Life review

And we have to feel the power of our decisions, the emotional impact on our fellow beings.

So if we lived a life handing out pain and suffering to others, we have to feel that in that life review.

But we have to feel it far more sharply than they felt it here in the material realm, which is a pale, dim reflection of that far more real and crisp world of that gateway realm, of the realm between lives, where we reunite with our higher souls.

And I also want to add that in the other realm, there's no judgment because there's nothing to judge.

But I would get up every morning and I would try to commune with spirit because I would allow my morphine and Percocet to dose down so that by morning or early morning, 3.33 exactly, I would have enough clarity to have spirit communication because the drugs kind of masked it and I didn't like that feeling.

So at that magic time, I was able to communicate with spirit and spirit helped me to realize and to develop this practice of gratitude that I practice every day now for the rest of my life.

Where I get up in the morning, I haven't even stepped out of bed yet and I start looking at kind of like a life review, but it's more of a more present review of where I am, the people in my life, what's going on, and I give thanks.

And so I started back with the cancer.

I'm Shawna.

Today, we're talking about near-death experiences, something researchers call the life review.

I've carried my father's story for a long time now, and the more I've learned about how common experiences like this are, the more I've understood it's not a strange exception.

It's a part of a pattern that shows up over and over, across cultures, across centuries, and people who haven't talked to each other.

And it doesn't stop at floating above the body.

A huge number of people who come back from these experiences describe a tunnel or a light and a presence connected to that light that feels... like it's alive or aware, feels like it's communicating with them, even without words.

Many describe something researchers call the life review, where the entire span of their life plays back.

Not like a movie they're watching from a distance, but something they feel from the inside.

He really loved me.

And, you know, as, as we're, we're staring at each other and going through my, my life review, we, we were really processing what it was like for me to, to come back, and yet it wasn't like it was an exchange of words.

It was more of like I had this memory of my great-grandmother having passed away.

And, you know, I had all my memories, so it, it wasn't, you know, like I didn't have them all.

here? Well, you had, you got this history of your family and, um, and let's see.

And then you encountered the light and, uh, And then, like a life review, what many people who've had NDEs describe, of course, there's not a whole lot to go over when you're that young, but you had an incident where you felt guilty, I think, about hitting your brother.

Oh, yeah, that.

You know, the thing I'd like to point out is it really bothers me back here on Earth when I hear religious leaders start talking about guilt and shame and and all these things, and we should be pleading for mercy from God and all that.

No, it comes out of near-death research.

It comes out of people who've had, um, significant life reviews.

And when we talked about those clever people that look for their shadows, and there are clever people who somebody said, "Can I play this again?" And they remember all of them, and then they ask their guide, "How is this important?"

Is there a specific case you can take me through? Either one that's, like, well-known that exists in media or one that you've personally worked with.

Almost as if that message, love is all that we take with us, we don't hold on to the negative in this place of light.

I saw the life review some places where I could be better.

And I was a little bit cliquish and judgmental.

I was proud of myself for getting into UT.

That was the main focus of how I was gonna change as if creator source wanted me to look at the beauty in people and their heart.

It's almost like our soul knows how to be, but we forget in our culture and we forget based on trying to feel special or trying to feel good about ourselves.

As I finished that life review, I ended up in this place.

It was full of greenery and beautiful grass.

So it's omnipresence, but it was still a personal point of view, so to speak, rather than taking in all the experiences of all the... beings that I've ever encountered so that it really felt like there were stages in this death experience like at the beginning it was disconnecting from my physical self and disconnecting from my ego disconnecting from the beliefs I held about myself coming to embrace myself and with embracing myself I also needed to embrace those people which I thought were harming me or which I didn't like or concepts which I had become familiar with which no longer made sense

The mention of having a life review, right, where you're seeing your life play out and then you're kind of seeing it from the other's perspective and how it affected them.

And then realizing that nothing is really negative, that it all leads to this positive outcome.

Do you remember a specific memory where you learned that?

Mm-hmm.

And we judge ourselves as we are watching a life review where-

Mm-hmm

... we get to see how our actions have affected everybody in our life just completed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And what happens is, uh, there are actually two life reviews.

One is the, the kind of a, a cursory life review that, that happens quickly, and then a more in-depth life review that happens after that.