A near death experience testimony
Many years ago I suffered from a medical emergency where I stopped breathing for a few minutes-- the end
result being a near death experience. And, though I didn't got to “see” the Creator [as that which is finite will
never be able to completely fathom what is Infinite], I seems like I was considered worthy enough to
experiencing a glimpse of what otherwise felt to be “non-physical existence”; a sort of “heaven” [or parallel
dimension] outside the normal flow of time/space.
Sadly, what I saw there [if we can properly call it a place], was much like the Matrix movie: In other words,
what I heard, what I experienced, and what I learned during my near death experience was of such a complex
and supernatural nature that it cannot be properly described with human words [as you would expect
whenever describing things that are foreign to normal human experience, like “becoming a living thought”,
“mind to mind communication”, trans-dimensional displacement, infinite energy, infinite knowledge, infinite
peace, etc].
The main point is that, after I finally came back to my body, I realized a few important things:
In the first place, God speaks to each “soul” in a language that such soul can properly understand. In other
words, what you’ll see in the afterlife is a direct function of the needs, goals, and values that defined you
while still alive. Thus, if you were a merciful person, you’ll be shown a merciful afterlife; if you were an
avid student of Torah (God’s Law), you will be shown an afterlife closely resembling “a Religious Academy”
(or a Yeshiva); if you were a winner of souls, your afterlife will seem like an incredible environment, were
you are given the power to read minds, and thereby induce people to turn back to God; But if you lived your
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life like an irrational beast [blindly following the promptings of your lower instincts], your afterlife will feel
like the end of king Nebuchadnezzar, who was given the heart of a beast [so that he ended up eating grass,
like a bull].
Lastly, I learned that our material world and cares (money, sex, power, fame, politics, religious and scientific
establishments, etc) is transitory and futile, being only just a small [and almost negligible] fraction of an
infinitely larger reality. I learned that the things that really matter in life [having enduring value] have
ironically nothing to do with matter.
They are instead our sincere desire to do good, and our commitment with a daily struggle to live in harmony
with the Divinely appointed moral order of the universe; with the harsh journey thru the moral wilderness of
our hedonistic generation; a journey in which we follow the lead of our God, who wages an everlasting battle
against the evil allegorically portrayed by Amalek (“… the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation
to generation”- Exodus 17:16), as well as the Canaanite nations (“For it was of the Lord to harden their
hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that they might be utterly destroyed, that they might have no favour,
but that they might be destroyed, as the Lord commanded Moses”- Joshua 11:20); a struggle for “light”
(kindness, justice, mercy, love, humility, hope, faith and wisdom) to overcome “darkness” (cruelty, injustice,
hatred, arrogance, hopelessness, stubbornness, and foolishness).
May God’s peace be upon you!
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