I would have to say it was during my NDE back in 1981. During the NDE I was out of the body floating above the earth looking at the sunrise on the other side of the planet. As I looked down upon the earth, I realized I could sense all the billions of souls down below me each one playing out their own life dramas. The earth looked so fragile yet incredibility beautiful against the blackness of space. As I turned my head away from the earth I lookout out into the cosmos and at first, I thought I was seeing billions of stars. However, after a closer inspection I realized it was not stars I was looking at but galaxies. Billions upon billions of galaxies. The sheer number of them left me speechless. At this moment I felt as if I could sense that the whole universe was filled with life everywhere I looked. But at different stages of evolution. I could literally feel everything in the cosmos, and it was in this moment I realized I had lived before. Not just a few lifetimes but literally thousands of them. I realized I was eternal as soul and always had been. And all of humanity down below me had been incarnating upon the earth for tens if not hundreds of thousands of years yet not knowing who they really were. Everything in that moment made senses to me for the first time in my life. What I did not realized at the time was I was experiencing cosmic consciousness. There was so much information being conveyed to me all at once I felt overwhelmed from the sheer beauty and simplicity of it all that all I could do was cry. However, they were not tears of sadness but tears of sheer joy, love and true connection to spirit and God. I never felt so in creditably loved and understood.
It was then suddenly I felt a presence from behind me. As I turned around to look at what it was a light appeared before my eyes. I realized this was just not a light but a living presence in all things seen and unseen from the eyes of man. The light was brighter than ten thousand suns, yet it did not hurt to look at it. As I approached the light all I wanted to do was merge with it completely forever. It was then that a hand appeared from the light, and it pressed against my chest and pushed me away saying (not now). I was then hurled downward from where I was and felt myself getting smaller and smaller like I was going through a tube or tunnel that was getting narrower. Finally, at last, I ended up being just a pinpoint of consciousness within the darkness as all light around me was now gone. I felt heavy, dense and limited being where I was now. It was then I opened my eyes, and I was back in my physical body in the emergency room of the hospital being worked on by the hospital staff. I hated being back there as everything felt dead, flat, cold and lifeless. Where I had just been was far more alive and real then where I was now. But after recovering in the hospital, I realized I had lived before which was something I was never taught as a child growing up in a Baptist family. So, after that experience, my life changed forever, and I was never the same person again. This experience that took place those many years ago led me to the realization that the process of reincarnation is actually real.
Love and peace
P.
It was then suddenly I felt a presence from behind me. As I turned around to look at what it was a light appeared before my eyes. I realized this was just not a light but a living presence in all things seen and unseen from the eyes of man. The light was brighter than ten thousand suns, yet it did not hurt to look at it. As I approached the light all I wanted to do was merge with it completely forever. It was then that a hand appeared from the light, and it pressed against my chest and pushed me away saying (not now). I was then hurled downward from where I was and felt myself getting smaller and smaller like I was going through a tube or tunnel that was getting narrower. Finally, at last, I ended up being just a pinpoint of consciousness within the darkness as all light around me was now gone. I felt heavy, dense and limited being where I was now. It was then I opened my eyes, and I was back in my physical body in the emergency room of the hospital being worked on by the hospital staff. I hated being back there as everything felt dead, flat, cold and lifeless. Where I had just been was far more alive and real then where I was now. But after recovering in the hospital, I realized I had lived before which was something I was never taught as a child growing up in a Baptist family. So, after that experience, my life changed forever, and I was never the same person again. This experience that took place those many years ago led me to the realization that the process of reincarnation is actually real.
Love and peace
P.