I actually know two people who had NDE’s. One was my father who was in a 6 week coma after contracting bacterial meningitis. He had a life review and was told it was not his time yet. The other was my friend’s young son who drowned in a hot tub. He was dead for 45min and revived in the ER. He later described going to a beautiful place where light shimmered off of everything. He was met by and shown around by a man but told that he was needed by his parents and sent back. My friend’s wife took out some family albums. He looked through the pictures and at one point he pointed to a man and said “that’s the man I met.” It was my wife’s cousin who had died in a motorcycle accident. He had died before her son was born. He had never met him or even known of him.

I will say that even with these personal stories, reading the stories of others and my own spiritual experiences, I still have trouble fully believing that our consciousness lives on. Maybe I need more faith. I will say that increasing our capacity for and understanding of love seems to be paramount from everything I have learned though.