Scott S
NDE
Greyson Scale: 29
#33099
Experience Description
On June 19, I was dead in the street from being hit by a SUV.
My body lay on the pavement, covered in hot motor oil while bleeding from my nose, mouth, ears, and eyes. I saw a pastor recited the last rites "May the Lord in his love and mercy help you... May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up." I had a hard time understanding who he was praying for. I was not there as my spirit had left the body. I was teleported upon impact, journeying in an instant to the other side. Paramedics resuscitated me and took me to the hospital. The prognosis was not good.
Although my body was resuscitated, I remained in a Stage-3 Glasgow coma, defined as a "deep coma or death." The white and gray layers of my brain were sheared upon impact, causing a diffuse axonal injury (DAI), which is the most severe traumatic brain injury known to science. Over 90 percent of DAI sufferers never regain consciousness, and those who do remain significantly impaired. I woke up from my coma on my birthday. I could not speak, did not know my name, did not recognize the woman praying at my bedside to whom I was married for 10 years, nor did I recognize the young man in my room who was my 19-year-old son. Of the 10% of DAI victims who survive, 82% are dead or put in a mental or other institution within four years.
In addition to this tragedy, I experienced an intense and unprecedented near-death experience. It was unprecedented because it lasted the entire nine days I was in a coma. I retained full recall of it, and it had all the standard NDE features, such as an out-of-body experience and life review. However, I experienced a few elements rarely documented before. My life review was not just of a single life but a review of several past lives. I also had a life preview showing me the future. I had answers to many religious and spiritual mysteries that were uploaded into my consciousness. For four years, I continued to experience NDE phenomena that continued to challenge my sanity. Sixty-five percent of NDErs get divorced, and 75% have career endings. I communicated daily with an intelligence from the "other side," which I began referring to as Akashic Agents.
After nine days in the ICU and 28 days in the hospital, I was discharged. I was terrified that the medical prognosis would be fulfilled and I would never recover back to normal or that there was a high chance that I would go insane. My miraculous recovery strategies were dictated to me by "Akashic Agents," who advised what to study and use.
Desperate for any way to survive and recover, I began to study and research everything there was to know about my specific brain injuries and NDEs. Over the next four years, a recovery strategy was engineered with guidance from Akashic Agents. This was a fusion of allopathic medicine, homeopathic strategies, and holistic methods that combined conventional physical therapy with Ashtanga, Tantra, and Kundalini yoga. I replaced all prescription medications with organic supplements and a holistic diet. Additionally, I applied game-changing strategies from Ayurveda, Tai Chi, and acupuncture. UCLA’s Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) uses my case and fMRI for research and study.
To cope with the overwhelming features of the NDE phenomena, I used intense spiritual methods that included Bhakti yoga, esoteric mysticism, and theologies of omnism, syncretism, interfaith, and religious pluralism.
Today, after four years of intense effort, I have become a documented medical miracle. I have written five books, won six awards, and provide private counseling and guidance to people worldwide. While I am not the 4.0 tennis player I once was, I still play every day. While I am not backpacking the High Sierra Mountains like before, I hike rigorously. I work out daily and am completely self-reliant.
I was dead, but now I live. My life is a triumph over tragedy, yet I suffered tremendous losses: divorce, my successful career of helping others, and my finances have all been casualties. I have sorrow in my heart but joy in my spirit. It's rough. I still provide counseling services, and many people seek me out for spiritual guidance and training after seeing me interviewed or discovering my books. I had an idyllic life, was already deeply spiritual, and if I could go back in time before the accident, I would stay home that day and avoid the whole thing. As profound and inspiring as it is for others, it has been hard on me.
Background Information
Gender
Male
Date NDE Occurred
6/19/2013
Near Death Experience Elements
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event?
Yes, Accident, CPR was given (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), Clinical death (cessation of breathing or heart function)
How do you consider the content of your experience?
Both pleasant AND distressing
Did you feel separated from your body?
I clearly left my body and existed outside it
How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness?
More consciousness and alertness than normal, My personal ego, sense of 'self,' was not obscuring my thoughts or filtering any perceptions. It was pure, raw, and objective rather than subjective. I merely understood things as I was in a state of illumination that persisted during my coma and after.
At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness?
I was aware and alert for the entire nine days I was in a coma. I was not of the world, but of the 'other side.'
Were your thoughts speeded up?
Incredibly fast
Did time seem to speed up or slow down?
Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning, Time was irrelevant, though I understood it existed there in an incomprehensible way.
Were your senses more vivid than usual?
Incredibly more vivid
Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience
I had the capacity for long-term, nearly eternal vision. I have always seen things through spiritual and long-term lenses, but this experience confirmed, validated, and expanded that perspective.
Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience
I had no sense of physical 'hearing' or any other physical senses. I was in a formless, nonphysical state of pure consciousness.
Did you seem to be aware of things going on elsewhere?
Yes, and the facts have been checked out
Did you pass into or through a tunnel?
No
Did you see any beings in your experience?
I sensed their presence
Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings?
Yes, My past life previews traveled through time, witnessing spiritual events with figures like Buddha, Yeshua (Jesus), and esoteric teachers from history. Being in a coma for nine days gave me ample time for these visions.
Did you see, or feel surrounded by, a brilliant light?
A light clearly of mystical or other-worldly origin
Did you see an unearthly light?
No
Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world?
A clearly mystical or unearthly realm, A formless, timeless dimension of mind and spirit. It was an intermediate space between the physical world, psychic realms, and higher spiritual planes.
What emotions did you feel during the experience?
Contentment. I was in a desireless state. I had no needs or wants other than to please and serve a divine power of love. Without ego-identity, I was unburdened by desires or expectations and accepted reality as it is.
Did you have a feeling of peace or pleasantness?
Incredible peace or pleasantness
Did you have a feeling of joy?
Happiness
Did you feel a sense of harmony or unity with the universe?
I felt united or one with the world
Did you suddenly seem to understand everything?
Everything about the universe, Not everything as in omniscient, but everything I was 'qualified' to know or understand. With a lifetime of spiritual work and study, I was privy to a lot, such as how life, death, karma, reincarnation, spirit, psychic phenomena, etc. work and function. I was told this was rare and was because I could 'handle' it with my prior spiritual work and acceptance of all faiths (omnism).
Did scenes from your past come back to you?
I had a classic life review and preview, including dozens of past lives revealing my spiritual journey over millennia. I was shown what I did right and wrong, in growth and progress.
Did scenes from the future come to you?
Scenes from the world's future, Both. But I was shown mostly my future with shadowy, potential futures of the world and humanity. I was told no one is actually qualified to see the hard future facts, as free will can change destiny to an extent. I was shown potential realities of where things were headed; not predestined, but close!
Did you come to a border or point of no return?
I came to a barrier that I was not permitted to cross; or was sent back against my will, Staying was not an option. I had karmas to live out and my ultimate, predetermined time of death was not due. I did not want to return once I saw my life preview and the horrors I would endure from my accident. Unfortunately, these are all coming true and it is difficult.
God, Spiritual and Religion
What was your religion prior to your experience?
Other or several faiths, A mystic, yogi, and theologian since my youth. I qualify as a spiritual polymath.
Have your religious practices changed since your experience?
Yes, I was already a full-time practicing spiritualist. Lately, I do less as I am trying to survive in the world.
What is your religion now?
Other or several faiths, Same as above.
Did your experience include features consistent with your earthly beliefs?
Content that was both consistent and not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience, My lifelong spiritual work and study was confirmed as being on the right track, but it was revealed I only know a fraction of what is actually out there.
Did you have a change in your values and beliefs because of your experience?
Yes, This question was asked and answered a while ago. My beliefs deepened, but did not change.
Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice?
I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly origin, I was in direct contact and dialogue with a divine intelligence I now refer to as Akashic Agents. This connection continues, though it is more influenced by worldly reality. 'Akash' is a Sanskrit term for nonphysical space, a nondenominational concept. They are not 'God' directly, but divine agents managing karma, growth, and awareness.
Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc?)
Yes, I was given a tour of several 'celestial abodes,' each representing a specific faith. There were many, including some hellish ones. I was shown and explained how this system worked.
During your experience, did you gain information about universal connection or oneness?
Yes, I was shown that reality is paradoxical: we are all one, yet we are all also separate. Everything is connected yet lacks union due to acceptance and awareness, which is not real. All of creation is perfect, but we are too ignorant to accept it this way. We are all one power of 'soul,' yet we lack the ability to accept this due to the ego. I was told this is a 'divine ignorance' and is a special divine power itself.
Concerning our Earthly lives other than Religion
During your experience, did you gain special knowledge or information about your purpose?
Yes, Just to pursue spiritual union. As a person, I'm just human, trying to get along and help people. But I'm just a human.
During your experience, did you gain information about the meaning of life?
Yes, To evolve spiritually, nothing else. Be good, be spiritual, love the divine power.
During your experience, did you gain information about an afterlife?
Yes, In detail, yes. Infinite lives to get chances to achieve spiritual perfection, surrender, and become liberated from the material matrix.
Did you gain information about how to live our lives?
Yes, It is painful to see a world that pursues superficial happiness over spiritual connection. But I am no different. As spiritual as I try to live and practice, I am also enslaved by desires. It is difficult!
During your experience, did you gain information about life's difficulties, challenges and hardships?
Yes, Our challenges are carefully arranged to give us opportunity to grow and 'level-up'! We deserve all that happens to us from past-life actions and intentions (karma), and it is all carefully arranged to give us opportunity to grow up and spiritually develop.
During your experience, did you gain information about love?
Yes, God is love! All of creation and souls are a fraction of a divine power of love. It is, of course, all that matters.
What life changes occurred in your life after your experience?
My level of spiritual devotion before, during, and after my event was all that mattered to me. For twelve years now, I have struggled because my death event devastated my life. I remained strong and spiritual the entire time despite my hardships. It has been over a decade, and I am wearing out from keeping my faith and strength. I fear my worldly future, which is compromising my spiritual strength. I have endured more than I have ever heard of and, like Job, continue to suffer endlessly. I'm running out of energy. I remain mentally stable, I never get sick, I work nonstop; but remain alone, and my money is running out. I fear being homeless will cause me to become spiritually resentful. I have worked and enjoyed spiritual life all my life, and I cannot grasp why I was given so much and most of it was lost despite my spiritual devotion. I guess we'll see how it ends.
Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?
Yes, It alienated me significantly. I have low tolerance for casual or superficial relationships. Those I am close to respect and admire me greatly, and I care for them too.
After the NDE:
Was the experience difficult to express in words?
Yes, It is ineffable, but as a skilled articulator and writer, I feel confident I can express and explain the ineffable in terms others can grasp. It has been suggested by many that it is why I was 'chosen' to have this experience. I am to use my rare skills to share my highly unprecedented NDE.
How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience?
I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of the experience, For the first four years, I had little to no recall of my life before the accident and clear recall of my NDE episode. I worked hard to heal my brain and retrain my memory. I now have full recall of my worldly life too.
Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience?
Yes, A variety of psychic abilities, which I have no use for.
Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you?
It's all extraordinary and also challenging. Mine is not like any other I have heard of.
Have you ever shared this experience with others?
Yes
Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?
No
What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened?
Experience was definitely not real, I was in the middle of it for several years—it didn't stop!
What do you believe about the reality of your experience now?
Experience was definitely real, As real as anything else. It is not doubted in any way though I lately am wondering why it happened.
At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience?
Yes, I experience spontaneous recall for years. I have spontaneous past-life regression often and recognize people from prior life connections too. It's all rather automatic. I have to manage it so I turned it way down to function in the world. Spiritual consciousness does not pay the rent, and I need to survive here too!
Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience?
Infinite. I can go on and on about divine matters. It's not about me; it's about the spirit.
Did the questions asked and information that you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?
Yes, I think and hope so.