Yes, it's a very impressive NDE.

However, these 3 excerpts puzzle me:

* Life on earth, filled with darkness, pain, sorrow, limits and limitations, was like a horrifying prison compared to this wonderful place, and I simply refused to go back

* The being was not judging me in any way during the life review, even though I saw a lot of shortcomings in my life.

* The love these beings of light exuded healed me, swept away all the darkness in me, erased all of the pain and sorrow I'd accumulated during my life on earth

They puzzle me because, at the time of her NDE, she was all of five years old!  Most 5 yr old kids most definitely do not have these feelings about their lives.  Instead, these quotes sound like someone much older would say, someone with many more years of experience on earth.

Maybe in her five years she experienced or witnessed all sorts of hardships and perhaps emotional/physical pain, but she doesn't give us any information about the nature of her life prior to the NDE other than the fact that she was on holiday when it happened.

That sort of rules out a life of poverty and deprivation.
R

Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but she states that the NDE was forgotten at five, but then, came back to her when she was older. 

This goes contrary to many who have had NDEs.  They seem to recall it after they regain consciousness, and it becomes something they couldn't forget. 

Memories buried in childhood are fraught with interpretative issues.  I recall that incident where they were villifying several daycare workers about possible child/sexual abuse.  When all was said and done and the interrogations of the children were viewed by prosecutors, it was clear that the "memories" in that instance were implanted by suggestion.

I think it was a beautiful NDE as written, just not sure what to make about the total recall after forgetting it at age five.  I have a six year old son now.  I can't imagine he would have forgotten.

M

Re: NDE's DocM wrote on Jan 6^th, 2009 at 5:08pm:


  Another way to look at this, is from a question i have.  I have wondered here and there, how could we have so forgotten our original and innate Oneness with Source and all of Creation?   How is that i, someone who knows better, and knows consciously and intellectually that Oneness and PUL are THE reality, why do i then so often forget that state of being, why do i still err, and live that which is unreality? 

  Maybe sometimes its easy to forgot..forget even really important things?   

 Certainly would seem that way Beau.  Some people think the physical was created by outside sources purely as a learning place, involving contrast and the like, for us.  There wasn't ever any error, misapplication of our freewill, or shortsightedness on our parts.

 Some think it is purely the result of a separation which originally took place in Spirit, and was only due to some of us using our freewill in a silly and shortsighted manner.  As being such, it is completely illusionary and totally unnecessary.  Something that ACIM seems to teach.


 To me, both are kind of extreme.  Me, i'm kind of in the middle of the whole thing, but a bit more balanced to the 2nd.   I think the physical became necessary once the separation in Spirit occurred.  It was manifested then, by a combo of our consciousness getting ever more stuck and slowing down in vibration, and by the work of the Co-Creator of the Earth's Soul to provide us proper vehicles, etc. for our experiences here.    

 So, i do appreciate the physical, even though i know its ultimately an illusion.   Actually, originally i didn't get involved in this whole Earth thing because of self stuckness.  I came here with the Co-Creator, along with many others, on a short sighted mission to help unstick others, but eventually got too caught up in the drama myself.  I let myself get led into the ways of selfishness and material mindedness.   Once unloving karma is enacted, it must be balanced in some experience or another.  

Any source that tells you karma doesn't exist in any form or manner, is quite frankly full of b.s.b.s. (belief system bull shite) in my not always humble opinion.  

 Quite a few Souls here at this site, an unusual number/percentage for one place, were once these original service Souls who originally came to Earth to help unstick their stuck brethren--we've been "Retrievers" from the very beginning, but now need a little retrieving help of our own.  Yet, all is One, and One is all.  

 

Exciting stuff eh...

Even a 5 year old person has already lived many lifetimes before.
So she was not only a child.

Thank you for your insightful thoughts Mark. They make good sense to me.