David Ditchfield
Man is caught in a train accident and experiences the other side
David is speaking to his friend Anna as she gets on a train and is ready to depart
as the train door closes, David’s shirt gets caught in it and he is pulled along as the train leaves the station
he was dragged by the train for about 13 seconds until he detached from it and laid under the train until it finished passing by him, he had sustained major damage
as he laid down on the tracks he looked up at the sky and felt a real connection with nature and a joy that he had survived
he was losing copious amounts of blood, but the paramedics arrived quickly and brought him into an ambulance
they arrived at the Adam Brooks hospital and started working on him
he heard fear in their voices
his family came and were highly worried about what had happened
Anna comes to the hospital and couldn’t believe he was alive and as she was speaking, he began leaving his body
all the trauma and pain were left behind with his body and he went to a beautiful, darkened space that he says was not foreboding but comforting
he looks around and sees orbs of color that were slowly pulsating around him
he figures at this point that he hadn’t survived and that he had died
he didn’t try coming back unlike others who often feel as though they need to go back for their kids or some other reason
he didn’t want to die but because of what he’d just been through it was great to be in this sense of calmness and feel good
he was no longer laying on a hospital trolly but instead on a huge rock that was like a big slate or medieval altar
he checked his body for injuries, but everything was back in place and there were no scratches
he was covered in a satin blue sheet with a white light reflecting off it
he looked up and saw 3 grids of white light that were coming down over his head
he laid back and put his head back and looked into the light
the light was so intense and bright that you normally wouldn’t be able to look at it, but in this sphere, he was unable to look away from it
the intensity of the light was pure and healing, it felt as though something good was coming from it, so he allowed himself to bathe in it
at this point he feels the presence of someone near him
he lifts his head slightly and at his feet to the right of him he sees someone with white/blonde hair and skin that was glowing light from within
he felt as if he had known this person and spoke to them asking how he knew them
the being looked back at him and just kept smiling and reassuring him
he felt safe and guarded from them
he decides to lay back and just bask in this glory and after a bit he feels the presence of someone else arrive
there were 2 female forms on either side of him with their hands over his body
he felt energy coming from their hands and it was really powerful, he says he felt love coming from their hands
it was causing a vibration to go throughout his body that was sending energy throughout, it was healing his body and soul
all the years of baggage he’d been carrying with him over the years were slowly being peeled off one by one
they were getting him down to the pure essence of his soul and healing that
it was a wonderful feeling and nothing he had ever come close to feeling before
he decided to accept it and after a bit began thinking about his family and how they were doing
he knew they were distressed so he tried moving over the rock and looking over the left of it
he looked down and didn’t see his family, but he did see a remarkable sight that looked like a huge waterfall of stars the size of Niagara Falls
shooting stars were falling through the middle and the further he looked down the more his gaze opened up
he felt like he was looking into one galaxy and then another, then into infinity
he was seeing colors and nebulas and images he had never seen before in his life
he understood right away that he wasn’t in some dark place but in the universe itself and a part of it, it energized him which excited him
he describes the experience as being ultra-real, has stayed with him completely
there was no sense of time, no past and future, only the present moment
being in the present moment was fantastic and he realized that all the years prior to this experience he had always been lost in the past and worrying about the future
as he laid back and was continuing to be healed, he felt the energy coming from the people’s hands intensify tenfold
he decides to lift his head and see what’s going on, he saw a huge tunnel of white light come closer to him from behind the beings
there were flames circling around the tunnel with the same whiteness that was in the grids but a lot more powerful and intense
the energy coming from it was causing every molecule in his body to vibrate with love and happiness
he knew at this point that what he was looking at was the source of all creation, God
it wasn’t the image of God that he had always been used to
he put his head back and was laughing to himself because of the profoundness of the experience
at this point he came rushing straight back into his body
pain shot through his body and the light in the room was unbearable, the noise in the room was overkill
he was still in the emergency department, and they were busy trying to save him
there was blood all over the floor and the doctors were almost slipping on it, the situation was desperate
they took him into the operating room and operated on him
after the experience he was afraid he would forget about the experience and thought everyone had to know about it, he had never heard of near-death experiences before
he told his sister first and she was fascinated by the story
she noticed a change, suddenly after years of drinking he seemed to be released from all of that and was giving out a lovely peaceful glow
after a week he told his parents which he was worried about
they were Christian and he thought it might not jive with what they knew
after listening to him tell the story his mother told him she knew
whenever they came in to visit, they always noticed how he seemed to radiate this glowing light and give out all this care and love to all the nurses and friends around him despite the absolutely harrowing circumstance and situation he was in
he told his friends about it as they came to visit him and everyone seemed to get it, one of them said he seemed quite animated
he felt that during this time he still had his connection to the other side, and that they were still healing him
he wasn’t disappointed to come back and wondered what his mission was and why he was sent back despite never making any decision to come back, he was filled with love and excitement
since then, he has spoken to other people who had NDE’s and noted how it was the same for all of them afterwards
they often come back from that realm filled with unconditional love and then have trouble moving back into society and maintaining the same state while also accepting that not everyone else was going to get it
he ended up getting depression afterwards because he realized it was impossible for him to fit into the world with all the love he wanted to give out
he was also dealing with PTSD after the train accident but despite all that the experience never left him and he felt as if he needed to document all this somehow just in case he forgot
he decided to start drawing and painting
as he was painting the scene that he had seen, he felt like he was channeling something from somewhere else that was helping him to paint
the painting:
after he came back, he stopped acting and trying to be someone else due to what he understood from the other realm
he realized that once you stop acting your best will come through you
a while later he began going to spiritual healers and during one of his healings the person said he was going to write a piece of music about his experience
he knew nothing about classical music and had no training
he decided to go home and started writing music on a cheap synthesizer, much like his painting it became something larger than him
it eventually evolved into something he felt could be played by an orchestra
he named his symphony The Divine Light
one of the people who used to see him paint talked to him, and he told her about the music he was making
it was synchronistic and she told him that she was a cello player
she told him that they were in an orchestra and that perhaps they could perform it some day
it caused doors to open and before he knew it the song he wrote was being performed to a sellout audience and a standing ovation