The Purpose of Life

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Raymond Moody’s Suicide & Near-Death Experience

by David Sunfellow

Paranormal: My Life In Pursuit Of The Afterlife By Raymond Moody with Paul Perry Published February 7, 2012 Excerpt from Chapter 15: In my office I opened the bottle of Darvon and poured the pills out onto my desk. Then I began to take them several at a time with gulps from a can of Coca-Cola. I […]

Why We Are Here (Julie Aubier)

by David Sunfellow

Why We Are Here By Near-Death Experiencer Julie Aubier When I was 19, I [was] violently attacked and I had a near-death experience. I completely left my body. First, I saw myself… [from] the corner of the room… I was looking [down] at myself… At that moment, I saw my aggressor, I saw what was […]

“Love The Person You’re With”

by David Sunfellow

Original Link ……………. Howard Storm (born October 26, 1946, in Flushing, New York) is a former atheist and art professor and chairman of the art department at the Northern Kentucky University. He is best known as the author of “My Descent Into Death” which details his near-death experience. Storm’s NDE is regarded as one of the most complete […]

Teaching Others About NDEs

by David Sunfellow

Teaching Others About Near-Death Experiences By David Sunfellow Many of us realize that the core truths championed by near-death experiences have the potential to change the world. After we’ve educated ourselves and started applying NDE truths to our personal lives, the next step is to share what we’ve learned with others. If you’re ready for this step and […]

Mary Reed: God, Jesus, and Buddha

by David Sunfellow

About Mary Reed Original Link Mary Reed is an “accidental” mystic who, following eleven years of profound, involuntary visions and insights into divine realms, surrendered her executive life in Washington, DC to explore her spiritual gifts in a remote Buddhist nunnery in India. She grew up without any interest in religion but with an innate […]

Swedenborg: How Different Religions Coexist in Heaven

by David Sunfellow

Curtis Childs of the Swedenborg Foundation has been cranking out some fantastic videos that illuminate the sometimes dense world of mystic and near-death experiencer Emanuel Swedenborg. Their most recent video tackles the subject of “How Different Religions Coexist in Heaven”. I found Swedenborg’s description of heaven utterly wonderful. Why? Because it echoes — and elaborates on — […]

Dream: The Open Door

by David Sunfellow

Dream: The Open Door By David Sunfellow Original Link I was abused as a child, on many different levels: physically, emotionally, psychologically. I internalized, very deeply, the idea that the world (and the people in it) hurt us and I developed a philosophy that reflected that. In my particular case, that meant I thought a […]

We Are Like Colanders

by David Sunfellow

We Are Like Colanders By David Sunfellow Original Link If we imagine our Authentic Selves to be like water, then our earthly selves are like colanders that are full of holes. The less developed we are, the more holes we have; the more developed we are, the fewer holes we have. The holes represent lack […]

Life Is All About Relationship

by David Sunfellow

Life Is All About Relationship By David Sunfellow Original Link One of the major themes that emerge in NDEs is that life is about relationship. Once we begin to understand what this means, a whole new world of understanding emerges. Whereas before we may have focused on some areas of our life and ignored others, […]

It’s The Little Things

by David Sunfellow

It’s The Little Things (v1.1) By David Sunfellow It’s the little things in life that are the big things. Respond to opportunities to express kindness, caring, and compassion that cross our path, especially those that seem small and insignificant. Treat everyone and everything — humans, animals, plants, objects, the unseen forces of life — kindly […]

Dream: A Reluctant Hobbit

by David Sunfellow

A Reluctant Hobbit By David Sunfellow Monday, February 23, 2015 I am watching a small group of people on a Lord-of-the-Rings-style adventure. One of the members of the group is a hobbit who is fearful and reluctant. I become aware of three things: 1. The hobbit knows that challenging times lie ahead (he may have […]

Dream: The Greatest Movie Ever Made

by David Sunfellow

The Greatest Movie Ever Made January, 1987 By David Sunfellow I dreamed I was sitting in a movie theater watching a movie. As I watched the movie, a host of meandering, shallow, incoherent, sometimes violent images tumbled across the screen. “What kind of ridiculous movie is this?” I thought, appalled that someone had spent millions […]

Story: The Hopping Stone Vision

by David Sunfellow

The Hopping Stone Vision By David Sunfellow Winter, 1995 Sedona, Arizona Deep in the southwest deserts, an old medicine man and young brave stand atop a great plateau. Together they silently survey all the Earth. After what seems like ages of absorbing all that can be seen, the old man taps his medicine stick on […]

Three Questions

by David Sunfellow

Three Questions By David Sunfellow Question One In this world, it’s clear that there are places that are both heavenly and hellish. We have peaceful, idyllic countries like Denmark and dark and dangerous countries like North Korea. And what is true on the level of countries, is also true on the level of cities, and […]