“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. …

“It was Easter Monday. Early that morning I sat bolt upright in bed. My husband asked me what was the matter. I exclaimed, ‘Jesus, I’ve seen Jesus!’”

“[My heart] Lub-thump… lub-thump… lub—(silence)—came completely to rest . I could immediately feel the blood flow slow down, then completely stop in every part of the body. In that first second, I became detached from the body and hovered within and around it.”

In response to a very kind listener’s call, we talk about the music that near-death experiencers hear in the spirit world. Lani Leary, whose experience we shared in a previous episode, heard beautiful music in heaven, and some time after her return found herself mesmerized by the work of Iasos in a piece he wrote …

After sharing the experience of Connie, who had a brief brush with the afterlife following surgery, we share a listener comment and discuss dreams in the context of the near-death experience. We also share a comment that sheds further insight on the episode about the NDE of Leola Curtis.

When Sherry’s son died, she was devastated. But four months after his death, Sherry had an experience that assured her that her son was both okay, and waiting for her.

Bill was in a terrible car accident that left him not in pain, but rather in total comfort and relaxation. And as he left his body, he says, “I was pure energy and I was drawn to a huge white and golden light that seemed to encompass the whole universe.”

Chen’s NDE carries some interesting insights about the connection of the spirit and the body. After experiencing a tunnel, and then a place of warm, loving, learning, Chen was able to control his physical body sufficient to keep it alive until he was able to get back in.

Today we share the experience of one who discovered the fascinating capacity we have to learn while in spirit form. But are the things we learn so easily in spirit form the things we came into this mortal, physical life to learn?

Kesha was in a pretty bad place in her life when a drug overdose took her out of this world, and into the next. But, like the beloved Christmas Carol character, Ebenezer Scrooge, Kesha found in her experience motivation to make a change.