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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
I was killed by a truck and a divine voice said it wasn't my time... here's why I can't wait to die again
Up to 15 percent of the world's population have had a near-death experience, with many revealing what they saw heaven - but not everyone came back willingly. A group of near-death survivors has revealed their 'horrible' experiences after being ripped away from the afterlife and returned to their bodies. One man who almost died after overdosing on a health supplement told the Daily Mail he had already gotten comfortable with being in heaven when he was 'forced' to return to Earth against his wishes. Others, including one man that was nearly killed after being hit by a truck, revealed that they actually heard voices telling them it was not their time to enter heaven. However, one near-death experiencer believes he was sent back to Earth intentionally to experience the negative emotions that don't exist in the afterlife. Whether they returned reluctantly or with a divine purpose, near-death experiencers have continued to share their stories of what awaits beyond death. Daily Mail spoke with several who have dedicated their lives to spreading the lessons they learned in death and who now help others to lead a life that will one day grant them entrance to heaven. Still, many of these returning souls keep their own pain hidden, as they now have to wait years to go back to a heavenly realm they didn't want to leave. The stories of people who have seen heaven but then unwillingly returned to Earth were recently discussed on the 'Outer Limits of Inner Truth Reborn' podcast in May. Host Ryan McCormick said: 'I spoke to multiple individuals who have had profound near-death experiences where they describe reaching a light, or a physical afterlife, and then being forced reluctantly back into their bodies.' 'Some of these near-death experiencers have spent many years yearning to return - but also hoping to share the knowledge they have gained with others,' he continued. Peter Bedard from California had a near-death experience after he was hit by a truck. Bedard said his soul jumped out of his body just before the impact. He could see his body and knew he was dead, but felt an 'incredible sense' of life filling him as he entered a spinning tube of white light towards heaven. Bedard also encountered a guide in the afterlife, but was told that he was 'not meant to be there' and was returned to his severely injured body. The former dancer endured multiple years in chronic pain after the accident. He contemplated suicide but feared heaven would reject him again if he carried out his plan. Bedard added that he now understands it was not his time yet, and has dedicated his life to helping others heal from physical, emotional, and psychological issues using hypnotherapy. Vincent Tolman said he was extremely reluctant to return to his body after meeting a 'gentleman dressed all in white' who introduced himself as his 'guide.' Tolman had overdosed on a bodybuilding supplement in a restaurant bathroom. Before being returned against his will, the guide showed Tolman around heaven, which gave the dying man a sense of love and fulfillment. 'I connected to the space. I connected to the grass and it's odd to say, but I felt a tremendous love and peace and serenity coming just from the grass as I touched it with my feet,' Tolman said. 'Then I got to kind of extend my consciousness over to the flowers, the trees, the water, and feel a completeness as I was starting to get used to being in that space,' he continued. That's when Tolman said his guide turned to him and revealed that it was time to leave the afterlife. 'This is going to be hard, but it's going to be worth it,' Tolman recalled the guide saying. As the man and guide hugged, Tolman said he felt a ball of energy explode between the two of them as he was thrown back into his body. By the time his journey through the afterlife was over, Tolman had spent three days in a coma. 'It felt as if I was pulled away from that heaven state, and I was forced back into my body, completely forced,' he said. Tolman admitted that for months after the incident he had a very hard time trying to pick up the pieces and make sense of what had happened. After recovering from his overdose, Tolman married, began to share his near-death experience with others, and admits that he remains 'super excited' to go back to heaven. Andy Petro was another near-death experiencer who was reluctant to return to his body. He said during the podcast that returning to his body was 'horrible' and that 'all he wants' is to be in the light again. Speaking to McCormick, Petro described how he developed a cramp while swimming during a class picnic in Detroit in 1955. He found himself stuck in mud at the bottom of a lake. 'I popped out of my body, and I'm heading towards a tunnel. I can look back and see my body stuck in the mud, and I'm saying to myself, 'Well, that's strange, because I couldn't see it before, but now I can see it,' Petro described. 'I turned the other direction, and there's this giant, beautiful, fantastic light. I would say it was equivalent to maybe 1,000 of our suns all at once, and it's just shining on me,' he continued. Petro said that he believes people come back to Earth out of choice, to experience the 'sorrow' of individual life. 'The reason I came down here was to experience fear, separation, hatred, segregation, all of these things you cannot experience in the light, because in the light, we are all one. There is no separation, there is no hierarchy, there is nobody in charge,' the near-death experiencer said. 'In the light, we are in charge. We are it. We are the big light, composed of an infinite number of smaller pieces of the light,' he added. Petro told McCormick that all he wants is to be back in the light, but he tries to share his knowledge of the light with others while he remains on Earth.
CBS News
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
"Aftertaste" by Daria Lavelle voted the first book of summer for Club Calvi!
We may receive commissions from some links to products on this page. Promotions are subject to availability and retailer terms. Please consider joining our Facebook group by CLICKING HERE. Find out more about the books below. Club Calvi's new book explores the power of food to link life and afterlife Club Calvi has a new book! We asked you to decide on our next read and you voted "Aftertaste" as the Readers' Choice. In a message to readers, author Daria Lavelle said the book follows a chef whose food can bring spirits back from the afterlife for a last meal with their loved ones. He opens a New York City restaurant that serves closure. He doesn't expect to fall in love or to cause chaos in the afterlife in the process. You can read an excerpt and get the book below and read along with Club Calvi over the next four weeks. The CBS New York Book Club focuses on books connected to the Tri-State Area in their plots and/or authors. The books may contain adult themes. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Aftertaste" by Daria Lavelle Simon & Schuster From the publisher: Konstantin Duhovny is a haunted man. His father died when he was ten, and ghosts have been hovering around him ever since. Kostya can't exactly see the ghosts, but he can taste their favorite foods. Flavors of meals he's never eaten will flood his mouth, a sign that a spirit is present. Kostya has kept these aftertastes a secret for most of his life, but one night, he decides to act on what he's tasting. And everything changes. Kostya discovers that he can reunite people with their deceased loved ones—at least for the length of time it takes them to eat a dish that he's prepared. He thinks his life's purpose might be to offer closure to grieving strangers, and sets out to learn all he can by entering a particularly fiery ring of Hell: the New York culinary scene. But as his kitchen skills catch up with his ambitions, Kostya is too blind to see the catastrophe looming in the Afterlife. And the one person who knows Kostya must be stopped also happens to be falling in love with him. Daria Lavelle lives in New Jersey. "Aftertaste" By Daria Lavelle (ThriftBooks) $22 Excerpt: "Aftertaste" by Daria Lavelle BITTER The first time Konstantin Duhovny tasted something he hadn't actually eaten he was eleven, seated on the edge of the public pool in Brighton Beach, his heels churning grey water into foam. He was watching the backs of the other boys—the ones he was supposed to be swimming with, but who never invited him, even out of politeness, into their circle—as they splashed about, showing off handstands and lung capacities, spouting chlorinated water a foot into the air like porpoises. He watched them all afternoon—Mitya and Sasha and Misha K. and Misha B. (whom they kept calling Bear because of the thick, black hair up and down his back)—until, one by one, their fathers finished their waterlogged Russkaya Reklamas, scratched their nipples through threadbare white undershirts, and peeled their pasty bodies from the rubber loungers, signaling quitting time. Kostya had come chaperoned by his cousin Valerik—not his real cousin, but the teenage son of Tetya Natasha, not his real aunt but an acquaintance of his mother's—who had promptly dumped him when his girlfriend whispered something about a kissing booth at the boardwalk nearby. Don't you move, Valerik had hissed at Kostya. I'll be back. That had been two hours ago. As the last boy, Mitya, raised the handle of the chain-link fence, Kostya felt himself blister with jealousy. There was no one to ferry him home, just like there had been no one to slather sunblock onto his back—which he could already feel was red and tight and burnt—and just like there would be no one to teach him how to talk to these boys in a way that made it clear that he was one of them. But then, of course, he wasn't one of them. Their fathers were alive. He kicked faster at the water, kicked violently, kicked at the fathers and sons, kicked at the great cavity of longing inside himself, this way of missing someone, missing them desperately, missing every part including those he'd never known, a pocket so deep he thought that if he could only reach inside of it, worry its lining long enough, break through it to the other side, to where empty could grow full as a belly round with food, he might just find what he was looking for. Right then, something traveled across his tongue, and Kostya stopped kicking. It coated the inside of his mouth, thick as paste, the taste—the uneaten taste—overpowering. It was savory, salty, the texture mealy, slightly sweet and fatty, something tart, barely, and then, at the tail, in the back of his throat, bitter, bitter, blooming like a bruise. Good, but also bad, just a little bit like s***. He wondered briefly whether one of the boys had found a way to make him ingest a turd—it seemed the sort of thing that boys with fathers could do to a boy without one—but just as quickly, the sensation vanished. Kostya smacked his lips, trying to call it back, but there was nothing left now, only a warmth spreading slowly across his tongue as he choked back tears. It was only in the absence of the taste that he suddenly recognized what it had been. Chicken liver, sautéed onions, fresh dill garnish, squeeze of lemon. Pechonka. His father's favorite dish, according to his mother, who invoked it infrequently and had stopped making it after he died. Kostya had never tasted pechonka. He just knew, like an instinct, like another sense he'd only now become conscious of, that the ghost of that dish—not its taste, but its aftertaste—had just been inside of his mouth, spirited there by the person who most longed to taste it again. From AFTERTASTE. Copyright © 2025 by Daria Lavelle. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, LLC. Return to the top of page
South China Morning Post
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Netflix K-drama Heavenly Ever After midseason recap: jumbled with no real story
Lead cast: Kim Hye-ja, Son Suk-ku, Han Ji-min, Lee Jung-eun Advertisement Latest Nielsen rating: 6.89 per cent Those who have pondered what awaits us after we shuffle off this mortal coil probably should not look for answers in Heavenly Ever After, a fantasy drama that imagines the afterlife as a version of Korean society overrun with bureaucracy and pastel colours. There is an episode halfway through the series that brings us on a tour of hell and all its fire and brimstone, which is nothing like the world we live in. Yet for those who have been good during their mortal lives, the heaven that awaits them in this show must surely be a disappointment. The afterlife in Heavenly Ever After revolves around the Heaven Support Centre and its myriad rules and programmes. Not following these rules earns you a one-way ticket to hell. No matter how good you were to get into heaven, you need to be even better to stay there.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
People Scared Of Dying Are Feeling Suddenly At Peace After Hearing These 10 Profound Experiences People Had With The Afterlife
One thing we know is life will one day end for us all. That being said, one thing we do not know is what happens after. People who have had near-death experiences oftentimes share what it was like, and it can be comforting. So, when Quora user Marcia Garcia admitted, "I am scared of dying. Can anyone help, and is there an afterlife?" people came in the comments to share their comforting thoughts on death. Here are some of the comments that resonated the most with people: 1."I remind myself of the billions of people (and animals) who have gone through it already. It's like when I was doing my driving test and I would look at other people and think, 'If they are able to drive, then surely I can!' You'll be joining all your ancestors, Marilyn Monroe, Jesus, the Queen Elizabeths, Einstein, William Wallace, James Dean, Jimi Hendrix, the Kennedys, Benjamin Franklin, Martin Luther King, Matthew Perry, Sir Walter Raleigh, Winston Churchill, William Wallace, all the Egyptian Kings and Queens, Julius Caesar, all the classical composers, plus billions of others, of all types and backgrounds. If they can all do it, so can you..." "The only practical pain left at the end is the sense of loss amongst those still living. If you have children, then you have two choices: die before them, or have them die before you. Every parent should be very happy and serene if the right way round were to occur; the opposite is too painful. In any event, defuse that pain. Let your loved ones know you're ready. While it's sad, loved ones are always so much more at peace if they know the person whose time it was felt happy and ready. Indeed, many loved ones might even mercifully help at the end, if it's what would make their loved one happy. If you give them cause for peace, then you will have peace knowing you're leaving them content. This is so, even if you're young. If they know you're content, it will be less painful. The universe has a habit of operating in cycles. We know that energy can never be lost but only recycled and dispersed. We leave physical, visceral, and psycho-social elements of our being everywhere. I believe we go back into the universe to help new life emerge, and other aspects of us are recycled and repurposed into stardust and new energy. Billions of people, across a whole host of religions, have deep-felt beliefs that our soul is even transported to a higher or more fulfilling plane. We may even rejoin our loved ones. Who knows, but whatever is on the other end is not scary. It is a destination where every single one of us is headed, so be assured we're all going there together." —Andy Flowers, Quora Related: "Something In My Head Said, 'Don't Get Up'": 16 Older Adults Reveal The Wildest Supernatural Encounters From Their Childhood 2."My wife passed away of stomach cancer at the very young age of 33. She did not want to die, and she fought to the very end, but it was inevitable. She was seeing relatives that had come to take her. I feel like I've gotten a lot of signs from her, but one in particular was when she came into my dream, and we were at a casino together. She won the jackpot. I woke up, and saw that as a sign to play lottery that day, so I did. I won $200. I have learned so much after her passing. I now understand death is just part of life." —Joshua Alonso, Quora user 3."Yes, there is an afterlife. I know because I went there! I'm NOT kidding. It's the best feeling in the world. I was in my 30s. I was having major surgery, and I ended up dying on the table. I was told that I was gone for almost three minutes. While I was 'dead,' I saw a light coming through a window on the side wall of the hall I was walking down. I walk with a cane and have chronic pain due to a previous industrial accident. But, when I was 'dead,' I didn't need the cane, and I had no pain at all. At the end of the hall were people and relatives who had passed away years before, and they were all waving and calling me down to be with them. I almost got to the end of the hall when, all of a sudden, I got pulled backward, and I woke up to all these doctors over me. I was screaming at the top of my lungs that I wanted to go back..." "I don't remember 'coming back.' My wife told me all this after I was stabilized. Being dead was the most peaceful feeling I have ever felt. No cane, no chronic pain, no worries, nothing. I was scared of dying, now I'm not scared anymore." —DJ Sullivan, Quora user 4."Without a doubt, there is something on the other side. When my mom was in her last moments, she saw something brilliantly illuminate before her eyes, something I couldn't see, but her face was lit like a child at Christmas. I held her hand, and she looked back at me with a little sadness, but whatever she saw was joyous and calling to her, and she peacefully drifted away. Before my cousin's mother passed, she told her daughter she saw her dead relatives; her last words were, 'Look! They are coming for me...' Another Aunt was 101 years old, in the hospital, and failing. She was totally unaware that her younger sister, at 96 years old, had died days before. That aunt floated in and out of consciousness and was heard having a conversation with her recently deceased sister. She could not have known this sister had passed on. I do not pretend to know, but I have many personal references that there is something good on the other side. And I'm not afraid." —Dawn Skelton, Quora Related: These 13 Mind-Boggling Pictures Will Push Your Brain To Its Limit, But It's The Cognitive Workout You've Been Missing 5."My sweet 21-year-old daughter died in a car wreck in January 1999. I had introduced her to reenacting (living history). She absolutely loved it and went with me and her dad when she could. She also fell in love with the fleur-de-lis. After she passed, I needed buttons for some men's 18th-century shirts, so I went to my favorite sewing store and came upon some I didn't really care for, but ended up buying probably 30 of them, asking myself, 'Why are you buying something you don't like?' As I began to sew on these ugly buttons, a sun beam shone down directly on the button to reveal it was rows of fleur-de-lis! I started laughing and said, Amy Lou, (I called my daughter Amy Lou) stop making me buy buttons that only you like! It brought a lot of happiness to me to know she was still hanging out with her 'mom.' I know when I cross over, she will be one of the first people I see. My folks both passed away, and I know they are watching over her." —Darlene Thornton, Quora 6."The day my mom died, I knew five minutes before the call. I had this strong, cold feeling in my chest that expanded to my whole body within seconds. I looked at the time and it was 9:25 p.m. She passed away at 9:25 p.m., and I felt her come to say goodbye. Another time, on my birthday at 9:25 a.m., a bird flew to my balcony window. She loved birds. My dad was in a home for Alzheimer's patients. I went to feed him and hug him almost every dinner time or after work since it was close by. Two years to the day after my dad passed, I had to deliver flowers as I am a delivery driver. Due to COVID, the flowers could not be delivered, and I was told to keep them. The card inside said, 'I hope these flowers make you feel as special as you make me feel every day.' I believe that was my dad. So, yes. I believe energy cannot be destroyed. It just shifts into another dimension. You can call it heaven. I call it love." —Bendición, Quora 7."I'm an end-of-life caregiver. Not hospice, not palliative care. I help people who want to die in their homes and make it as comfortable as I can for them. Every single one of my clients saw family members who had passed before them at least a week or two before they died. The family members would wave or smile, but never talk. I never grew up religious, but working in the field for 18 years, my beliefs have changed. I like to think of it more as the movie What Dreams May Come, because it really, truly is unknown what happens after death. But, after seeing what I have seen, I believe more and more in the afterlife, maybe even reincarnation." —Lora Nagel, Quora 8."I can only answer this from my experience when I died. I didn't see an afterlife; I saw my grandmother, who was telling me to go back because it wasn't my time, it was hers. Then I felt cold air and woke up. They told me, 'Your brain misfiring can make you see things that aren't real.' But I saw her, smelled her, and hugged her, so I don't think my brain misfired. When I told my family what I saw, everyone almost fainted because I wasn't aware my grandmother had passed at the same time I had died and come back to life." —Sal Cox, Quora 9."Ask any hospice nurse. They all have seen people talking to those 'on the other side.' My grandmother called me to her room on her last night. She pointed to an empty chair (it was my grandfather's desk chair) and said, 'There's a man sitting there!' She wasn't alarmed, but more surprised. I told her grandpa was probably there, making sure she was okay. She was gone the next morning, looking peaceful. I am sure grandpa took her back with him." —Gina Santonas, Quora 10."I watched my brother die from lung cancer (he never smoked). He did not want to leave his family, and he was staring at the wall, waving his hand, saying, 'Go away.' They were waiting to take him. A couple of nights ago, I dreamt about him, and he walked towards me and we hugged each other, crying. I could feel him holding me tight, and I woke up knowing without a doubt that we were hugging each other. I am not worried about dying. I know they will be there waiting for me, too. There is this existential thing about death that is hard to comprehend. The older I get, the closer it is. There is no way to avoid it. So breathe, enjoy the journey. You know the saying, the only thing for certain is death and taxes." —Antoinette Quora If you've experienced something that has helped you profoundly when it comes to thinking about death, let us know in the comments or use the form below if you wish to remain anonymous! Also in Internet Finds: People Revealed The Creepiest, Cult-Like Towns In The United States And, Jesus Christ, It's Icky Also in Internet Finds: 27 Extremely Disturbing Wikipedia Pages That Will Haunt Your Dreams Until The End Of Your Days Also in Internet Finds: 101 People Who Woke Up One Morning And Promptly Had The Most Painfully Awkward And Embarrassing Day In Human History
