About this Website and the Webmaster

"There is nothing better than being dead"

Greetings! My name is Kevin Williams and I am the owner and webmaster of this website. Over the years, an increase in the public interest in near-death experiences (NDEs) has helped make this website very popular on the internet. My goal is to transform this website into the "Grand Central Station of NDEs." My mission is to help connect people with information and resources concerning NDEs and NDE research for the purpose of understanding death and thereby understanding life in a way that brings tremendous joy and love.

For people who want to know a little bit about me, I say, "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" All joking aside, here is how I describe myself: middle-aged, computer scientist, cable news junkie, manic depressive, universalist Christian with Gnostic and Tibetan Buddhist leanings, former Montana cowboy, U.S. Army veteran, social liberal, economic conservative, single Californian, internet addict, and last but not least, NDE evangelist. I am also the author of "Nothing Better Than Death" on the subject of NDEs.

NDE testimony offers answers to the big questions: Who are we? Why are we here? Where did we come from? Where are we going? What does it all mean? NDEs also provide circumstantial and scientific evidence supporting the afterlife theory for which scientific reductionism cannot adequately explain. The evidence suggests that NDEs are transcendental journeys to another dimension of reality which profoundly changes the lives of those who have them. As an example, one particular experiencer named Dr. Dianne Morrissey has stated:

This wonderful quote is the also basis for the title of my book Nothing Better Than Death.

Perhaps the main purpose of this website is to help people understand the tremendous importance of unconditional love - the main message of the NDE. Those who experience a NDE learn that loving others is the way to heaven within, heaven on Earth, and heaven after death. NDEs affirm physical existence to be illusionary in that separation exists only in our minds. People who have had a NDE describe an out-of-body existence after death where the one-ness of all things cannot be denied. This state of one-ness can be described as heavenly if a life of one-ness with others had been lived. NDEs reveal love to be the bond which actually connects all things together. NDEs also reveal love to be what people worship as "God." For those prefer the illusion (or delusion) of separation over one-ness, life after death can be a temporary, painful experience of self-awareness. Such conditions are temporary because NDEs suggests that life after death is even more dynamic than physical existence. Nevertheless, after death, the only thing we can really take with us is the love we have. Death means stepping into the spiritual condition we have been creating within us all our life. Then we will find ourselves at a particular level of one-ness (love) which we prefer. In the lower afterlife realms, darkness reigns and the illusion of separation is greater. In the highest afterlife realms, it is said that there is a one-ness that exists which can best be described as a complete realization of a total at-one-ment with God and all things. Love is then the critical factor in determining how close we come to this realization after death.

My mission in life is to promote these NDE truths as a light shining in a world of darkness. As a self-proclaimed NDE evangelist, I seek to end the ignorance of and the fear of death through the promotion of these truths. I am convinced that NDE research is contributing greatly to the spiritual evolution of humanity and that there is no greater endeavor than planting seeds of love and light within other human beings. Love is literally what life, death, and God is all about. It may sound strange but learning about death means learning about love. Love conquers and transcends death. In this respect, death itself is the Grand illusion.

I am currently writing a new book entitled Nothing Better Than Love, which is a follow-up book to Nothing Better Than Death. It is about my personal testimony of my family's "after-death communications" with my mother which occurred after her death in 2001. You can also read about my unusual paranormal experiences which I have experienced throughout my life.

How NDEs lead me to the path to enlightenment

Like many people, I first learned about the near-death experience in the 70's when I read the excellent groundbreaking book by Dr. Raymond Moody called Life After Life. Since then, I have read everything I can get my hands on concerning the subject. Reading the beautiful accounts of love and heaven by near-death experiencers created within me a deep love for near-death experiences. It has also made me a much more spiritual person. Reading enough of these experiences can make a person feel as if they are relearning knowledge that they had forgotten long ago. My deep love for profound near-death insights makes me committed to bring these insights to the Internet. I believe my mission in life is to bring these special insights from others to the Internet for all too freely receive. Somehow, I believe I have known this to be my mission since childhood. I strongly believe that the insights from near-death accounts are universal and that they speak to the heart of everyone. They are truths already known to all at the deepest core of our being.

My spiritual journey began as a child of the 60s who believed "all you need is love." A born-again experience while in college eventually transformed me from simple follower of Jesus to a strict fundamentalist of systematic theological dogma. Ultimately, my theological house of cards evaporated upon discovering the historical paradox of the Christian religion. About the same time, my newly discovered love for NDEs and the lost teachings of Jesus (of the Da Vinci Code fame) transformed me away from dogmatic literalism and back into the simple faith. I discovered that the so-called "resurrection" of the body is actually a spiritual resurrection as in a born-again experience. I learned that the real "resurrection" after death is of the re-birth of the spirit into another body for reincarnation. My understanding of near-death experiences and early Christian history transformed my away from religion and dogma and toward spirituality. I developed what I call "the Gospel of Jesus According to Kevin" which is my understanding of the scientific, metaphysical, and religious foundation for a universal gospel of unconditional love. It is the simple idea of how the practice of unconditional love for everyone is the way to attain heaven and literally the answer to everything. I abandoned traditional religion for a much more universal spirituality. I found myself coming full-circle from flower child of "all you need is love" to the unconditional love described in NDEs. Today my desire is to promote NDE research and the spirituality I found in NDEs. As a NDE evangelist, the most important thing in the world for me to emphasize is love.

How I converted from a doper to a follower of Jesus

In 1977, after reading the Gospel of John, I had a "born again" experience - a paranormal event of instant spiritual resurrection. Instantly, I transformed into a different person and was never the same person since. I went from being a wild, dope-smoking, hell-raising, alcoholic college student to a transformed fundamentalist Christian. Soon afterward, I participated in follow-up evangelism with the Billy Graham crusade and the Josh McDowell ministry. I led a significant number of people to Christ and gave speeches at colleges on Christian topics including Bible prophecy and early Christian history. I was a religious zealot whose Biblical knowledge and "savior complex" drove me on a crusade to tell those who I perceived were deceived, hell-bound, and lost sinners and who lacked the righteousness I believed I had and who needed the intellectual formula which I possessed that would save their souls. Arrogant, is it not? Later, I learned there is a fine line between ignorance and arrogance. However, at this point in my life the line was blurred.

When I began to read about near-death experiences my religious arrogance began to disappear. The spirituality I found in near-death experiences was on a scale far grander than anything I could find in religion. My narrow religious mindset ultimately began to crack as the light of universal love, universal salvation, and a universal God entered in. This ultimately led me to abandon my rigid systematic intellectual religious theology.

How I transformed from a Christian with simple faith into a strict fundamentalist of systematic theological dogma

Before I learned about near-death experiences, I believed salvation was a process similar to Jesus picking up a dead dog and carrying it to heaven. I believed that God the Father chose some people from eternity. God the Son redeemed them. Then, God the Spirit gives them faith and makes their redemption and salvation complete. Like Jesus finding and carrying a dead dog to heaven, I believed that salvation was completely an act of God and not men. God saves the elected chosen people by making them able and willing to obey the gospel. This system holds that the entire process (election, redemption, regeneration) is the work of God and is by grace alone. This theology holds that people do not go to hell because they rejected Jesus - nor do they go to hell because they did not choose Jesus. According to the dogma, nobody has the ability, the will, or desire to choose Jesus. So this means people go to hell not because of anything they did, but because God did not choose them in the first place for salvation. God never elected them to begin with. Jesus never redeemed them at the cross. In addition, the Holy Spirit never called them. Only a chosen few were created for heaven according to this harsh theology. Moreover, according to Paul, God created the rest of humanity for the sole purpose of burning and torturing them forever in hell. What a nice view of God - is it not? I used to rationalize this by saying that God can do whatever he wants with his children. It did not help much.

This harsh system of salvation originated as a protest to Catholicism. It became known as the "Protestant" faith. It was a rediscovery of the theology of Paul and Augustine, which was salvation based solely on election and not on any works of human beings. Catholicism and early Christianity, however, was emphasized salvation through the performing of good works. On the other hand, Paul taught a salvation that required merely an act of lip service - of saying "Jesus is Lord" and believing it. Pauline Christianity teaches that people are saved by merely pledging allegiance to Jesus. Even the ability to believe in Jesus comes from God and not from us - otherwise it would be an obligation and a good work.

So the Protestant faith originated from Paul's theology of salvation as being solely an act of God - by grace and not by works - like Jesus carrying a dead dog to heaven. Unfortunately (or fortunately, however you look at it), there is a giant fly in the ointment of this system of faith. One might ask, "What happens then to the Buddhist twelve-year old who was never given an opportunity to hear about Jesus but died a good boy? What is his fate?" According to Pauline Christianity, the boy's fate is the equivalent of Jesus picking him up over his head and casting him headlong into the eternal flames to be tortured forever. Paul even goes so far as to say that the very reason God created this boy was to cast him into hell to "make his power known." However, this ultimately led to a historical paradox within Christianity. When I first learned of this paradox, it was the beginning of the end - the beginning of a long journey that ultimately led me to reject this theology entirely.

How my dogmatic system of faith was devastated upon discovering a historical paradox found in Christianity

The paradox: If Jesus redeemed all of humanity at the cross (and the redemption of all humanity implies the salvation of all humanity) then why does anyone go to hell?

Protestants turned to Paul to resolve this paradox. They embraced Paul's doctrine of election. It is the doctrine that Jesus did not die for all humanity nor did he intend to save all humanity. It means that he died only for a chosen few - his sheep - and no one else. This is very logical because it implies that if Jesus' death was really meant to save all of humanity, then all of humanity would be saved and no one go to hell. So the Christian must choose between two choices:

Therefore, the Christian must choose which limitation to believe (1) or (2). Either Jesus' work at the cross was limited in its power in that it did not actually save anyone at the cross or it was limited in its scope in that it was intended only for a chosen few. There is no middle ground here either. You must choose which limitation to believe. Paul did not believe that "limited redemption" was dishonoring to God. He reasoned that God was under no obligation to save anyone at all. Paul states that God "has mercy on whom he has mercy, and whoever he hardens he hardens." The Biblical basis for this "limited redemption" theology is found in the following:

How NDE research and the lost teachings of Jesus transformed me from dogmatic literalism and back into the simple faith

If one does an honest study of early Christian history and beliefs, they will realize that Christian doctrines have radically changed since its beginnings. It becomes apparent that Christianity has evolved into a vulgarized system of salvation. In general, the way to salvation has evolved to a mere pledge of allegiance to Jesus and becoming a member of the personality cult of Jesus worship. Modern Christianity is original Christianity with the Judaism of Jesus taken out of it with the Greek influences of Paul added to it. It means not having to take up your own cross of "at-one-ment with God." It means relying on Jesus to carry your cross for you. Jesus constantly stressed behavioral requirements leading to salvation by taking up our own cross and following him in self-sacrifice and unconditional love. Paul had the opinion that our good works are, in his own words, used menstrual rags before God and not important for salvation. This is a contradiction of what Jesus taught in the gospels. Jesus always emphasized the importance of performing good works toward "at-one-ment with God" to become liberated from the cycle of death.

When I began reading about the NDE, I realized how bizarre Christian doctrines were compared to the profound insights found in NDEs. I saw a wonderful simplicity in the concept of universal salvation found in NDEs and the early Christian teachings of Jesus. I eventually had to deal with the contradictions between NDE insights I found and the Christian doctrines that I believed so deeply for so many years. These contradictions ultimately created conflicts in my mind and caused me a lot of mental anguish over the years. Eventually, I discovered that the more NDE concepts I learned and the more I learn about early Christian history, the more I found compatibility with NDE concepts and the teachings of Jesus. If one takes the time to research early Christianity, they will find it compatible with the universal salvation revealed in NDEs. The major key to the puzzle the lost Christian doctrine of reincarnation and resurrection.

An in depth study of early Christian history, Christian doctrine, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the early Christian writings discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, and other scholarly research studies such as the Jesus Seminar, shows why these recent discoveries of early Christian and Jewish writings caused so much of a controversy and cover-up. These early writings describe Christianity and Judaism, as they existed around the time of Jesus. They revealed that Christianity and Judaism were closer in identity than scholars had ever realized. Modern Christianity is best understood as "Pauline Christianity" because it is based around the teachings of Paul rather than Jesus.

After Christ's death, many Christian sects formed and they were practically indistinguishable from Judaism in those days. The early Christians considered themselves to be Jews. They observed the Jewish law and attended synagogue. However, after Paul's conversion and rejection of the law and his Judaism, and his beginning his mission to take his vision of Christ to the Gentiles, a divide began to form within the body of believers. This divide centered on the Jewish law. Paul rejected it. The Jerusalem apostles did not. It also centered on Jesus' resurrection. Was it a spiritual resurrection or a physical one? As time went on, the doctrinal differences between the various Christian sects grew. Then eventually, the organized Church in Rome gained enormous political power and decided to kill heretics and burn their writings to establish one orthodox Church based on Pauline Christianity. The original teachings of Jesus became lost. They were never seen again until 1945 when they were discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt. Two years later, the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. A much greater understanding of early Christianity and early Rabbinical Judaism is now known.

The Pharisees, the Essenes, the Gnostics, and the early Christians were believers in reincarnation (the true bodily "resurrection") and believers in spiritual renewal (the true spiritual "resurrection"). These were the "hidden mysteries" of the teachings of Jesus. They were the higher, "secret" teachings that Jesus shared only with the apostles. The public at large in Jesus' day could not understand the difference between the resurrection of the spirit (reincarnation) and the resurrection of the body (being "born of the Spirit"). This is apparent in Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus.

How I discovered the "resurrection" of the body to be spiritual regeneration and how the "resurrection" of the spirit is reincarnation

It is appears to me that Jesus meant for this mystery to be hidden until the last days when he would return to the world. These 1945 and 1947 discoveries of the Dead Sea early Christian writings occurred shortly before Israel became a nation again in 1948. All the unfulfilled Bible prophecies concerning a conquering Messiah arriving to rule the world from the throne of David can now be fulfilled. NDE visions of the future also show that we are living at a time before there will be major global changes. It will not be the "end of the world" as many believe. It will simply be the end of the old order.

The Christianity taught by Jesus and the Jerusalem apostles was centered on two types of resurrection. It was centered on the resurrection of the spirit (accomplished through the regeneration of the Holy Spirit) and the resurrection of the body (accomplished through physical rebirth - reincarnation). However, in rejecting Judaism, Paul removed Judaism out of Christianity. As a Hellenized Jew, Paul misinterpreted the concept of resurrection to be the Persian concept of resurrection. The Persian concept of resurrection existed well before the birth of Jesus. This concept concerns an end-time when corpses would crawl out of graves on Judgment Day. This is the concept of resurrection that won out over the original Christian doctrine of resurrection. As Paul's letters became more influential (and I doubt Paul ever wanted his personal letters to be elevated to the stature of God's Holy Word), the result was the vulgarization of original Christianity. The vulgarized version was more palatable for the ignorant public in general and this may be why it defeated the Christianity of the Jerusalem apostles. Rome conquered Jerusalem in 70 AD. Many around Jerusalem fled to Egypt where Jewish-Christianity and Gnostic Christianity could continue to practice the mystical teachings of Jesus concerning attaining at-one-ment with God.

In conclusion, this is how Christianity came to be what it is today - a multitude of differing sects based generally around the magnification of one particular religious doctrine (such as baptism, tongues, soul sleep, election, etc...). Nevertheless, by studying the historical records and allowing NDE concepts to guide me, I reached the same conclusion many others are - that original Christianity taught by Jesus resembles Tibetan Buddhism more than Christianity of Jerry Falwell and the Catholicism of Madonna. Tibetan Buddhism and the early Christian writings emphasize "liberation" from the cycle of reincarnation through a "spiritual awakening" (rebirth of heart, mind, spirit) through knowledge of these higher principles which the public in general during Jesus' days never knew. A spiritual awakening is necessary to be able to practice a life of liberation from the desires of the flesh and this world. Reincarnation is the vehicle that allows people to have as many opportunities as necessary to become enlightened and attain liberation. Hell means having to reincarnate and be subjected to death repeatedly without having eternal life. Eternal life means never having to die anymore. What is fascinating to me is these hidden mysteries of Jesus were not limited to Jesus or to Judeo-Christianity. These mystical teachings of attaining a human-divine unity can be found in Buddhism (Tibetan), Islam (Sufi), Judaism (Kabala), Hinduism (too many to list), and Christianity (Gnosticism). They all teach the same thing: the liberation of the flesh (from reincarnation) through the awakening of the spirit within (the true resurrection). Everyone who becomes an "awakened" one can say this.

Paul's rejection of behavioral requirements and of the rejection of observing the law (and good works) and his teaching a "salvation" by pledging allegiance to Jesus horrified the Jerusalem Church who Jesus far better than Paul did. The Jerusalem twelve knew Jesus did not destroy the observance of God's law. Their teachings came directly from Jesus and were based upon good works and liberation from the flesh. However, in his zeal to make Christianity palatable to Gentiles, Paul removed the heart of Christ's teachings which is the behavioral requirements (doing good works and love) toward perfection to become liberated from the cycle of birth and death.

How my understanding of near-death experiences and early Christian history transformed my religion into spirituality 

However, the question before us now is this: What does Jesus mean by whoever "believes” in him? Does he mean those who believe he is the Messiah? Does he mean those who believe he is Lord? Does he mean those who believe he is God? Does he mean those who believe he is Savior? Does he mean those who believe everything in the Bible about him? Does he mean those who believe in his sacrifice on the cross? Does he mean those who believe his teachings?

A full study of the gospels will show the answer to all these is "no." In the gospels, Jesus taught that mere mental or verbal allegiance or lip service to him does not get you into the eternal kingdom. "Believing in him" does not mean having blind faith in my opinion. It is about living in accordance with the behavioral requirements of practicing, inhabiting, and embodying the unconditional love taught by Jesus and other great teachers. This can be proven further down in the John 3:16 text to John 3:19-21 where Jesus refers to those who come into the light and live by the truth of that light as opposed to those who fear going into the light because of their fear of judgment. It is about coming into the light now and not waiting until death. It means putting aside your fear of judgment living in eternity right now in the light of unconditional love. This is the same message brought back from people in NDEs.

Therefore, believing and knowing love is not enough. Love must be lived, practiced, experienced, embodied, until "I AM." This is a very high standard for us. This is why we are here in this World-School. We are growing to heaven right here on Earth. We are here not just to attain heaven. We are here to bring heaven into this world. Unfortunately, this may take many lifetimes of soul and bodily evolution to achieve. I personally do not expect we will achieve heaven on Earth until humanity has evolved enough to become immortal, walk on water, raise the dead and heal the sick. Fortunately, we are getting closer to this goal.

The following is my understanding of the scientific, metaphysical, and religious foundation for this gospel of love

The following is my understanding of reality based upon the higher knowledge found in NDEs and their application toward the understanding of science, religion, metaphysics, and philosophy.

How we began: In the beginning, there was nothing but one universal, collective consciousness, which people refer to as "Spirit" or "God." Within this one Collective Consciousness are infinite points of consciousness. All things that ever existed in the past, and all things existing now in the present, and all things which will ever exist in the future, currently exists in an eternal spirit form as one of these infinite points of consciousness within the Collective Consciousness. Our spirit is a fractal of God. This means our spirit is both a part of the Whole and the Whole itself. Like a drop of water from the ocean, we are part of the ocean. Like a drop of water from the ocean, the very essence of the ocean is contained within us.

The origin of species and dawn of humanity: Then, at some moment outside of time, came the desire for individuality and self-expression. This led to the creation of the cosmos and souls. The vehicle for our spirit is our soul. In the same way, the vehicle for our soul is our physical body. Our spirit is the eternal part of God. Our soul is a temporary vehicle for our spirit to experience individuality of existence between the physical realm and the spirit realm. The human body evolved from ape-men millions of years ago and it will continues to evolve until it is able do those things which fully evolved people from our past, such as Jesus and Buddha, have achieved. At some point millions of years ago, souls descended upon these ape-men and began influencing to come down out of the trees and eventually form societies. Then souls began inhabiting the bodies of these ape-men. Thus, the dawn of humanity arose on this planet.

Humans were created in the image of God: Humans are three-dimensional beings: body, soul, spirit. The divine nature is as a manifestation of life, light, and love. The Bible mentions a trinity of personalities: Father, Son, Holy Spirit. The Bible also mentions a trinity of human-divine unity: Body of Christ, Mind of Christ, and Spirit of Christ. Science and metaphysics describe human awareness in terms of consciousness (mind), subconsciousness (soul), and the collective unconsciousness or superconsciousness (spirit).

What happens when we die: After death, our soul body leaves our physical body. The physical body decays and is lost forever. As a soul, we can then experience in various soul realms as we did every night on earth in our dreams. While in the soul realms, our soul body is the vehicle for our spirit. Our soul mind functions as our conscious awareness and our spirit mind plays the role of the subconscious mind. Ultimately, we will want to leave the soul realms and enter into the higher spirit realms. When that choice is made and the soul actually enters into the light, the soul merges fully with the light and soul body is shed much like the physical body was shed at death. The memories of the soul remain forever in the mind and the individual is now once again a pure spirit in the spirit realms. As a pure spirit, we exist once again in pure thought form in the mind of the one enormous and fantastic dream called "God."

Humanity is evolving in mind, body, and soul:  As human beings, we have been evolving on a biological level for millions of years. Between Earth lives, we spend "eternities" in spirit form in various spirit realms. We also return to these spirit realms every night during our dreams. The reason we choose to come to Earth for another relatively brief human experience is because we are also evolving at the soul level. Through the cycle of birth, death, life in the spirit realms, and rebirth into flesh, we are learning valuable lessons that only Earth lives can give. The goal for every human being is to evolve into perfection in a manner similar to that attained by Jesus, Buddha, and other great spiritual leaders. Ultimately, the day will come when the world will be filled with perfected human beings. It will be a time when humans will be able to live as long as they want and perform feats which today we would call "miraculous" - like walking on water. In such a state of perfected evolution, humans will have become "liberated" from this evolutionary cycle and will no longer be subjected to reincarnation. As taught in the mystical forms of the great world religions, liberation is attained by "becoming one" with all things and all people (i.e., "God") through the practice of unconditional love. This spiritual state of one-ness occurs when a person "awakens" their higher spirit-self and brings it into their conscious awareness. In Christianity, this liberation is referred to as spiritual resurrection or spiritual rebirth or being born again. In Buddhism, the state of liberation is known as Nirvana. In Hinduism, it is known as Moksha. In Gnosticism, this liberation occurs through attaining gnosis. All these concepts describe the same thing. It is the liberation of the spirit from the flesh. It is also the symbolism behind the crucifixion of Jesus.

Practicing love for one another is the way to heaven on Earth and heaven within: Jesus taught people that the way to attain liberation is through the practice of unconditional love. Love brings about a one-ness between people and is necessary to attaining the higher dimensions of consciousness. Practicing unconditional love leads to the manifestation of the spirit within us and in our lives and brings our spirit into conscious awareness. It is an awakening of unconditional love within us and is the manifestation of our holy spirit within us. However, it is not enough to merely believe in love. Nor is it enough to merely know about love. To be spiritual beings living in a physical world, we must live love, manifest love, and become the embodiment of love. We do not get there by focusing only on the love and sacrifice of Christ nor through worshipping him.

The Christian life involves taking up our own cross and following in Jesus' footsteps by practicing unconditional love: We can practice unconditional love by crucifying our self-centeredness through self-sacrifice and self-denial for the sake of serving others. " Crucifying the flesh" also means to put to death the desires of the lower self - the animalistic desires - to allow our higher self, our spirit, to come through.

The "beast" we are evolving away from: This lower nature within human beings is the unevolved animal nature within humanity that humans have been slowly shedding for millions of years through evolution and reincarnation. The nature of this unevolved beast within humanity is manifested as self-gratification, self-indulgence, self-centeredness, selfishness, self-importance, self-righteousness, self-delusion, self-condemnation, and the constant clamoring for self - ego (symbolically known as the "false god," the "devil," and the "beast.").

Discovering a higher reality and the supremacy of love: It is the illusion of separation (i.e., that we are not, in fact, all part of one giant Whole), which is the source of many of the problems humanity has faced. This constant desire for self apart from the Whole must be overcome in order to become the spiritual beings we really are. We are actually spirit beings having a highly evolved human experience. Everything on the physical and soul level is slowly evolving toward perfect unity with the Whole. Here in the physical realm, we are "enrolled" in a "World-School" for a class called Introduction to Eternal Life 101 to learn how to live with and love the people around us forever. NDE research reveals an open secret about our lives on Earth. Life is a test. It is a gigantic examination that we will be graded on after death. There is no judgment except self-judgment and we should not even do that. There is no condemnation but self-condemnation and we should not do this either. The life review after death is for our educational benefit, enlightenment, and soul evolution. The life review is where we discover what we have been filling the void within us our entire life. The more we fill our void with love for others, the more we have evolved as soul. The love we have found within our void is what draws us into the light.

However, not everyone enters the light immediately after death. There are many reasons for this and they can be found within the NDE testimonies on this website. In general, it requires many human experiences (i.e., lifetimes) until our higher spiritual nature is brought into our consciousness awareness. In the end, no one is lost. There is no eternal damnation. Nobody completely "flunks out" of God's University of Higher Knowledge. God's love is "tough love" as well as unconditional not wanting anyone to be lost but to attain at the physical level what we are at the spirit level.

Life is about loving everyone and everything unconditionally forever as individuals and collectively as a Whole which is God.

How I abandoned a traditional religion for a universal spirituality

Ultimately, I reached a point in my NDE studies where the hundreds of first-hand eyewitness NDE testimonies of Jesus I read became far more sensible and trustworthy to me than the four testimonies of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the Bible. These gospel testimonies are not first-hand testimonies as NDE testimonies are and there are contradictions in the gospel narratives.

NDE research dramatically changed my ideas of just about everything on a massive scale. I learned that God is immensely more loving and infinitely more forgiving than I ever knew. I knew God would never abandon anyone forever in hell. The "God of wrath" I once thought existed I now know to be a man-made construct for which to project our fear and own personal weaknesses on. Once I understood that the greatest enemy I will ever have to face and ever have to conquer is my self, an interesting change occurred within me. The Devil that I used to blame my sins on and whom I feared all the time evaporated. I began to appreciate the vastness of God's love for all people no matter what their religious or cultural persuasion may be. My narrow religious system cracked and fell away as it became more and more ridiculous to me. Worse still, I discovered my former belief system to be highly dishonoring to God in that it portrays him as throwing the majority of humanity in hell fire to roast and be tortured forever. My former idea of God resembled Charles Manson more than it did of a God of infinite love and I regretted ever having ever believed it. I grew to resent the ignorance within the Church and sympathized with those still trapped by false doctrines. I knew God cannot be limited to any book and realized the universe itself is a greater revelation of God than a zillion Bibles. I realized that we could have direct experiences with God. We do not have to rely solely upon 2000-year-old experiences in the Bible. I learned that serious biblio-idolatry occurs when a person elevates a book to be the infallible words of God.

By studying NDEs, I found peace of mind and freedom from rigid beliefs systems and a far greater love for people and Jesus than I would ever have found in the Bible. I discovered truth was everywhere including in other religions. I began to view Christian doctrines in a more spiritual way rather than the inferior literal way. I learned how NDE insights offered greater spiritual lessons in love which can transform the world into the paradise it is meant to be.

Although I see a lot of nonsense in every religion, I know that the only critical component of every religion is teaching people to love others and God. I know that many people, including myself, need to begin with a narrow religion to direct us within where true spirituality dwells. From narrow religions, people can graduate from "Spirituality 101" when they learn that the perfect "religion" is love for others. Because I would be comfortable to consider myself a Buddhist, just as I would be comfortable to consider myself a Christian or a Hindu or a Gnostic, it is difficult when asked what religion I practiced. I used to answer that I was a Christian. However, what brand of Christian believes in reincarnation, pre-existence, the divine nature within humanity, universal salvation, and the non-existence of a Devil? Then I used to answer, "Well, I am Christian, a Jew, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist" but found out this answer does not make a lot of sense to people. Then I would say, "NDEs are my religion." Nevertheless, once I discovered the kind of love and spirituality found in NDEs, I realized I was no longer concerned about religious dogma anymore. Just follow the simple principle established by Jesus, John, and Paul when they said, "All you need is love."

Now my desire is to promote near-death research and the spirituality I found within it

My love for NDEs and the spirituality I found in them, combined with computer science background, led me to create this website and write a book entitled Nothing Better Than Death. This website is a wonderful labor of love for me and the zealotry I once reserved for religion is now direct toward my passion for bringing the spirituality of the NDE to the internet via my website. It is not my purpose to promote any single religion or even any religion at all. However, there are aspects to NDEs that have profound religious implications. My greatest desire is to promote the supremacy of unconditional love found in NDEs because I believe it is the key for humanity's next stage in human evolution. I believe NDEs will soon prove the survival of consciousness after death without any doubt and this will bring greater love and unity to the world. Imagine a world where everyone understands that, after death, everyone is accountable for every thought, word, and deed. NDE insights equate death as a process of "stepping into" the heaven or hell we have created within ourselves during life. The afterlife is a spectrum of existence where the highest heaven is pure unconditional love and the lowest hell is the absence of love. At death, we awaken to the spiritual environment we have been creating within ourselves and actually inhabiting all our lives. Therefore, death itself is just a body problem. That is all there is to it.

It is my prayer that this website and the information on it will enlighten you and help you on your spiritual journey in unconditional love. The light of love is being poured upon the entire world now due to the many people returning from death and their sharing the light with a world living in darkness and starving for light. I believe this tremendous influx of light coming in from NDEs will ultimately deliver the world from the current chaos we are and bring us to a new level of understanding of death and life. It will be the spiritual revolution and unity of man foretold by a multitude of religions, NDEs, and psychic revelations. It will be paradise realized on earth.

On November of 2003, my family received a series of after-death communications involving my mother after her death. It was a remarkable experience and it proved conclusively that life does go on after death. It has been over two years since her death and we have been receiving indications of her continued existence from the Other Side off and on ever since.

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