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Tuesday May 13,2008

Talking with Angel: About Illness, Death and Survival

Continued

This discovery doesn't frighten me, the most it does is to astonish me. I feel as if I'm in a totally safe place while my body is dying. I look at this ghastly body, this face contorted with pain, and I feel completely detached, without sadness or regret at having abandoned it. The pain has disappeared, and I notice that I have immediately lost all interest in my biological life. I realize that the frontier between life and death is only a strange illusion of our mind. It is horrifying and frightening seen from the point of view of living people, and yet it becomes totally insignificant when observed from the other side. My first impression is one of complete surprise. How is it possible that I exist in such a pleasant way, that I can observe and think, although I'm dead and without a body?

Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino was born in Switzerland in 1954. She has studied near-death experiences for over twenty years and collaborated with Kenneth Ring on "Lessons from the Light: What we can learn from the near-death experience" (2000). She is also the author of "On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the phenomenon of Near-Death Experience" (1997). She works at the University of Geneva and is a coordinator for the Scientific and Medical Network.