Astrology and the Near-Death Experience 

  Carl Jung, the world-renowned psychologist who had a near-death experience, believed that when people are born, or when anything happens, the influence of the planets are exerted on them. As such, Jung believed astrology is a symbolic system that works through synchronicity, a term coined by Jung. Synchronicity is the belief that everything in the universe is interrelated and that what occurs can be understood as a pattern of meaningful coincidences. Jung's near-death  experience was a major influence on his life and work.

  A recent episode of the television program, Unsolved Mysteries, profiled a segment concerning an experiment in astrology. The producers of the show had twenty astrological birth charts from people at random. Included with the twenty astrological charts, the producers put the astrological charts of four serial killers: Jeffrey Dahmer, David Son of Sam Berkowitz, David the Night Stalker Ramirez, and Ed Kemper. These astrological charts were given to Carolyn Reynolds, a well-known astrologer, to see if she can glean any information from them. Without knowing the identity of the people whose charts she was analyzing, Carolyn Reynolds successfully identified the four people as possible serial killers. She was also able to give other specific information about these serial killers that proved correct. She was able to do all this just by analyzing their astrological birth chart.

A similar experiment was done by other people with a different set of people and a different group of serial killers. The astrologer who evaluated their birth charts without knowing who they were, was Edna Rowland, another professional astrologer. They came up with similar results and published their findings in a book entitled, Destined for Murder: Profiles of Six Serial Killers With Astrological Commentary.

  More scientific evidence suggestive of astrology is available on this website.

There is an astrological connection between the Beings of Light, the near-death experiencer, and the near-death experience itself. This astrological connection can best be seen in those NDEs where the experiencer appears before the Being of Light and a group of other light beings. Experiencers have referred to this group by different names: a Council of Elders, a council of men, or council, or Elders, or something similar to these. This council usually consists of twelve Beings of Light who are representatives of the twelve signs of the zodiac. This astrological connection becomes apparent when an experiencer undergoes a life review or special encounter with others usually for the purpose of learning about their destiny or a prophecy.

  Jesus led Betty before a Council of men who decided to reveal to Betty her mission in order to convince her to return to earth:

  The following information reinforces the connection between the twelve signs of the zodiac, the twelve apostles of Jesus, and the twelve Elders of the Council.

  Through her near-death experience and subsequent psychic abilities, Sylvia learned that upon death, most people go through a heavenly process before entering into heaven. Part of that process is going before a Council of Elders:

  Dr. Newton's important research into hypnotic regression into past life memories led him to the discovery of memories of experiences in out-of-body dimensions between earth lives. After a multitude of regressions, Newton realized that a process exists after death where people appear before a Council of Elders:

  During Brian's NDE, he was given information about the past, the present and the future from twelve otherworldly Beings of Light who have similarities to the Elders found in Betty's UFO NDE and Dannion Brinkley's Beings who represented different signs of the zodiac:

  In the Book of Revelation in the Bible, John is taken into heaven before Jesus and twenty-four Elders on thrones. Twelve of the Elders certainly must represent the twelve apostles as has already been established. The identity of the other twelve Elders could be the twelve Angels mentioned in the Book of Revelation. Both references are as follows:

During John's experience in heaven, he is shown a vision of the future when the heavenly city comes to earth. In his description of this city, notice the connection between the twelve apostles and the twelve angels.

  During Black Elk's NDE, he went before a council of six old grandfathers whom he described as "older than men can ever be - old like hills, old like stars."Because these six beings represent grandfathers, it might be implied that there are also six fathers that go with these six grandfathers but are not mentioned. Nevertheless, Black Elk's NDE encounter with a council of men who are representatives of archetypal powers:

  Near-death experiences support the ancient astrological concept of planetary afterlife realms. The following are some examples.

  Below is a chart that displays Cayce's description of the connection between human bodies, astronomical bodies, astrological bodies, and the heavenly bodies.

  After death, each soul must rise as best it can through a hierarchy of afterlife realms and face the increasingly difficult challenges (in the form of a password) posed by the guardian angel of each realm. Those liberated souls that have attained gnosis (spiritual knowledge) are received back into the bosom of God. Others must reincarnate until they do. (Apostle Paul, the Apocalypse of Paul)

  During Mary Pollack's NDE, she was confronted by two heavenly beings who asked her to give them a password for which she could continue further on in her experience. She gave them the correct password and was amazed because she had absolutely no idea how she knew it. She asked the beings, "You mean this is this all I had to say?" They replied, "You had to learn it for yourself. We couldn't have told you. We couldn't have taught you. This is something that had to come from you." (NDE video documentary Round Trip)

  A cosmic axis exists in the spirit world. It is a matrix of rainbow light that holds together eight spheres that revolve around the earth. Each sphere is guided by destiny. One of these spheres has a fate that casts a number of earthly destinies from which the soul can choose from. For example, a soul can choose to reincarnate as a tyrant, an animal, an artist, or, an ordinary citizen who minds his own business. (Plato)

Many near-death experiences involve a person's consciousness expanding until it fills the entire universe and beyond. This experience has been described as literally becoming the universe or becoming God by experiencers. This characteristic found in NDEs corresponds with the astrological concept of how we are influenced by cosmic forces and otherworldly experiences in past life dimensions. The following are some NDE examples of this astrological concept:

  "Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of life. I saw the earth fly away. The solar system, in all its splendor, whizzed by and disappeared. At faster than light speed, I flew through the center of the galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that this galaxy, and all of the Universe, is bursting with many different varieties of LIFE. I saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not alone in this Universe! As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center of the galaxy, the stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy. The super clusters of galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At first I thought I was going somewhere; actually traveling. But then I realized that, as the stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also expanding to take in everything in the Universe!" (Mellen-Thomas Benedict)

  "The stars seemed to fly past me so rapidly that they formed a tunnel around me. I began to sense awareness, knowledge. The farther forward I was propelled the more knowledge I received. My mind felt like a sponge, growing and expanding in size with each addition. The knowledge came in single words and in whole idea blocks. I just seemed to be able to understand everything as it was being soaked up or absorbed. I could feel my mind expanding and absorbing and each new piece of information somehow seemed to belong. It was as if I had known already but forgotten or mislaid it, as if it were waiting here for me to pick it up on my way by." (Virginia Rivers)

  "And in your life review you'll be the universe and experience yourself in what you call your lifetime and how it affects the universe." (Thomas Sawyer)

  After hovering around New York, Susan Blackmore floated back to her room in Oxford where she became very small and entered her body's toes. Then she grew very big, as big as a planet at first, and then she filled the solar system and finally she became as large as the universe. (Susan Blackmore)

  "I am love; I am understanding; I am compassion! My presence fills the room. And now I feel my presence in every room in the hospital. Even the tiniest space in the hospital is filled with this presence that is me. I sense myself beyond the hospital, above the city, even encompassing earth. I am melting into the universe. I am everywhere at once." (Josiane Antonette)

  "You must be ready to accept the possibility that there is a limitless range of awareness for which we now have no words; that awareness can expand beyond the range of your ego, your self, your familiar identity, beyond everything you have learned, beyond your notions of space and time, beyond the differences which usually separate people from each other and from the world around them." (Dr. Timothy Leary)

  "I was involved in this tremendous pouring forth of gratitude and joy and as that was going inside me, this white light began to infiltrate my consciousness. It came into me. It seemed I went out into it. I expanded into it as it came into my field of consciousness." (Jayne Smith)

  "I felt caught up in all of this to the very depths of my being. I felt myself expanding and expanding until I thought, 'I'm going to burst!' The moment I thought, 'I'm going to burst!,' I suddenly found myself alone, back where this being had met me, and he had gone." (Margaret Tweddell)

One of the main principles behind astrology is the notion that all things are connected together, specifically the connection of planetary influences to the mind, body and soul. Some experiencers have seen this astrological connection in an astounding and explicit manner. These NDEs reveal how everything is connected to each other by a spiritual matrix or net - a concept which agrees with astrology. The following are some examples:

  "I perceived how the earth, the sun, the moon, the darkness, the light, the planets, and all forms of life - plants, rocks, animals, people - are interconnected; they come from the same source of light. Everything is united by a transparent net, or web, and each thread shines with great radiance. Everything pulses with the same luminosity - a magnificent light of unparalleled brilliance." (Josiane Antonette)

  "As I asked the light to keep explaining, I understood what the Higher Self matrix is. We have a grid around the planet where all the Higher Selves are connected. This is like a great company, a next subtle level of energy around us, the spirit level, you might say. As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge light coming. I knew it was the First Light; the Higher Self Light Matrix of our solar system. Then the entire solar system appeared in the light, accompanied by one of those velvet booms. I saw that the solar system we live in is our larger, local body. This is our local body and we are much bigger than we imagine. I saw that the solar system is our body. I am a part of this, and the earth is this great created being that we are, and we are the part of it that knows that it is. But we are only that part of it. We are not everything, but we are that part of it that knows that it is. I could see all the energy that this solar system generates, and it is an incredible light show! I could hear the Music of the Spheres. Our solar system, as do all celestial bodies, generates a unique matrix of light, sound and vibratory energies. Advanced civilizations from other star systems can spot life as we know it in the universe by the vibratory or energy matrix imprint." (Mellen-Thomas Benedict)

  "I knew the Lights were connected to the individual people, although more of them, than with them, almost as if they were an extension of their existence - a light connection to an aspect of their Higher Self. The Lights, a connection to the humans, which were glinting off the beings were so bright and expansive, they interconnected, forming a sort of light grid. I remembered accounts in books on the near-death experience of people seeing grids on the other side that they didn't know how to explain. As I looked at the network of light before me and felt the immense outpouring of love coming from the beings, I realized the connection of human beings to the Beings of Light was through love and that the love itself was connected through this grid." (Linda Stewart)

  "Seeing the Pattern, I knew I was looking at life itself. It was light; it was time and space. It was the energy of all matter, the heart of all that mattered. It was the very essence of all being. It emanated from Source, illuminated to my mind by the Source behind the sun as it moved in perfect harmony with all the universe. In simplest terms the Pattern is knotted light, a matrix that connects two structures ... The Pattern is quite literally the language between these two very different structures. It comes into being as the light from the 48 vertex of the inner sphere, are emitted, bouncing and caught under the twelve umbrella points of the external structure. As long as the light is a point with a joint, it continues around the larger sphere until it reconnects with Itself, thus forming a continuum, the Pattern." (Lynnclaire Dennis)

  "Extended from above throughout the heaven and the earth, a straight light like a pillar, most nearly resembling the rainbow, but brighter and purer ... and they saw there at the middle of the light the extremities of its fastenings stretched from heaven, for this light was the girdle of the heavens like the undergirders of triremes, holding together in like manner the entire revolving vault." (Plato's Er)

  "Suddenly I saw a streak of light come and it was absorbed into the earth. I thought, 'A shooting star!' No, it was impressed on me, it was not a shooting star, but it was a stream of power coming to the earth from the celestial bodies. These streams of power were coming down from all angles to the earth. There were also streams that were going between star and star and star like a tremendous web. These streams of power had a set pattern like a web of a fishing net, which was all continuous with the power of lights pulsating backward and forward. (Margaret Tweddell)

  The Bible mentions that God uses the heavenly bodies to show humans the signs of his intentions. These signs can be read by anyone who knows how to interpret them. Astrology is about interpreting these signs in the motions of the sun, moon, planets, and stars. This section reveals Biblical support for astrology. A more in-depth article on this subject can be found here: Astrology and the NDE.

  Jesus used astrology to reveal the signs in the sky of his coming.

  God used astrology to answer Job about questioning his omnipotence.

  Astrology refers to every 2160 years as a new age which is a different sign of the zodiac that comes into position to influence the earth. The Bible describes events that will occur according to the signs of the astrological ages. Many people would be surprised to learn that the term and concept of a new age originated with the Bible.

  Here is an excellent Bible passage that uncannily describes the astrological influences on humanity:  

  According to Flavius Josephus (A.D. 37 - 95), the famed Jewish historian, the Jewish temple at Jerusalem had the twelve signs of the zodiac inlaid in its floor. Josephus also stated that the twelve loaves of showbread in the temple was a reference to the zodiac. In modern times, Israel issued stamps with the zodiac signs identified with the twelve tribes of Israel and the astrological symbolism of the temple. Also, according to Josephus, a kind of miraculous quality was presumed to be found in the stones of the breastplate worn by the high priest of the temple. In this breastplate were twelve stones, representing the twelve signs of the zodiac, and arranged in four rows to represent the four seasons.