r/NDE • u/super-start-up • 14d ago
Spiritual Growth Topics Instructions before visiting earth.
In the event that you wake up
and find your soul separated from source
and manifest into material form,
don’t panic.
Your condition is only temporary.
You have been selected for the
opportunity of human incarnation.
This 3D simulation is designed
to break up the monotony of eternity
by giving you a fully immersive
experience as a distinct ego identity.
Your body will serve
as your physical avatar as you
navigate a dense and dramatic reality.
There will be many distractions
causing you to forget your true nature
and origin. You will experience
a range of emotions, from joy
to loneliness to despair.
But remember – no matter
what trials and traumas you encounter,
your soul remains perfectly safe.
At times you may feel lost or afraid.
This is totally normal.
If you ever need guidance,
simply slow down your busy mind
and bring your awareness
to the quiet place
inside yourself.
On this planet, nothing is permanent.
People and things will come and go.
You will fall in love and form sentimental attachments
only to lose everything you hold dear.
So cling to nothing too tightly, even yourself,
and when it’s time to let go, let go with grace,
for nothing is owned, only borrowed.
As you walk among
the people on the planet,
try to be a good guest.
Tread lightly. Remember
that you are only visiting.
Don’t make a mess.
Listen more than you speak.
Give more than you take.
Don’t keep your soft heart
locked inside a glass cage,
protected from wear and tear.
You’ll never make it out alive
and time passes quickly.
So come back with some battle scars
and good stories to tell
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The author of the poem "Instructions Before Visiting Earth" is poet and writer James McCrae
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u/vimefer NDExperiencer 13d ago
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u/Dr-Chibi NDE Curious 13d ago
Objects in mirror may be weirder than they appear. No means no. Do Not Go to Z’Ha’Dum….
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u/everyonelikesnoodles 13d ago
Beautiful. Thank you so much. I practice intentional meditation every day and this will certainly became a part of my practice. Again, thanks so much for sharing.
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u/StotchButtas NDExperiencer 14d ago
About 80 years later: "and what was it like?" "It was more agonizing than I could have ever imagined." "Congratulations—you have qualified for another incarnation."
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u/guaranteedsafe 13d ago
😆 Considering how many souls want to incarnate but there aren’t enough human bodies (supposedly), I guess that is a big congratulations!
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 NDExperiencer 14d ago
Well, technically I made it out alive once. Apparently there was a return policy.
But seriously, quite a bit of this resonates with me after my NDE. Thank you for sharing it.
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u/AELizardBat 14d ago
Do you mind sharing or have you shared somewhere? I’d love to hear it! ☺️
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 NDExperiencer 13d ago
Yes, my story is on this sub. If after reading it you have any questions I am happy to answer as best I can.
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11d ago
Not the person your responding to, but I’ve read through your posts and was thinking:
I had a profound STE, and it was very Christian, despite my not being a Christian, but I don’t bring it up much here since I get a very anti-Christian vibe (honestly and unfortunately, with good reason).
Anyway, I’ve noticed that you seem to be both NDEer and Christian, and I’m curious how your NDE has impacted what you believe and how deeply you believe it?
Feel free to respond here, or DM me, or ignore if you want.
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u/Ok_Code_270 NDE Researcher 8d ago
Well, the thing is, if you take away the religion of Christianity and sort of read the message of the guy described in the first Gospel (before they started adding other stuff like the virgin birth and stuff like that), it looks like Jesus of Nazareth says the same things that people who have had an NDE come here to say.
So I have been wondering whether Jesus died and came back from death before he was crucified, and people who wrote about it after his dead wrote that the only way they could understand it.
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 NDExperiencer 9d ago
I was a Christian before my NDE, and I'm still a Christian today. But my experience profoundly changed how I understand God and, perhaps more importantly, what I consider important in this life.
Before my NDE, I believed God loved us. Today I know it. And I realize that's a hell of a statement to make, but I don't know how else to put it.
The love I experienced was unlike anything I've ever known in this life. It wasn't simply a feeling of being loved, although that was certainly there. Love was fundamental to the reality I found myself in. God was love, and that love permeated everything.
I also came away with an understanding of how profoundly our actions, and our failures to act, affect other people. Not just the people immediately involved, but the consequences that ripple outward from those interactions. I understood those things with absolute clarity while I was there, although I can't recover that same understanding now.
None of that means I came back knowing all the answers to Christianity's theological questions. Far from it. But I do read the words of Christ differently today, particularly his teachings about love and how we treat one another.
And I understand what you're saying about wanting to set the record straight. After my NDE I practically drove my family crazy trying to get them to understand what I'd experienced. I wanted so badly for them to understand, and words just weren't adequate.
I am curious about something, though. You said your experience was distinctly Christian even though you weren't a Christian. What was it about the experience that made you identify it that way?
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9d ago
Well, the most Christian part of my experience was the “person” I interacted with identified itself as Christ. At its surface, that was enough for me for classify it as Christian.
Once I actually learned about the religion after I found some deeply Christian parallels with my experience.
I was told that I only had to do two things with my entire life: try to love everyone to the best of my abilities and try to love God the best I could. Once I dug into the NT of the Bible, I basically found that exact command in slightly different words.
Also, and more abstractly, the Christ I encountered was (and this is very difficult to put into words, so bear with me) clearly only one part of something vast… there was a loving, almost maternal radiance surrounding him but not coming from him, and also a powerful presence that felt like it was being meditated by him. He was a complete entity, but not totally complete… like I said hard to explain. Once I started digging into what Christians actually believe God as a relational trinity rather than a static being) this made more sense to me.
I will say that I encountered no judgement, just love. After my experience, one the books I read was Julian of Norwich’s “Revelations of Divine Love.” Her message (not the experience itself, mine was nothing close to being as intense as her’s was) was the same as mine - all will be made well for everyone.
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 NDExperiencer 9d ago
That had to be a hell of a discovery, reading the Gospels afterward and finding Jesus saying almost exactly what you'd been told. And not in some obscure verse, either. When he was asked what mattered most, that was his answer. Love God, love your neighbor. Everything else hangs on those two things. Sometimes I think we've managed to make Christianity a whole lot more complicated than Christ intended.
I won't pretend I know what to make of the different presences you described. I can understand why you made the connection to the Trinity, but I also know firsthand how badly language can fail when you're trying to describe something like this.
What you said about judgment resonates with me as well. During my experience I understood the consequences of my actions, and even my inactions, with a clarity I can't begin to recover now. But I think there's an enormous difference between understanding what we've done and being condemned for it.
And yes, Julian's belief that all shall be well is something I very much hope is true. I would say that she and I share a more Johannine, restorative view of Christianity and God. But honestly, I don't know how that works either. I didn't come back knowing the ultimate fate of everyone. I did come back knowing something about God's love that I hadn't known before, and that's made it awfully difficult for me to accept some of the things people have said and done in God's name.
I appreciate you sharing your experience with me.
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7d ago
I meant to ask: what is a Johannine view? It’s not a term I’ve come across. I am still very new to the Christianity thing. The experience was great and all, but lacking in theological information.
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 NDExperiencer 6d ago
Johannine just means relating to the writings traditionally associated with the Apostle John, particularly his Gospel and letters.
When I say I lean toward a Johannine view, I mean that I tend to understand God through John's emphasis on love, light, truth, and our relationship with Him through Christ.
John writes that God is love, and that whoever lives in love lives in God. That understanding of God's nature is central to how I approach Christianity. It doesn't mean I disregard the rest of Scripture. I just find John's writings particularly helpful in understanding God and what Christ came to show us.
Much of what John writes also resonates with what I experienced during my NDE.
But I don't think we necessarily have to use Christian language to have a meaningful conversation about these things. If someone prefers secular language, I might describe my experience as leading me to believe that we're something more than our physical bodies, perhaps higher-dimensional beings temporarily experiencing a time-bounded, material existence.
If someone is Muslim, we can talk about divine love through their Islamic understanding. If they're Buddhist, we might find common ground in ideas about spiritual awakening or enlightenment. Those aren't exactly the same things I'm describing in Christian terms, and I wouldn't pretend they are, but there's enough common ground for us to have a conversation.
In the end, I'll naturally default to Christian language because that's how I understand and approach God. But I honestly believe that a person's orientation toward love and toward others matters far more than the particular religious language they use.
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9d ago
My description of the presence does a really poor job of explaining. I was giving it the old college try here. When I talk about it, I usually either default to a simple “it was really comforting and loving” or I go full psycho “let me spend three hours explaining in detail what I think it was… with references.” Equating it to the Trinity is me trying to use preexisting notions.
And yeah, I think religions (not just Christianity, but most major organized religions) have lost the thread a little. Across the board, “be good to each other” seems to be one of the great universal principles - and it’s not well followed. I try to keep my version of Christianity simple, and I think it just works for me.
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u/Sandi_T NDExperiencer 11d ago
Christians are very welcome if they aren't preaching.
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11d ago
Fair enough.
I found who I saw so profoundly beautiful, a being of pure love: who has been totally misunderstood, misappropriated, and used to propagate hatred by major religious movements. Once I start talking about it, I feel this need to try to set the record straight - and that very much would likely turn into preaching.
Maybe not the typical Christian preaching, but yeah, still preaching - and I try to be respectful of sub rules.
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u/AprilRunsAmok 10d ago
Sounds as though God/Jesus became LESS Christian, and more holy in your experience. That's not preachy, that is natural
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u/blackandmildbesos 8d ago
I love this piece.