So I read "Saved by the Light" last night, by Dannion Brinkley

Hi OP

Let me collect my thoughts about the more extensive NDE experience, but this much I can write quickly

when the heavily drugged addict broke into my apartment in NYC, he held me in a chokehold for about 15 mins as I resisted him...my family doctor later told me that police have accidentally killed suspects with less than 5 mins

I fell on the floor, but I don't remember that part

I do recall suddenly become hyper aware of everything around me in a 360 degree awareness, as if I weren't limited by the direction of my eyes...and everything around me was bright, as if reality were scrubbed and clean

but you see, this happens gradually, there is nothing sudden. I think that is because some part of us is always operating on this level of hyper alert awareness, but the fog of daily livng, the fog of intoxication in our bodies interferes with and dulls the senses we were born with

so I was fully aware, watching this guy ransacking my apartment, and I felt calm watching him and I also felt sadness watching him, a sense of sorrow that he felt he had no other options in his life but to do what he was doing to me

I recall that as I was watching him, observing at that point the scene changed and I began to be aware of this tremendous amount of light around me..but again, nothing dramatic

my apartment in NYC faced an air shaft and was usually a dark cave, but suddenly I felt like there was light around me which reminded me of that beautiful soft light early on summer day...a beach day

remember, when you were a kid, and your parents were going to drive you to the beach and you could barely wait, and before the sun got really hot there was this soft pre mornng light?

well it was that kind of light, but again it comes from all directions, not like sunlight or lamp light coming from a single source

now this attack happened at about 6 pm, and even though it was early summer the day had been getting darker, so I was pretty surprised by all this light slowly filling my apartment

and the moment I noticed the light I felt glad...not just glad...but blissful...impossible to describe it.

I have had a few kundalini experiences in my life, but this was different

it felt as if I were being cradled in my mother's arms. That was the exact thought which came into my mind...I suddenly realized how much stress, how much fear of the future I had been carrying around with me, because it was suddenly gone and I felt entirely limp and 100% supported and safe....sheer bliss

and the light is intelligent...it interacts with you, but not with words but with the seed from which words come, I think thats the best way I can put it, because you know exactly what it is communicating as if it goes directly to your mind where your "I" or you exist

it seemed to play out the experience as I adjusted to each phase

and at no time did I think I was dead....I was fully aware n the moment and excited by this experience...and I lost awareness of the man in my apartment

and at that point I was aware of my grandfather, someone I loved deeply. He had died when I was 21, and its as if no time had passed since we had spoken but there was this tremendous excitement and gladness at seeing there, relief that not speaking to him all this time had been some kind of mistake

...and that's where the rest of the story goes, but as I said, I have to collect my thoughts a bit.

it helps I was thinking about this the other day because I was awake all night with strange dreams and this weird heat I keep feeling which feels like I'm burning up from the inside

I can say that since that time I've been aware of this time we are living through right now...and that there is a risk of a terrible existence coming towards us by the year 2020..always this year 2020, but there is something else at work as well which has entered the equation

sorry for the long post, OP. as said, I may regret this and maybe I'll delete it later on...

thought it said "saved by the bell"

This guy has 'prophecies' that coincidentally coincide with Christian whackjob beliefs.

I've read about real near death experiences and none of them talk about Christianity being the one and only religion, all man made religion is man made and there to restrict the human from becoming truly spiritual.

Thank you, IssueX! I look forward to reading the rest!

Great thread OP, but let me review here - 2020, not 2012? I've researched NDEs and haven't found anything specific relating to 2012, but a lot of folks like DB and Cayce said the year 2000, which might mean we're getting close. And all of those prophecies from hundreds of different sources... Who and what to believe? Life's a mystery. Will there at least be some kind of shift before 2012 ends, I wonder. Sorry, rant over.