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What I Lear ned
Fr om My 2
Near Deat h
Exper iences
began pumping my chest and that was when the pain began. The pain was when I came back to this world,
but not when I was in between worlds. I don?t know how much time it was, when there was no pain at all. It
was very peaceful. It felt very good.
This taught me what it feels like to let go, because when I was in the water, I completely let go. I let go of
my breath. I let go of this world. And that was it. And it taught me that when it is time for me to go to
another world, what it will feel like. It is a peaceful and a calm feeling of letting go. I learned that I don?t
have to cling to this world when the time comes for me to leave.
So one of those experiences taught me that there is another reality and what I was feeling shows me that
reality. The other experience in the water, taught me what it feels like to let go, to absolutely let go, and to
know that when I leave this world... not to be afraid.
I think it?s different for different people. I believe that we have the experience that we need in that
moment to help give us the tools that we will need from that point forward.
At an early time in my life, my family had a very difficult time. My father was an alcoholic and our family
was very dysfunctional. It was difficult for me since I?m the oldest. I was five and I have a younger brother
who was only one at the time. The family dynamics were difficult for me, and I think it was a way for me to
escape. But what I discovered was it was a way for me to be more in this world, because I learned I could
feel. I could have a feeling that the world looked different and I could have a feeling that would be a calm,
and a peaceful feeling of letting go.
To be in this world, there is a tension that we hold that keeps us in this world all the time. It?s
subconscious. It?s a tension. It says, oh, I?m here. When we?re awake, when we?re asleep, we hold that
tension, but we don?t even know it, until we have the opportunity to release it. And when we release that
tension, that is what it feels like.
Gr egg Br aden
This is something I rarely talk about in public. I wrote about this 20 years ago in one of my books, and I have
not talked about this very much. I had two near-death experiences, both of them in the same year of my
life, when I was five years old.
One of them was with electricity and I remember very consciously taking a wire, and with scissors I scraped
the insulation off of this bare copper wire. I walked to an electrical outlet and I plugged both in the outlet. I
was severely burned. Even today, I have scars. It?s black. My face was burned. My eyelashes were gone.
My eyebrows were burned. It was in the middle of the day when it happened.
My mother called the doctor, and they said, wait,here as I was placed in my bedroom for the doctor to
arrived at the house. And while I was waiting, in broad daylight, I began to see things in my room that I did
not see before the electrical experience.
So the electrical shock literally shocked me into an awareness of another reality that I had not seen before.
And for me, it was a very positive experience. It was the opportunity for beings in my room that were
healing my body. One of them was behind me, where there should have been a wall and there was one of
them at my feet.
When the doctor arrived at my room, the burns were already beginning to heal. So it was an exceptional
experience for me: it told me that there is another way to feel, and when I feel this way, the world looks
different, its another way of seeing.
Later in that same month, I was in a swimming pool. My mother was with me. She had gone with friends for
a moment and I was left alone. I walked into the water in the shallow end, and as I began to walk the water
was getting deeper and deeper and deeper, and I went to the very bottom of the deep water. I remember
that it felt very peaceful. I opened my mouth, I let out the air, and this peace and calm came over me. I
could see the beings that were with me again and they were telling me that I had to make a choice, that
either I come back to this world or I go to another world, and it was my choice. It was my choice!
And when I made a choice to be in this world, suddenly people were pulling me out of the water. They
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Now, as an adult, I studied ancient traditions, indigenous traditions and native wisdom, and what I learned
is that, in many traditions, when people reach old age, and it?s time for them to die, they don?t suffer. They
call it conscious death. They simply let go. And the Egyptian traditions, on the temple walls, they actually
talk about the ceremony of letting go, so conscious death is letting go.
Since I learned that feeling for myself when I was very young, I don?t fear that time in my life. I?m not yet
ready for it and I believe I will be here a very long time. I even told my mother after those experiences that
I will be in this world for 200 years. And she said, why 200 years? And I said, because I want to see the
change that?s happening in the world. Well, that was in the 1950s, and my mom says, what change? I said,
the big change that will happen in the world.
Now, we know, I have been with Tibetan monks, Tibetan nuns, that are 120 years old and they?re very
healthy and very strong, and I expect they will continue to live as well.
The best science now tells us that every organ in our body has the ability to heal itself, every organ, even
the organs we were told could not (so brain tissue, spinal cord tissue, heart tissue, pancreatic tissue) ? all
now are documented with the ability to heal themselves, given the right environment. And t hat
environment is direct l y connect ed t o t hought s, f eel ings and emot ions, how we f eel about t his worl d.
And if we are frightened, if we live in fear, that is a form of stress that steals the life from our bodies. If
we?ve learne how to heal the stress, then our bodies are able to heal and reproduce more cells to heal
themselves all the time.
Now my mom?s health is declining and her memory has disappeared. I visited my mom the day before I
came on this trip, and at first she doesn?t recognize me. And then I said, "Mom, it?s Gregg. " And she says,
oh, you?re going to live 200 years. She still remembers that after all this time.
G regg Braden is a five-time New York Timesbest-selling author and is
internationally renowned as a pioneer in bridging science, spirituality and
human potential! Visit GreggBraden.com
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