You Are More Alive After Death!

From: Roger Steinbronn (info@theinnerwizard.com)
Story type: NDE
Location: a lake in New York State
Source: Form Submission

What happened to me...
I had a near-death experience in 1985 at the age of 30.
It was summertime. I was alone in a lake, just floating around while wearing a life jacket. It was going to be dark soon. What could go wrong?

I saw a rope running from the dock to under the water. It was at about a 30% angle. I decided to pull myself underwater with it to take a look around.

I pulled myself down along the rope. I saw that it was attached to a concrete ball about the size of a large pumpkin. I was about 10 feet underwater. It was time to go up for air. Suddenly, my buoyancy combined with the upward force of the life jacket plus my pulling on the rope caused the concrete weight to jump up a couple of feet. I released the rope. The weight went back down. The rope went back down with the weight. It also caught on my life jacket. I was being held down. I looked up. I was at least four feet under the surface of the water and I was already overdue for more air, having been underwater for more than a minute. My feet werent touching the bottom. I was in trouble and I was alone.

I knew that I was going to die. I thought to myself So this is how my life is going to end. I am going to drown. And somebody will eventually find me down here like thisall bloated and tangled up.

After the shock of realizing that I was going to die; that this was it, I accepted death. I was calm and peaceful. This feeling was surprising.

I was determined, however, to hold my breath as long as I could. To get as many extra moments of life as I could. I released air from my lungs a little bit to release the incessant pressure. Wouldnt be much longer, I thought. I thought, sadly, of the people that I was leaving behind. I thought of my brothers and sisters, my parents. I thought of friends.

What happened next still confuses me. Time changed and several distinct events happened at the same time. I mean all at once, but each unique and distinct. Images flashed in my mind of departed relatives. Great aunts. Great uncles. Some of them I hadnt thought of for over 20 years. Uncle Emil. Aunt Marie. Uncle John. My spirit brightened like a giant light bulb or something lit up the area that I was in, Im still not sure. It was so bright that I think that anyone standing on the shore should have seen it. I could see the algae and other tiny things floating around me very distinctly. (It had already been beginning to be dusk out and the sun had disappeared already behind some trees.)

The me part of me (the part that speaks to people and is aware of itself) became to move out of my physical body. I was about two inches out and I was exiting through my head. I was leaving before my body was even dead. Water had not entered my lungs. I was still very much physically alive. This was weird.

Then, images of the high points of my life and what I had accomplished as a person popped into my mind. There was only about four high points. I was surprised and kind of disappointed. Only four?

I had an argument with somebody, or something. Im not sure what. Mind images went back and forth: no words. I didnt want to die. This personality then caused images to appear in my mind of what I am expected to accomplish while on this earth. And I was also thinking at the same time, Yeah, like Im going to get out of this. I am caught and I am going to die.

I hadnt been thrashing around, just was hanging there waiting for death. The rope then jerked. By itself. I moved up. My mouth just barely broke the surface. I breathed in air. I thought, Great, I am going to be alive for just a little longer. I going to die slow now anyway, after all this! The waves on the lake made me keep my mouth mostly closed and it was difficult to get any real amount of air. I was able to take only short, sudden breaths.

I very slowly and carefully felt along the rope to try to release it. I was concerned that any movement would take me just under the surface and then it would be over. Finally, I was free of the rope. And got out of the water. From that time, 17 years ago, I see peoples spirits. The actual them, not just their auras. I can feel peoples spirits and can touch them with mine. And people can feel me touch their spirit. I know their inner states. This is how life is like on the other side. You are what you are and cant pretend. And your thoughts, emotions, attitudes and whatever else are broadcast all over.

Most curiously, I can excite and enhance peoples abilities. Even abilities that I dont personally have, I am a catalyst. I can change them without changing myself. If someone has a slight healing talent, for example, I can greatly enhance it. If they have some intuition, I increase it.

I was dead just long enough to gain these talents that are apparently routinely used on the other side by the personalities there, but not dead so long that I wouldnt have a physical body to use on this earth. Strange thing about the timing...

Roger Steinbronn www.TheInnerWizard.com