NDEs & The Collective

Wayne Bush

NOTE: All of these quotes are taken from NDEs at the NDERF.ORG web site.

I thought of the light more as a collective soul. -- Ryan G

We are a collective "Soul Group" experiencing the balancing of duality. -- Annie P

At the time I knew everything that had ever happened in the world, Everything that would happen in the future and everything that was happening at that moment I was one with God or the Collective soul, Father sky a Higher power. What ever label you wish to attach to it. It was perfect love. -- Peter K

It was a collection of all energy from which I was currently separated. The "spirits" with me were also part of the light, but they were just there to greet me and they were going back to the collective light. -- Sylvia W

Yet another time, I was aware of being combined with all the other thoughts or shapeless and infinite souls of every person or creature who has ever lived or died, or been, or is, those waiting to be born and those who have already lived and died. I was aware of suddenly having infinite knowledge. I knew all languages, ALL languages at once, and all religious thought, all everything. I was one with the Creator and with Creation itself. I was the Creator. We all were; those who haven't come back still are. It's impossible to describe. -- Jennifer J

I don't remember communicating with anyone, only a feeling that there was a collective consciousness of souls who all had great love for me. I felt their love emanating towards me and pulling me higher. -- Bonnie Z

Our collective consciousness told me that I couldn’t stay because I had something else to do Being part of this consciousness, and a bit disappointed that I had to leave I went back into my body... I was part of our collective consciousness... These were no beings with bodies but souls: a collective consciousness. -- Quint B

All the knowledge of the universe was inside my being. I no longer felt as a separate individual. I felt as if I was part of a collective consciousness. I sense billions and billons of beings and we were all One. The feeling of oneness on the other side is amazing! I remember distinctively how we created the solar system. I was part of this collective consciousness who had "willed" it into being. I remembered we had done so for the purpose of experiencing mortality. It was so important to my soul to come to earth and experience mortality. I then remembered asking to be born. The moment this memory came to mind, I also remembered having agreed to accomplish a mission. I came to earth to accomplish a mission. All of a sudden, I realized that I had not accomplished this mission. -- Chantal L

The experiences existed as separate items yet belonged to the whole. The whole was the collective knowledge of all. I understood there was no individual, just one, yet each experience was individual making up the whole. This concept of ONE is so foreign to any description I can give, there seems to be no way now of describing it. My previous understanding of ONE was a single uniqueness. In this case ONE is something else. Many being ONE and ONE being many, both existing simultaneously in the same time and space. I further understood that the collective experiences are omniscient knowledge. Everything that has been spoken, heard, and experienced. These colored drops contained each experience down to the memory of every cell division, every thought. All experiences were known at once by the collective consciousness that was the stream. -- Wayne H

I had been here before. I knew where I was by now, though I cannot name this place. I had returned from whence I came, and I don’t know what it is called. Though I have heard many labels applied, this could have been heaven, purgatory, some kind of samadhi, a collective of souls, I personally do not know what to call it. I will only try to describe it as I remember, as I believe to label the place is to call it something it is only partially. I had been here before. -- Mark J

I was part of a collective consciousness, the universe. everything was connected. I felt the true essence of my spirit, I had no form but was only a pinpoint of free energy connected to thousands of other energies of other consciousnesses that were the perfect balance of the universe. I can't describe this in words. Words do no justice to describe how it felt to be only energy, only a speck of consciousness connected to everything in the universe. -- Cara M

There were many people who spoke as one collective mind. They said that is was not my time and that I had one more thing to do. -- Donna GV

here seemed to be a collective consciousness who welcomed me but at the same time conveyed the knowledge that I was the one responsible for the decision to stay or go back. -- Mari C

Something that I call the collective mind, in which all the good of humanity lives forever, shows me my life and makes me understand that I have not accomplished anything good, only egoism governs my life. Thereupon that spirit projects me into the future, fifteen or twenty years further, and shows me what the life of those around me is, due to me, yet without me. -- Jean T

What happened was that I became part of (or returned to) the presence that was so amazing. The closest analogy I can come up with is Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, when he would go to his home planet and return to the collective. Only everything in the universe is part of this collective. In essence the universe IS the collective. -- The "spirits" with me were also part of the light, but they were just there to greet me and they were going back to the collective light. After reading hundreds of NDEs, I'm beginning to wonder if "God" may be a collective rather than One entity. -Sylvia W

My concept is that God is a spiritual unity, a oneness, a structured government-like "Spiritual Collective"; the "Progressive and Accumulative Spiritual Intelligence" of the universe existing in the spiritual fourth dimension; a collective of the righteous souls who have passed into the spiritual realm; a spiritual continuity. -- Kurt K

Religion alone cannot explain many of the profound human mysteries or the existence of the collective unconscious. -- Lavona F

It felt like the whole world was just a culmination of the thoughts and beliefs of the collective. That is, the culmination of everyone’s thoughts and beliefs. It felt like nothing was actually real, but we made it real with our beliefs. -- Anita M

After receiving my fill from Universal Knowledge, I realized that I could enter into my Light Being friends and live their eternal lives as they had just done my life as Nanci. So I merged my Energy into theirs as we formed a collective being of six. I could at one and the same time experience myself as the personality I had always known as “myself,” as well as experiencing one of my friend’s lives as though I were my friend. Or I could experience what it was like to be a collective being. I understood at the time that living in this manner was an evolutionary stage beyond that of Light Beings, whose lives we would perceive to be as discrete, individual beings with spiritual bodies. At this stage of awareness there was no “beingness”—only a mental or conscious existence. Ultimately, my soul mates and I decided as a collective being to rejoin “the rest of us.” I understood this English term to mean the Source of creation, the entity humans call “God.” -- Nanci D

Somehow over the years, I have mentally “downloaded” into my brain and understanding, much of this mysterious knowledge direct from what I call the “Universal Super consciousness”, this consciousness is a conglomerate of wisdom and knowledge of all sentient beings in our physical universe, also known as the collective unconsciousness, a sort of cosmic internet if you like. Note! it is most definitely not Almighty God, who is the only Infinite and Eternal One . -- Alan D McD

I started wondering where I was and looked outside my light pod, which had no inside or outside, but for sake of description I will say pod, and I saw others just exactly like me, and a great light pod in the center of all of us, millions of us, floating in the otherwise dark void with a pure golden light connecting each of us to the center pod. The golden thread of light was like an umbilical cord although it had no real form but just light, and it was delivering the peace and love of the center being. The center being was so beautiful I could gaze on it forever, although I had no eyes. I was happy and totally contented. I remember thinking there are other light pods closer than me and others way out beyond me a long ways, but I felt I was exactly where I belonged and it was perfect. I felt the presence of my father’s pod, but only in that it came through the center pod to give me love. I heard his voice say my name, but of course I only heard it in my mind. He had died two years earlier. -- JMH

It seems that all was clear: where we come from, why we're on Earth, where we go when we die. I could see and feel the energy of the universe, understand the living connection between all of our multiple entities. I would see myself existing in a Matrix-like laboratory, connected to a computer and generating multiple copies of my own self, through many different realities. It seemed all clear. This knowledge was passing through my brain so fast, as if I was fast-forwarding through it all, without reading the specifics. -- Fred B

I was aware of Tremendous Energy! Aliveness.. That Everything was Connected and Alive Held together with Love. -- Laura M

I was shown how we were all connected to each other and if our life's plan is not fulfilled how it impacts the whole. I was then given the choice to stay or return. I chose to return. -- Erika K

Third, we are all connected as one spirit. We think that we do not have any responsibility to a stranger because we do not recognize them, but we do. In essence, we are the same as they, inter-twined together like a complex wiring system. This is why that old familiar phrase, “what goes around comes around” rings true. When my NDE come to an end, I understood or do in this life might injure others and how we will be held accountable. Theoretically, if being cruel made another person fail to complete whatever job they were sent here to do, we will have to complete that task for them. That is why we often hear others say, “I feel like I have lived five lifetimes.” -- Casper

This is a guy who says that an angel named Lamdiel explained to him the evolution of our planet and that this wonderful evolution means all humans are going to be bound within some super being, the being who is the hateful god of the Old Testament:

I was excited. "Who is that giant spirit? I felt as if my heart were racing although I was in my astral body. The angel smiled, then slowly answered my question. "It is going to be a strong, huge, high intensity spirit from the third level of existence, from the forces level. That spirit is going to bond Himself with all of humanity on the planet Earth. "It will create a huge new entity--one that will improve your lives tremendously and forever. This huge spirit is quite well known to humanity on Earth. Many people, unknowingly, already are craving to bond with Him. They consciously pray for His help, and love Him. In some part of their subconscious minds all people on Earth already know it. And whether they believe in any established religion or not, in times of great need most humans recognize His existence. They call him: God, Elohim, Yahave, Allah, the Heavenly Father, and many other names." -- Israel

I "knew" that what I had found was the sum total of all "knowing" or wisdom of all people for all time - past, present and future. All wisdom comes from this pool of collective knowing and all we learn goes into the pool for the use of everyone. -- Jean

I received this one via email from GD:
We come here to play, and perfdct ourselves, and perfect how to love, and when we die what we take back is only what we have learned. EVERYTHING is white light of love Period. Shapes and all you see is just the interpretarion of data by the users eye. There are 3 worlds....world on Construct, Abstract, and Inbetween 2 worlds. I have been to all 3. The inbetween is the insane part where i am 100% connected to Sirius and it took over, stating Its Infinite, its everything, its love, and everything around are just shatters of it waiting to return. This is a continues self perfection of us all, as all of us are part of one huge energy....here we just are having a totally 100% opposite experience than at "home".....here is a world of separation, home is where there is just one....just imagine everyone of us who is pure enough to go back, becoming the same being.....basically its like 1000000 clones all merging into one, with one mind and everytging since it IS everything. Home is world of love ....only ...united as one. We are all ONE god manifested as many. Playing a game woth oneself, because when you are ALL ALONE......what else is there to do, pls it can get lonely to not have anyone to love with all this love....so we invented ourselves and have beenplaying this cosmic game from bacterial pever to cosmic......all same stuff. As I said I have went back to the source...to sirius.....it all got revealed to me there...
But Id love to let everyone on earth know, to just love. Relax....and love one another love what you do love and worship yourself and other gumans you love, your family......BE THE DOG......STAR..... Be loyal, and just grow together. Why? The Source accepts back only those who have displayed selflessness and true idiotic love for other humans....it knows whats in everyones heart. So nothing can e hidden -- GD

I have the education to understand the mind, the brain and nothing can explain why I had an experience that mirrors so many others in so many ways. Collective unconscious does not explain the clarity Nor does electrical discharge of neurons, or electrical activity of the brain. Hallucinations are different to this. -- Gabby G

Something that I call the collective mind, in which all the good of humanity lives for ever, shows me my life and makes me understand that I have not accomplished anything good, only egoism governs my life... A spirit regroups everything, all the thoughts, and a kind of collective entity where everybody exists... The spirit send me back to achieve a specific task while taking advantage of the knowledge of collective consciousness. -- Jean T

It is far more likely that god is more like the Borg from Star Trek in that there is a collective consciousness, but energy beings that, when free of limiting physical constraints, are able to unite and become a part of the whole as would a drop of water into the ocean. As energy, its properties would be consistent throughout the whole as would its consciousness and knowledge. All the experiences of all the entities would be combined in a pool of knowledge that would be akin to one mind, one being, instantaneously. For god to be a single being would be like saying that the ocean is a single molecule of water or that we are made up of a single cell instead of billions. Each of our cells contains the memory of who we are and thus is able to reproduce to grow and maintain our bodies. It is not a far stretch of the imagination to say that god, as a collection of entities, also reproduces entities like we do our cells. Therefore we can deduce that god is growing and evolving. Likewise, destructive cells such as cancer would be consistent with the opposite of god, the devil, and that negative energy is harmful and destructive. This commonality is part of the model of the nature of the universe. -- Dave A

First let me begin by stating that the term "GOD" is a human construct...Do I believe that there is a force "out there" with a collective agenda that is at the source of all that this creation is and is not? YES. What is the expression? We are "God" and "God" is us. The change is the confirmation in my belief. I feel for certain that we, the collective we from the beginnings of our planet up to this moment, are all connected. For "good" or "bad" the thread of our "god selves" connects us through millennia over and over to who we are as individuals and as a collective -- Carla S

and 'everything is exactly as it should be'. We are here to 'experience', and we are here to 'expand' the 'collective conscious''. -- Cheryl G

Because part of the "Blueprint" includes the collective as well as the individual, each time we, as individuals heal a fearful thought or belief the whole of Humanity becomes "elevated" together with us. We are truly one. -- Carlos K

Now I believe in the collective conscious. -- Lisa S

the light was very sentient and could be described as a being or a collective or aggregate being -- Michael H

A kind of insight into how each of us forms the elements of collective experience. I was alone; know one found me, I self revived somehow. -- Curtis K
There seemed to be a collective consciousness who welcomed me, but at the same time conveyed the knowledge that I was the one responsible for the decision to stay or go back. -- Mari C

Upon seeing this shimmering Light that is indescribably beautiful, I had a revelation. This Light is not, in the strictest sense, "God" in the traditional meaning of the bibles of various religions, including Christianity. This Light, which is an energy gestalt, is an aggregation of many multitudes of immortal souls from all walks of life, e.g., plants, mammals, fish, and is collectively a life-force. This Light is a life-force from which all life is originated, and is neither a single entity, for each immortal soul is part of "God," nor multiple entities, for each immortal soul is but a part of the collective entity, i.e., this Light is in a broad sense a single "God" who sits on a throne in heaven that rewards or punishes souls. Without this life-force, i.e., energy gestalt, there is no life on earth, or any inhabitable planet in the universe. -- August

no matter how things may appear in this world of duality and illusion. It’s merely a hologram—created by the collective consciousness—for the sake of growth and evolution. Therefore, what occurred on the Other Side, for me, was a special opportunity to experience…and know—with total certainty—that everything was evolving exactly the way it should…and that the ultimate destiny for every living being is to return to theSource, The Light…Pure Love. -- Juliet N

They are what allow us to have an experience. I believe God is all things, physical and non. I believe we can tap into God's mind, on every subject, because we are God. God being the collective of all energy. -- Sarah Other

I felt "God" did exist as a collective consciousness and much more beyond that. -- Michael Joseph

When I am conscious everyday I am contained inside my own head. At most, I can get out into the air around me but only as far as my eyeballs can see. I am capable of collective consciousness with people having an experience together. But the only time I can become one with the universe like that, is on psychedelics. -- Rachel E

I experienced others in a collective sense, like a shared consciousness. I was connected to all things. I knew this in my knower, though I did not see anyone specific. -- Penny W

Like the Creative Loving Light, God. There was no form, it was a collective intelligence, wisdom, knowledge, consciousness and pure radiant love, there was nothing like it here; It's behind all that is, will be and was, yet radiates, rather than forces it's light; It's a conduit, end and beginning. -- Scott W

One. Everything we ever need to know comes straight from that one inescapable thing. Call it the Tao, the unity, collective consciousness, or God. Labels only confuse the situation. -- Cami R

I was being told that the meaning of life is to love others more than yourself. Then I was told & understood that we are all connected as in a chain & from the eternal view 'mankind is only viewed from it's weakest link.-- Peter

I can remember a beautiful city where 5 beings stayed and I learned that everyone is connected to those beings. We are part of a global consciousness and we are all connected to one another. I saw so many things and traveled so far it is hard to grasp. I keep getting flashbacks of it as I get the memories from it back. -- George W

I had a knowledge or oneness with everything it seemed...everything connected...a oneness I had never known. Also colors were brighter and more distinct, -- Mike I, Jr.

I was part of a collective consciousness, the universe. everything was connected. I felt the true essence of my spirit, I had no form but was only a pinpoint of free energy connected to thousands of other energies of other consciousnesses that were the perfect balance of the universe. I can't describe this in words. Words do no justice to describe how it felt to be only energy, only a speck of consciousness connected to everything in the universe. Time had no meaning, everything was one and everything was so awe inspiring. I had no realization of who I was humanly anymore, everything was me and I was everything and everything was all connected. I heard musical notes but not of human tone, and not through human ears. I had lost all comprehension of humanity and physical form. Then suddenly, through the light, cut a voice that somehow found my particular point of consciousness among the connection of everything. it spoke directly to me, it was my own voice, that I heard say. -- Cara M

I was connected to all things, both seen and unseen, and had an absolute and intimate knowledge of them because I was them. -- Malinda K

I saw everything was connected. We are part of everything and everything affects us, as we affect everything. There is no separateness. That's an illusion. I could see what's between us in the air. There's no empty space. -- Tikvah F

I felt how all things were connected. There was no time as we think of it. It was as if I understood how each atom is connected with each other and how the trees and sky and people and animals are all connected and how time is not linear in the sense that we see it but is like a continuous thing. -- Kathleen B

The feelings of "all knowledge" and pre-birth feelings during NDEs are because of the holographic nature of the experience. In a hologram, where everything is connected to everything else, where everything is cross correlated, and where nothing is separated, all one has to do is think of a thing, and it appears. -- Jorge V

I also felt very connected to the universe, and how we are all connected. -- Vicky M

I felt connected to everything and that everything was connected to me. -- Glauco S

It gave new meaning to that saying that God is Love. The love was like an energy that connected every molecule in the universe. -- Kathy W

It was an overwhelming feeling that we are all connected, everything in the universe and beyond, in a realm of being that we can't even begin to comprehend. That everything in existence is connected and we all are a part of each other and everything from plants to planets. -- Hailey M

I was connected to everything -- Debbie

I perceived myself and other beings as masses of energy...all connected and yet separate. There were no body forms, or communication as I know it in human form -- Cara

This Light Presence of pure, unconditional Love seemed to be in me and around me, all-pervasive, extending into infinity. And strangely, there seemed to be no difference between It, and my Light being. And even more bewildering, was that this Conscious Loving Presence, seemed to be, not just my nature and substance, but that it was the nature and substance of all of existence...Drinking in the nectar of the Loving Presence which enfolded me, I saw with complete amazement, a very interesting transference starting to happen, as a string of atoms started flowing out from within the left side of my electric body, disappearing upwards into nowhere... and almost as if from thin air, a much finer frequency of atoms, seemed to be appearing from the right side and were entering through my right side into this same electric light body... -- Mira S

Everything was connected somehow...all energy was interconnected. -- Chuck H

We are all connected with each other and are unconditional love. Everything is always the way it's supposed to be. -- Heidi C

I lifted up the skin of Creation, and saw that every living thing in Creation was an expression of this being, connected to this being, indivisible and of One. Every person, plant, animal, insect, microbe, drew its’ very existence from this Being. Without this Being, if creation existed at all it would be filled with lifeless, empty rocks. Within this realization I was shown how everything is interconnected. -- Dan Ta

I felt absolutely connected to everything and everyone. We ARE inter-connected. We are all One. -- Joan LH

I knew without even a hesitation that everyone and everything in the entire universe is connected into one; that we are each a part of everything... -- Christine

Appreciation of love, or our connection to one another. We are all connected. What happens to one happens to us all. -- Amber I

I learned that we are all connected, all things are connected. -- Michelle M

Immediately, I decided to return, I felt a tug at my solar plexus through a spiritual cord connected to my abdomen and my two sons. This cord brought me into a cone shaped spiral. It was as if I was traveling at the speed of light. -- Lindsey S

I had a connection with everyone and almost a collective consciousness (I do not know how to describe it). -- Wendy G

As a child, I "knew" things that are only now being scientifically observed: that everything is connected, that everything is "alive" and capable of "consciousness" and that everything is connected. I now absolutely KNOW this. -- Jill

Even though I felt a strong connection to "wholesome" reality, I did not feel "cosmic consciousness" (a connection with "everything"). -- Brian G

Perhaps it was the "existence" of this universe it was alive. I was breathing but not, instead of air I felt a living force flowing through me. I felt as though I was swimming in the very Essences of Love. As I moved through this space, I became aware of others around me. There was no one I knew, but I sensed other beings. Soon I saw them as small golden orbs of light, each separate, an individual. Yet, they were all linked by a thin thread. They extended out far as I could see in my mind I knew that each and everyone was connected and joined with what I believed was God. -- Henry W

I began to feel very warm, sleepy, and was floating in a grey space. I was overwhelmed with a wonderful sense of unconditional love and such a sense of wholeness, of being connected to everything, and of everything being equal to everything else. -- Jewel H

Everything is not only connected together, everything is also one. So I felt a wholeness with the light, a sense that all is right with me and the universe. -- Dr. Rodonaia

I begin to feel a connection with something greater then I. I became acutely aware of the beauty in life. I felt happy and loved then managed to push all aside over things that didn't matter. With everything I am I decided I wanted the connection, the happiness and the love back at all costs. -- Ken A

When we die and realize a universal connection to all mankind through the same life force, these distinctive features blend and blur into a general shape and look of man. -- Ron K

I realised at that point, how totally connected with all life…through all the universes…I am. I felt one with the All--never separate, never apart. -- Juliet N

And I'm standing there and the light says, "Andy, I love you." And I'm impressed because it knows my name. And then the light says, "Andy, we love you." And when the light says we love you, the whole background and the light kind of disappear. And now there are thousands and millions and trillions of other lights just like me. And they say in one chorus, "Welcome home, Andy." And at that point in time, I was absorbed into the light. I became the light. I wasn't greater than the light. I wasn't less than the light. I was a piece, a holographic piece of the light. -- Andy Petro (not from nderf..org)