Experience description:

As a Christian at the time, I took the bible and faith very seriously. I would read the bible extensively front to back without missing a page of text. But this was all essentially because of my own personal fear of the unknown. Christianity was a big part of my life ever since I was about 4 years old when my parents would start taking me to Sunday school every week. I was afraid of the Christian hell described in the bible and wanted to do everything Jesus said that was right to do of course. The more I aged with my beliefs, the more I feared hell and practiced Christianity more rigorously. It wasn't until I turned the age of 16 that I would start indulging myself in the beliefs of hardcore fundamentalism.

This is the time when my beliefs started taking a toll on my own well being and health. But I of course didn't care since I believed very dearly with my heart that I held absolute truth to the truth about God and the afterlife. The afterlife scared me on the inside though because the one question that resonated and perpetuated with me for a very long time was, 'what if I was wrong all along about my beliefs?' I quickly dismissed the thought, but it never disappeared from me until my supernatural experience later on in life. At 16, I was happy because it was the first time I had read the bible all the way through front to back, cover to cover. I felt like God was proud of me and only wanted to impress him further to make sure I would get into heaven. So what did I do? I read it again.

During the age of 17, I finished reading the bible a second time around. And I told my parents I think I was ready to become a bible scholar but I felt mentally ill from too much reading because let's face it, reading a 1,000+ paged book two times in a row is extremely time consuming and requires a lot of mental discipline. You have to be consistent and devoted in order to finish such a book. But then that thought reappeared in my consciousness again, 'What if you are wrong.' Now that thought was really staring to exasperate me. I started telling myself, 'maybe I should think deeply about why and how I got to this point?' 'Why did my parents bring me up the way they did?' 'Is this what God really wants out of me in my life?' Thoughts like this what start to encumber me. I cried on several occasions that day and the very same night changed my belief system drastically in a very peculiar way. That night while I was emotionally discontent with myself, I started listening to ambient music and vibrations on the internet to help me calm down.

The sounds from ambient music or mythological ambient music are something that always sounded to me like it was apart from this world. You will never hear it in music played today in cars, rock bands, concerts etc. It would always send goosebumps down my back and around my shoulders when I take the time to listen to it. It's like it pierces my own soul very hard and still does to this very day for me. This is what relieved my emotional stress that night. I was exhausted after this and decided to go to sleep.

That night while I was sleeping, I noticed my chest was starting to feel somewhat tight and my breathing became slightly shallow. It caused not much of a concern to me as this was during the middle of the night but contemporarily felt as if my body was vibrating at this moment in time. A split second later I found myself standing on a snowy mountain which I depicted as somewhere in the north pole according to my surroundings here. About 5 seconds later, I felt as if the sound of wind was encompassing my whole entire body and felt like I was sucked up into a vacuum tube just like how a vacuum cleaner works. As this was occurring, I was able to see myself leaving my body on the bed. I looked down at myself and noticed that my face was somewhat blurred out but was patently aware that it was me. I saw my hometown with such an enhanced eyesight that we don't have hear in the physical world.

I couldn't believe what was happening to me and was flabbergasted! As I was leaving the earth at such an exceedingly fast rate, I was noticing the earths curvature more and more as I went upwards into another dimension. I also noticed the stars which were still very far away. At this moment, I heard the most beautiful harp playing music I have ever heard in my entire existence. I exited into a grey circular vortex and came out into another dimension. The eccentricity of this place is almost unexplainable in the English language. But I will do my best at describing this place. There was no floor or ceiling. Just en endless blue sky with clouds. As for me, I was standing in a floating mansion. There were people of all walks of life going in both directions from the mansion. These people would disappear as they walked outside of the mansion as there was no real horizontal level of ground besides the mansions floor. It reminded me of a place of purgatory but it wasn't. All I can say is that it was a development testing area for human beings to reach their highest level of awareness. This is the best I can describe it.

I tried to stop some people to converse with. It was second nature to talk telepathically with them at the time. They were unaware of my presence. I was concerned for them in a way that I have never felt before. I turned to my left and noticed a female figure that was a good 2-3 ft taller than me so about 8-9 feet tall. She greeted me and knew who I was instantly. She for some reason seemed familiar to me even though I don't recall ever seeing her before. She was a middle eastern olive colored lady. She didn't have wings but she wore a white robe and had long brunette hair. She told me that I was here because I was chosen to undergo a series of tests. These tests didn't look like they meant anything of importance to me but for some reason was extremely important to her and God I presumed.

She told me that if God wanted to take my life right now he could. I started to get slightly nervous but was overcome by a sense of reassurance that I would be fine. She also told me that God came close to making the decision that I wouldn't be going back to earth but he overlooked his decision. I thought to myself, 'Thank God' in a metaphorical way and since I forgot everyone could here my thoughts because we spoke telepathically here she said, 'you don't have to worry anymore you will be fine.' So I underwent a series of tests. One was a self reflection of myself and why my parents are the parents that I was chosen to be born with. Another test I underwent was a test to do with my happiness in life. I had a few colored miniature suns floating in front of me. The blue sun represented sadness and the red sun represented happiness. I chose the blue sun.

The testing had ended but left me with one ultimate question that I believe God was drawing out of my consciousness. I said, 'does it matter if I believe in Jesus?' I looked up into the sky and saw the clouds moving in a circular rotation with a ball of light shining out of it after my response. Mind you the response I was given was meant to be given in a way that had to do more with feelings than a telepathic message if that makes any sense. The middle eastern lady appeared again and elaborated it to me in a better way. She gave me a feeling that pierced my own previous feelings of Christianity. You are loved no matter what your beliefs are and everything that exists is a part of God. This sentence changed my life for the best of me. After I received this message, she told me that I was done with the tests and have to go back to earth where I will partake in the rest of my earthly duties.

She told me to step beside her and I was teleported back down into that same vacuum like tube with that sound and feeling of wind encompassing me again. I exited that world and entered back into our solar system. I saw the earth and the stars coming closer as I started heading back down in the direction of earth. I again, heard that most beautiful harp music ever. I wanted to literally live inside that music it was the best sound I have ever heard, ever! My hometown started to become visible again and was able to tune into my house and see that the clock said 9:03am and turned to 9:04am. I saw my body laying down on the bed and entered it again through my own mouth and down into my heart. It was pitch black for a few seconds and saw my own eyes in this dark space spinning like someone pulled the handle down on a lottery machine and watched it spin for a brief moment. I woke up and the time was 9:04am. This was my own confirmation that the experience I had was definitely real and not a dream or a coincidence. The tightness and shallow breathing subsided instantaneously as soon as I awoke also.

This was the beginning of my exist out of Christianity. I eventually started opening up my mind to other peoples beliefs and tried comparing it to what I used to believe. So I picked up the Qur'an and read the whole book front to back and noticed the similarities between it with the bible. Both books describe the same abrahamic God essentially. Both believe in the first five books of the Jewish Torah too; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. And all three believe that God created a covenant with Abraham. This means that all three believe in the same God but preach and express it in different ways. This was a shocker to me since I was very naive of the Jewish and Muslim doctrine. I gave away the Qur'an shortly after reading it all the way through. I also gave away the several bibles I had with me for the last 14 years at the time.

I felt like I was liberated of all my past negative energies. After this event, I decided to get into mathematics a few years later because I was always good at math in school. So I studied advanced mathematics. I studied tons of precalculus, advanced trigonometry, calculus, advanced calculus and then mathematical physics. I eventually got really good at mathematical physics and was lucky enough to have published my research work on this topic in a mathematical science journal. Now I study Quantum Physics and mathematical physics on and off presently although other parts of life are getting the best of me at the moment and probably will until I'm an old man. But this isn't the end of my experience yet. Now I would like to talk about my present life and how this out of body experience has affected me to this day.

Many years after this experience I had a dream of this very same middle eastern lady. I was like a newborn again and she of course being 9 feet tall was holding me in her lap in a cradle position. That was the end of the dream. I also still get accidental out of body experiences unintentionally. That same feeling of wind still circles and encompasses me when I am about to leave my body again but I mange to now jolt awake out of this state of existence so I can avoid having an out of body experience again. But surprisingly, I just had another experience with an out of body experience a few weeks ago.

It started out where I was laying in my bed falling asleep. I apparently was dreaming of being in a room full of books like an archive room. I was holding what looked like the bible, Qur'an and Tanakh. All three abrahamic religious books. I saw a light flicker on in the dream and two stink bugs come whizzing by me from the light. So I continue reading through the books and noticed that I saw the Bhagavad Gita book in a corner. But before I was able to pick it up I felt my surroundings change. I was now in my room! But I was still holding these books. I instantly heard a voice at the doorway into my room. It was a female voice saying, 'Andrew, you of course already know which one of those three books came first since man was created.' I said in my head, 'Of course I know, I just want to know why my fellow man is so intrigued by these books.' Then I felt as if my covers moved into the air and had that feeling of wind surround me and the inside of my ears. I somehow felt like I was leaving my body once again and heard what sounded like my soul make a sound while trying to leave.

I woke up but not actually. This was my soul that has awoken. They call it your third eye. What I was seeing when I was awoken in this state astonished me in a way I will never forget. I started to hear soul self make a gasp and soft whaling like sound. In this third eye state of consciousness, I saw a white mist hovering over my heart area coming out of me. This was me! This was soul! So I jolted back awake again like the other times when I have an out of body experience from now on. I then quickly went back to bed and fell asleep until morning.

In the end, I believe God exists in some way shape or form. I believe that my first out of body experience gave me the gift to keep having out of body experiences and gain some small insight into the unknown. If I tried to have one, I may just get my wish again even though I have no incentive for doing so. I believe God is something that us humans will never figure out here on earth. The only reason why I believe that God and the afterlife exists is because of my first main out of body experience, reoccurring out of body experiences, the Near Death Experience Research Foundation and also IANDS. There is something more mysterious out there in the world than what us humans can describe and tell already. This is quite conspicuous. I am glad to have shared my experience with this community.

At the time of your experience was there an associated life-threatening event?   Uncertain  May have been life threatening due to symptoms of tightening in the chest and difficulty breathing during the initial stages of the experience.

Was the experience difficult to express in words?  Yes     Sight, smell, feel and hearing, all things that are extremely enhanced and words in the English language aren't able to suffice the adjectives for theses enhancements.

At what time during the experience were you at your highest level of consciousness and alertness? Upon leaving my body

How did your highest level of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal everyday consciousness and alertness?      More consciousness and alertness than normal   As soon as you enter that barrier between the physical and non physical, the rules of consciousness change.

Please compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience.   Extremely enhanced. If you know the tales of how vampires are foretold to have extreme eyesight, I'd reckon that our eyesight is 10x better than a vampires in the non physical world.

Please compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had immediately prior to the time of the experience.   Hearing was extremely sensitive to music, sounds, energy waves.

Did you see or hear any earthly events that were occurring during a time that your consciousness / awareness was apart from your physical / earthly body?   No   

What emotions did you feel during the experience?   Nervousness, reassurance and calmness  

Did you pass into or through a tunnel?   No  

Did you see an unearthly light?   Yes   An unearthly light that was half concealed behind clouds as I looked up into the sky while I was inside the floating mansion.

Did you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable voice?   I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly origin
A middle eastern women, olive skin, brunette hair, about 8-9 feet tall and in a white robe.

Did you encounter or become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)?   No  

Did you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings?   No  

Did you become aware of past events in your life during your experience?   Yes   I noticed that after this event. I have had flashes of images that my sub consciousness tells me was around the year 1144 A.D - 1188 A.D where medieval knights are fleeing a battle on top of a grassy hill next to a small fort on the left while a column of 2 trees on the right separates the battle from another valley of grassy land. There is a captain that was wounded and killed by an arrow that punctured his left lung. I get the feeling that this was me in a past life. This makes sense to me because ever since I was a small child I loved medieval knights and constantly read books about them and 'unconsciously wishing I was back there again when I was a child.'

Did you seem to enter some other, unearthly world?   A clearly mystical or unearthly realm
This world was an endless blue sky with endless clouds and a mansion floating in this world.

Did time seem to speed up or slow down?   Time seemed to go faster or slower than usual
Time seemed to have sped up quite a bit during the middle time frame of the experience.

Did you suddenly seem to understand everything?   No

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?   Yes
If I left the mansion without completing my tests I feel like I wouldn't be here today.

Did you come to a border or point of no return?   I came to a barrier that I was not permitted to cross; or was sent back against my will
I consciously knew I wasn't aloud to stay anywhere else besides in the area of the mansion where my tasks are to be done.

Did scenes from the future come to you?  No 

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness suggesting that there either is (or is not) continued existence after earthly life (“life after death”)?   Yes   Life probably continues on after death

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that God or a supreme being either does (or does not) exist?   Yes   God probably is the supreme being of all existences

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that you either did (or did not) exist prior to this lifetime?   Yes   I subconsciously know I existed before this lifetime.

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that a mystical universal connection or unity/oneness either does (or does not) exist?   Yes   An unearthly world probably exists

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding earthly life’s meaning or purpose?   Yes   Do the best you can while here on earth and do what you enjoy doing.

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding earthly life’s difficulties, challenges, or hardships?   No  

During your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding love?   Yes   Love is in everything in this world. Some might not even know it.

During your experience, did you encounter any other specific information / awareness that you have not shared in other questions that is relevant to living our earthly lives?   No  

Did you have a sense of knowing special knowledge or purpose?   No  

What occurred during your experience included:   Content that was entirely not consistent with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience   Not consistent with the Christian doctrine.

How accurately do you remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around the time of the experience?   I remember the experience more accurately than other life events that occurred around the time of th   It's like remembering the best event in your life. They are both on par in terms of memorization skills.

Discuss any changes that might have occurred in your life after your experience:   I can take on challenges very easily now. I am a lot more relaxed.

My experience directly resulted in:   Large changes in my life

Did you have any changes in your values or beliefs after the experience that occurred as a result of the experience?   Yes   I am now an Agnostic Deist. Deism describes the experience I had quite accurately.

Do you have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that you did not have before the experience?   No  

Are there one or several parts of your experience that are especially meaningful or significant to you?     We are loved no matter what our beliefs are in this life.

Have you ever shared this experience with others?   Yes  The day after the experience. They were skeptical because they are Christians. My experience may have allowed them to have a more open mind on peoples beliefs.

Did you have any knowledge of near death experience (NDE) prior to your experience?   No  

What did you believe about the reality of your experience shortly (days to weeks) after it happened:   Experience was definitely real   The time was 9:03am going onto 9:04am while I was entering my body and I woke up at 9:04am. This is proof to me that this experience was definitely real.

What do you believe about the reality of your experience at the current time:   Experience was definitely real   I still remember it as if it was yesterday.

Have your relationships changed specifically as a result of your experience?   No   I am not sure.

Have your religious beliefs/spiritual practices changed specifically as a result of your experience?   Yes   I'm an agnostic deist now.

At any time in your life, has anything ever reproduced any part of the experience?   No  

Is there anything else that you would like to add about your experience?   No, thank you.

Did the questions asked and information that you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?   Yes   Everything was described perfectly.