Near Life Experience

It now feels commonplace to hear of someone’s Near Death Experience (NDA) telling of great calm, peace and love, of being drawn toward a great light, sometimes meeting old friends or loved ones gone before us, and then in some way being returned to this earthly manifestation to fulfil some mission, some remaining task, from a position of greater awareness. For many this return brings a sense of urgency to their life as though the experience jolted them from their humdrum existence into a higher gear. Perhaps for the first time they know their true role in the world and they set about it with vigour, totally confident in the outcome. From this perspective of true purpose their earlier existence feels less real. We might now think of it as a ‘Near Life Experience’. Now at the start of 2018 it is timely to ask what we need to do to live life to the full. What personal mission is ours to fulfil? What ‘bigger picture’ do we relate to? How can we each make our best contributions to this wonderful experience of life for ourselves, our communities and our planet? Or are we in danger of feeling, on our deathbed, that we had a near life experience?