George had lived under the repressive communist regime in the Soviet Union, from
which he was about to escape, when he was killed in a hit-and-run accident. Orphaned,
adopted and orphaned again, George had been an exceptionally bright student,
graduating from the University of Moscow with a medical degree at the age of 19.
But he had been a dissident since his early teens, so the Soviet government had
refused his requests to travel to America. After he started a family, the
authorities, apparently convinced he would return, finally granted his request.
He was waiting for the cab that would take him to the airport when he saw a car
bearing down on him and soon found himself in a "darkness blacker than anything
a human eye can imagine."
George’s medical training did not prepare him for what he experienced next,
when he realized he was no longer in his body and could find no scientific
explanation for this. "I asked myself, how can I be when I don’t have a body?"
"How can I see when I don’t have eyes?" "How can I think when I don’t have a
brain?" George soon saw a light, but the fact that it appeared to be "outside
the darkness”confused him. "What was happening to me was impossible. My
beliefs were based on the laws of physics and concrete scientific facts, and
everything I was experiencing was contrary to everything I knew."
At first, George kept looking for a rational explanation for what he was
seeing and feeling and the light was no more comforting to him than the darkness
had been. Finally, he became part of the light and was filled with wave after
wave of "the purest form of love, above what our human minds can comprehend. "I
began to feel that what was happening to me was right. I belonged here and my
fear was leaving. I felt energized, but, at the same time, so peaceful, satisfied
beyond my wildest imagination."
George then understood that the light was knowledge and was being made
available to him. He asked to see his body. It was still under the car he had seen
coming towards him. He watched as his body was taken by ambulance to the hospital,
where surgeons tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate him. He watched his wife learn
that he had been killed and saw that everything would be alright with his family,
that they did not need him to continue their existence. "I did not feel sad anymore,
not to be in my body, I even looked at it and wondered how I could have lived there."
George traveled in spirit to other loved ones on earth, including his dearest
friend, whose wife was giving birth to their first child. It was there that George
was able not only to understand someone’s thoughts, but also to make himself
understood. The infant girl was crying uncontrollably, despite the doctor’s efforts
to comfort her, until George communicated to her to stop crying. "I asked her if
she understood me, and she communicated yes. I told her that they could not
understand her, and she let me know that her hip had twisted during her birth and
was broken. I told her I wished they would understand, but until they did, to cry
if it helped."
George learned many things during his spirit existence, he experienced a life
review, saw his birth and learned the circumstances of his parent’s death.
"When I was out of the body, I realized that time is not real, and I could not
understand the reason for measuring it." "I understood that it was Friday when I
was hit by the car and taken to the morgue. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday,
to comply with Soviet policies regarding unnatural death. It did not look good
that a bright young scientist with an American visa in his pocket was killed by a
hit-and-run driver."
It was during the very first stage of the autopsy that George suddenly returned
to his body. He felt no fear as he realized what was happening, just a fierce
determination to let them know he wasn’t dead. When he succeeded, the autopsy room
erupted in chaos. The procedure was halted, George’s heart was started, and he was
rushed to the hospital, where his recovery kept him for nine long months. However,
he regained his speech within three days of his return, and what he told his friends
and family was almost as shocking as the fact that he was there to say it.
"The first thing I did was ask my wife to bring my friend whose child I had
communicated with when I was out of the body. I told them why the child was crying
and asked them to have her X-rayed. They said it was impossible for me to even know
about this child, much less that something was wrong." Of course, the X-rays proved
him correct.
Even more unsettling for his wife was his ability to relate to her some of the
thoughts she had while he was dead. "She watched me from a distance for a year before
she could really accept what happened."
Much to the dismay of the Godless Soviet regime, George fearlessly began preaching
God’s word on radio and television, from the pulpit and wherever and whenever he could.
George’s work touched the lives of countless people at a time when belief in God was
repressed and tightly controlled. George soon attracted much unwanted government
attention and an attack left him with a bullet in the head. While in hiding, before
his family escaped, he was attacked again. During a miraculous moment one night, God
once again spared him from certain assassination. That night, face-to-face with armed
men he knew had come to kill him, George could do nothing but pray. "My eyes were
looking right into their eyes. I knew they were making eye contact with me. Though
only five feet away, the men were not allowed to see him, and much to his astonishment,
they simply walked away."
"I still think about this, says George, who is now a minister in Texas, I am
absolutely positive their eyes went through my eyes. This is an unanswered question
for me, another unexplainable moment when my life was spared."-- From Betty Eadie’s
book,"The Awakening Heart." Adapted and edited by L.Buhler.
Ed. Note:I know that we are all sent with a personal mission and that if we do
nothing foolish to end our lives prematurely, that guardian angels and our Heavenly
Father will preserve us until we are able to accomplish what we were sent here to do.
Sometimes, even when we do dangerous things, our guardians are able to prevent our
untimely deaths. For all the unseen, backstage hands that love and support us while
we are on the stage of life, we should give thanks. Too often we take credit for
coming up with bright ideas or super strength or capabilities in emergency
situations, when in actuality, we should be thanking God and not glorying in our
own abilities. The more spiritually aware one becomes, the more one acknowledges
God’s hand in all things.
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