Webmaster's reply:  "Nobody forces you into eternal bliss or anywhere to do anything. There are many levels of love and happiness where you can choose and where you fit in. That includes this physical dimension where you can follow your own bliss. Let me cite the best NDE references, in my opinion, that concerns the tremendous ecstasy that can be found in NDEs

  Sexual orgasms can't compare. You are so high. Magnify that to infinity! (Carter Mills)

  One woman told me that when she found herself in the light, "The feeling just became more and more and more ecstatic and glorious and perfect ... If you took the one thousand best things that ever happened to you in your life and multiplied them by a million, maybe you could get close to this feeling." Another man wrote, "Then there was peace. Peace, but in order to give an idea of what one means by that, the letters would have to be written thousands of miles high in soft glowing colors ... It is a complete happiness, total happiness, beyond the realm of happiness. (Dr. Ken Ring)

  Then I simply remember I became more blissful, more rapturous, more ecstatic. I was just filling and filling with this light and love that was in the light. The dynamics of this light are not static at all. They are so dynamic and so much going on in there of love and joy and knowledge. As you take it into yourself, or as it goes into you and you receive it, your ecstasy level just becomes tremendous ... I reached the point in the rapture of it all where I thought to myself suddenly, the first thought: "I wonder how much more of this I can stand before I shatter?" With that thought, the light began to recede. So, the universe will not let us shatter. We cannot take in more of this bliss and joy than we are able to handle at a time. (Jayne Smith)

  During Arthur Yensen's NDE, he had a discussion with a heavenly being who resembled a Greek god. Yensen had the following conversation with him:

  They are brought to a path that heads up toward heaven and are committed to angel guardians there. Then they are accepted by some other angels and introduced into communities, and there into many forms of happiness. (Emanuel Swedenborg)

  The happiness and ecstasy in NDEs are like nothing we can compare to on Earth. God will not let us have more of this ecstasy than we can bear. There are many realms in the afterlife corresponding to the many levels of bliss that souls can choose from. In general, the level of bliss we realize after death is basically determined by our choice between positive vibes or negative vibes here on Earth. And no one is locked into a particular vibrational level and each of us can choose higher and lower levels of bliss. The higher the vibrations we desire, the more our negative thoughts and feelings are replaced with positive thoughts and feelings. (Kevin Williams)

NDE Intense Emotions Conclusions

  The following are the main conclusions I gleaned from the NDE insights above and my own research:

The Nature of Heavenly Bliss

  Someone comments:  "The big problem I have is not with happiness and joy. It is just that I WANT to have some type of negative feelings. Wouldn't you think that around hour number two of being blissful and joyous to no extent, you would start to get, frankly, bored? What is any positive without a negative. It is undefined ... boring. Sheer bliss without periods of non-bliss would not be good to me at all. This is what I'm afraid of."

Webmaster's reply:  "There is evidence suggesting that others agree with your desire to experience less than higher realms of bliss. For example, during Jayne Smith's NDE, heavenly bliss was not forced on her and she concluded that God will not let us shatter from more bliss than we desire. We cannot take in more of this love and bliss than we are able to handle at a time. So you see, some people experience exactly what you are referring to in their NDE - not becoming blissed-out.

"We all come to Earth on a mission from God. I am convinced that those who come here from higher realms are probably trying to bring heaven to Earth. Those who come here from lower realms are probably trying to remove the influences from their previous experiences in the lower realms. NDErs who visit higher vibrational realms of bliss often carry these influences back with them to share with the rest of us for the purpose of our enlightenment. Many NDE accounts involve people voluntarily returning from these higher realms to our lower realm. According to one particular experiencer, she had a choice between remaining or staying. She decided to return because she preferred experiencing physical things than experience higher levels of bliss. (See the NDE of Dr. Dianne Morrissey below.)

"Not all people experience ecstasy during a NDE. Some have very negative experiences when they find themselves in a realm where God appears to be nowhere around (as in the lower hell realms). Some of these realms are totally devoid of love and happiness and there are those who belong there because they fit in. According to Dr. George Ritchie, those who prefer to entertain negative vibes can and do flee the light and bliss of God after death because they are too uncomfortable to have their inner thoughts and feelings revealed to everyone. When Rev. Howard Storm was rescued from hell by Jesus, he felt very uncomfortable in the higher realm." (Kevin Williams)

Examples of People Choosing Lower Realms Over Higher Realms

The following NDE accounts involve experiencers preferring, for one reason or another, to return to this lower physical realm rather than experience the bliss of higher realms.

  I reached the point in the rapture of it all where I thought to myself suddenly, "I wonder how much more of this I can stand before I shatter?" With that thought, the light began to recede. So, the universe will not let us shatter. We cannot take in more of this bliss and joy than we are able to handle at a time. (Jayne Smith)

  I felt torn between two desires: wanting to go into the light and wanting to touch something tangible and retain my connection with all that was physical. (For this reason, she returned to the physical realm.) (Dr. Dianne Morrissey)

  In my NDE I was also shown that there are many souls in heaven who are more than willing to come to this place regardless of the state it is in. (David Oakford)

  At a time when I felt the closest to accepting my death, I experienced a resurge of sorrow and pain, longing for my son, for my life. I couldn't let go of my human life. My guides tried their hardest, they never gave up, they never became discouraged. It is unbelievable the amount of patience and love they exuded. Finally, my hysteria was calmed by a higher spirit who seemed to envelop me in love. My guides were instructed to allow me to return. Despite their pleas to allow them more time, they were told that at this point, my spirit would not rest. It was best to let me return, to settle my spirit, learn further lessons. My pleading won my return for the time being. I understood before my descent that my friends and family had lessons that were being postponed, but they would have to learn the lessons at some point that my death taught. (Karen Schaeffer)

  Then I made the decision to come back to Earth. And I remember that it was such a hard decision. It was so difficult because everything there was so beautiful and there was so, so, much love. I had the feeling of freewill, yet a feeling of duty was present - of obligation. And the second that I realized that I shot back into my body. (Brian Krebs)

  This man was not able to tell us how long this reunion lasted. He was so awed by his family's health, their beauty, their radiance and their total acceptance of this present situation, by their unconditional love. He made a vow not to touch them, not to join them, but to re-enter his physical body so that he could share with the world what he had experienced. It would be a form of redemption for his two years of trying to throw his physical life away. (Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross)

  During his experience he had seen images of people he knew ... I wanted to get there but there was just some part of me that wanted to [pause] go back with these images ... When I woke up, the first thing I thought was Oh, God. Thank you. I made it, and I was extremely happy. (He had been severely depressed before his suicide attempt.) (Dr. Ken Ring)

  After Sandra shot herself and during her NDE, she was told that she could remain in the light, provided she later is reincarnated to re-experience and overcome all that brought her to the point of suicide. Or she could be revived to live out rest of her life and overcome her problems here and now. Obviously, she chose not to stay in the light so that she could resume her life and not have to face the same problems in a future life. (Sandra Rogers)

  So, in conclusion, nobody forces us to experience a particular level of bliss we don't want. It appears from NDE accounts that people are given the choice to: (a) reincarnate or (b) be revived from death to return to Earth (c) or experience a particular vibrational level that we desire and have earned. If we desire to remain in the physical realm, we are allowed to do so. But because the core of our being is perfect love and joy (God), I don't believe we will ever be truly satisfied until we reunite completely with God and others in the higher realms of bliss. (Kevin Williams)

  Someone comments:  Descriptions of heaven do seem overwhelmingly blissful and simplistic. One cannot be blamed for getting the impression that the next life is hyper-happy, bright floaty white and churchy ... I believe many of us, deep inside, are a bit frightened of a perpetual white happy Jesus heaven.

Webmaster's reply:  The idea of heaven as being a place where people float on clouds and play harps is one of the biggest misconceptions about heaven. It certainly has nothing to do with any NDEs that I have read. One particular experiencer had the opportunity to visit many of the heavenly realms that exists on the other side during his NDE. He stated something that came to my mind while reading your comment. Here it is:

Those who have visited higher afterlife realms state that the physical realm is but a shadow - a lesser reality - when compared to the higher heavenly realms. Some of these realms are described as being far more dynamic than anything experienced on Earth. In conclusion, the saying to each his own certainly applies. We always create our own reality based on our own desires. If one desires worshipping eternally before the throne, they will be allowed to do so until they begin to get the feeling that what they desire is an illusion. For these reasons I say follow your bliss but be careful what you wish for because you will probably get what you ask for. (Kevin Williams)