for those wondering about protection during violent death itself thats a separate question worth exploring

“My heart had stopped, and I could see people screaming and crying, but I didn't realize that was actually my physical body because I was somewhere else. The only thing that I could feel, if you could imagine, was absolute love and peace. There wasn't anything else to be felt.”0:12

“When I realized that someone was my lifeless body, I felt a rush of panic, but as fast as that panic set in, it was lifted off me. I was emotionally pulled back from the scene. I felt indescribable peace and love. I knew everything was okay. I was okay. As I continued to watch the scene, I could hear everyone in the room and in the other rooms. I could see everything going on in the hospital and even outside.”5:00

“concerned about from a human side. If I asked you right now, well, if you're going to die in 20 minutes, who and what would you be concerned about? You would have a long list. But in that moment, that list is gone. It's removed from you in a way, which allows you to slip into death peacefully. So there wasn't any clinging to life for me. It it's like it all happened in an instant and the next thing I knew I was gone. Uh the first thing I experienced was uh this velvety darkness. It's hard to explain. It feels like it's void of”6:57

“And, uh, I saw this light, but I'd like to back up just a minute. In that darkness, a lot of, a lot of people that talk about near-death experiences will talk about, you know, the void is kind of a scary place, but it wasn't for me, because I just died this violent death, and so for me, it was calm. It was peaceful, and it felt like I really wasn't alone. I felt like I was surrounded and embraced.”5:15

“compare to what this was like. Because on earth, even if you're in a peaceful moment, there's a part of you that knows it could end any time or that some trouble could come around the corner, even if you think you're really fully in the moment. But here there was no awareness that it could end. And there was no awareness that any trouble could come. It was like the most safe, beautiful, secure, perfect feeling vibe that I had ever found myself in. >> My most recent near-death experience happened August 1st, 2004. I was a”24:19

“I didn't feel the presence of anyone, of any magical being at all, nothing like that. But the word "hugging" sounds protective. Of protection. It's like a protection... it's something mystical, very difficult to characterize, but it's... it's a divine embrace... maybe, like... like... like... you cried out and He was there ... all the time. That's how I felt. In all those moments that occurred after the crash, when you came out of the body, were you surprised or were you finding it all natural? My reaction was like this... after I realized that...”15:02

“had. And so I just uh I was curious like, where am I? What's going on? and the uh I saw the I saw this light, but I'd like to back up just a minute in that darkness. A lot of a lot of people that talk about near-death experiences will talk about, you know, the void as kind of a scary place, but it wasn't for me because I just died this violent death. And so for me, it was calm. It was peaceful. And it felt like I really wasn't alone. I felt like I was surrounded and embraced. And so when I saw this light and and it was”6:56

“that and it was traumatic and I wondered where he was in all this. I didn't know what was going on. My wife had gone through his near-death experience and I was there and and helped pull her back. >> So quite a bit of fear. How about after this experience? >> I had no fear because I realized that my life, the energy that was me, not the body, but the energy that was me was was going to go on. It was going to transition. It was going to go on. That that after death, I live a new new kind of life. It was kind of like the first”29:17

“describing the feeling. It was just amazing. It was beautiful. It was safe. It was home. I'm not afraid of what comes after this [music] life anymore. I I don't question it. I became aware that somebody was doing something to my body. I could feel I I heard it was like in the distance. It was like at the end of a very, very long tunnel. I could hear somebody yelling. I remember first looking over or turning my attention to this other being that was with me. And it wasn't, like I said, there was no”7:21

“What I noticed is that I didn't lose... I didn't feel death, and feel myself dying. I felt no pain whatsoever. I just continued to exist. All I saw was my body, and then everything just turned black.”17:27

“But I felt safe as well. I felt that I was being protected by this being, and there was a lot of love emanating from her or him, and felt like we'd known each other throughout the whole of my life and beyond. But I just couldn't figure it out, but I didn't really care because I was just, I was in the moment, and I didn't really worry about anything anymore.”47:41

“flat, nor did it hurt my eyes to look at it. At that moment, it felt as if time had stopped or just didn't exist. I felt that the light was  protecting me and nothing could ever reach me or harm me in its presence. I felt super calm  and loved. It wasn't like the love between humans which involves various emotions.  This love was unconditional and serene. I was levitating toward the light. At the same  time, I knew that I was dead. I did not have a word for the concept of death. I had this  strong perception that my life had ended and”1:12

“I don't I had this awareness that death is something so unexpected... and so good, so peaceful, like this... very calm... because... I didn't have a moment of... I don't even know how to tell you Carlos, but... I didn't have a moment of feeling threatened, not a moment of me... I didn't have a moment where I felt... "Oh my God, who's going to stay, what's going to happen next?" No The feeling I had was that everything was resolved, that everything was fine, that everything was going to work out,”12:30

“physical body are gone. And so they usually feel peace and it's so I'm not going to say weird. It's unusual that you felt panic yet it sounds like it wasn't much later that you described to me love, peace, calmness, and security. Well, time is kind of different there for sure. You know, as I'm watching things happen, maybe a minute occurred as I'm watching them, you know, pick me up, put me on the gurnie, and cart me off. But yeah, for that minute, it seemed like an eternity as a spirit. And yes,”46:53

“but at that moment what I noticed was that, and empty, there was no one, no one in that dimension, in that place where I was there was no one, I couldn't see anyone at all. But at the same time you felt welcomed. I felt protected in that moment from the car crash. There it was as if... they put me in a capsule, took me out of there and let me float. But did you lose that sense of protection as you went up? Yeah... I was safe, I didn't need protection anymore. I knew where I was, though I didn't know where I was going.”7:58

“I started to suffocate and I knew I was dying. But here's the strangest part. I didn't feel fear. As I watched people around me panic, a heavy calm settled over me. Everything went quiet. It was like time slowed down just for me. I looked around fully aware and began to make peace with what was coming. Then the ambulance arrived. They lifted me in and the moment those doors shut behind me, I died. I left my body. I could see it, but I was no longer attached to it. There was no pain, no panic, just”11:36