’ were my common everyday reality and it took a number of years to realize, as a child, that I had something going on that most folks did not. I was, luckily enough, instructed by my ‘teachers’ not to tell anyone what was going on and if I was instructed to say something to someone by them, I was to say my teacher told me to say it or taught me about it.

“I had guides that were around me (and still are) all the time. I have seen things and I can’t say what they really were as I don’t have knowledge that instructs me on how to perceive some of the things I have seen or been told or hear. I have had visions of a spiritual nature, am told when someone is lying to me, when to be careful regarding trusting someone, I have been saved when I fell asleep at the wheel of a car, waking up after falling asleep on a major highway by a friend in the car with me (human), asking me who was driving the car down the middle lane and straight on the road right before approaching the exit where I was to get off to go home. It was around 2:00 am. So, not many cars were on the road. This is just a short list of what has occurred. My reality, because it is so different from everyone else and keeps my mind centered on the fate of humanity, the right and wrong actions of man towards man, the level of insanity (because the way men act is really insane), having this on my mind almost constantly since childhood, has made me a very heavy and serious-minded person. I did not grow up in an environment that was friendly or accepting of this aspect of my persona. Try dating as a teenager when you know your love life has little meaning to anything other than your then teenage desire to be accepted as a normal teenager. I often hit the shut-off valve until ‘they’ intruded on me again.

“I have learned to listen because when I don’t the results have had major life impacts, some of which I have not been able to recover from. Lesson learned---don’t ignore God. Of course I have free will, and I most likely am not being punished, it is just what you said about the positive and negative in one’s life increasing is definitely true.

“I have told my son about it. He is now 25 and tells me that it has been a heavy load to live with it and the effects it has had on my outlook, personality, and life. He doesn’t like me to tell people about it as they will think I am nuts. The people I love the most, my family, know some of it, but not all. I don’t tell many people. I currently have a Spiritual Director who is an 81-year-old Abbott in the Roman Catholic Church. He believes my experiences are genuine and that is a relief; but, I can tell he doesn’t really know how to advise me about it, or feels that I should follow God’s plan even if I can’t discern it.

“Apparently, discerning it is not important to the task though frustrating and often heart-breaking. One thing that really is confusing is that I have been told that there is no right or wrong religion. Yeah, we get to God through Jesus, but he doesn’t discriminate. Would he be Jesus if he did? Remember the Samaritan? Folks just want to apply our own way of being to him to justify our small thoughts or hearts. Man has so much more potential for good than he chooses to live out in the world. It is nuts to think resources in a world created by the ultimate Creator would have fewer resources than necessary to feed, clothe, and educate every single person on Earth. We know this and choose to find excuses to not utilize what we have been given as He intended. Like I said, we are insane. Thing is, those who Know are going to get busy trying to fix our fixation with greed and are going to do so in a big way. I wanted to be one of them before I died. I am 57 and have a penchant for almost dying as I have done it at least three times in my life. It is like to give me a break from the weight of what I carry. I get sick and this gives me a rest period. I can’t afford this any longer - no medical insurance or money. “All of this has me weighted down and I would really appreciate having someone I can trust (they will tell me if I cannot) to discuss this with. Imagine walking into a meeting or a room filled with people and being told who is full of it and who is not, and who takes an immediate dislike to you (often happens). I am tired and don’t know which way to turn. I am unemployed and need to get with the getting soon to survive. So, I was led this morning to Google living with the gifts given with an NDE and found your paper on the gifts NDEs bring. Please, if you can direct me where I may be able to get assistance. Blessings and love to you.” .....Ramona

ANSWER:  YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY NORMAL AND TYPICAL FOR A CHILD EXPERIENCER OF A NEAR-DEATH STATE.

I put those words in capitals because I want you to realize that everything you have gone through, everything you have thought, all the craziness of your life and the many dimensions you have reached, all the entities and spirits and knowing you have experienced, how you stood out as a child, all of it, every single bit of it, is typical for a child experiencer of a near-death state.

Many cases come from birth trauma, some from the womb before birth, some while being born, many afterwards as both a baby and a toddler. More children have near-death experiences, percentage wise, than do teens or adults. There is a huge population of people who grew up wondering what planet they were from, as they just didn’t fit, either their family, or the kids in school. The younger the child, the more apt that child is to lose parental bonding, and bond instead to The Other Side and the spirits and bright ones they came to know.

Please, buy this book immediately and read every page and every word: The New Children and Near-Death Experiences. It was published by Bear & Company several years ago yet it is very much still in print. If you can’t find it at your favorite bookstore, get it through Amazon.com or have your bookstore order it for you. There are only a small handful of books geared toward child experiencers. The one I wrote is an in-depth study. It is your book and you will recognize yourself in it.

The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences may also be helpful, as well as Near-Death Experiences: The Rest of The Story. I know you will relate to these books too. My newest, Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near-Death Experience has several sections in it about and from child experiencers. Other child experiencers have already said to me how much they appreciated those sections.

Once you realize how normal you are, you can begin the process of refining your skills and abilities and understanding more about your “self.” The first-year class of Science of Mind is incredible. I believe it is still available by mail. I attended such a class after I died. What a wonderful difference that class made for me. Google “Centers for Spiritual Living.” Contact any of these churches or study groups, and they can tell you about the first-year class.

Look, even though I am an adult experiencer, I see the disincarnate, talk to spirits numerous times, and spend moments in other dimensions as well as this one. When I cook, I ask the food want it wants to do and we both have fun. The aftereffects of these states greatly expand your world, giving you the richness of enhanced touch, texture, feel, temperature, smell. Once you get over the idea of being “different” and not fitting in, you come to realize how exactly perfect you are and that you are right for your world.

Do some reading, dear. You will find the recommended books very healing. Blessings, PMH