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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
did return, but one change that stuck is that I became more open-minded about spirituality and I stopped calling myself an atheist.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
