We come into life having knowledge which we acquired before birth, and afterwards we recover that which we previously knew. That which we call learning is a process of recovering our knowledge.―Socrates

Superconscious: that level of the unconscious which generates all that is highest and most meaningful for a human being.―Roberto Assagioli

Hindu psychology recognizes three states of mind―the unconscious or the subconscious, the conscious, and the superconscious.―Oneness Committment

Tragedy and comedy, in fact, all the higher forms of art, free man from the bonds of his finite individuality, and through laughter and tears reveal to him by immediate intuition the infinity of his larger self.―Boris Sidis

The self continues to exist after it leaves the body.

The mind functions without the brain.

Selves communicate.

I was conscious of "being me" throughout.  1a/4028

My mind felt cleared and my thoughts seemed quick and decisive.  5a/4025

I could move around, in short I had an "I".  6a/4013

There was actually no break in my stream of consciousness between reviewing my life before this new landscape, and while I was observing it. ... I kept on THINKING.  12a/4016

I was seeing, feeling, but I had a body that looked like transparent! But my thinking was normal.  13a/4015

I also understood that my body is like a car my consciousness drives.  15a/2053

All the time I was also aware of my body and I was watching what was happening to it.  19a/4006

For a while I ceased to exist, then darkness, a clear sensation of floating during which my mind continued to function.  22a/3992

I was so confused thinking, "Wow why do they bother? I don't need my body. I'm fine, actually better than before."  38a/3975

When I was "in" my body, I didn't know what was going on. When I was "hovering" I had vivid thoughts.  46a/3962

I was more alive than I had ever been before.  47a/3961

Throughout the period the self level of consciousness and alertness was there.  53a/3957

During the experience I seemed to be perfectly lucid and conscious.  70a/3926

I remember just thinking: "No. Where am I? Where are we going?"  74a/3923

I knew what was going on. I knew it as a fact, not assuming. I was dead.  84a/3913

I remember being able to think and figure out what do, figure out all the outcomes.  91a/3893

In my mind I asked what was happening.  92a/3892

I thought about my two grown sons, neither of whom I had told about the surgery. It was an indifferent, wondering feeling to think how surprised they would be to learn I was dead.  93a/3889

And I sure was OK, felt great, full of a sensation of fulfillment, and conscious of what had happened to me.  95a/3896

I thought that I was awake and that my body was still in this world, so I stopped for a moment and wondered why the “sun” attracted me so, and why I couldn’t go towards it. But at the same time I knew, I don’t know how, that I wasn’t allowed to go to the “sun.”  98a/3886

I believe I was conscious throughout the whole event.  99a/3846

My whole self was like a sole consciousness – no body, no extension, no beginning and no end in that awareness that was me.  100a/3876

I remember thinking that I was not prepared to die...too young.  2b/2629

I didn’t have a body, I was immaterial. I had only my thought and stop, nothing all.  6b/3472

I tried to say, "No! Don't hurt him. Leave him alone." I realized it seemed a bit strange to refer to myself as "him," but at that time, I felt that I was the entity looking down on a man who looked a lot like I used to look--but that it wasn't really me.  14b/397

I was fully conscious of everything, feeling and thinking very clearly.  26b/N. P.

It was me but not in my body.  40b/4043

I remember saying to my self, "I am all right," out loud to my self. ... I was me looking down but was not Bob. I did not even know Bob, but I was still me as I was before I drowned. I do not know how to explain this any other way.  47b/703

I thought, "Hey what's going on? That's me down there?"  49b/2735

I was aware of my state. I was surely going somewhere, but where I did not know.  50b/1944

I thought, "Oh My! This looks like Dante’s hell, and also remember thinking, “He must have done this trip;” and also, “Why do I deserve hell?”  53b/2377

I realized I was dead. But I was still aware! I was very aware. ... I was more like thought in space. ... I was in the I AM.  58b/3444

All I could think was: "Okay, I saw my daughter. She is great, she's beautiful. She is healthy. I am gone now. She will be all right".   63b/200

Why was I out of my physical body but still very much alive?  66b/2359

Everything slowed down that I saw, but my thoughts sped up simultaneously.  69b/3837

I had no other thoughts other than wanting to go on towards the light.  74b/118

I was just "Myself" for whatever that means..  76b/40

I thought, “Omg, I’m dead and they are going to bury me, but I’m not dead. I can see them and myself!” My next thought was, “I’m too young to die!”  86b/633

I was pure consciousness having/retaining all knowledge of my life and memories. I was not any smarter.  97b/281

My conscience was connected to a translucent body.  100b/1002

I was fully aware of who I am.  101b/1089

I was one hundred percent aware of my mind in the situation.  1c/2866

I asked myself a couple of times in succession, "How can I be doing this?" The answer was too obvious. "I must be dead!" I told myself.  3d/Jan. 23, 2002

I remember thinking it was nice to have no worries, no pain, fear etc.  9d/Feb. 25, 2002

It was death and knowing I was dead. I was wondering why I died. What happened? And thinking it must have been a fast death.  17d/June 16, 2002

I am thinking, "Where am I?" At first I tell myself I must be dreaming. ... But

Then I realize or I am thinking I have died.  29d/Dec. 19, 2002

I was seeing different pictures of my life and they would just pass in my mind.  30d/Jan. 2, 2003

My mind was somewhere outside the body. ... You are very much awake after you die, and very much alert.  36d/March 25, 2003

In my mind, I thought for sure I was dying.  41d/May 18, 2003

Suddenly I was thinking: "What does it all matter? I want to go there now, experience something else..."  54d/Sept. 2, 2003

I thought to myself, "I am supposed to be dead right this very instant." I felt as if I was looking down to my left, in my mind's eye that is. I had no tangible body that I could see.  59d/Nov. 11, 2003

Just as I realized that was my lifeless body in the bed below, my thoughts were abruptly distracted.  69d/March 4, 2004

I found myself outside my body as a transparent and weightless me.  81d/Aug. 20, 2004

I was aware in this place, but there was nothing except a profound feeling of peace, calmness, serenity.  87d/Oct. 26, 2004

Was cussing myself out, thinking I must of OD'd; now I'm dead.  88d/Oct. 26, 2004

I was pulled into a tunnel. I remember thinking, "I'm dying, I'm dying!”  90d/Nov. 5, 2004

While being in this void I also knew(?) that I was dead and needed to look for 'the light'.  92d/Jan. 3, 2005

I remember thinking that I didn't want to die yet.  93d/Jan. 3, 2005

I began to drift and realize I was not inside of my body.  94d/Lift Your Head

I just slid out of my body and rose above the bed and said to myself, "I thought this one was supposed to be longer."  97d/Defender

I ran mentally into my body, which felt like going inside a glove or landing into something of exactly my size.  4e/Glove

I spent some time thinking about the life that went with those feelings. Not exactly judging but measuring, foul ups against successes. It was NOT judging but just taking stock.  15e/Non-existence

My life's history exploded into my consciousness. I thought I wasn't ready to go yet, I had more things to accomplish in this life, and I wanted another chance to do the things I needed to do.  18e/History

I remember thinking that I had no pain and questioning why I couldn't feel any pain. I knew I wasn't in my body, but it didn't feel like I was without a body.  21e/Bleachers

I remember thinking, "Yes, this is the birth canal," I thought with a big sigh, "I don't want to be born again." I realized with relief that wasn't happening.  23e/All One

At that moment, I started to walk away from myself. My vision was clear. My person, my body, was moving away from me. I reached out and tried to grab myself. My hand swept through me as if there was nothing there.  25e/360º Vision

I then began to have a dialogue with myself, not moving my lips but talking in my brain.  30e/Filled

The thought that "this is what death is all about” kept recurring in my mind over and over.  31e/There's More

I was aware of four states of consciousness: awake, dreaming, hallucinating, and out of body in another realm.  34e/Oneness

I remember thinking I must be dead. I couldn’t feel my body--don’t think I had one, but I was still me with crystal clear thinking.  36e/Someone

At one point instead of losing consciousness, I was very present and very aware of being.  43e/Lost Connection

I still remained conscious. My senses were tremendously alert.  50e/Living Water

I took the fact that I didn't have a body meant that my body would never work again. I decided to go on to die.  51e/Perfect Love

I could sense myself in the outline form of my body but my body wasn't there.  53e/Floating

There I was dead, but my mind was so very much alive.  55e/Death Not Terrible

My world ceased to exist, except for my mind.  68e/Difficulty

I have no recollection of having any type of form, just thought.  70e/Chance

What jolted me was the thought, "What about my family?"  72e/Peace

I had the mental state as though I knew I was going to die and was okay with it.  73e/Learning

I thought, "Why aren't they listening to me?"  75e/Between Worlds

I had been examining my hands and arms, which were a translucent light blue. I still looked normal, but without actual body mass. I had some sense that I was not alive, but it wasn't entirely clear.  77e/Quiet Clarity

I'm me the way I was a moment before, no change.  85e/Home

As I was floating I found myself thinking of my life.  85e/Home

There were full powers of logical reasoning and language.  87e/Lucid in Void

I was pure thought flowing in a wondrous river of peace and loving feeling.  88e/River

My experience consisted of becoming consciously aware of floating above my body.  98e/White Force

I vividly recall floating/hovering above myself and thinking: "What am I doing up here?"  4f/Wayne

I remember thinking, "I wonder if I've died?"  11f/MJ

I remember thinking. It was more like knowing instead of thinking.  13f/Ben

I kept thinking at every turn that this was wonderful and amazing.  27f/First.Last

I still had no "body" that I remember, but had the "feeling" that I was an amorphous, glowing pure intellect.  47f/Mark Horton

I'm still wondering, "What is happening to me"?  51f/Saundra

I did not have any physical sensations, but I could think and communicate.  52f/Tom

There was no discontinuity of consciousness. My first thought was, "Well, I guess this is what it's like to be dead."  56f/Anonymous

He told me that it was not my time to enter into my heavenly home.  18a/4009

I was just in another place, somewhere I'd always been. These people knew me and I knew them.  24a/3997

I was aware that behind me were other energy beings, people whom I knew so well, like I had really come home.  43a/3968

I felt a very powerful all loving, content, sensation that I was Home! I was surrounded with a powerful energy source and was a source of positive energy myself.  45a/3964

Since then I feel sort of Homesick and a sense of not belonging to this world. For I know this is not my home.  53a/3951

All earthly thoughts were gone. I was going home.  60a/3764

I didn't want to come back. That was my focus. I was Home. I liked being Home. Just let me be Home.  73a/3928

I remember thinking, "That was cool being Thomas," like it was some fun excursion, this human life.  76a/3958

I knew I belonged there. It was a feeling I been there before, but I can't point a finger at when.  77a/3920

It asked, "Are you ready to come home?" I knew it meant death.  84a/3913

Nearly as if I had been away in a long, long journey in a foreign country, and after a time I finally had come back again! Home, where everything was so well-known and safe.  100a/3876

Seemed like a neighborhood, and I was shown around to all the people I loved and missed and they were all so happy. I remember being surprised like: "Oh! Hi....wow you're here, how nice," and smiling very broadly.  3b/3840

I felt like I was "home." This was where I had come from, this was where I belonged.  53f/Tommy

I was definitely in two places at the same time.  16a/2048

I felt that my body was separate from my spirit and they were on two different planes of existence.  66a/3938

I think a part of me is in that light, and I've been only partly here on earth since 1973.  92a/3892

As a small child I drifted freely between the realm of the spiritual and physical realm. As young as the age of four, I can remember leaving my body when my mother put me to bed.  31d/Jan. 7, 2003

Now, here's something that is hard to explain. I was watching myself inside the tunnel at the same time I was looking at myself outside the tunnel. How could I be down in that tunnel seeing a light at the end of it when I'm floating out here seeing a tunnel that is not in a straight line?  49e/Leave

There is no difference between here and there. They are here but we don't see them because we are too caught up in the physical world.  80e/Love, Learn

Since my NDE, I realize that I exist in this "other place" at the same time as I exist in this physical space.  Anonymous

We are always in that place, we are always in Heaven, we are always in The Light.  39f/Laurie

There is a message which seems to give me the impression that this place is always here, and is present in all things, and beings. 

I became aware of my senses at that moment and how much more detailed everything seemed and how it all appeared more focused and more sharp. It was like I was seeing the world for the first time with my own true eyes. It was the equivalent of taking off a pair of foggy ski-goggles or glasses.  5a/4025

I was alone in this place, or I thought I was at the time. I could still see and looked in all directions.  26a/3994

Suddenly found myself in the bedroom hovering over the bed looking at the clock and thinking, "Well when you are like this you can see perfectly without your glasses."  33a/2034

I thought, "This is Death? How can I see if I have no eyes?"  38a/3975

My realization was that I saw me from a new direction, and I watched myself for a few more moments.  39a/3897

The perspective of my memory at that point changed from looking up at him to looking down at the top and back of his head and myself from above.  40a/3972

My vision was extremely clear and intense--as if being in a body was like being in a lens, and now it was clear.  44a/3966

I could see everything. Distance didn't matter. Everything was so much more real.  52a/3955

There is a super eye in our consciousness...I believe in this...the clarity of the vision is very much more powerful than the regular one.  53a/3957

There was no light. Everything was black and yet I could see clearly.  58a/2021

I had an altered type of vision because even though I was above the car I could "see" inside the car with a sort of "super vision."  76a/3958

As for the field of view, it encompasses all.  78a/3916

Although I was lying with my back towards the window, I was looking out of that window.  79a/3865

I seemed to be able to see my face although I was facing my back.  85a/3909

I could see farther, and almost a night-vision type look sight. I could see the trees perfectly clearly even though my headlights weren't showing them, and there were no street lights.  91a/3893

I seemed to have a spherical view 360º vertically as well as horizontally.  97a/3891

I seem to think I was able to go vast distances very quickly to see what I needed to see or they wanted me to see.  3b/3840

[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect, such aspect...)?] I do not know if you know how big the letters on the label of a medicine bottle are. From the glass room I was in to the other end of the intensive care, it was about 15 meters (45 feet). Either I was standing next to them when a patient was administered medication, or I watched from my room.  48b/2819

While floating above the scene and seeing everything as if it were transparent.  52b/3710

I began to develop panoramic eyesight like a raptor.  55b/214

[Did your vision differ in any way from your normal, everyday vision (in any aspect...)?] In the degree of my perception.  56b/2460

My field of vision was enormous. I could see what was in front of me as well as part of what was behind me. Luminosity was very great.  65b/4038

I felt that I was able to zero in on any thing or anyone simply by drawing my attention to them regardless of the distance.  66b/2359

It was like watching High Definition TV, as compared to normal: all people and things were vivid; there was no darkness or shadows.  84b/2176

One sense I recall was my sight zooming in closer. It was like it targeted right into the scene below with my body with a zoom in and out quality. As though just thinking about wanting a better view would "zoom" my sight in closer even though I was still on the ceiling level.  86b/633

Although it was the worst darkness I have ever experienced, yet I could still see very well.  7c/2470

The first thing I noticed was my vision--the ability of my physical vision. From the mountain top I was standing on, the valley seemed to be MANY miles away, at least ten or so, maybe more. But I could see clearly every detail of both sides of the valley as I could the other. If one of the people were to have had a note in their hand, or two people had a note for instance, I would have been able to read them on both sides of the valley at one time. I don't remember seeing anything specifically, but I do remember how well I was able to see.  9d/Feb. 25, 2002

Although it was night, I could see everything, neighbor's houses, etc.  61d/Nov. 11, 2003

It "said," "In heaven (obvious god or Christian reference), what you need to understand is you do not need eyes to see." ... I knew that people need to understand you don't see with eyes in heaven because eyes are part of the body and are necessary to see physically. When you are dead, you no longer have eyes to see with.  71d/March 4, 2004

I had lost my physical form and became a sphere where I could see all around me at once. It felt like a perfectly natural shape for me.  85d/Oct. 26, 2004

You can see everything at the same time; there is no field of vision.  12e/Where I Was

These images were all around me 360 degrees of vision in a circle that curved up and away like a bowl. I watched as a section of the image became clear and bright.  25e/360º Vision

I had the strangest thought that we are all floating around in a gas. Where we are going, there is no gas and everything is crystal clear, like diamonds. Here we are looking through a foggy gas, kind of like when it is very hot and you see those heat waves on a road as you drive.  26e/Infinite Entity

I remember thinking, "Wait a minute, this isn't what it's supposed to be like." I knew my eyes were closed, but I could still see everything.  44e/Cannot Go

I could see like there wasn't darkness just like a person can see when there is light in a room, but everything is black.  53e/Floating

My eyes were not like earth eyes and I could see different there.  80e/Love, Learn

It's as if I'm all eyes. I can see even behind me and darkness is all there is to see. ... He had long shoulders, brownish-fair slightly curly hair, a longish face darkened by a short beard and the most amazing eyes. They had a colour between pale blue and light grey. Although I knew he was there I never turned toward him.  85e/Home

I could see clearly, even though it was dark and I was under the ice and moving downstream.  7f/Rob

I remembered the feeling of being warm and looking down at myself in the bed. I was only three at the time and doubt that I could have imagined what things would look like from that angle.  40f/Little Girl

I remember looking at my shoulder now in my chest from a weird perspective. As if my eyes were centered just above and to the left of my left ear. As if I were looking over my own shoulder.  48f/Mark J.

When the person reached me we spoke through thought.  18a/4009

They spoke to me, yet they had no mouths to speak, I just knew what they were saying.  28a/3989

A telepathic dialogue took place in which certain questions were asked and I was compelled to answer truthfully.  36a/3982

My guide spoke to me through my mind.  37a/3977

I didn't know all of them, they were greeting me telepathically.  45a/3964

The "being" spoke to me although the words were not heard with my ears. It was as if someone was speaking in my head, although it was not my voice I heard.  47a/3961

I remember knowing the purpose of life and why we are all here, as if someone was speaking to me.  50a/3957

Strangely though it seemed like I didn't need to hear words. I could just feel what they were saying.  52a/3955

The voice answered my thought with words of comfort, and peacefully suggested that it was not my time to go.  59a/3746

We communicated telepathically; no lips or mouth movements; all thoughts.  80a/3919

A calming voice communicated into my mind the thought, "Yes, but its okay."  70e/Chance

These were not verbal conversations going on but rather a dialogue I sensed in my mind.  72e/Peace

Our communication was different. It is not the same type of communication we have here. I was not talking. We could just send messages and understand each other (more telepathic in nature).  75e/Between Worlds

As I approached the light it spoke to me telepathically.  76e/Telepathic

The main brightest light form addressed me mentally, saying, "It's not your time yet. You have to go back."  77e/Quiet Clarity

I received thoughts from other sources but I didn't see anyone.  92e/Surrounded

There was no sound of any kind but I KNEW that they were discussing me and deciding what to do.  101e/Review

I did not hear anything audible from him, but basically telepathically he held out a choice for me.  5f/Tim

Then, as if I were two people, a voice inside said "Hillari will be fine. Mama will raise her. She's good mother, and she did a wonderful job with me."  12f/Fran

It was not a voice as such, but more a "thought" which was not mine. It seemed to ask many things at the same time, and I remember being quite overwhelmed.  48f/Mark J.

I suddenly remembered that this entity had "spoken" to me many times earlier in my life. I had always labeled the communication as "intuition." The "speaking" was clear, yet didn't really involve words (although I *remember* the conversation as words).  56f/Anonymous