NDEs & Council/Judgment

Wayne Bush

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

Next thing I knew, I was standing in front of a council of 13 beings with the One in the middle twice as big as the 6 on either side of him. They were all sitting in chairs, big chairs at a sizeable distance in front of me. I was naked and felt totally revealed and tried to use my hands to cover myself up. The main one in the middle began to speak to me through the mist that was everywhere. I remember opening my mouth but he told me I did not have to talk, to just use my mind. I recall it was hard for me not to open my mouth to speak but I did what he told me. The questions they were asking me were about my life and how I had lived it. I got the feeling they were not pleased with me. I was terrified to say the least, exposed to the hilt. I knew they knew it all. Towards the end of the deal, he told me they were not going to let me remember most of what happened. And they had decided they were going to send me back because, "You have to get it right". Next thing I knew I was in my body on the bed, some 3 days later. -- Debra J

However several questions were asked by the members of the Council asking me if I agreed to fulfill a promise of unknown nature they would allow me to return to this world. At this point I asked him what that promise would be and it was explained to me that I would know when the time came. At the same time it explained to me that it would be something that everybody in the world would come to understand at some point in history but not in those words. Closer to what was said would be that one day I would be granted the ability to do something great. -- Michael F

I found myself in a small clearing in what seemed to be a kind of forest. There was a table in the clearing large and oval at which sat people who I did not know. I was beckoned to go and sit down at an empty space. After I sat down a large screen appeared behind the table and we all turned to see it. The screen showed in a kind of fast forward mode all the events of my life up until that point. After the 'film' finished there was then much discussion of which I did not really seem to be part of about whether I had 'followed' my life path and overcome the tasks set to me. After some debate the consensus was that I had not and I was informed that I was to be 'sent' back for another try, and this time I would need to make some changes and put my life on a different track. I was escorted by one of the members of the 'council' out of the clearing to an area which was quite non-descript in appearance, like being surrounded in a kind of mist. The mist grew more intense until I kind of dissolved into it, and the next thing I was aware of was waking up in the recovery room. -- JM

Behind me was a very tall Angel who told me his name was Metatron. He was cloaked in a deep ruby violet. He had limbs that were more like light and color than arms and legs. Metatron was my spiritual teacher. He explained in quite a bit of detail how mistakes can happen in a death. He said the journey of death is more complicated and lengthy than humans realize. It is rare, but things sometimes can go wrong. While this was happening, the Masters and Angels stayed outside of it and guided me. The Masters who had me as their task had to get divine permission from the council of 7 to intervene and alter my experience, when they considered that perhaps there was more they could do with me than just keep me on the other side and not allow me to return. While I was seated at the desk with Metatron behind it, he told me that when I came to them, I was not expected to return. It was my time to stay....We had to go to the council meeting. I was allowed to be in the room, but not allowed to speak or interfere in any way. During the meeting the Masters asked for a decision to be over turned. That decision changed everything. Because of all the encounters that I had had and the impact upon my essence, it was determined that they would attempt an immediate reincarnation. They turned to me and told me that if I would agree to take on this new contract, I had to understand that I had been dead a long time by earth time and had already ascended. They also shared with me that they had done this for others before me, but it was a very rare and extreme situation. I would have to be altered. They said, 'Even they could not guarantee that I would survive on earth if they did this.' They told me, 'I will suffer as any human woman who had my degree of traumatic death would suffer, but my healing would be greatly aided and accelerated through them if I would agree to the terms.' Many discussions went around the council, the Masters. Then they turned to me. Ultimately, I agreed. -- Marie W

I was told by the old man in the council room that we live and experience as many lives as we can to gain experience. -- Jeffrey C

There were maybe a dozen Light Beings at this Council meeting, all speaking to me telepathically. -- Nanci D

I saw a council of elders, dressed in white and sitting at a long table. They didn’t even look at me. It looked like they were discussing something of importance. Above them, to the right were two Beings that I didn’t recognize. They had very loud and powerful voices, speaking with great authority. I didn’t understand a word they said. It didn’t seem to be a language from earth. Then the visions seemed to be of future events because I didn’t recognize the people or events that I was being shown. Again, these visions were coming one after another with more intensity as they continued. -- Marc M

Again back with my grandfather, I found myself sitting by a table with a council in the company of several deceased persons of my family, which I still have difficulties to identify. My grandfather led this council. There I was shown my past life, I had access to the purpose of my life. This council was organized only with the goal to come back to earth, something that, at that time, I didn't consider at all. Then they started to show me the life of my children without me and they showed me the life that I would be living when coming back to earth. My children would be happier, professional lives, more in accordance with myself, a craftsman trade, creative, and independent. After this, they finally convinced me of a necessary return, for the following experience and the well-being of my children. -- Frederic M

THE COUNCIL OF LOVE -- It is the center of everything seen and unseen. An unimaginable force radiates as a brilliant light in all directions from a trinity of spirits. This light is infinitely more brilliant than the sun, yet it did not hurt to look at it. The color defies a specific description, but a combination of white and silver comes close. The three spirits were like my entity: separate, but somehow connected. They were one and communicated as one. They were of the same general forms as my entity, too, but they were without distinguishing facial features. The center spirit hovered slightly above those on each side. -- Ron K

I was there at the council in Heaven when the plan of Salvation was discussed and accepted. -- William Si

There was a royal figure who decided, without my consent, if I could stay with them or not. It was decided I must return back to Earth where I currently and happily reside at; but I wish I could have had the choice to stay there. -- Philip S

God exists. God judges us all. I have come to the conclusion after looking back at my experience that there is a heaven a hell and limbo. God chooses where we go. I had no choice in the matter I was sent back. I don't know if I actually lifted myself out of my body to heaven and that is why I was told I was too young to go back or I was lifted I just know it was quick when I was looking over my body. I guess out of all of it I wonder did I leave on my own accord due to all the pain or was I taken up. The only thing I do know I was there and God said I was too young to go back. -- Patrice P

There, oddly, in the middle of nowhere, I found myself in the center of a starred room. The walls were covered in star light. The entity guided me to the center of the room and headed for what seemed to be a council. She got to her place. I sensed a peace in her, as she would have just prevented the irredeemable. All of a sudden, I felt surrounded. As if by teleportation, the others showed up. Those I now nickname, when the topic is broached, the council of the seven or the nine (I am not quite sure anymore as sometime in dreams the number appears different to me). I should get hypnotized to get a more accurate memory. -- Pascal C

I was told unequivocally that one day I would have to perform a duty or a function and fulfill a promise to do something. However, that particular something was never discussed. When I asked the council what that promise was it wouldn't tell. The only explanation I received was that when the time came I would know what it was. -- Michael F

However when I crossed over I met the council and God of the Universe. I viewed my life and several events and realized that we are all one with the Universe so when I hurt someone I was really hurting myself and even more so I was hurting every soul in the Universe.

When I was riding in the ambulance. That was when I became aware of being outside of the moving ambulance and I was being pulled out of myself. That is when I sat down in the room full of the white robe beings or the 12th council... I did not go to the light or tunnel, I went straight up and set down in front of the council. The room felt like a room but it was a wall that I could see through to the Universe. -- Virginia D

Belonging. I moved so that I could quickly get to the light. But before I made to the door one of the sentinels grabbed me and held me fast. The doors closed. Next I found myself in some kind of courtroom. Before me sat an unbelievably stern all-powerful yet very kind judge. Absolutely incorruptible. Duty and person were one and the person didn't exist without the duty. I sat on a bench and near me was a friend or defender. Great love emanated from him. Was it Jesus? The judge asked me: What are you doing here? I was overcome with fear and wanted to wake up but that didn't happen. I thought about it and remembered that I had wanted to die. At the same moment that I knew this, so did the judge. I felt his mercy and it was like balm for my soul. I realized he wasn't at all angry. I learned how to distinguish between power and anger. The judge thought for a while and said: But you have a mission. In this moment I saw all the people (of my era?) with their unique destinies as a great mosaic, and my destiny was intertwined in that mosaic. The harmony of all these destinies together was amazing. I knew that if my own destiny failed then the harmony of the whole would be destroyed. I knew that I had to fulfill my destiny. The shirt was closer to me than the jacket. I did not want to return to the hell that is the reality of being on earth. But the judge determined in his objective way: You must go back! -- Attila P

The courtroom was elegantly laid out; its design both impressive and elegant. The furnishings were distinguished and old world, crafted by talented artisans and constructed of materials resembling alabaster and marble. The Judge’s luminous bench towered over everything else in the room, and reflected the authority of the One who presided over it. -- Kate D

Then came a judgment of sorts, where I was judged on the things I had done and the things I would do in my future life. This upset me as I felt it was mean to punish or judge me for things I hadn't done yet. I wasn't judged on big things, more small instances of intent. It was the little things that mattered and not the big things. Then I was told that I had to go back, which didn't make me happy at all as I knew that being alive would hurt. Every aspect of living would hurt. The thought of going back into a wet disgusting body repulsed me, I couldn't believe I had to wear my body again, as it felt like wearing an old disgusting coat that belonged to someone else. -- Gail A

Than all of a sudden a bright light appeared and I looked up towards it. In the midst of this light there was a man smiling towards me. He appeared to be in front of a golden judge's bench that was huge. He kept right on smiling. He could like turn in a complete circle and still look at me. I was so amazed at this. My feeling started to change from complete helplessness to overwhelming love and comfort. I asked is this GOD or JESUS? He kept looking at the bright light right above him. He was so bright and had the most beautiful colors surrounding him. I can't really describe it all in detail. I just can say you would have to be there yourself. He had a book on top of the bench opened. He kept gesturing to the light above him. But without him saying anything to me. I could feel like he was telling me I would not proceed into it. I remember seeing him 2 times and he gave me the same smile and looked into the light again, and then I was in the trauma center or ICU. -- Kiko M

I think I am still stuck in the life review part sometimes. I haven't been the best person and have sinned a good bit. I feel like I am supposed to realize that I am my own worse enemy and I need to forgive myself and move on. My Grandfather was my judge in the experience and he told me to come back and honor my father. -- George W

Then I was in a room with walls of wood, and many windows. To my right were wooden stages, like those in a courtroom in the movies. When I looked up a bit I could see three people seated there. Of these three, the first had a grey face, the second looked normal, but the third was a luminous entity, I knew it was a person, but without the form of a person; it was a light, and changed shape continuously. I deduced that they were judging me. Looking to the right I saw my father pacing anxiously, something he never did normally, between the seats there, with his hands clasped behind his back and his shoulders hunched forwards, as if he was carrying a weight on them. There was only one other being present. This was an entity of white light, without definite form and hovering in the air. It was not exactly there, but I sensed its presence. It did nothing. While this was going on, I had the vision of a dog which was bounding towards me with its tongue out; obviously full of good intentions. The person seated between the other two, on my right, struck the table with a gavel, while holding up some papers in the other hand. Then he said my name, and: «He is condemned to go on living». I turned my head to the right and saw my father give a sigh of relief. A second gavel-stroke marked the beginning of my sentence. My feet lost the ground under them and I returned to the dark tunnel, taking me somewhere. I was falling, going down who-knows-where in this tunnel, but the next moment I woke up again in this life. ... Wellbeing, happiness, crammed with happiness, even when I was being judged. Concern to hear the sentence... Everything was light, everything gave off a more intense luminosity than usual, except for the stage where the judges were. -- David G

At that moment, I have the feeling to be in a court of justice, but instead of our dull judges, nameless, faceless, genderless, light beings are just there around me. This feeling was only short lasted as a wise and mature voice then told in my hear, “Why do you want to end this way, didn’t you offer to fulfill this mission yourself on this planet? Did you forget the purpose of your coming to earth? Did taking shape and living among them made you sink that much into oblivion?” Oddly, that voice was familiar to me, but not from my living experience. Far in my dreams maybe? In my furthest recollection, I could not find memory of a man talking to me this way. “You must go back to where you come from. Your time has not come.” said to me another, somewhat sharper voice. “Who do you think you are, that you want to decide your fate?” did utter a voice on my left, more hostile than the previous ones. “Take it easy, don’t forget that his mind left our world for a long time and he may be altered by all those centuries spent in the other world.” claimed the entity who took me out from my celestial ascension. “But you cannot remain among us, you chose it, you must complete it of your own will.” did she say. “But what mission are you talking about? I don’t understand anything to what you are saying, I don’t want to go back there. This loneliness is too deep and agonizing! You are going to answer, tell me what this mission is, who you are, who am I?” A voice outmatching the meeting group instantly settled the matter, no one would have even wanted or thought of whispering or sighing, “You’ll understand in due time, no answer would content you. Let time act, be strong, don’t doubt and you will know. Answers will be given in due time, it is up to you to capture them. Nothing is given for free to the knowledge keys keeper.” -- Pascal C

Once I arrived at the end of the tunnel, I saw a black table and seven people all dressed in white clothing standing on the other side of the table. Six to my right and one to my left. -- James F