Everyone dies, but not everyone has a near-death experience, or do they? As the average human has had over 400 lifetimes, perhaps many or most have had such a thing happen. Observing that near-death experiences often affect people in profound ways, it would seem that the effect might even carry over to future lifetimes, that the deep subconscious would carry a profound memory or deep emotional imprint that makes the near-death experience something more impactful and memorable than death itself in many cases. What is Creator’s perspective? How is a near-death experience different?

As one might readily surmise, the first difference in a near-death experience is the continuation in the current incarnation with a return to the body by the spirit in transition, if only partially. This is happening for many reasons. It could be a karmic lesson or karmic message, to take life more seriously, by giving a person a preview of their eventual transition from the body so that they will look more carefully at how they spend their time, and think more about the spiritual mission that each and every human being has, prior to coming down into physical existence. The tragedy of the human dilemma is that being disconnected, you are born with no conscious awareness of your origins or your purpose. This must be learned, and to some extent intuited, by being open to higher guidance. It can show you where you need to go, if only in baby steps, but it can get the job done in helping people connect to their best career path, to meet key people they are destined to find and spend time with, as with a life partner or a trusted colleague, or a mentor, and so on. When people leave the body, they indeed exist in a spirit form, a free-floating consciousness, and many differing things can happen, depending on how aware the person is even about what is taking place. Many do not know they are dead and their consciousness limps along in an impaired state of confusion and uncertainty, and that can persist because the person is stripped away from their usual manner of experiencing existence, which is through the brain and their conscious awareness. The part of the mind that survives is the intuitive part and if not engaged with directly and with awareness by the rest of the being during life, that intuitive consciousness, the non-local consciousness, will be unfamiliar with them as who they were. So it is a kind of melding of beings that have a parallel existence unaware of each other’s existence, and the sum total composite may be quite ill-equipped to navigate. If the person is revived through resuscitation efforts soon enough, this will effect a return of the spirit to the body, because that is the imperative always unless the transition has been planned and agreed to, and a desire is in place to continue on with a return to the light. Sometimes that will happen even with resuscitation of the body, after which the body remains in a vegetative state and no consciousness is available to occupy it because it has already returned to the light, that higher part of the soul being who was using the body during actual life. So what is left is but a remnant, a physical shell, much like a conveyance such as an automobile. So it is much like a car crash where the driver has already departed and gone back to heaven but the automobile, ironically, might still be running even though not drivable, and a sign of life of some sort but not a life that matters to anyone any longer. The process of seeing a glimpse of the heavenly realm during the transition, and encountering light beings and the intense wave of love associated with the experience, is often quite profound for the departing soul compared to perhaps a meager experience while incarnated, even being friendless or in a chronic state of depression and suffering from chronic illness or a depleted state from an unworkable lifestyle or some other limitation. So if one has that experience of truly seeing the light very graphically, directly and meaningfully, and a decision is made to return to the body, that spirit might bring with it a heightened awareness of the reality of the divine, that something important has happened with great meaning for them and their soul as well, and their entire perspective about life and their existence may well have changed, and that awakening will follow them for the whole rest of their life and be remembered and cherished as a very special window into a higher reality. Near-death experiences are relatively infrequent because most people simply transition fully and the body is unavailable, even if the spirit does not make it into heaven but remains in limbo, and that is a very serious dilemma met by about one-third of human beings who are not prepared to return to the higher astral plane because their vibration is so low, being in a state of disconnection for so long, and often not even thinking about the divine realm or the hereafter in the case of unexpected death as through accident or a minor medical procedure that goes wrong and causes the death of the body. Whenever there is a tremendous experience that impacts a person, whether positive or negative, there will be an imprint, a record made and stored for all of time—that will be a springboard for future karma. So anyone having a near-death experience will, thereafter, in each incarnation have a prior awakening moment they can tune into and see it as inspiration, at least on the level of their deep subconscious mind, so having a near-death experience can be a major milestone on the soul journey, whether it is 10 incarnations or 100 or over 400, as you rightly relate is the average. They are always beneficial because they represent divine business. However the person came to have the encounter with the light callers always sent to greet the departed, it will be an important milestone, and the various accounts of what people experience are truly no different than someone in transition, because those experiences can vary considerably, depending on the level of awareness of the departing spirit in understanding what is happening. So this is an important learning to be gained from this discussion, that the divine realm is as real as life and death. People are living, breathing embodiments of divine consciousness and take it for granted, and think that the divine realm and a Creator of All That Is are perhaps only folklore and wishful thinking. In actuality, you are just as great a miracle as the existence of God, even as just a fragment of its existence, but even though you are only a part, it could not exist without the reality of the divine creating that opportunity for you to bear witness.