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Barbara Springer had her near-death experience at the age of 12
when she was losing the struggle for life against scarlet fever.
I finally decided to give up
and die because I knew I was dying and I was too exhausted to
keep trying to fight to keep hanging onto life
and so I let myself
slip away and
I could feel myself
going into
out of my body and into a space and the next thing I knew
I was in a black space.
At that time I saw no light I was just aware that it was black
and it wasn't frightening at all. I was not frightened
in the least bit. I felt very comfortable
the space was comforting,
cosy and then I noticed
ahead of me a bright light. It
wasn't above me when I came out into the light it turned out it was
way above but as I looked at it it just looked ahead of me.
So, I started to move toward the light
and the
way I moved, the physics was completely different
than it is here on earth it was completely something I'd never felt before
and have never felt since. It was a whole different sensation of motion
I..you know obviously wasn't walking
or skipping or crawling or any of those things I was not
floating. I was flowing I was flowing
toward the light. I was accelerating and yet
I didn't... I knew I was accelerating
but then again I didn't really feel
the acceleration I just knew that I was accelerating
towards the light. There again
the physics was different the physics
a motion a time space travel it was completely different
in that tunnel
than it is here on earth. I
came out into the light and when I came out into the light
I realized that I was in heaven.
To me it was heaven and it was just it was this
wonderfully welcoming bright light. It was a brighter light
than any life here on earth. There's nothing here thats that bright
but it didn't hurt my eyes and
I looked
and I could see the white light I could see yellow light
I could see gold
and there was another color I saw but I didn't have a memory of it until years
later.
I then
became aware of a bright
heavenly being.
I felt as if I was in the presence of God.
This being of light this being had light radiating
from him and he embraced me
and when he embraced me I could feel
the most powerful love.
It's the greatest love that there is in the universe. There's
no greater love I mean it was absolute total
real great
engulfing love! I felt the love
surrounding me I felt it flowing through me
and
there really are no words I cant find words to explain
how I felt. The amount of joy I felt
the amount of love that I knew I was being given
I felt as if I had come home I knew
this was where I actually belonged even though I love earth and I love
living here and life has always been an adventure to me
but that sense when that being
when I met that being was encountered by that being and was embraced I knew I had
come home.
Well this is another thing that I learned when I was
there which is very difficult for me to ever bring up in church which I
have never brought up in church
ever. God loves everyone and
it isn't just Christians that God loves God loves everyone
no matter what religion no matter what anything
I mean obviously you know were...
Let's take color, humans with different colors
I mean obviously I mean were God's children
so obviously we should all be loving each other and as far as religion is
concerned
I can't make any decisions
about that other than the fact that I know that
God loves all of us and it isn't that he loves just Christians.