Natia Rodonaia-Peleaez, the daughter of Rev. George Rodonaia, has informed me that George passed away on October 12, 2004 due to heart failure. He suffered a massive heart attack in July and it was thought that he had recovered. George was on his way to fly to Dallas to tape an interview with Trinity Broadcasting about his NDE when he had a final heart attack and God called him Home. Natia would like to thank everyone who has shown an interest in him and his NDE testimony. He will be deeply missed. George is survived by his wife Nino, his daughter Natia, his son Greg, his son-in-law Martin, his grandson Levani, and his mother-in-law Nadia. George Rodonaia's NDE is one of the most profound on record. He was dead for three days but revived during his autopsy. His NDE involved one of the most interesting examples of verified perception while out of the body.

She said, "What I found is incredible. One man, whose life signs completely went, said he floated above his body and saw everything. "He described our attempts to revive him in perfect detail, even talking about a doctor who came in while off-duty then left. "The patient's eyes were not even open when this happened and he was not only unconscious he was clinically dead.

Cult German film maker Wim Wenders said that a near-fatal experience with drugs when he was a student completely changed his view of life and death ... "It really changes you, to go right up to that barrier or one step over it," he said, describing the experience as wonderful. "Everything became unbelievably bright and white. Light. The fear went away and it was wonderful," Wenders said.

Ledwig said he had an out-of-body experience. "The first thing I remember -- the only thing I remember after keeling over in the surf -- is waking up, floating on the ceiling of the rescue helicopter and looking down on myself. It was totally quiet," Ledwig said. Ledwig is now healthy and has a new appreciation for his life and the people who saved it. "I'm happy to be alive again," he told Sacht and Bucher.

"Even in the bitter cold that reached 60 below and more, I was drawn to deep meditation. I would be �gone' for hours, even days at a time. When I came back to body awareness on a few occasions, my body would not respond and it smelled of decomposition; I had to willfully cram my awareness back into it. It was during this period that I experienced the multitude of realms and states of being that most people would call death. I perceived an �afterlife' that was full of not only my Christian expectations, but my Buddhist and Hindu belief structures as well.�

Several years ago, I evaluated 50 NDEs on my website and found that 65% of them contained a reference to mental telepathy. In the physical world, you can say something while thinking something entirely different. This is not possible in the realm where thoughts are deeds and where we truly are what we think. Communication in the NDE realm is by telepathy and travel is by thought. It is virtually impossible in the NDE realm to communicate anything but what you really think. This explains why so many NDErs report that there are no secrets there. You cannot hide who you really are inside. This is why St. Teresa of Avila once said, "After you die, you wear what you are." Examples of mental telepathy during NDEs are presented on this page. This page is not yet finished and will be an on-going project of mine until I cover all examples on my website.

Several years ago, I evaluated 50 NDEs on my website and found that 21% of them described their NDE in terms of a "homecoming." The concept of death as a "homecoming" appears frequently in NDE reports and in other phenomenon such as deathbed visions and after-death communications. In this sense, death is very much like birth whereas people go through a tunnel connected to an umbilical (silver cord in the case of death) which becomes severed and then where we are received by loved ones. Death is frequently described as "going home" to our true origins. This web page will present the many examples of the homecoming motif which appears in NDEs.

One of the most remarkable aspects of NDEs is the large percentage of people who are told "You are not ready" or "It is not time for you to die" or some variation of this. When I evaluated 50 of the NDEs on my website, I found that 46% of them involved the experiencer being told this. This is remarkable because if the NDE was merely "mental flatulence" produced by the brain as so many skeptics claim, how do they explain using brain chemicals only how so many experiencers are told the same thing? Suppose 46% of all experiencers are told "Seize the day" instead of "It's not your time." Would it be any more remarkable? I don't think so. What about if 46% of experiencers are told "Did you have fun?" Such a remark is just as cryptic as being told "It's not time." And it should be apparent that brain chemistry cannot explain it.

There is a wealth of information from many NDEs on my website concerning spirit guides and this web page will contain as much as possible on the subject. This page is not yet finished and will be an on-going project of mine until I cover all examples on my website.