The Healing Message of Near-Death Experiences
Time is an illusion.
Time isn’t absolute; time is a continuum, a fourth dimension, after the three dimensions of height, width, and depth. “The distinction between past, present, and future is an illusion, although a persistent one,” Einstein said.
What does this tell us about the possibilities for healing?
A “chronic problem” is one we have been experiencing for a long time. The word chronic comes from the Greek chronos, meaning “time.” If something is chronic, it is habitual; thus it becomes linked to the false concept of time, as if it’s permanent. Yet all it is, really, is just a long-held false view.
With this understanding, we can free ourselves from any disease, addiction, or problem — no matter how long we have been struggling with it. We can even call into question the validity of any so-called “hopeless,” “terminal,” or “incurable” condition.
A spiritual healing tradition.
Because Jesus (Rabbi Yeshua) had this spiritual understanding of reality, he healed lepers, the disabled, the mentally ill, and more — and he even raised the dead (see, for example, Matthew 8:1–4; Luke 13:11–13; Luke 8:26–39; and John 11:1–44). Jesus taught his followers how to do it, too. And the Apostles weren’t the only ones. Centuries before, the prophet Elijah performed miracles and raised the dead as well (see, for example, 1 Kings 18:20–39 and 1 Kings 17:17–34.)
This Jewish mystical tradition of healing has endured — from the Baal Shem Tov (1698–1760) to Rebbe Nachman (1772–1810), and others. It’s a spiritual reality that has survived throughout recorded history, and continues today. In the 19th century, Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910) revived the spiritual healing practice of Jesus and of the early Christians, to reinstate what she called “primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing,” naming it “Christian Science.”
But of course, spiritual healings don’t have to be called Jewish or Christian. It doesn’t matter what you call them, they are still happening around the globe, available to anyone.
A miraculous healing of cancer.
In 2006, Anita Moorjani, a Hong Kong resident of Hindi heritage, and not particularly religious, was dying of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which she’d battled for several years. Her body ravaged with what she describes as “lemon-sized” tumors, as she lay in a coma, she recounts that she soon entered “another dimension,” where she was completely embraced in an overwhelming feeling of unconditional love.
While her family watched her organs shutting down, she, on the other hand, was experiencing an indescribable freedom and “magnificence,” and wished she could reassure her grieving husband that she was feeling “amazing.”
Later, she was able to relate word-for-word conversations family members had had with doctors — even though she had not only been in a coma, but also out of earshot.
Like the majority of the people who have told us about their near-death experiences (NDEs), such as Eben Alexander, Pam Reynolds and Mary C. Neal, Moorjani depicts her perception of time as nonsequential and nonlinear. She shares that she gained a clear understanding that everything is happening all at once.
In this state of expansiveness and increased knowledge, Moorjani realized that the cancer had developed in her body because she had been living a life filled with fear and self-recrimination. Now feeling connected in a sense of oneness with everything, fully aware, she found herself communing with ethereal beings, and with people she loved who had passed on.
She came to the conclusion that if she made the choice to return to her body, the cancer would disappear. And, when she did go ahead and make the decision to return, she rapidly recovered — within just a few days.
This all occurred in the amount of time in which the doctors had expected her to die. Instead, she became well, literally right before their eyes, and every test they ran showed no trace of the cancer.
She recalls: “The amount I saw and learned would have taken a lot longer in this dimension. Also, with the medical tests that were done. . .the results were dependent on my choice of whether to come back into life or not. That really changed my concept of time!”
Moorjani wrote Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer to Near Death to True Healing and has since dedicated her life to sharing her story, telling people around the world that “it’s all perfect,” and that we are all unlimited, amazing, and magnificent beings who can live our lives fearlessly.
The more the medical and pharmaceutical industries use the media to instill fears and invent false needs, the more humanity will stagnate. We’re continuously being told that we have to expect something to go wrong with every bodily complaint — that we have everything to fear. More than ever before, we’re bombarded with advertisements for drugs with astonishingly catastrophic side-effects listed in small print that belie the products’ claims. Let’s hit the mute button, choose the skip button, and turn the page whenever and wherever these advertisements appear!
Time to put fear aside.
“We are basically a pathologically fearful society,” she explains. “‘Breast cancer awareness’?” This makes no sense, she declares. (And, having had a healing of breast lumps through prayer alone, I agree wholeheartedly.) Why would we want to be more aware of illnesses? Instead, let’s become more aware of wellness!
When we concentrate on what’s going wrong, we tend to continue along in that downward direction, watching things get worse. Instead, let’s focus on what’s going right, so we can experience and share more good.
“Realize our own magnificence,” Moorjani proclaims, and cancer, sickness, crime, war, etc. will dissipate. When we choose joy, faith, laughter and love — rather than gloom, cynicism, disbelief and distrust, we can literally change the world.
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This piece is adapted from material in my upcoming second book, tentatively titled Seven Words to Freedom, Eight Days a Week: The Healing Power of Living Prayer — in which I take a deep dive into the original Hebrew of the Shema and demonstrate its power to heal.
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