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Carole's Near-Death Experience as told on Canada's Broadcasting Network
The Camilla Scott Show Live on Tape -- From Victim to Survivor and Thriver: Carole's Story
We watched the first three guests on the TV monitor. The first young woman was a recovering drug addict. She had lived a painful life before her near-death experience. She was a mother of two and had given up her children because of her addiction. She said she wanted a better life for them than she was capable of giving them. She said that she knew she had wanted to die. Then one night, without being on any drugs, she accidentally fell off a balcony. She had a profound near-death experience and after that never used drugs or alcohol again. She was working hard to get her life back together in a healthy way.
The next two guests were on together. They were a mother and her 15 year old daughter who had been in a terrible auto accident. Both told of their injuries. The young girl with scars over one eye had several plastic surgeries and a few more to go. They both had profound near-death experiences during the accident and again a few days after while in the Intensive Care Unit. While they were still talking, Carole was taken into the studio by an intern. I went into the green room and sat alone and watched her on the monitor.
The young woman host announced her by saying: Now meet Carole. She says she will never forget her near-death experience -- especially her conversation with God. Thank you for being here today.
Carole: Thanks for having me.
Host: When did you have your near-death experience?
“About 13 years ago.”
“How did it happen?”
“I was in a car with my friend. She was driving and the car started veering off the road and we were heading toward a telephone pole. All of a sudden everything went totally into slow motion. I saw the telephone pole coming at us. And thought I was going to die and said ‘Gee, life is kind of short but it was sweet.’ And a whole life review went past my eyes of different periods of my life. I saw myself as a young infant being taught to walk and various other images which I can’t remember now what they all were but it made total sense to me then -- my whole meaning of my life and what had happened in my life. Then, there was a very bright light -- the brightest white light you could imagine. You would think it would be blinding but I could look straight into it. I thought it was the most beautiful thing that I’d ever seen. And I realized that it was God and at first it looked like the face of Jesus and then I realized that suddenly it was someone like in a throne -- like God. And then I thought to myself, ‘Wait a minute, maybe this is female.’ The form kept sort of changing. And there were a lot of white bubbles around as angels. They were angels but not like you think of an angel with wings. They were just floating beautiful bubbles. And I had a voice in my head which was male and I remember thinking ‘that’s so interesting that God is male and female at the same time.’ But the message I got was, ‘Don’t worry about yourself. You’ll be fine. Help other people.’”
“So you’re seeing a God-like figure that seems to be changing before you. When you say you hear a voice, I mean-- get descript with us. What is it? Is it a low hollow voice -- is it your voice -- is it a familiar voice?”
“It wasn’t an audible voice. It was like -- psychic -- psychically put into my head. But it seemed male to me. But you couldn’t hear it. It was like a message was just beamed at me.”
“Now, did you remember all this as it was happening? Did you acknowledge it or was it after the fact?”
“Absolutely, I acknowledged it. Time seemed to stop for me. This all happened before we hit the pole. We actually knocked the telephone pole over which doesn’t usually happen. Your car ends up wrapped around the pole. We knocked the pole over. The car was completely crashed to where we were sitting. And we were not hurt at all.”
“What about the images of different events in your life?”
“I don’t really recall all of them. I remember learning to walk and they happened in a series of all different ages. But now I don’t remember what all the images were.”
“Did they have a message? Was it specific? I mean, was it all the times you were bad? Was it all the times you were...”
“No. It was more about the meaning of my life and why I was there in this life. What I’m to do. I didn’t have a very happy childhood so a lot of it made sense to me and it was okay. I was able to look at it and... It made sense to me now why these things happened.”
“Forgive everyone?”
The panel of guests all shook their head and said, “Yea.”
An audience member spoke next. “Hi, my question is to Carole. When you told your friends and family about this experience -- how did they start treating you after that?”
“I didn’t really tell a lot of people about this. First of all I was worried that people would think I was crazy. You know, you go around telling people you saw God and it doesn’t usually get received that well. And I also didn’t really know this was a near-death experience. I never considered it that. It was more of my life flashed before my eyes and I would describe that part to my friends. And I would ask, ‘Have you ever had that happen to you?’ And they’re like ‘No.” And I didn’t know to call it that till recently really when I started learning about what a near-death experience is. But the God part I left out. I had fear of people thinking I’m nuts.”
“You talk about here a near-death experience. Is it fair to call it a near-death experience if you’re not near death? The other three people here were in a coma and they said they had an out of body experience. For you this is a moment where your flashing before your life. Is there a difference between the two?”
“Well, I feel blessed that I am alive. I mean, to have knocked the telephone pole over and if anyone could see the car and I didn’t have a scratch on me. When we actually felt the car stop, we looked at each and thought are we actually still alive. I feel very blessed that I’m here. And almost, maybe I should have died but I really feel I have angels around me.
“So you all feel like it wasn’t your time? There’s a reason why you are here today. There’s a reason why we are all here today.”
An audience member asked, “It seems as though all the experiences so far have either involved head trauma or drugs and I was just wondering like as a general question to all of you-- your use of LSD or have you had any serious flashback before the near-death experience.”
Everyone on the panel answered, “I wasn’t on any type of drug when it happened.” Someone offered, “I’ve never taken drugs in my life.” And then a voice said, “I was sober ten months when the accident happened.”
The host asked, “Carole, are you afraid of dying?”
“Not at all, I think it is a beautiful and peaceful experience. I felt very loved and I mean I had fear at first and all fear was removed. And I just felt like, ‘Gosh. I really thought that I would be around longer” and I had more to accomplish. But I was not scared and its a very loving... you just feel love around you and no fear at all.”
Then they broke for several commercials. And then they introduced me…
We watched the first three guests on the TV monitor. The first young woman was a recovering drug addict. She had lived a painful life before her near-death experience. She was a mother of two and had given up her children because of her addiction. She said she wanted a better life for them than she was capable of giving them. She said that she knew she had wanted to die. Then one night, without being on any drugs, she accidentally fell off a balcony. She had a profound near-death experience and after that never used drugs or alcohol again. She was working hard to get her life back together in a healthy way.
The next two guests were on together. They were a mother and her 15 year old daughter who had been in a terrible auto accident. Both told of their injuries. The young girl with scars over one eye had several plastic surgeries and a few more to go. They both had profound near-death experiences during the accident and again a few days after while in the Intensive Care Unit. While they were still talking, Carole was taken into the studio by an intern. I went into the green room and sat alone and watched her on the monitor.
The young woman host announced her by saying: Now meet Carole. She says she will never forget her near-death experience -- especially her conversation with God. Thank you for being here today.
Carole: Thanks for having me.
Host: When did you have your near-death experience?
“About 13 years ago.”
“How did it happen?”
“I was in a car with my friend. She was driving and the car started veering off the road and we were heading toward a telephone pole. All of a sudden everything went totally into slow motion. I saw the telephone pole coming at us. And thought I was going to die and said ‘Gee, life is kind of short but it was sweet.’ And a whole life review went past my eyes of different periods of my life. I saw myself as a young infant being taught to walk and various other images which I can’t remember now what they all were but it made total sense to me then -- my whole meaning of my life and what had happened in my life. Then, there was a very bright light -- the brightest white light you could imagine. You would think it would be blinding but I could look straight into it. I thought it was the most beautiful thing that I’d ever seen. And I realized that it was God and at first it looked like the face of Jesus and then I realized that suddenly it was someone like in a throne -- like God. And then I thought to myself, ‘Wait a minute, maybe this is female.’ The form kept sort of changing. And there were a lot of white bubbles around as angels. They were angels but not like you think of an angel with wings. They were just floating beautiful bubbles. And I had a voice in my head which was male and I remember thinking ‘that’s so interesting that God is male and female at the same time.’ But the message I got was, ‘Don’t worry about yourself. You’ll be fine. Help other people.’”
“So you’re seeing a God-like figure that seems to be changing before you. When you say you hear a voice, I mean-- get descript with us. What is it? Is it a low hollow voice -- is it your voice -- is it a familiar voice?”
“It wasn’t an audible voice. It was like -- psychic -- psychically put into my head. But it seemed male to me. But you couldn’t hear it. It was like a message was just beamed at me.”
“Now, did you remember all this as it was happening? Did you acknowledge it or was it after the fact?”
“Absolutely, I acknowledged it. Time seemed to stop for me. This all happened before we hit the pole. We actually knocked the telephone pole over which doesn’t usually happen. Your car ends up wrapped around the pole. We knocked the pole over. The car was completely crashed to where we were sitting. And we were not hurt at all.”
“What about the images of different events in your life?”
“I don’t really recall all of them. I remember learning to walk and they happened in a series of all different ages. But now I don’t remember what all the images were.”
“Did they have a message? Was it specific? I mean, was it all the times you were bad? Was it all the times you were...”
“No. It was more about the meaning of my life and why I was there in this life. What I’m to do. I didn’t have a very happy childhood so a lot of it made sense to me and it was okay. I was able to look at it and... It made sense to me now why these things happened.”
“Forgive everyone?”
The panel of guests all shook their head and said, “Yea.”
An audience member spoke next. “Hi, my question is to Carole. When you told your friends and family about this experience -- how did they start treating you after that?”
“I didn’t really tell a lot of people about this. First of all I was worried that people would think I was crazy. You know, you go around telling people you saw God and it doesn’t usually get received that well. And I also didn’t really know this was a near-death experience. I never considered it that. It was more of my life flashed before my eyes and I would describe that part to my friends. And I would ask, ‘Have you ever had that happen to you?’ And they’re like ‘No.” And I didn’t know to call it that till recently really when I started learning about what a near-death experience is. But the God part I left out. I had fear of people thinking I’m nuts.”
“You talk about here a near-death experience. Is it fair to call it a near-death experience if you’re not near death? The other three people here were in a coma and they said they had an out of body experience. For you this is a moment where your flashing before your life. Is there a difference between the two?”
“Well, I feel blessed that I am alive. I mean, to have knocked the telephone pole over and if anyone could see the car and I didn’t have a scratch on me. When we actually felt the car stop, we looked at each and thought are we actually still alive. I feel very blessed that I’m here. And almost, maybe I should have died but I really feel I have angels around me.
“So you all feel like it wasn’t your time? There’s a reason why you are here today. There’s a reason why we are all here today.”
An audience member asked, “It seems as though all the experiences so far have either involved head trauma or drugs and I was just wondering like as a general question to all of you-- your use of LSD or have you had any serious flashback before the near-death experience.”
Everyone on the panel answered, “I wasn’t on any type of drug when it happened.” Someone offered, “I’ve never taken drugs in my life.” And then a voice said, “I was sober ten months when the accident happened.”
The host asked, “Carole, are you afraid of dying?”
“Not at all, I think it is a beautiful and peaceful experience. I felt very loved and I mean I had fear at first and all fear was removed. And I just felt like, ‘Gosh. I really thought that I would be around longer” and I had more to accomplish. But I was not scared and its a very loving... you just feel love around you and no fear at all.”
Then they broke for several commercials. And then they introduced me…
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Comment by Barbara Whitfield on September 22, 2010 at 7:25am
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One other comment:
I can feel Carole around me now. I believe she is back to help with this book.
I saw both the front and back cover on two separate nights at about 3 in the morning.Shortly after, my book designer made them exactly as I saw them. I had already written the chart a few years ago, but I saw it on the back cover in a reverie state. Carole was a graphic designer as well as a creative film editor. I know she designed the front and back and my book designer is just as talented so he was able to "pick it up."
And while we were working on the designing of the book, we heard from one of the leaders of a CDC Study that my husband Charlie collaborated on years ago. At the back of Carole's book I had placed the results (so far) of that study at the time I wrote the book. "Coincidently," this physician sent us the newest conclusions and we condensed them for a new appendix. It's called "The Adverse Childhood Experience" Study or ACE Study. Carole use to say that she was the "poster child" for that study. The bottom line is that for those of us that suffered several ACEs as children, the prospect 20, 30 and 40 years later is a number of diseases and unhealthy behaviors (smoking, drinking, dangerous sports, etc) that lead to early death. The conclusions also showed that consistent exercise and releasing some of the buried emotionally loaded memories (in psychotherapy, telling our story to safe others, etc) releases the hold the ACEs have on us. Carole knew this and some of her story is about her working to release her buried emotions around her abuse. The last conclusion from the ACE Study is that health care providers seem to want to treat only the presenting symptoms instead of going to the underlying cause. And so the investigators conclude that research needs to be done on why the health care "industry" is so resistant to treating underlying causes.
This will be understood in a clearer way when we read Carole's story.
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‘Don’t worry about yourself. You’ll be fine. Help other people.’”
That quote from Carole has stayed with me for the 11 years since she transitioned. She was only 34 and died suddenly.I transcribed the TV show we were on so I could tell her NDE in this book I wrote about her shortly after her death. I needed to put her amazing story down so I could stop going over and over it in my head. I also asked for guidance if I was to bring the story back out and share it. That was 11 years ago.
Now, a few days before the 11th anniversary of her passing (Sept 1), I had a powerful sign -- a CMPE that was processed by Robert Perry. It told me it was time to share Carole's gifts with others.
So now Carole is going to "Help other People" with her amazing story. She and I, two near-death experiencers who gave each other the love the way love was meant to be. Both of us are childhood abuse survivors and together we realize and experience forgiveness the way real forgiveness is meant to be -- it's not the head trip like we were taught about -- to believe in our heads that we must forgive others -- but a heart release where we let ourselves off the hook.
I wrote about Love Echoes in The Natural Soul. Like a yodeler's voice bouncing off of mountain tops -- a Love echo bounces off of people's Souls. That's what Carole's story is now. Her life is a love echo that will help others to heal like she did.
Carole is going to "Help other people" just like she did when she was here in a body.
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Comment by Robert Perry on September 22, 2010 at 3:42am -
Barbara, thank you so much for posting this. I had a strong response to the same part David talked about. Hearing that message at that moment is amazing.
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Comment by David Sunfellow on September 22, 2010 at 2:01am -
Thanks for sharing this, Barbara! I really liked what God told Carole: "Don’t worry about yourself. You’ll be fine. Help other people.” Good advice!
Your new book looks good. I especially liked the "Victim/Survivor/Thriver" chart you came up with. Hope you're doing well. You seem to be very busy, doing good things...
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