woensdag 1 september 2021

         

Near death experience
Near-Death Experience NDE Story
of Mellen-Thomas Benedict
Journey Through the Light and Back

 


In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable,
and any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made
me more of a vegetable. I was given six to eight months to live.


I had been an information freak in the1970’s, and I had become
increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so
forth. So, since I did not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that
nature had made a mistake, and that we were probably a cancerous
organism on the planet. I saw no way that we could get out from all the
problems we had created for ourselves and the planet. I perceived all
humans as cancer, and that is what I got.


That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can feed
back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had a seriously
negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts of
alternative healing methods, but nothing helped.


So I determined that this was really just between me and God. I had never
really faced God before, or even dealt with God. I was not into any kind
of spirituality at the time, but I began a journey into learning about
spirituality and alterna¬tive healing. I set out to do all the reading I could
and bone up on the subject, because I did not want to be surprised on the
other side. So I started reading on various religions and philosophies.
They were all very interesting, and gave hope that there was something
on the other side. I ended up in hospice care.


I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 AM, and I just
knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a
few friends and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told
her. I had a private agreement with her that she would leave my dead
body alone for six hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting
things happen when you die. I went back to sleep.


The next thing I remember is the beginning of a typical near-death
experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing up, but my
body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of my
body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid that I
could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house, I
could see around the house, I could see under the house.


There was this Light shining. I turned toward the Light. 
experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is
alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal
mother’s or father’s arms.

As I began to move toward the Light, I knew intuitively that if I went to
the Light, I would be dead. So as I was moving toward the Light I said,
“Please wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about
this; I would like to talk to you before I go.” To my surprise, the entire
experience halted at that point. You are in control of your life after death
experience. You are not on a roller coaster ride.

So my request was honored and I had some conversations with the Light.
The Light kept changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha,
Krishna, mandalas, archetypal images and signs. I asked the Light, “What
is going on here? Please, Light, clarify yourself for me. I really want to
know the reality of the situation.” I cannot really say the exact words,
because it was sort of telepathy.

The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that during
your life after death experience your beliefs shape the kind of feedback
you are getting before the Light. If you were a Buddhist or Catholic or
Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop of your own stuff. You have a
chance to look at it and examine it, but most people do not. As the Light
revealed itself to me, I became aware that what I was really seeing was
our higher Self matrix.

We all have a higher Self, or an oversoul part of our being. It revealed
itself to me in its truest energy form. The only way I can really describe it
is that the being of the higher Self is more like a conduit. It did not look
like that, but it is a direct connection to the Source that each and every
one of us has. We are directly connected to the Source. So the Light was
showing me the higher Self matrix. I was not committed to one particular
religion. So that is what was being fed back to me during my life after
death experience.

As I asked the Light to keep clearing for me, to keep explaining, I
understood what the higher Self matrix is. We have a grid around the
planet where all the higher Selves are connected. This is like a great
company, a next subtle level of energy around us, the spirit level, you
might say. Then, after a couple of minutes, I asked for more clarification.
I really wanted to know what the universe is about, and I was ready to go
at that time. I said “I am ready, take me.”

Then the Light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen:
a mandala of human souls on this planet. Now I came to this with my
negative view of what was happening on the planet. So as I asked the
Light to keep clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent mandala how
beautiful we all are in our essence, our core. We are the most beautiful
creations.

The human soul, the human matrix that we all make together is absolutely
fantastic, elegant, exotic, everything. I just cannot say enough about how
it changed my opinion of human beings in that instant. I said, “Oh, God, I
did not know how beautiful we are.” At any level, high or low, in
whatever shape you are in, you are the most beautiful creation, you are.

The revelations coming from the Light and seemed to go on and on, then
I asked the Light, “Does this mean that Mankind will be saved?” Then,
like a trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Great Light
spoke, saying, “Remember this and never forget; you save, redeem and
heal yourself. You always have. You always will. You were created with
the power to do so from before the beginning of the world.”

In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE
ALREADY BEEN SAVED, and we saved ourselves because we were
designed to self-correct like the rest of God’s universe. This is what the
second coming is about. I thanked the Light of God with all my heart.
The best thing I could come up with was these simple words of total
appreciation: “Oh dear God, dear Universe, dear Great Self, I Love My
Life.”

The Light seemed to breathe me in even more deeply. It was as if the
Light was completely absorbing me. The Love Light is, to this day,
indescribable. I entered into another realm, more profound than the last,
and became aware of something more, much more. It was an enormous
stream of Light, vast and full, deep in the Heart of Life. I asked what this
was.


The Light responded, “This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna
water to your heart’s content.” So I did. I took one big drink and then
another. To drink of Life Itself! I was in ecstasy.

Then the Light said, “You have a desire.” The Light knew all about me,
everything past, present and future. “Yes!” I whispered.

I asked to see the rest of the Universe; beyond our solar system, beyond
all human illusion. The Light then told me that I could go with the
Stream. I did, and was carried Through the Light at the End of the
Tunnel. I felt and heard a series of very soft sonic booms. What a rush!

Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of
Life. I saw the earth fly away. The solar system, in all its splendor,
whizzed by and disappeared. At faster than light speed, I flew through the
center of the galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that
this galaxy, and all of the Universe, is bursting with many different
varieties of LIFE. I saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not
alone in this Universe!

As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center of the galaxy,
the stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy. The super
clusters of galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At first I
thought I was going somewhere; actually traveling. But then I realized
that, as the stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also
expanding to take in everything in the Universe! All creation passed by
me. It was an unimaginable wonder! I truly was a Wonder Child; a babe
in Wonderland!

At this point, I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond all silence. I
could see or perceive FOREVER, beyond Infinity.

I was in the Void.

I was in pre-creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the
beginning of time/the First Word/the First vibration. I was in the Eye of
Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a religious
feeling. Simply I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness.

When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could
experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and
without end. That’s a mind expanding thought, isn’t it?


Scientists perceive the Big Bang as a single event which created the
Universe. I saw during my life after death experience that the Big Bang is
only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating Universes endlessly
and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human
terms would be those created by super computers using fractal geometry
equations.

The ancients knew of this. They said God had periodically created new
Universes by breathing out, and recreated other Universes by breathing
in. These epochs were called Yugas. Modern science called this the Big
Bang. I was in absolute, pure consciousness. I could see or perceive all
the Big Bangs or Yugas creating and recreating themselves. Instantly I
entered into them all simultaneously. I saw that each and every little piece
of creation has the power to create. It is very difficult to try to explain
this. I am still speechless about this.

It took me years after I returned from my near-death experience to
assimilate any words at all for the Void experience. I can tell you this
now: the Void is less than nothing, yet more than everything that is! The
Void is absolute zero; chaos forming all possibilities. It is Absolute
Consciousness; much more than even Universal Intelligence.

The Void is the vacuum or nothingness between all physical
manifestations. The SPACE between atoms and their components.
Modern science has begun to study this space between everything. They
call it Zero point. Whenever they try to measure it, their instruments go
off the scale, or to infinity, so to speak. They have no way, as of yet, to
measure infinity accurately. There is more of the 0 space in your own
body and the Universe than anything else!

What mystics call the Void is not a void. It is so full of energy, a different
kind of energy that has created everything that we are. Everything since
the Big Bang is vibration, from the first Word, which is the first vibration.
The biblical “I am” really has a question mark after it. “I am—What am
I?” So creation is God exploring God’s Self through every way
imaginable, in an on¬going, infinite exploration through every one of us.
I began to see during my near-death experience that everything that is, is
the Self, literally, your Self, my Self. Everything is the great Self. That is
why God knows even when a leaf falls. That is possible because
wherever you are is the center of the universe. Wherever any atom is, that
is the center of the universe. There is God in that, and God in the Void.

As I was exploring the Void during my life after death experience and all
the Yugas or creations, I was completely out of time and space as we

know it. In this expanded state, I discovered that creation is about
Absolute Pure Consciousness, or God, coming into the Experience of Life
as we know it. The Void itself is devoid of experience. It is pre life,
before the first vibration. Godhead is about more than Life and Death.
Therefore there is even more than Life and Death to experience in the
Universe!

When I realized this I was finished with the Void, and wanted to return to
this creation, or Yuga. It just seemed like the natural thing to do. Then I
suddenly came back through the second Light, or the Big Bang, hearing
several more velvet booms. I rode the stream of consciousness back
through all of creation, and what a ride it was! The super clusters of
galaxies came through me with even more insights. I passed through the
center of our galaxy, which is a black hole. Black holes are the great
processors or recyclers of the Universe.

Do you know what is on the other side of a Black Hole? We are; our
galaxy, which has been reprocessed from another Universe. In its total
energy configuration, the galaxy looked like a fantastic city of lights. All
energy this side of the Big Bang is light. Every sub atom, atom, star,
planet, even consciousness itself is made of light and has a frequency
and/or particle. Light is living stuff. Everything is made of light, even
stones. So everything is alive. Everything is made from the Light of God;
everything is very intelligent.

As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge Light
coming. I knew it was the First Light; the higher Self Light Matrix of our
solar system. Then the entire solar system appeared in the Light,
accompanied by one of those velvet booms.

I could see all the energy that this solar system generates, and it is an
incredible light show! I could hear the Music of the Spheres. Our solar
system, as do all celestial bodies, generates a unique matrix of light,
sound and vibratory energies. Advanced civilizations from other star
systems can spot life as we know it in the universe by the vibratory or
energy matrix imprint. It is child’s play. The earth’s Wonder child
(human beings) make an abundance of sound right now, like children
playing in the backyard of the universe.

The Light explained to me that there is no death; we are immortal beings.
We have already been alive forever! I realized that we are part of a
natural living system that recycles itself endlessly. I was never told that I
had to come back. I just knew that I would. It was only natural, from what
I had seen during my life after death experience.


I don’t know how long I was with the Light, in human time. But there
came a moment when I realized that all my questions had been answered
and my return was near. When I say that all my questions were answered
on the other side, I mean to say just that. All my questions have been
answered. Every human has a different life and set of questions to
explore. Some of our questions are Universal, but each of us is exploring
this thing we call Life in our own unique way. So is every other form of
life, from mountains to every leaf on every tree.

And that is very important to the rest of us in this Universe. Because it all
contributes to the Big Picture, the fullness of Life. We are literally God
exploring God’s self in an infinite Dance of Life. Your uniqueness
enhances all of Life.
As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor was
I told that I would return to the same body. It just did not matter. I had
complete trust in the Light and the Life process. As the stream merged
with the great Light, I asked never to forget the revelations and the
feelings of what I had learned on the other side.

There was a “Yes.” It felt like a kiss to my soul.

Then I was taken back through the Light into the vibratory realm again.
The whole process reversed, with even more information being given to
me. I came back home, and I was given lessons from my near-death
experience on the mechanics of reincarnation. I was given answers to all
those little questions I had: “How does this work? How does that work?”
I knew that I would be reincarnated.

The earth is a great processor of energy, and individual consciousness
evolves out of that into each one of us. I thought of myself as a human for
the first time, and I was happy to be that. From what I have seen, I would
be happy to be an atom in this universe. An atom. So to be the human part
of God... this is the most fantastic blessing. It is a blessing beyond our
wildest estimation of what blessing can be. For each and every one of us
to be the human part of this experience is awesome, and magnificent.
Each and every one of us, no matter where we are, screwed up or not, is a
blessing to the planet, right where we are.

I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby
somewhere. But I was given a lesson on how individual identity and
consciousness evolve. I was so surprised when I opened my eyes. I do not
know why, because I understood it, but it was still such a surprise to be
back in this body, back in my room with someone looking over me crying

her eyes out. It was my hospice caretaker. She had given up an hour and a
half after finding me dead. My body was stiff and inflexible. She went
into the other room. Then I awakened and saw the light outside. I tried to
get up to go to it, but I fell out of the bed. She heard a loud “clunk,” ran in
and found me on the floor.

When I recovered, I was very surprised and yet very awed about what had
happened to me during my near-death experience. At first all the memory
of the trip that I have now was not there. I kept slipping out of this world
and kept asking, “Am I alive?” This world seemed more like a dream
than that one. Within three days I was feeling normal again, clearer, yet
different than I had ever felt in my life. My memory of my near-death
experience came back later. I could see nothing wrong with any human
being I had ever seen. Before that I was really judgmental. I thought a lot
of people were really screwed up, in fact I thought that everybody was
screwed up but me. But I got clear on all that.

About three months later a friend said I should get tested, so I went and
got the scans and so forth. I really felt good, so I was afraid of getting bad
news. I remember the doctor at the clinic looking at the before and after
scans, saying, “Well, there is nothing here now.” I said, “Really, it must
be a miracle”’ He said “No, these things happen; they are called
spontaneous remission.” He acted very unimpressed. But here was a
miracle, and I was impressed, even if no one else was.

During my near-death experience I had a descent into what you might call
Hell, and it was very surprising. I did not see Satan or evil. My descent
into Hell was a descent into each person’s customized human misery,
ignorance, and darkness of not knowing. It seemed like a miserable
eternity. But each of the millions of souls around me had a little star of
light always available. But no one seemed to pay attention to it. They
were so consumed with their own grief, trauma and misery. But, after
what seemed an eternity, I started calling out to that Light, like a child
calling to a parent for help.

Then the Light opened up and formed a tunnel that came right to me and
insulated me from all that fear and pain, That is what Hell really is. So
what we are doing is learning to hold hands, to come together. The doors
of Hell are open now. We are going to link up, hold hands, and walk out
of Hell together. The Light came to me and turned into a huge golden
angel. I said, “Are you the angel of death?” It expressed to me that it was
my oversoul, my higher Self matrix, a super ancient part of ourselves.
Then I was taken to the Light.


Soon our science will quantify spirit. Isn’t that going to be wonderful?
We are coming up with devices now that are sensitive to subtle energy or
spirit energy. Physicists use these atomic colliders to smash atoms to see
what they are made of. They have got it down to quarks and charm, and
all that. Well, one day they are going to come down to the little thing that
holds it all together, and they are going to have to call that ... God. We are
just beginning to understand that we are creating too, as we go along. As I
saw forever, I came to a realm during my near-death experience in which
there is a point where we pass all knowledge and begin creating the next
fractal, the next level. We have that power to create as we explore. And
that is God expanding itself through us.

Since my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have
learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. Each
one of you can do this. You do not have to die or have a near-death
experience to do this. It is within your equipment; you are wired for it
already. The body is the most magnificent Light being there is. The body
is a universe of incredible Light. Spirit is not pushing us to dissolve this
body. That is not what is happening. Stop trying to become God; God is
becoming you. Here.

I asked God: “What is the best religion on the planet? Which one is
right?” And Godhead said, with great love: “I don’t care.” That was
incredible grace. When Godhead said, “I don’t care,” I immediately
understood that it is for us to care about. It is important, because we are
the caring beings. It matters to us and that is where it is important. What
you have is the energy equation in spirituality. Ultimate Godhead does
not care if you are Protestant, Buddhist, or whatever. It is all a blooming
facet of the whole. I wish that all religions would realize it and let each
other be. It is not the end of each religion, but we are talking about the
same God. Live and let live. Each has a different view. And it all adds up
to the big picture; it is all important.

I went over to the other side during my near-death experience with a lot
of fears about toxic waste, nuclear missiles, the population explosion, the
rainforest. I came back loving every single problem. I love nuclear waste.
I love the mushroom cloud; this is the holiest mandala that we have
manifested to date, as an archetype. It, more than any religion or
philosophy on earth, brought us together all of a sudden, to a new level of
consciousness. Knowing that maybe we can blow up the planet fifty
times, or 500 times, we finally realize that maybe we are all here together
now.


For a period they had to keep setting off more bombs to get it in to us.
Then we started saying, “we do not need this any more.” Now we are
actually in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is going to get
safer. So I came back from my near-death experience loving toxic waste,
because it brought us together. These things are so big. As Peter Russell
might say, these problems are now “soul size.” Do we have soul size
answers” YES!

The clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there
will be more trees on the planet than in a long time. If you are into
ecology, go for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming aware.
Go for it with all your might, but do not be depressed. It is part of a larger
thing.

Earth is in the process of domesticating itself. It is never again going to
be as wild a place as it once was. There will be great wild places, reserves
where nature thrives. Gardening and reserves will be the thing in the
future. Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of
energy to cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will
change politics, money, energy.

After dying, going through my near-death experience and coming back, I
really respect life and death. In our DNA experiments we may have
opened the door to a great secret. Soon we will be able to live as long as
we want to live in this body.

After living 150 years or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you
will want to change channels. Living forever in one body is not as
creative as reincarnation, as transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of
energy that we are in. We are actually going to see the wisdom of life and
death, and enjoy it. As it is now, we have already been alive forever.

This body, that you are in, has been alive forever. It comes from an
unending stream of life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond.

This body gives life to the next life, in dense and subtle energy.

This body has been alive forever already.

http://www.mellen-thomas.com/stories.htm


Mellen-Thomas Benedict's Near-Death Experience


Mellen-Thomas Benedict is an artist who survived a near-death
experience in 1982. He was dead for over an hour and a half after
dying of cancer. At the time of his death, he rose up out of his body
and went into the light. Curious about the universe, he was taken
far into the remote depths of existence, and even beyond, into the
energetic void of nothingness behind the Big Bang. During his
experience, he was able to learn a great deal of information
concerning reincarnation. Because of his near-death experience,
he was able to bring back scientific discoveries. Mr. Benedict has
been closely involved in the mechanics of cellular communication
and research dealing with the relationship of light to life called
Quantum Biology. This research is providing dramatic new
perspectives on how biological systems work. Mr. Benedict has
found that living cells can respond very quickly to light stimulation
resulting in, among other things, high speed healing. He is a
researcher, inventor and lecturer who holds six U.S. patents.

Several weeks after Benedict was born, he may experienced a
NDE when his bowels were ruptured. His body was tossed to one
side as a corpse, yet much to everyone's surprise he later revived.
As soon as he was big enough to grab hold of crayons, he started
what became a compulsive urge to create symbolic renditions of
the black/white yin/yang circles of Eastern religious thought. He
has no memory of why he drew those particular symbols.

He spent his grade school years in a Catholic boarding school in
Vermont, and was baptized in the Salvation Army religion as a
youngster. He traveled extensively because of a military stepfather
until the family finally settled down in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Then, Benedict was diagnosed as having inoperable cancer. He
had retired from the frenzy of filmdom by then and was operating
his own stained-glass studio. As his condition worsened, he spent
more and more time with his art. One morning he awakened
knowing he would die the next day, and he did. As the typical
heaven-like scenario began to unfold, Benedict recognized what
was happening as it was happening. The process was familiar to
him because he had read many books about the near-death
phenomenon previously.


Mr. Benedict's NDE is reprinted here by the permission of his
friends
Dr. Lee Worth Bailey and Jenny Yates. Their excellent
book entitled
The Near-Death Experience: A Reader, published by
Routledge, New York, in 1996, is highly recommended by the
webmaster. A portion of his near-death experience also appears in

P.M.H. Atwater's book, Beyond the Light. Concerning Mellen's
near-death experience,
Dr. Ken Ring remarked, "His story is one of
the most remarkable I have encountered in my extensive research
on near-death experiences."


P.M.H. Atwater has the following to say about Mellen-Thomas
Benedict:

"I can attest that his case is genuine and his claims about the brain
tumor and the conditions of his death are true. I have met his
mother and step-father, been in his and their homes, and have
followed his life since - his struggles and his accomplishments - as
he sought to find a way to integrate his experience into his daily life
while still honoring the mission he felt guided to fulfill."


http://www.near-death.com/experiences/reincarnation04.html 

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