Passage through a dark channel toward a source of light
Passage through or awareness of a tunnel, typically described as moving through a dark channel toward a source of light. One of the most recognizable elements of the classic NDE in popular culture, though it appears less often in these accounts than media representations might suggest.
The nearly identical broad and strict numbers indicate that whenever it was mentioned, it was described with specificity. Appears exclusively within the NDE accounts.
It's not a guy with a beard on top of the Vatican ceiling in Rome. It's this huge tunnel of white light. The energy coming from that felt like every part of my body was just vibrating throughout from this energy of love.
You bypass the tunnel of white light. You bypass the handlers. You bypass those who give you the life review. You bypass all of that structure with the karmic lessons and you're free.
Don't be afraid to meet your inner suffering. And as I was sitting in the most inner suffering you could imagine at that time, it was a good advice — the anger, the frustration, the dryness... went through the body like a physical sensation — that I later learned is joy.
My consciousness, my awareness, my being went out the back of my heart in a tunnel that was so fast, but so peaceful, so held, and my awareness arrived in an entirely new place.
First-hand accounts from people who described this experience, drawn from the interviews in this collection:
Peter Panagore was an outdoorsman, first responder, and later ordained clergy who suffered severe hypothermia during an ice climbing expedit…
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Watch interview →David was a working-class man from the UK struggling with dyslexia, financial hardship, and a deep identity crisis before being dragged unde…
Watch interview →Tammy Lee Anderson was born stillborn and had two near-death experiences in infancy, then a third at age 23 during a fasting episode in the …
Watch interview →Bronwyn Esther was a prominent British model and BBC announcer who had a series of spiritual experiences from childhood onward, culminating …
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