Homecoming and the Near-Death Experience
 Here
are some examples of the homecoming people have during their
near-death experiences:
Betty Bethards' NDE Homecoming Experience: "When
you die you are greeted by loved ones first so that you may
understand what has happened. There is a big celebration, like
a birthday party, heralding your arrival. Family and friends
who have gone on before you are there to celebrate your arrival.
There is always good at the time of your cross-over. Even people
who have lived lives of selfishness will know and understand
the rejoicing. Whatever you have sown you are going to reap
in terms of structuring your experiences and lessons which continue
on the other side. But the first few days of cross-over (as
you know time on the earth plane) you are allowed to be with
your teachers, and those who have loved you in the past. You
are able to see those you left behind and to hear their thoughts
and words. The first six weeks we stay very close to our loved
ones on the earth plane ... After the first six weeks the soul
meets with what may be called a loving board of directors. It
is composed of teachers and other higher beings who have walked
with you. These beings help you review your past life, to begin
to look at what was learned and not learned, and what you wish
to work on or do from this point." (Betty
Bethards)
Ned Dougherty's NDE Homecoming Experience: "I turned
to my right, realizing that a group of spiritual beings had
joined us on the celestial field. This event was indeed a homecoming
for me. Among the group of spiritual beings, I recognized deceased
friends and relatives from my life. I also recognized other
friends from my spiritual life prior to my birth on earth. I
was filled with joy when I recognized my grandparents, aunts,
and uncles who had died during my life. However, I was disappointed
because I did not see my Dad among the group. I then recognized
other friends from my life, including a girl from high school.
I did not know she had died. The feelings of love and joy that
I shared with these relatives and friends were far beyond the
emotions I had shared with them during my life. As the child
of an alcoholic and broken home, I did not communicate feelings
to relatives or friends very well. In fact, I wasn't aware that
I had many feelings. Most of my feelings were hidden inside.
Now that I was at my homecoming as a spiritual being, the greetings
were the kind that I had imagined took place in a healthy family.
It seemed as if we were celebrating every major holiday, every
birth and birthday, every wonderful event in all of our lives
in a manner that we could never celebrate as mortal human beings.
I wanted this celebration and homecoming to continue forever,
but a silence suddenly fell across the crowded amphitheater."
(Ned
Dougherty)
Sylvia Browne's NDE Homecoming
Experiences: "Most
people, who go through the heavenly process, go through a tunnel
and towards the light of God. They return home to the place
they came from on the other side. Here, they have a reunion
with family and friends who have departed before them. After
the reunion, most of us are lead by our spirit guide to a building
on the other side called the Hall of Wisdom. In a sacred room,
we see our lives flash before us ... Once a person has adjusted
to the transition, they can visit a place called the Hall of
Records where historical data is stored such as the charts of
everyone's past lives. Another beautiful structure is the Hall
of Justice where people go before the Council of Elders who
are highly advanced spokespersons of God who help us decide
how we are to progress further into the spirit realm. Sylvia
describes seven levels of advancement and they are: (1) The
reunion and homecoming previously discussed, (2) The orientation
process previously discussed, (3) Becoming skilled in a particular
vocation, (4) Becoming creative in the arts, (5) Researching
areas of progress and passing the knowledge to earth through
a process of infused knowledge, (6) Becoming a teacher or leader,
(7) Forfeiting your identity as a personality by willingly absorbing
into the light of God." (Sylvia
Browne)
Betty Eadie's NDE Homecoming Experience: "Life
does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world
of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual
that is no more frightening or painful than passing between
rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to
our natural home." (Betty
Eadie)
George Anderson's Psychic Revelations: "Well, according
to what they say, go through the different levels of consciousness.
We're working our way up. It's like, to go up to the twelfth
grade, you've got to pass the first through the eleventh. When
we pass on, we do go into the tunnel, we can go through these
little darker levels, which can represent a form of hell or
purgatory, because these are the two negative levels, or the
darker ones. But if we've been a good person, we generally just
seem to pass through them very quickly and then we go on through
the third and fourth levels of consciousness, where average
people such as ourselves go - not everybody can be a Mother
Teresa, who would probably go higher up. When we go through
these levels we meet our relatives and friends greeting us at
the end of the tunnel, much as in the movie Resurrection, where
they're waiting and they lead us into the light. And there's
like a form of spiritual rejuvenation, like a reunion, like
a party, 'Hey, it's great to see you again.' We recognize each
other by personality. As we all have individual, unique fingerprints,
we each have a very singular personality." (George
Anderson)
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross' NDE Homecoming Research:
"His entire family had piled into a family van and were on the
way to pick him up when this tragic accident occurred which
burned his entire family to death. He shared the shock and the
numbness, the utter disbelief of suddenly being a single man,
of having had children and suddenly becoming childless, of living
without a single close relative. He told of his total inability
to come to grips with it. He shared how he changed from a money-earning,
decent, middle-class husband and father to a total bum, drunk
every day from morning to night, using every conceivable drug
and trying to commit suicide in every conceivable way, yet never
able to succeed. His last recollection was that after two years
of literally bumming around, he was lying on a dirt road at
the edge of a forest, drunk and stoned as he called it, trying
desperately to be reunited with his family. Not wanting to live,
not even having the energy to move out of the road when he saw
a big truck coming toward him and running over him. It was at
this moment that he watched himself in the street [sic], critically
injured, while he observed the whole scene of the accident from
a few feet above. It was at this moment that his family appeared
in front of him, in a glow of light with an incredible sense
of love. They had happy smiles on their faces, and simply made
him aware of their presence, not communicating in any verbal
way but in the form of thought transference, sharing with him
the joy and happiness of their present existence. 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.
It was after this vow that he watched the truck driver carry
his totally injured body into the car. He saw an ambulance speeding
to the scene of the accident, he was taken to the hospital's
emergency room and he finally re-entered his physical body,
tore off the straps that were tied around him and literally
walked out of the emergency room. He never had delirium tremens
or any aftereffects from the heavy abuse of drugs and alcohol.
He felt healed and whole, and made a commitment that he would
not die until he had the opportunity of sharing the existence
of life after death with as many people as would be willing
to listen. It was after reading a newspaper article about my
appearance in Santa Barbara that he sent a message to the auditorium.
By allowing him to share with my audience he was able to keep
the promise he made at the time of his short, temporary, yet
happy reunion with his entire family. (Dr.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)
Aziz Khabirpour's NDE Homecoming Research: "Meeting
others during an NDE is not uncommon, and often has great effect
upon the person's being afterwards. The people they meet are
either family members or very close friends. These people, in
form of spiritual beings, are usually there to either protect
or guide the person. It is not always common for the person
to be seen, but usually they are more felt'. One woman who met
her family when she died states, I felt that they had come to
protect or guide me. It was almost as if I was coming home,
and they were there to greet or welcome me. All this time, I
had the feeling of everything light and beautiful. It was a
beautiful and glorious moment (Moody 55). Accounts have also
been reported where the dead person is guided around by his/her
pet, that he/she used to have. The people one encounters with
are usually people that played an important role in ones life.
The people that were seen could often be described as soul mates.
So this shows how only people that we have a special bond with
in this life, will we encounter in the next." (Aziz
Khabirpour)
Michelle Dillon's NDE Homecoming Experience: "And
then I was Home and I knew it was Home and I wasn't afraid.
I saw lots of people I knew, some of whom I've since met, and
a lot of whom I knew were 'related' but that wasn't what mattered.
What mattered was that I KNEW them and they KNEW me and we hadn't
said a word. Or, well, we had, sort of, only not SAID. But I
have never since been involved in such a joyful welcome, being
loved, totally loved." (Michelle
Dillon)
Randy Gehling's NDE Homecoming Experience: Randy
could hear beautiful music playing somewhere off in the distance. "Just
a little ways off I could see a bridge with someone standing
on it. Beyond the bridge, I saw a golden city with towers like
European castles. The whole city seemed to be shining with light
that shot up into the sky like a giant searchlight. I could
see that some of the domes of the city were red, others were
gold, and a few were blue. The gates and walls of the city seemed
to be made of bright blue, red, and violet lights." Randy
asked Areo if they were going to visit the city. The angel nodded.
"That's to be your new home, Randy." They began walking toward
the bridge to the city, and Randy saw that the man standing
awaiting them was his Grandpa Hansen. Randy ran to his grandfather
and felt his strong arms close around him. Grandpa Hansen had
been a farmer all of his life in Minnesota. He had died, still
a powerful man, when Randy was six. Randy asked his beloved
grandfather if he would now be living with him in heaven. "One
day," Grandpa Hansen told him. "But not just yet."
When Randy questioned his grandfather, he told him that he still
had things to learn on earth. (Randy
Gehling)
Laurelynn Martin's NDE Homecoming Experience: "As
I admired the beauty of the light, I was drawn closer, feeling
the radiant warmth, infinite love and lasting peace. I felt
as if I were home in the light. Before I became further engulfed
in the light, I became aware of many spirits. They surrounded,
embraced and supported my journey with their gentleness, knowledge
and guidance. I felt one of them approach from my right upper
side. This familiar presence came forward and my feelings changed
to sheer joy when I discovered my thirty year old brother-in-law,
the one who had died seven months earlier from cancer. My essence
moved to meet his essence. I couldn't see with my eyes or hear
with my ears, yet I instinctively knew that it was 'Wills.'
I heard his smile, saw his laughter and felt his humor. It didn't
make sense, but it made complete sense. We were separate but
we were also one. It was as if I had come home and my brother-in-law
was here to greet me. I instantly thought how glad I was to
be with him, because now I could make up for the last time I
had seen him before his death. I felt sad and a bit guilty for
not taking the time out of my busy schedule to have a heart-to-heart
talk with him when he had asked me to. I realized I was not
being judged by him but by myself. I was in his position dying,
wanting to say goodbye to those I loved, and then meeting people
like myself not 'getting it' not getting that all the achievement,
money or recognition in the world cannot be taken with you when
you die. The only thing you take with you is the love you give
away." (Laurelynn
Martin)
Karen Schaeffer's NDE Homecoming Experience: "Immediately
I was in the most beautiful serene place I had ever been. My
grandfather, another person whom I had known in a previous life,
and a guardian were ready to help me with the transition. They
told me of the accident, showed me the site. It was my time
to come home they said. The overwhelming love and happiness
of that place was so inviting." (Karen
Schaeffer)
Dr. Michael Newton's Regression Research: "After
physical death, a soul's journey back home ends with debarkation
into the space reserved for their own colony, as long as they
are not a very young soul or isolated for other reasons. The
souls represented in these cluster groups are intimate old friends
who have the same awareness level. Members of the same cluster
group are closely united for all eternity. These tightly-knit
clusters are often composed of like-minded souls with common
objectives which they continually work out with each other.
Usually they choose lives together as relatives and close friends
during their incarnations on earth." (Dr.
Michael Newton)
Barbara Springer's NDE Homecoming Experience: "I
then became aware of a bright heavenly being. I felt as if I
was in the presence of God. This being had light radiating from
him and he embraced me. And when he embraced me, I could feel
the most powerful love. It is the greatest love that there is
in the universe. There is no greater love. It was absolute,
total, real, great, engulfing love. I felt the love surrounding
me. I felt it flowing through me. There really are no words.
I can't find words to explain how I felt. The amount of joy
I felt. The amount of love I knew I was being given. I felt
as if I had come home. I knew this is where I actually belonged.
Even though I love earth and I love living here. But when I
was encountered by that being, I knew I had come home." (Barbara
Springer)
Barbara Marie's NDE Homecoming Experience: "And
then there was a period of being embraced by this love and peace
and serenity and knowing I had reached my final destination,
that this was truly a home. It gave new meaning to the word "home."
This, she realized, was where she actually belonged. This is
where she wanted to permanently be." (Barbara
Marie)
Arthur Yensen's NDE Homecoming Experience: "As
the heaven-people gathered around, the oldest, largest and strongest-looking
man announced pleasantly, 'You are in the land of the dead.
We lived on earth, just like you, till we came here.' With unbounded
enthusiasm I shouted, 'This is wonderful!' 'It's marvelous!'
they answered. Then with delight they told me how I could swim
around in the lake as long as I pleased and when I came out,
I'd be dry! Another one said, 'You can run, jump, dance, sing
and play as much as you want to and you'll never get tired!'
Then I noticed that the landscape was gradually becoming familiar.
It seemed as if I had been here before. I remembered what was
on the other side of the mountains. Then with a sudden burst
of joy, I realized that this was my real home! Back on earth
I had been a visitor, a misfit, and a homesick stranger. With
a sigh of relief, I said to myself, "Thank God I'm back
again. This time I'll stay!" (Arthur
Yensen)
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