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John Burke: Near-Death Experiences (Randy Robison / LIFE Today)
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There are plenty of Hell near death experiences as well. Everyone don't have positive experiences.
Dean Braxton comes to mind. He's a born again Christian who was dead for 1hr 45 minutes and he saw Heaven and Jesus. He was sent back to tell other people what he saw and Dean tells a lot of people about Jesus.
While in Heaven he saw his family members,friends and pets as well as Jesus himself. He talked about the colors in Heaven.
Dean has his own YouTube Channel.
The interviewer seems uninterested
I am still skeptical about all this. I AM ANGRY at Jesus, and God! He has abandoned me, yes, I deserve it for renouncing Him, but THAT means HIS love for me was not able to endure with ME to the end!
Awesome video. Great book too. Heaven is all around us we just don't know it
Oh oh oh the book the book that's the secret for getting rich and that's what this bullshitter is trying to do how can people be taken in by these salse bullshitter none of these are real
People who have surgery don't just awaken from anesthesia you return when you hear doctors voices and see the light, that's heaven. When you return that's God saying it's not your time. It's not your fault 😂😂😂
I've been studying this for years and the vast majority of these have no religious ties to them. Many of them who were religious leave their churches after an NDE as a matter of fact.
Can anyone provide any links to the studies that he referenced? Curious to read them and see what they say…
I hope he's donating 90% to charity! And I'm a firm believer of NDE's.
After watching many videos on NDEs and listening to different professionals state their opinions, I feel a sense of obligation to finally share my experience, which, with the help of Hubble, has definitely been verified…
My NDE happened over 47 years ago when I was struck by lightning while talking on the telephone in my living room. According to several doctors at the hospital, it was a miracle that I was not physically damaged in any way. When I was able to talk, I kept telling them about the beautiful light and the magnificent journey that I'd taken through the stars etc, to meet it, but none could explain where I'd been. It was my home doctor who later suggested that I had possibly been momentarily dead. I described the unforgettable Light to many people in the years that followed – some seemed to understand but most thought it was probably just an illusion.
During the 80s and 90s, a lot of doctors who made comments on NDEs described them as something that was programmed within the mind to take place during death, in order to help people deal with the dying process. This came as a big disappointment to me because my beautiful experience with the multi-coloured Light had taken away the fear of death and helped me move towards a path that would eventually allow me to understand much more about myself and the world/universe around me than anyone had ever taught me. I reluctantly began to accept the doctors' explanations with deep regret, until one day in 2003, I was glancing through a newspaper and came across a picture taken by Hubble of the Cone Nebula. The picture was in colour and instantly took my breath away – I trembled and my head spun. It looked exactly like the Light that I'd visited in 1970 and had been describing to people ever since – (even Today, it seems like I was there only a moment ago).
The Light was the most beautiful experience of love and security, that even after all these years nothing has compared. It felt like I'd found my way home after being lost in a scary jungle. The Light's multitude of vibrant colours all blended together in what seemed to be perfect harmony. Each of the colours seemed to be intelligent – it was as if they were alive and sending me a loving welcome. Then I was sucked backwards away just as quickly as I'd arrived. I burst back into the bubble that I'd burst out of before I'd entered space to head to the Light.
From then on, I began questioning everything that I'd been taught about God. It was as though something inside me had been switched on, exposing me of a far-distant extension of my reality and it was very scary. I was left with a huge void to fill and no knowledge of how to fill it. Motivated by an underlying driving force, I began searching for something with no idea of what it was. I went from one country to the next and to add to my dilemma, I seemed to arrive just in time for a disaster, including revolutions, typhoons and earthquakes etc. There were so many times that I could have been killed like the many others around me that were.
Then one day while I was napping in Hong Kong, I had a dream and in it, I was informed that there was, even more, chaos to confront before my destiny would take me to a country, where I would meet my best friend (a future friend that is) who would take me to the foot of a great pointed mountain. Once there I would find the truth that I needed to find. I told friends about the dream, who laughed and joked about it – I also laughed with them. Not long after the strange dream 500 hundred people were killed by landslides all around me – an apartment building a couple of doors away from mine, fell over knocking the top 5 floors off the empty building being built beneath it – there were cries of horror and the smell of rotting bodies. Unable to cope, I jumped on a plane and headed for Manila, arriving just in time for a record-breaking flood and the revolution that ended the Marcus ruling. I had to run for my life and leave all my belongings behind to get on a rescue flight back to Hong Kong.
By then I was drinking heavily and so depressed that I was even thinking of suicide. An agent was in Hong Kong looking for a replacement vocalist for an American band that was playing in a Tokyo club. Next thing I knew, I was in Japan trying my best to perform with a very wild heavy metal band (no easy task for a cabaret singer). At the club, I met someone who became the best mate that I'd ever had. He taught me to chant the words Nam-myoho-renge kyo and took me to a beautiful temple at the foot of Mount Fuji (I knew right away that it was the pointed mountain that I'd been told about in my dream). As most religious groups do, the organisation promoting the chant, claimed to be the only ones right while all the others were wrong. The chant had an amazing effect on my daily life – it was like an awakening and somehow it connected me to the beautiful Light – there were even moments while chanting, that I experienced some of the wonderment that I'd felt at the Light.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfRcUpoPl7w&t=24s
I stuck with the organisation to learn as much as I could and then spent years trying to divide what the actual teaching was from the added politics of the organisation. I eventually left the organisation and have since depended on my own volition to sort things out. In doing so, I have studied other beliefs and discovered that some of what they teach is almost the same as what Nichiren taught (Nichiren was the first person to chant NMRK and teach it to others). The one thing that became more and more obvious to me was that the three major Laws of (Nature – Cause and Effect – Communication or oneness of past/present/future) represented by myoho-renge-kyo, represent the underlying fundamental Laws of everything, no matter what we choose to believe or not. I also gained a better understanding of the teachings of Jesus (not by what was written about his lessons by his disciple's (who all denied even knowing him when he was arrested) but by the example that he set 'between the lines'. He also taught Nature – Cause and Effect (reap what we sow) and prayer = communication. But it appears that the disciples didn't get it right, even though when they asked where the Kingdom of God was and Jesus told them that it was within their own lives, they still believed and taught others to believe that God was a man in the sky.I also got to understand that, minus all the added misconceptions, Nichiren taught many of the same things as Jesus did.
Scientists now say that our solar system was born out of a nebula – that physically everything, including ourselves, is made out of stardust and that energy never disappears or ends. Nichiren taught that our body is a small planet, which relies on Earth's environment to exist, and that our life-force is a small universe that contains 'everything' that exists, even though we are only awake to a very small part of it. Like Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God is within (which obviously must mean that's where God is also) Nichiren taught that Enlightenment (Buddhahood) is within. He also taught that there are millions of other worlds like ours with their own mountains, rivers and moons and that there are also places that are wonderful far beyond our present comprehension to conceive and understand. In the physical sense, they are scattered all over the universe – in the spiritual sense, they are all located within each of us. (one way to understand this is how TV works etc.) It doesn't matter how many TVs there are, they are all able to present the same thing if tuned in.
The one thing that confused me after seeing the pictures of Cone Nebular, taken by Hubble back in 2003, was how could I have possibly travelled that distance and back, as even at the speed of light it wouldn't have been possible. Yet, long before Hubble was even built, I accurately described the Cone nebular to so many people. It's only in the last few years that it has finally made sense to me. I went there and back within my own life-force – I travelled across the universe that each of us contains within – not physically but spiritually. I now know that NDEs are journeys we make beyond our physical/Earthly limitations, into our own unknown selves. I also believe that, by way of continuous physical rebirths, we are on a journey to within to eventually discover our true selves – reach a point where we can understand life as it truly is and awaken the wisdom to comprehend and know the real meaning of 'God…
A piece from a new book titled Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within…
Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what some scientists are now referring to as the unified field of consciousnesses. In other words, it’s the essence of all existence and non-existence – the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the actual creator of everything that exists now, ever existed in the past, or will exist in the future – right down to the minutest particles of dust – each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of inner enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves. That’s because chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo allows us to tap directly into our enlightened state by way of this self-produced sound vibration.
‘Who or What Is God?’ If we compare the concept of God being a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to the teachings of Nichiren, it makes more sense to me that the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people perceive to be God, is the fantastic state of enlightenment that exists within each of us. Some say that God is an entity that’s beyond physical matter – I think that the vast amount of information continuously being conveyed via electromagnetic waves in today’s world gives us proof of how an invisible state of God could indeed exist. For example, it’s now widely known that specific data relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects – including an instant global awareness of something or a mass emotional reaction. It’s also common knowledge that these invisible waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars – none of which is possible without a receiver to decode the information that’s being transmitted. Without the receiver, the data would remain impotent. In a very similar way, we need to have our own ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our own life, all other life and what everything else in existence is. Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and keep it switched on. That’s because Myoho-Renge-Kyo represents the identity of what scientists now refer to as the unified field of consciousnesses.
To break it down – Myoho represents the Law of manifestation and latency (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. For example, the state of Myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists – including our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them – our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re dormant – our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma – and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes evident to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory – whenever we experience or express our emotions – or whenever a good or bad cause manifests as an effect from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it merely means that it’s come out of the state of Myo (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing.
The second law – Renge – Ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect, governs and controls the functions of Myoho – these two laws of Myoho and Renge, not only function together simultaneously but also underlie all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination – Kyo, is the Law which allows Myoho to integrate with Renge – or vice verse. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects all Life and matter – as well as the past, present and future. It’s also sometimes termed the Universal Law of Communication – perhaps it could even be compared with the string theory that many scientists now suspect exists.
Just as the cells in our body, our thoughts, feelings and everything else is continually fluctuating within us – all that exists in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux – constantly controlled by these three fundamental laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of Myo and ho in a single moment of time than it would ever be possible to calculate or describe. And it doesn’t matter how big or small, famous or trivial anything or anyone may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past, exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of the Laws ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ – the basis of the four fundamental forces, and if they didn’t function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. That’s because all forms of existence, including the seasons, day, night, birth, death and so on, are moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation – rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two fundamental states of Myo and ho in absolute accordance with Renge – and by way of Kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn under the workings of what the combination ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ represents.
Nam, or Namu – which mean the same thing, are vibrational passwords or keys that allow us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with ‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’. On a more personal level, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives – as well as the environment from moment to moment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is spinning, and chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo for a minimum of, let’s say, ten minutes daily to start with, any of us can experience actual proof of its positive effects in our lives – even if it only makes us feel good on the inside, there will be a definite positive effect. That’s because we’re able to pierce through the thickest layers of our karma and activate our inherent Buddha Nature (our enlightened state). By so doing, we’re then able to bring forth the wisdom and good fortune that we need to challenge, overcome and change our adverse circumstances – turn them into positive ones – or manifest and gain even greater fulfilment in our daily lives from our accumulated good karma. This also allows us to bring forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that’s preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we indeed are – regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexuality. We’re also able to see and understand our circumstances and the environment far more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations. As I’ve already mentioned, everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect – the ‘actual-proof-strength’ resulting from chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo always depends on our determination, sincerity and dedication. For example, the levels of difference could be compared to between making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a great song, and so on. Something else that’s very important to always to respect and acknowledge is that the Law (or if you prefer God) is in everyone and everything.
NB: There are frightening and disturbing sounds, and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It’s the emotional result from any noise or sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day, we are producing a sound vibration that’s the password to our true inner-self – this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things – such as your fears and desires etc. The best way to get the desired result when chanting is not to view things in a conventional way – rather than reaching out to an external source, we need to reach into our own lives and bring our needs and desires to fruition from within – including the good fortune and strength to achieve any help that we may need.
Chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo also reaches out externally and draws us towards, or draws towards us, what we need to make us happy from our environment. For example, it helps us to be in the right place at the right time – to make better choices and decisions and so forth. We need to think of it as a seed within us that we’re watering and bringing sunshine to for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s also important to understand that everything we need in life – including the answer to every question and the potential to achieve every dream – already exists within us.
Jesus is a reality…He's king of kings, i know this because He translated my soul into His kingdom…it was a place that had no ending…He exist on a mountain in heaven that was like 50,000 feet…that's why He is called the Highly Exalted One, because He is exalted above all…the reason people who have near death experience's say they never felt more alive is because they are encountering eternity…let me explain something…this life which is temporary does not allow us to understand spirituality, nor eternity…that's why Jesus said in order to see His kingdom we must be born again…in eternity your understanding is magnified a 1000 times, and you become fully aware that there is a Creator…that's exactly what i seen when i saw souls who died without the blood covering of Jesus Christ…they said to themselves "oh no" i have messed up and now i am lost forever from the Creator…there is a place that exist called hell because Jesus translated my soul in that place also…everyone in that place was dead…they were decomposing and the stench from their souls was awful…they cried but no tears could come out of their eyes because you see they had no life in them…they were emotionless…they cried to the top of their lungs that God would forgive them, but it was too late…they died without Christ…demons were tormenting them with no mercy…all of them would be split into only to have their bodies regenerate and the process would start all over again…that place was on the other side of catastrophic, and the pain was very unusual…its hard for me to explain the pain because it was spiritual…as a matter of fact i asked Jesus how can this pain i'm feeling be real…oh yeah, He made me taste some of hell's pain…there was this small creature that was able to sting everyone simultaneously…its sting was tremendous…i told the Lord Jesus please deliver me out of here, but He made me remain there…i saw trillions of fallen angels who were once God's angels but now they are satan's demons…they were very angry that they allowed Lucifer (aka) satan to cause them to be put in outter darkness…that shall be the reality of many human being who refuse to adhere to God's Holy word…there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth…i seen satan himself who don't particularly like me knowing these things, but he's not worried because he understands that people will find it hard to believe me…the devil do not have horns like one might think…he was deep, deep dark purple with scales and bumps all over his body and he had feet like a lizards…that's why he is called the dragon…he was massive, and yet the most vulnerable creature there, and its because he challenged God's authority, so God who created him greater then all creations made him the weakest of all…that's why the word says he comes to you like a roaring lion, but he has no teeth…i could tell that he was created greater then the other angels because he is the only one who had gold in his wings…he desired too be king so the Father God gave him a kingdom of corpse's…let me warn you all that you don't want to be in that place called hell because there is no escape…there was no rest also because the souls there were tortured and tormented day and night…the darkness in hell is extremely difficult to explain also…all i can tell you all is it was like a living entity that consume you more and more everyday…and y'all don't know the real emphasis of fear until y'all are in hell…my very existence and my very being was fear…let me explain it like this…just like our heart pumps blood to every blood vessel in our bodies, that's how fear run through me in that place…Jesus had hidden Himself from me also so my situation told me that i would never be able to leave that place…in hell there is no hope, no joy, and no expectations…you are damned there to rot and decay in that abode of the dead forever…but let me tell y'all one of the saddest realities of hell…you are able to see the save souls in heaven existing in unspeakable joy just like the rich man who looked up from hell and seen Lazarus lying in Abrahams bosom…but here's is the most horrifying thing about hell…you know you will never get to have a relationship with Father God the Creator, for that's what the souls in hell cry out for the most…SEEK JESUS!!!
To really believe the literal Bible you have to believe that 90% of the world is going to hell. All jews, muslims, atheists, agnostics, ANYONE who doesn't believe Jesus is the Son of God. Now, does that make any kind of sense if there is a Loving God?
Why do Christians need to degrade other forms of loving God? If Christianity is what God requires why are there thousands of NDE accounts of atheists being received into the light with the same acceptance and love as Christians?
Could they be describing paradise and not actually heaven? Why would John call it the 3rd heaven? have been confused in the Bible with whether or not there is a holding place awaiting Jesus return or whether we just go straight to heaven. Could there be different levels? Like in parallel reality theory? Heavenly, not so heavenly, purgatory type place and hellish?
I like Joan burke, he speaks truth! I had an nde myself when i was 5 years old!