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 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

The following is an edited version of questions and answers taken from Christian's forthcoming book. While it is reprinted on this website for inspirational reading, we ask should you choose to print it out for your own personal use, that you make a contribution at the link provided toward the bottom of this page.  If you would like to publish any part of this work, written permission must be first given by the author.

Christian Andréason's Question and Answer Index   What happened? When you got to Heaven, what was the first thing you saw? What goes on in the "Divine Realm?" Did God share with you what your purpose was in this life? Did you see Angels? What were you shown about Christ, as being the Son of God? How can a person become lost after death? Don't we just pass on? What is God made of? What about sexually diverse people? How does one do spiritual warfare? What is ego? What about hell? What would be the most important thing you could say now?

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! 

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:

The large dose of pain killers ended up conflicting with the anesthesia 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 that seemed to be growing brighter and brighter in intensity by the second, especially once I found myself actually starting to become ONE with it. 

The happiness I felt in merging with the Light was indescribable! 

At the same time, I started to realize that I was surrounded and being 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 and I could 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.

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, from Heaven the process is actually seen as quite simple and effortless.

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As I sensed the energy of all those who were around me, I was helped to remember that every child of God is very precious, 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 saw and 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 during our lifetime(s).

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. 

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 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 a truly a great blessing, as this is how we begin to truly recognize and define our own potential, behold our own wonder and begin to see the omnipotent face of God.  All else is of the ego.

From Heaven I saw that it is our destiny, as human beings to have many mystical experiences and realize the Divine while we are still alive in a flesh suit.   Not only are they necessary, they unlock the Godtruth within you and roll out pieces of your Divine blueprint, as to who you really are. 

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

You will find that the older, more experienced or 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, 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 you..." 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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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! 

During my NDE, while I was in consciously their midst, 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 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 Self Love which helps us create and maintain everything we enjoy about ourselves.  Without Self Love we open ourselves to lower energies ... and destructive thoughts and habits soon pull us away from our ability to tune into our Spirit. 

If our Soul does not feel connected to Love or its own Spirit, the human being around the Soul (the mind) will begin to become depressed, as very little life giving Light (from the inner Spark) will have been created.  In time, if the behavior of faithlessness is not remedied, the Soul will desire to leave the human being (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 or a dis-ease or addiction (that will bring eventual destruction) will come about.

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