Assuming atheist is required, the following results were found.
Young atheist woman has heavenly experience
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE Accounts
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to a podcast today and realized it met the definition. You see, even though I was raised in a religious home, I've been an atheist since I was a child, so I have a tendency to see things very practically. I've also suffered from sleep paralysis since I...
02 February 2022
The Question and Answer: Love
Type: Article
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
my grief and it frightened me. Disillusioned with male authority figures that reminded me of my father, I left an avowed atheist. In 1971, on the plane back to my home town in Texas 1971 black smoke began pouring out of the first class cabin; the...
07 May 2009
Burst of Consciousness
Type: Article
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
and then hearing a church bell ring down the street. I had been raised without any religion. I had been a self-determined atheist since the age of five when I found out there was no Easter bunny and my Mother was Santa Claus. I put two and two together...
17 March 2007
Young woman overdoses and experiences unending, undying love, among other things
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
my body. I have no memory of this time, no out-of-body experience, nothing, and I kept thinking to myself, because I was atheist, “See there really is nothing after you die.” I also kept smelling like some sort of iron or sulfur. I wasn’t sure what it...
11 July 2023
Archive through August 20, 2004
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
in which we are "steeped.” I was sure I has seen heaven and hell, and the rest of my life would be an epilog. I was an Atheist when before the experience and a Theist after, although with no religious affiliation. The experience motivated me to go to...
20 August 2004
Genuine Love & Compassion
Type: Article
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
to die, but it's okay. I don't want to be here anyway. All my life I kept looking for love, but I found none. I was raised atheist and had therefore assumed death was the end of everything, so I was surprised when I didn't just snuff out like a candle....
20 December 2010
Sitting with Death
Type: Article
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
I was mainly confused with most religion and no longer felt at home with any system of belief so I considered myself an Atheist, rebelling against all forms of belief. I can easily say I was a very depressed person. I was not happy with my work, my...
20 December 2010
Archive through June 2, 2003
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
For years I have struggled with my religious beliefs, fundamental Christian. Only recently I had become agnostic, maybe atheistic. Felt at peace with myself "feeling unborn again", but I felt weird. Then I accidentally came across the nde of Howard...
02 June 2003
Mother's room is filled with light as she calls out near death
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: Third Person Narratives
Language: *
uterus. It would be important to note that the physician/surgeon that had been treating her confessed that he was of the atheistic belief system, since my mother was a very strong (faithfully devoted) Christian and took every opportunity at witnessing...
10 March 2020
Archive through March 30, 2004
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
was in bed on my back experiencing the worst emotional and physical pain that I had ever known. I was a member of American Atheists and never prayed in my life. I called out "I can't take it anymore, I want to die.” At that moment, I felt something...
30 March 2004
Are the people who have NDEs very religious?
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE FAQs
Language: *
of the general population. NDErs come from many religious backgrounds and from the ranks of agnostics and even atheists. The experience seems more closely related to a person's life afterwards than to what it was before. Similarly, NDEs occur in both...
29 March 2006
Already Knew
Type: Article
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
heaven? Oh, that's ridiculous, Dale in heaven? I still always smile when I write this. Dale is a hardcore biker, hardcore atheist and not your typical angel. But my mind just kept obsessing and reviewing what I had seen in the dream. Much to my dismay,...
29 May 2008
Motorcyclist has OOB and after-effects since accident
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
Working at Forest Service, on a survey crew at the time. Religious thoughts at the time: I would have told you I was an atheist the day before the accident, as a result of my step-father trying to force me into Catholicism; I had come to the conclusion...
13 August 2020
Excellent Documentary with Howard Storm
Type: Article
Author: John Kruth
Category: NDEs in the Movies
Language: *
documentary is called The Redemption of Howard Storm: A near-death experience (view the trailer). Howard Storm was an atheist who had a profound NDE in 1985 when he died in a hospital in Paris. His spirit was escorted away by a group of deceased people...
24 March 2014
Meditation leads woman to out-of-body experiences with Jesus and God
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
am to take Lexy out, I said, “Hi, Paul, God just came to me again about an hour ago.” Paul wanted to hear all about it. An atheist all his life, he has approached all of this with an open, receptive mind, if only because he knows me well and believes...
08 July 2021
Woman passes out, leaves her body, and is surrounded by people
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
we die. I pray and thank our creator almost every day for all the blessings in my life. Which is weird for me. I've been an atheist\agnostic all my life. I still don't believe in religions, but I feel very spiritual now. A connection I've never felt...
12 February 2023
Young woman pedestrian is hit by car and has brief time out of body with entity
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
just happened, and no question of why am I here. I felt complete serenity. There was a singular other being there. I am atheist but this looked like a Central or South American deity depiction. "He" was mainly a mask, with markings as if a glowing edges...
09 December 2023
Woman has stroke and meets former patient who had a stroke
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
I was a failed Pentecostal Christian; grandpa was the pastor and I left the church as a teenager. I considered myself an atheist with an interest in eastern philosophy. I understand Karen is a manifestation of the universal consciousness, appearing as...
11 April 2024
Archive through May 12, 2004
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
an accident anymore. When I finally awoke and was able to speak, three hours later, I said, "I just died.” I have a lot of atheist friends who insisted I just had a bad trip, but I was not convinced. What convinced me that my experience was real was a...
12 May 2004
Intuitive Know-How
Type: Article
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
I was brought up and educated in a fairly strict Roman Catholic fashion but, at the time of my NDE, I was an avowed Atheist with no religious affiliations whatsoever. I am of Celtic origin with an Irish/Scottish ancestry. Prior to the actual NDE, I had...
21 June 2011
The Grand Attractor
Type: Article
Author: Robert Mays
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
did return, but one change that stuck is that I became more open-minded about spirituality and I stopped calling myself an atheist.
18 February 2016
Heaven's Green Room
Type: Article
Author: Robert Mays
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
be a very long time before I’d see her again. The struggle to come to grips with being on Earth again, began. I was an atheist. No longer. My creativity has increased exponentially. I quit my job with a defense manufacturer and am in a...
18 February 2016
Emergency at 37
Type: Article
Author: Martina Straub
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
of those who have passed by telling them briefly of my experience (sometimes the only crumb they have to cling to). I'm an atheist and don't care about life or no life after death. However I can assure you that 5 minutes after you die you will not be...
15 August 2013
Did you go to heaven?
Type: Article
Author: Martina Straub
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
I've gotten older. At this time in my life, I was questioning everything I had learned and was pretty certain that I was an atheist. After the near death experience, I'm still notreligious, but I do have a strong faith in God/a higher power. I'm not...
01 July 2013
Archive through January 3, 2005
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
to me, but still very real. I was not particularly religious or thinking of death at that time of my life. I was a total atheist who did not believe in life after death. It could be argued that it was only a dream, I can accept that. But I have to say...
03 January 2005
Archive through September 28, 2003
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
In my life I used mushrooms 3 times, and I smoked weed for about 2 years. My parents didn’t have religious believes, almost atheist, although that’s different now due to other things that happened. Maybe that’s relevant information to you. It all...
28 September 2003
Archive through July 15, 2002
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
more productive. But that is not all. Up to the point of my "incident", I was an agnostic at best, some would call me an atheist, perhaps. After my experience, I was convinced -and still am- that what I experienced has nothing to do with any religion,...
15 July 2002
Archive through May 09, 2002
Type: Article
Author: Anneliese Fox
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
had a purpose. Somebody really did care about me, love me. These were incredible concepts for me, someone who was raised an atheist, but found her own way into certain aspects of paganism. I have never believed in a god, but had the feeling that there...
09 May 2002
After Death Communications
Type: Article
Author: Max McDermott
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
was handsome, professional, and very devout, I was certain some other woman could do better or at least as well (I was an atheist) even though he assured me repeatedly that he was willing to die for me if need be. Early on November 16, 1986 I was alone...
30 March 2007
The Fall From Mr M's Racehorse
Type: Article
Author: Robert Mays
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
puzzled me. However, it wasn't until around the year 2007/2008 and I was now in my forties (I had been agnostic, borderline atheist...but I could never reconcile or deny the experience and the possibility it left me puzzled with) and a T.V. show called...
02 February 2016
Rev Howard Storm - Author of My Descent Into Death: A Second Chance at Life
Type: Web Link
Category: Authors and Experiencers
Language: *
changed his life and the way he viewed death, religion, and God. Prior to his near-death experience he was an avowed atheist who believed there was nothing beyond the material world and he was hostile to anyone who believed otherwise. He is the author...
29 November -0001
2016 Conference Call Calendar
Type: Article
Author: Charles Swedrock
Category: Group Resources
Language: *
the open ocean, beginning her journey to the Light. Upon her return, 22-year-old Louisa, who fancied herself an existential atheist, found a way to explain away her experience and stuff her deeper sense of truth in a psychic lock-box. All went well for...
17 January 2013
Powerful energy brings pain but also new perspective
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
bathing in unconditional love. It was incredible. For someone like me who was born catholic in France, but a most convinced atheist, my vision of who we are and what the world is has forever changed since that experience. I have had other experiences...
10 June 2019
2018 Conference Call Calendar
Type: Article
Author: Charles Swedrock
Category: Group Resources
Language: *
private life if not for the car wreck and NDE she had back in the 70’s. She had been an angry teenager who claimed to be an atheist. That quickly changed with the crash that sent her into the Light. She experienced the Unconditional Loveof God and was...
17 January 2013
Love was what everything was made of, came from, and returned to
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
of an eye compared to the rest of it. Whether you're devoutly religious, aonce-in-a-blue-moon attendee, non-religious, or atheist, you won't live forever. Eventually, everyone has to face that moment at the end, whether you're ready or not, and as...
14 July 2018
Millions of souls were holding me
Type: Article
Author: Dr. Ann Frances Ellis
Category: NDE-Like Accounts
Language: *
had left me. I thought he was the only one that had ever loved me. I was trying to cry quietly, and I had been somewhat atheist for the past 25 years. But I was reaching out to God asking him why and saying I forgive jesse so why do I hurt so badly. And...
03 February 2018
2017 Conference Call Calendar
Type: Article
Author: Charles Swedrock
Category: Group Resources
Language: *
hospital with a major brain injury, altered how she prioritized her life. In fact, she had been an agnostic bordering on an atheist at the time, but the NDE opened the door to a spiritual life. It also brought her attention to the gift that she had...
17 January 2013
2013 Conference Call Calendar
Type: Article
Author: Charles Swedrock
Category: Group Resources
Language: *
had her NDE due to a suicide attempt in 1982 in which she was told to stop wasting her life thinking she wasn't loved. An atheist at the time, that single sentence spoken by Jesus and experience of a greater reality flipped her world around and inside...
20 October 2010
Revelation
Type: Article
Author: Max McDermott
Category: NDE Accounts
Language: *
do anything to prevent the repeat of the gas and mask. In that period of time I knew that I was going to die and being an Atheist I had hoped that the agony of suffocation would end quickly and I would finally and permanently lose consciousness. Instead...
05 April 2006