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Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour is an actress most noted for the cult classic movie "Somewhere
in Time" with actor Christopher Reeves and the television series "Dr.
Quinn, Medicine Woman." When Jane Seymour was 36 years, she had a
severe flu and was given an injection of penicillin which she suffered
an allergic reaction as well as a near-death experience.
"I literally left my body. I had this feeling that I could see myself
on the bed, with people grouped around me. I remember them all trying to
resuscitate me. I was above them, in the corner of the room looking down.
I saw people putting needles in me, trying to hold me down, doing things.
I remember my whole life flashing before my eyes, but I wasn’t thinking
about winning Emmys or anything like that. The only thing I cared about
was that I wanted to live because I did not want anyone else looking after
my children. I was floating up there thinking, ‘No, I don’t want to die.
I’m not ready to leave my kids.’ And that was when I said to God, "If
you’re there, God, if you really exist and I survive, I will never take
your name in vain again.’ Although I believe that I ‘died’ for about thirty
seconds, I can remember pleading with the doctor to bring me back. I was
determined I wasn’t going to die."
She then suddenly found herself back in her body.
Robert Pastorelli
Robert Pastoreeli is most noted for his starring role in the television
series "Murphy Brown". At the age of 19, had a car accident which
caused a near-death experience which literally changed how he was living,
in a very dramatic way.
"It smashed right into the driver’s door. It hit me so hard it actually
knocked the shoes off my feet. My car rolled over about four times on this
big highway and the next thing I knew I was in intensive care with a collapsed
lung. Every one of my ribs was shattered. I had lacerations to my head
and face, and my kidneys, spleen and gall bladder were all ruptured. I
was a mess.
"I was in excruciating pain. Then, in the next second, there was no
pain. Suddenly I realized I was out of my body. I was floating above myself,
looking down at my unconscious body lying in the hospital emergency room
with my eyes closed. I could see tubes down my nose and throat. I knew
I was dying and I thought, ‘Well, this must be death.’ I even saw a priest
giving me the last rites. But it was the most peaceful feeling in the world.
Then I saw my father starting to faint out of grief. Two nurses grabbed
him and sat him down in a chair across the room.
"When I looked down and saw my father’s pain it had an effect on me.
I firmly believe that at that moment I mad a decision to live, not die.
The next thing I knew I was waking up back in my body. Later, in the recovery
room, when I was fully conscious, I told my father what had happened, his
fainting and all. He was astounded."
Donald Sutherland
Donald Sutherland, who played the character Hawkeye Piece in the movie
version of "Mash", had a near-death experience when ill with
meningitis in 1979.
"Suddenly the pain, fever and acute distress seemed to evaporate.
I was floating above my body, surrounded by soft blue light. I began to
glide down a long tunnel, away from the bed … but suddenly I found myself
back in my body. The doctors told me later that I had actually died for
a time."
Eric Estrada
Eric Estrada became famous for his starring role in the television series
"Chips." While filming an episode of Chips, he had a terrible
motorcycle accident that led to a near-death experience.
"Suddenly I was in a long corridor with bright lights, beautiful music,
and a feeling of great peace. But something seemed to be blocking my progress.
A voice told me, ‘You’ve got to go back. You’ve a lot still to do. You’ve
achieved success and stardom but you haven’t achieved personal happiness
and peace of mind."
After hearing the voice he returned to his body.
Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman, of "Dallas" and "I Dream of Jeanie" fame,
underwent a liver transplant in 1995. Years of heavy drinking resulted
in cirrhosis and cancer of the liver. He was only weeks away from certain
death at the time of his liver transplant and near-death experience. Larry
describes what he experienced:
"I was able to look over the edge. I got a little glimpse of what
was the next step. I didn't see a light some people see, but I had a wonderful
feeling of bliss and warmth. The bottom line is "Love" that sounds
corny, but it was just lovely, uplifting."
George Lucas
George Lucas is the creator of the blockbuster movie "Star Wars".
Lucas is not conscious of having a near-death experience, yet he behaves
as if he'd had one. As a youngster, Lucas was considered a punk-a non-achiever,
romantic, unathletic, unassertive, and not studious. According to his father,
he was good at only two things: cruising and hanging out. Wanting to race
cars seemed to be his only ambition. Then, three days before he was to
graduate from high school, without warning or advance-behavior cues, Lucas
was involved in a spectacular car crash. For three days he hung between
life and death and was hospitalized for two weeks more.
Today, Lucas’ father points to this time as a dramatic turnaround for George.
Even though he does not claim to have had a near-death experience, he went
on to display the typical aftereffects of one. He became very philosophical,
believing he had been saved for some special mission in life he had yet
to fulfill. He seemed imbued with a mysterious "force" and became
intensely goal-oriented, went to college, and later enrolled at the University
of Southern California's Film School, using what he had learned from his
experience to give the world another way to view God, spirituality, virtue,
and inner strength.
Rebecca DeMornay
Rebecca DeMornay starred in the movie thriller "The Hand That Rocks
The Cradle." When she was 7 years old, she was in Mexico City, Mexico
when she got ill from a peptic ulcer and had what she believes was a near-death
experiences.
"One night the doctors told my mother that there was only a fifty-fifty
chance that I’d make it. I remember that I was tied to three IVs but I
recall getting out of bed and looking out of the window: it was snowing.
There was an old-fashioned lamppost and barefoot children were dancing
around it, singing. I went back to bed and the next morning the crisis
was over. In 1983 I started thinking about it: ‘Does it ever snow in Mexico
City? Do they have these strange kind of lampposts there?’ I went back
to Mexico and I didn’t see those lampposts anywhere. Nor does it ever snow
there."
Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds, the star of "Smokey and the Bandit" and many other
movies, went into a coma when trying to kick a sleeping pill addiction.
He has stated that he had "the whole out-of-body experience."
Eric Roberts
Internationally renowned actor Eric Roberts has starred in more than 70
films including the Dannion Brinkley movie "Saved by the Light."
Eric has traveled all over the world encountering many colorful experiences...
one of Eric's most dramatic moments took place in Westport, Connecticut.
He was driving along, became distracted by his dog and crashed. He was
hospitalized in a coma and almost died. It was this state that Eric had
a surreal out of body experience.
Gary Busey
Gary Busey, once Hollywood’s "bad boy" was nominated for an Oscar
for the movie "The Buddy Holly Story". Busey, who fought addiction
with drugs and alcohol for several years, was nicknamed "Gary Abusey"
by his wife. Busey has had supernatural encounters in which he nearly died
three or more times in his life ... a drug overdose, cancer, and an accident
west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. But the most tragic experience, and one
that changed his life, was a motorcycle accident in 1988. Gary was going
about 40-50 miles per hour riding on 750 pounds of cold steel. He was not
wearing a helmet when he crashed. He was swung over the top of his cycle,
head first into the curb and he cracked his skull. During this time he
was unconscious, he had an angelic experience.
As a result of his near-death experience, he recently dedicated his life
to Jesus and has been a prominent speaker at many Christian Promise Keeper
rallies. He is no longer the "bad boy" of Hollywood anymore.
Lou Gossett Jr
Accomplished actor Lou Gossett Jr., famous for his role as a drill sergeant
in "An Officer and a Gentleman", has had five near death experiences.
Lou's most intriguing encounter occurred at the age of twelve. Playing
baseball he fell into a deep hole and experienced a brilliant tunnel of
light. He also recalls a past incarnation as a pirate with a harem off
the coast of Morrocco.
Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers was the comic genius behind such movies as "Dr. Strangelove"
and "The Pink Panther." In 1964, during the first of a rapid
series of eight heart attacks, when his heart stopped and he was clinically
dead, he had a near-death experience and saw the bright, loving light:
"Well, I felt myself leave my body. I just floated out of my physical
form and I saw them cart my body away to the hospital. I went with it ...
I wasn't frightened or anything like that because I was fine; and it was
my body that was in trouble.
"I looked around myself and I saw an incredibly beautiful bright loving
white light above me. I wanted to go to that white light more than anything.
I've never wanted anything more. I know there was love, real love, on the
other side of the light which was attracting me so much. It was kind and
loving and I remember thinking 'That's God'.
Peter's out-of-body soul tried to elevate itself toward the light, but
he fell short: "Then I saw a hand reach through the light. I tried
to touch it, to grab onto it, to clasp it so it could sweep me up and pull
me through it." But just then his heart began beating again, and at
that instant the hand's voice said: "It's not time. Go back and finish.
It's not time." As the hand receded he felt himself floating back
down to his body, waking up bitterly disappointed. You can read more about
his NDE by clicking here.
Louis Farrakhan
Louis Farrakhan is the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, an
extreme fundamentalist Muslim organization. Before his near-death experience,
Farrakhan referred to Jews as "bloodsuckers"; the Pope as the
"Anti-Christ" and a "no-good cracker"; white people
as being "demons"; gays as dying from AIDS because of God’s wrath
against the "sin" of homosexuality. His remarks were often filled
with hatred and racism.
Then, Farrakhan was diagnosed with colon cancer and almost died. After
having a near-death experience, Farrakhan claims he had discovered the
incredible depth of all human beings, and broadened his view of humanity.
He said he had also renewed his appreciation for universal love and understanding.
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