Meditation and Near-Death Experiences

In the past few decades, there have been numerous books and accounts written of near-death experiences. People who have died but were revived by modern medicine all reported journeying into a world of Light. Due to an accident or illness, their heart and breathing may have stopped. During the time before they were revived, they experienced their soul rising out of the body. They would find themselves looking down at their body lying on the ground or on the operating table. They could see and hear what was being said in the room and sometimes they would float to other rooms and see and hear what their friends and relatives were saying. From there the soul would enter a tunnel and emerge in a world of Light. Many of them met a being of Light who embraced them with more love than they ever felt on earth, and as a result many did not want to leave this realm of joy and peace.

These people who had NDEs were just entering the threshold of the spiritual world, and then they were sent back to their bodies to continue in life. Those who meditate can cross beyond the threshold and explore more of those inner regions. There are regions of Light even brighter and more ethereal than those described by people who have had near-death experiences.

We do not have to wait until death to experience the worlds beyond. We do not even need a near-death experience to find the inner Light. It is waiting within each of us this very moment. Through meditation each one of us can find it.