Once in a great while I stumble across someone's NDE testimony that I find to be uniquely outstanding and awesome. Christian Andréason (pronounced On-dray-son) and his NDE testimony is the latest one! For reasons that you will discover for yourself, I consider his experience as the most inspirational I've ever read. His testimony is filled with new insights - new "pieces" to fit into my own NDE cosmology puzzle.

It was on June 2nd of 1995, that Christian Andréason had his near-death experience. Because of an unanticipated drug interaction and overdose, Christian's blood pressure was caused to plummet while undergoing routine dental surgery. Once out of his body, Christian took an extensive tour of what he calls, "The Divine Realm" and he saw himself go before a great light he deeply believes to have been God. The experience not only changed the entire course of Christian's life, but also the direction of his music career. He immediately became more focused on all things spiritual; serving friends, loved ones and even those some might consider strangers in anyway possible.

Best known for being an award-winning - critically acclaimed, independent recording artist, Christian Andréason is a singer, songwriter and producer of inspirational music for his independent record label, Wonderboy Records. Since 1987 he has professionally recorded hundreds of songs and produced a total of 9 albums. Praised by celebrities, major press and even former United States Presidents, Christian's music and messages of love have so far reached millions of ears and eyes Internationally via Internet, television, stage, print and radio.

Betty Eadie and Christian

Interestingly enough, Christian is the writer/singer of the theme song entitled, "All The Time" used by fellow NDEer and long-time # 1 N.Y. Times Best Selling Author, Betty J. Eadie for her 2002 award winning television program, "Embraced by the Light" ... which featured Betty's famous book of the same name. Betty J. Eadie was the first to discover and publish some of Christian's NDE writing in several pages of the 1999 inspirational book, "The Ripple Effect." The two are great friends, as Betty has been a great source of inspiration to Christian for many years.

Besides writing about spirituality and recording future music, Christian now devotes several days every week toward a thriving spiritual therapy/one-on-one ministry practice based in Houston, Texas. Using his God given intuitive gifts and clairvoyant abilities he has since helped a multitude - including many well known in entertainment media, politics, ministry and in the new-thought movement.  

Kevin Williams - 2004

On June 2nd, 1995 I had what is commonly called, "a near-death/out-of-body experience." This event occurred because of a reaction to a mixture of medications I had taken before having dental surgery performed.

Two weeks prior to the dental surgery, I injured myself while lifting a big screen TV up a long flight of stairs in the rain. Once at the top, I slipped and lost my footing. While I did manage to catch the TV, I pulled out several muscles in my lower back and was in terrible pain.  My injury was so bad, I could not even stand once I got the TV into my apartment.  I literally could do nothing but crawl to my bedroom and into the bed.  A doctor was called, but because the medications he put me on were not powerful enough to ease my suffering, I remained bedridden for about two weeks.  This then launched me into a two week fast where I lost a tremendous amount of weight.   Getting up and down to go to the bathroom was simply too excruciating, so I made a conscious decision not to eat and drink as little as possible.  Later, a dear friend found out what I had been going through and he came over to give me a much stronger painkiller he had found and brought back with him from a recent trip to Columbia.  The pills he gave me worked so well I called them "my magic pills" because I was soon able to get up and move around. 

After having been bedridden for so long, as soon as I could get up I found myself standing in my kitchen eating some walnuts, only to realize my back tooth really hurt!  I called my dentist to make an appointment and he reminded me that he had already told me I needed to have a root canal done, but I had procrastinated dealing with it. 

On the day of my dental surgery, now having had plenty of time to imagine the discomfort I was about to endure in the dental chair (and completely weary of the thought of me having to endure any additional pain) I purposefully took a rather large dose of pain killers and anti anxiety medicines before the appointment, thinking that this would save me from feeling anything too severe during or after the procedure.  (I know, not the most intelligent thing to do.  But it did not stop there!)  Because I was particularly nervous that day, I had a lapse in my memory, and forgetting that I had already taken some pillsI actually took another handful as I was rushing out the door! 

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The dentist's office, into the chair and then the beyond...

It was not until I stepped out of the car that I started to realize I was feeling pretty woozy. Yet, because I had forgotten I had taken that extra handful of pills, it never occurred to me that I might be in danger.  Actually, at the time, I felt pretty good. But then the inevitable happened:

Not long after I sat down in the dental chair, the large dose of pain killers ended up conflicting with the anesthesia that was being given to me in the dentist’s officeand the result was that my blood pressure fell too low and I was literally knocked unconscious and right out of my body. 

I felt myself lift up out of my chest and head areaand almost immediately I found myself surrounded by the most dazzling, brilliant white Light!  It seemed to be growing brighter and brighter in intensity by the second.  The happiness I felt in merging with this Light was indescribable!  At the same time, I started to realize that I was becoming surrounded and observed by many beings and fellow Souls, who in reality (I somehow understood) had been standing near me during my entire lifetime!  Every single one of these individuals was someone I knew very well, but did not recognize as having been a part of my life during this incarnation.  Yet, the closeness and familiarity I felt for these beloved Souls surpassed any devotion for anyone I have ever learned to Love here on this planet.  As I felt the energy and Love coming from these individuals, I knew that we were all family.  I was also able to intuit that our mutual growth depended on the gradual maturity and growth of us alland that for every success one of us experienced, there was a joyous celebration felt by the entire group! 

Memories of past-life experiences with these beings filled my consciousness and as this happened I was filled with wonder at how truly eternal we all are!  I saw how life never ends.  Once a single lifetime is over, that particular existence (and all the dreams, issues and desires that come with it) will bridge over and become an extension to yet another lifetime that is to be.   The friends, family, co-hearts we have had before, we will experience in some, shape or formagain, somewhere else, just as we have each experienced them before.

An inner need to explore and understand my own eternal truth progressively grew stronger. Suddenly, I felt my inner Light begin to expand and contract, and like an exploding star, I found my intellect and consciousness traveling in multiple directions, realities and dimensions all at once.  This event (for lack of a better word or expression) was completely mind blowing!  And because of this, I often find it difficult to relay my NDE along the lines of a chronological story, because in truth, everything I experienced from this point forward happened to me all at once.

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Moving further into the Light

As I moved further into the Light, all time stoppedand a mere two minutes of Earth time turned into what seemed to be days, weeks and even months.  A huge scope of understanding was now engulfing my total comprehension by the nanosecond.  

Using a ego-driven, logical mind ... this concept might seem intense and/or complex.  Yet, the more I felt myself enter into the Realm of Heaven the process became quite simple and effortless to understand.

As I sensed the energy of all those who were around me, I was helped to remember that every child of God is considered very precious, is always seen and never forgotten.  There is nothing any of us could possibly do to keep us from being eternally Loved by Godforever.  

I undeniably understood that each and everyone of us exists for a very definite purpose, holds a particular kind of unique energywhich usually manifests as a kind of talent that is meant to be used and shared with others.

As I stood in the Light, memories from former incarnations flooded my intellect and as this happened, it struck me how all the moments (even those that might have seemed insignificant before) all turned out to be huge stepping stones when seen from a eternal perspective.  I saw how even the most mundane or boring task had the ability to lead me to an even greater awareness about myselfand I understood that we create much difficulty for ourselves and others' when we try to ambitiously push or force ourselves into circumstances before our Soul feels truly ready for them.

As I continued this process of backtracking and reviewing the spiritual reflection of Heaven against all the mortal lives my Soul had chosen to reside within, I was able to review many moments taken from my current life and compare them against moments from former incarnations.  It was during this process that I saw many behavior patterns and habits (some good and some challenging) that had been following me around lifetime after lifetime. 

I clearly saw the origin behind every addiction or flaw I had and how I had acquired each (whether socially, genetically or energetically) and also knew that with every incarnation I lived in, I was being given the opportunity to ascend my own spiritual intellect and individualized thinking (in how I made decisions for myself) so that I could rise above the ill behaviors that did not serve the purpose of my Higher Self or the greater good of God.

I saw that multiple incarnations (where we experience many different kinds of lives; some poor, some wealthy, some with beauty, some with disfigurement or disease, some with fame, some with misfortune or a mixture of everything) are all necessary; as these help us examine the unlimited amount of vantage points into the remarkable, endurable, unchangeable and complex natures of our own Soul. To glimpse this (even once) in a single lifetime is truly a great blessingas this is how we begin to truly recognize and define our own potential and behold our own wonder.  All else is of the ego.

From Heaven I saw that it is our destiny, as human beings to have as many mystical experiences as possible, so that we might realize our Divine true nature, while we are still 'alive' in a flesh suit.   Not only are these experiences necessary, they unlock the Godtruth stored within each of us and roll out pieces of our Divine blueprint, as to who we really are. 

Once you have become a person who has experienced and embraced your own Divinity, only the vast open sky is the limit, as far as all the things you will be able to achieve and accomplish in a single lifetime.

You will find that the older, more experienced and advanced your own Soul becomes, the more repetitive revelation type experiences will increase.  As your Soul matures and learns how to balance all areas of your life you will crave mystical experiences more than you seek creature comforts.  You will feel as if something is missing if you are without a revelatory experience for too long.  And if you are, then this simply means you are in need of balancing or amending something in your life that might be blocking you.    (Welcome to the game of life!)

So until that next revelation moment comes, many lifetimes are necessary so that we might improve our Soul's mental and emotional ability to create what we think of as identity  all so that we might come to know and stabilize our own intentionsand realize how powerful they are! 

Once we realize how powerful our intentions areand understand that they do indeed manifest our destiny, we will find ourselves more and more able to access and incorporate any dream, wish or concept we desire, as we continue to explore and evaluate ourselves in this or later lifetimes.  (In other words, as we face how important our own thoughts are, the negative issues or hang-ups that might have blocked us before, won't hold the same power as we will have figured out how to remove the emotional and energetic attachments they once imposed.)

As each of us possesses the Spark of God within, or what Jesus spoke of as, "The Kingdom that is within" we will all one day learn that we have access to unlimited amounts of  power that exists on a enormous, nuclear scale. This power begins as a seed or thought planted in the mind.  If the thought is reinforced with additional thoughts of like kind, it will materialize and bloom.  Our Spirit (or Higher Self) already knows this, it is just waiting for us to become conscious of this truth and see that we have the power to govern our lives, by self governing our minds.  Until then, the Universe will deliver life lessons that MUST COME come to help us awaken our own consciousness, which overtime bridges us over into Divine truth.

So while we may not be able to rectify or bring into balance every issue (we would like) in a single lifetimeas our Soul's intellect grows, our ability to predestine ourselves into better circumstances will improve and we will enable our Soul to energetically seek out, materialize and manifest future lives that will help us achieve what our intention believes it most needsso that we might continue our growth.

It was in this moment that I became more fully aware of the fact that God (our Creator) wants us to experience everything that we wish to experience.  Nothing is denied us, only that which we inherently deny ourselves.  And while, certain experiences do not always lead to pleasant outcomes, they do lead to a certain amount of enlightenment.  Especially as one returns his or her thinking to The Light and focusing on God's wish for us to learn a more loving way to live our lives. 

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Feeling Absolute Love in The Light With My Guides

Traveling at a velocity faster than the speed of light, with one super sonic boom right after another, I witnessed an uncountable amount of wonderful places that were not of this world; and as this part of my journey moved forward, ultimately many spiritual truths were lovingly and generously revealed to me with mind-bending answers.   It is from this particular occurrence that I believe I now am able to help others' understand and/or connect to the more eternal parts of the other side when I meet with them one-on-one, as I am able to clairvoyantly see where most Souls have incarnated within the Creator's Super Universe.

I saw there are literally trillions of worlds out there with organized life on them, only these locations are either very far away from Earth or held in different dimensions that can only be traversed by the Spirit.

As this amazing moment of enlightenment was occurring, I remember recognizing that I was being guided by a Spirit who appeared in the form of the most beautiful woman anyone could possibly imagine.  She spoke to me using the softest, most sincere voice I had ever heard and ultimately she became my most trusted guide, as she was so lovely and incredibly gentle.  Following us were three other guides who all appeared as men, one of whom I recognized as being my elder guide.  This particular guide would show up during my experience (only as he was needed) to approve or not approve the places and spaces of time I entered into or was being shown. 

All my guides were robed with what seemed to be a beautiful glistening white, diamond-like material. I could also distinguish that they had Light coming from underneath their garments. I knew that this Light was their true bodies. The moment they came into my awareness, I remembered these beings as having been some of my closest friends that have been with me for all-eternity. They were very kind to me and very caring about my feelings. There are no secrets in Heaven, so information that might have been considered embarrassing (that was revealed to me during my life-review) was treated with tremendous sensitivity. And even in moments when I might have cried knowing that someone knew my deepest darkest secrets, wonderful warm laughter was often exchanged between us instead! 

No matter any unpleasantness they may have known about me, I knew absolutely that I was unconditionally Loved and that there was nothing I could ever do to change this.  It was revealed to me that my guides had made many communications to me during my lifetime, prior to my NDE, particularly during difficult times in my childhood and adolescence, only I was not consciously aware of them or their presence at the time.  Sometimes a thought would come into my head that was to lead me in more of an appropriate direction.  I understood that many times these "thoughts" were actually coming from my guides.  I was amazed by the fact that even during the times I had felt absolutely isolated or alone, I never was!  They (like angels) had been right beside me the entire time! 

Dealing with my own Humanity

While I was in consciously the midst of my guides, I felt a tremendous amount of safety and comfort, so I began to review some of my biggest fears and perceptions of failure in life, and this brought me to consider the religious understandings and rules I had come to learn as gospel-truth during this lifetime.  Immediately, I felt the power of The Holy Spirit fill my intellect.  As this happened, I realized that while many of our World's religious ideas had been divinely inspired during their origin (to help us see ourselves and the nature of our Spirit more clearly) their basis had been largely misconstrued over time due to humankind's need to rule over, socially dictate and micromanage the behaviors of their fellow brothers' and sisters'.  (I will cover more about this later.)

I began to think of all the sins I had committed during my life and felt so terrible and guilty about.  Immediately I understood that many of these moments (where I strayed from the ways of Love and Light) were actually times where I had chosen to initiate future growth for my own Soul.  I saw that none of my 'sinful' actions were of any shock or surprise to God or anyone else in Heaven.  They knew what I was doing and exactly why I was doing it.  There was no judgment whatsoever!  I saw that by choosing to sin I had made a rather brave (or gutsy) detour from the "likely" and predictableand instead rooted myself upon a path that would help me to investigate the very yearnings (I was most likely running from) and deep dark questions still left largely unanswered in my own Soul.  Not that these paths would be easy ones mind you, however they would (and did) lead me toward circumstances and individuals who would play out the role of some of my greatest teachers in life. 

Essentially, from the view point of Heaven, I saw there are two view points to this word, "sin."

There is the view point from The Other Side and the view point held from the World.

From the view point of the Other Side, I saw that the act of "sinning" was seen as simply the departure of one path for another, and that the only true penalty (felt by the Spirit) would be that we would be made to endure the repercussions and energies we had quested to learn of, absorb or make others' experience.  I would also like to mention that I clearly saw that once we were done with an exploration and had said so directly to God with a pure Heart, (whether in this lifetime or the next) God would faithfully once again set us back upon a path that resembled our true purpose.

From the viewpoint of the World, our human mind sees "sin" as a departure away from our Spirit's authentic purpose, which is to be perfect, pure and whole.  If we see ourselves doing something that apposes the will of our Spirit, our Soul becomes grieved and is made to feel bad about its self.  This action causes us to become fragmented inside.  Meaning: our inner Light becomes subdivided and our Heart feels confused.  As the ego begins to take note of what is occurring, it uses the situation to take full advantage of the person and make them feel worthless.  And as the individual turns their "sin" into a habit or addiction, ego then seeks to have them believe that they are now too far away from their own Spirit, therefore it is not possible for them to maintain control over themselves, their lives or their destiny. This (of course) is a lie and comes from that which is Love's opposite ... evil.

Interestingly enough, from Heaven I saw that the only' true sin' one can commit is to lose faith in God.  Yet the reason for this is not for what most might think...

To lose faith in God causes a Soul to lose faith in themselves.  It is the inner Spark within us that gives us eternal and physical life.  To deny God is to deny the inner Spark, and to deny the inner Spark is to reject our life's true purpose and the inner power that gives us everything we are and aspire to be.

When we fail to have faith in ourselves, we cannot perpetuate the higher vibration of Self Love, Inner Love is the core power which helps us create and maintain everything we enjoy about ourselves.  Without Self Love we descend our consciousness to a lower vibration, and in so doing, we open ourselves up to lower energiesand destructive thoughts and habits soon follow that pull us away from our ability to tune into God, The Higher Heavens and our Spirit. 

If our Soul does not feel connected to Love or its own Spirit, the human energy and flesh surrounding the Soul (and mind) will begin to become depressed, as very little life-giving Light (from our inner Spark) will have been created.  In time, if the behavior of faithlessness is not remedied, the Soul will desire to leave the human vessel (and the mind it is attached to) and the human organism (aided by ego) will seek to find a way to die. 

Either a want for suicide will emerge, dis-ease or addiction (that will bring eventual destruction) will come about. And the human mind will accomplish its darkened intention.

What is God made of?

God is an essence of absolute Love, Light and beautiful Sound. What I understood (in Christian practice) to be the WORD of God, is actually the SOUND or MUSIC of God.

God is a great LIGHT-filled Being who sings all tones simultaneously and uses this method to bring all things into existence In so doing, God has caused each Creation to resonate with one another in perfect harmonyonce that Creation has aligned itself with the ways of Love. God uses SOUND to create all things and give them life. The Creator then extends His Light which helps that Creation take form.

All of us hold Light and Tones within.  I call these our power centers. Those who are spiritual seekers of other traditions know and call these centers, "The Chakra".  

How long is the Light of God with us? Is there anything we can do to make it go away?

Once God extends His Light, that Light will remain with that Creation for all eternity. There is nothing that can remove it. Each and every one of us is surrounded by a great beacon of Light. This is our eternal cord that connects us to our Creator. When most speak of seeing a tunnel (in NDE experiences) what they are referring to is a cord that connects us to God and the Light of Heaven shining through it from up above.

So you are saying that I can hear from God?  If so, how?

Yes! I am saying that ANYONE can hear from God! One does not need to be Buddha, Moses or even Jesus to hear from their Creator. To hear from God, all one has to do is THINK as the CREATOR thinks.  And I happen to know that God thinks only ONE central thought, so this should be easy for you!  GOD THINKS ABOUT NOTHING BUT LOVE -- ALL THE TIME!

If you are living your life according to the ways of LOVE. (Which are the constructive ways that you know deep down in your Spirit that are right for you), then you can confidently know that you have the ability to hear from God. If you are actively seeking to spend time in the presence of Godthen you can bet Spirit is going to provide opportunities for you to do that! You will always know when the presence of God is with youyou will feel like a grateful and excited little child again.

Actually all of us hear from God every day, only we are probably not aware of it. Because we can get so caught up with the illusions and ego distractions of this world, we lose focus easily. It is like being immersed in an action-packed movie or book while someone is speaking, only you find yourself looking up and saying, "huh?" once you realize they have been speaking to you for some time.  As I mentioned earlier in this writing, we see God with our Heart.  Well, the same is true when in comes to hearing ... it takes the Heart to hear from our Maker.  But if our Heart center is cluttered with confusion, negativity, anger or lust-filled ambition  hearing God will be difficult.  Yet, if we work to keep our Heart clear and clean dailyhearing from God can become a very definite reality.

How do I know if I am hearing from God?

Anything that is not of LOVE is not of God! PERIOD! If thoughts of severe judgment, condemnation, bitterness, unforgiveness, ego centered anger or hate-based retaliation come into your mind and dominate it, please know, this is not God. This is your ego speaking, which is ruled by fear. God fears nothing, therefore; God can speak no thing that is reminiscent of fear. God only speaks using a language of Love.

Once you had your NDE, did you see God (the Creator) immediately?

While I believe I did ultimately experience a portion of the Creator's essence, at first, no, I did not 'see' anything that resembled God (to my own Heart), at least not immediately.  Even as I experienced moments of absolute visual bliss in Heaven that I will never forget, I always somehow knew that when it came to actually seeing and experiencing God FULLY that this would not happen until I left human life for good.  Until then, I knew that God would remain largely veiled from me until I had grown my own inner Light to the point that I would be able to endure standing in the presence and entirely of The Creator's Light.  However, it is important for me to tell you that the moment I entered the Realm, I certainly did FEEL the presence of our Creator absolutely everywhere!  Because (in essence) God is comprised of ALL things, when you go home to Heaven you will constantly have a sense that you are 'seeing' God, especially as you experience the more sublime aspects and visuals within the Realm.  But it is important to remember:

We do not see God with our eyes ... but rather ... our Heart!

I remember The Light conveying to me that I would know times of great jubilation and that there would also be times that I would know sorrow as I pursued my ordained purpose. But I was told that I would be blessed for every time I succeeded in the name of Love. I was told that every experience was extremely necessary according to a greater plan that would unfold plans and plans never-ending. I was told not to ever worry about my competency, capacity or ability, for it was promised to me that the Light would never leave me to endure anything I was not created to handle. I was told that there would be times I would doubt myself and my mission, but in the end, I would learn great wisdom and eventually see myself as victorious.

I was shown an innumerable amount of scenes, all containing possible realities I would eventually experience. I was shown many Universes and worlds that had organizational life on them. I saw that everyone in every Universe is simultaneously working together to fulfill God's great Divine plan. I understood that God sees and knows absolutely everything that happens everywhere. I saw that while God does a great deal of planning, our Creator never interferes with our volition, nor does God ever seek to alter the way we feel about things. God knows there is no need to interfere because He knows that the Universal Divines' law of cause and effect is always perfect. This method will always bring justice and teaching wherever it is needed most.

I was amazed to see how each of us is connected eternally, that we have always existed, and that we will never die.

I saw that we were indeed made in the image of God, which is an essence taken from the Creator's own LIGHT. It is because of this Light that we can never die. Every single child of God carries this Light within their Soul, and we call this Light, Spirit.

As we learn how to LOVE, we build up additional layers of supernatural Light on top of Spirit we hold within. It is from this Light and our effort to expand it that we create our future realities.

What is our ultimate destiny?

 A day will come when our Light will have become so large that we will eventually choose to merge and go back to the Creator and be as ONEjust as we were in the beginning.

Once we are all ONE again, there will be a great celebration. And after a certain amount of time has passed, yet again, there will be another great explosion, only this time it will be much bigger and the process of Creation will be far more advanced.

I felt tremendous Joy and honor in having been shown these things and with great confidence, I promised God (The Light) that I would do my very best. And in return, I was told my best would certainly be enough!

Why is it so important to understand Love and use it in everyday life?

The reason why we must learn Love on Earth can be given a scientific explanation:

God is Love and exists as the highest absolute vibration you can think of. The act of Christ-like Love elevates our own inner vibration and as this occurs our understanding of God increases.  As we learn how to Love and practice Christ-like Love with one another, the inner vibration within the Soul creates magnificent rays of supernatural inner Light. These rays then extend further into Heaven, helping us to reach and enter into various dimensions that lead the way to the Higher Heavens.

Isn't the highest Heaven a place we go to if we are good in life?

Contrary to what many of us were taught by our various religions, "Heaven" is not necessarily a reward for good behavior, it is simply a "higher plane of existence" that awaits those who ready themselves to enter.

The only way to enter through the door ... is to believe in, live and hold the key of Love.

How can I learn more about the ways of Love?

Jesus Christ came to the planet to be a way-shower for all people and all religions. He lived his life with great passion and dedication to this word LOVE, so that each of us might have a role model to compare ourselves to. This is why he said, I AM the truth, I AM the way, and I AM the life, no man can come to God but through me. If you replace I AM and ME with LOVE IS ... you get ...