Visits from the Other Side: Light Beings

(Barbara H Whitfield RT) It appears that all the chaos in the world is building– pressuring us to “wake up.” This is being called “The Great Awakening.” 

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by Barbara H Whitfield RT, December 11th, 2020

As a consciousness researcher, I am hearing many new accounts of visitations from “The Other Side,” so I offer my own experiences below as a reminder that we are not alone and we are not crazy. We are multi-dimensional beings.  As this diagram below demonstrates, we are moving from 3D reality with the chaos moving us into 4D which is the doorway into 5D where we believe the Light Beings come from. (See Whitfield C, Whitfield B, Cabral C Dragon Energy: Myth and Reality, Muse House Press 2019)

(Notice 0D – before we were born—we come from God’s Light. Then God’s Light is in 5D – where we were in our Near-Death Experiences. I have heard many examples from healthcare providers of the Light being present during a birth. And the Light sometimes appears again during death, or transitioning people tell us of long deceased relatives being in the room to help them leave.)

I met Professor Kenneth Ring in the early 1980s. I had written him after reading an article in Omni Magazine describing his research on near-death experiences at the University of Connecticut. I didn’t tell him about mine in the first letter but did tell him about the ones my Emergency Room and ICU patients had told me about either as they were dying or when some of them came back from death’s door. They seemed to know I was safe to talk to or that I had had one, too.

After several letters back and forth, Ken told me he was going to be speaking at a conference just a few minutes from my home in South Florida and invited me to come.

A few days before I met him at this conference I went to the movies and saw Resurrection. I was totally overwhelmed by the story. Except for the cultural background, I was Ellen Burstyn’s character. 

After Ken gave his talk, he asked if anyone in the audience of about 80

people had had a near-death experience and no one raised their hand. He asked if Barbara Harris was in the audience and I sheepishly stood, shaking. And of course, he asked me if I could tell my experience. This was the first time I told it other than trying to tell a psychiatrist seven years earlier (and then I was told I was depressed and handed a prescription for antidepressants that I never took.)

As I spoke, the words seemed to come from somewhere else and I couldn’t look at the people turned around looking at me. I kept starring at Ken hoping that I wasn’t embarrassing him and dreading the silence when I was finished. At the same time I was reliving my experience as it actually happened. And finally when I was finished, there was the silence I had dreaded-then there was a loud clapping noise and everyone was smiling at me.

The last thing I had talked about was having seen the film Resurrection a few nights earlier and how the character’s energy helped others and how I felt “that” when I was working with dying people. Later, over a cup of coffee, Ken asked me to look up a word, a strange word I had barely heard before -and to write him and tell him what I thought. The word was “Kundalini.”

A few days later, a whole new world opened up for me when I stood in front of a book case in a store right across the street from my daughter’s dorm at the University of Florida. One shelf was filled with books on Kundalini. I bought Kundalini: Psychosis or Transcendence by Lee Sannella, an American Psychiatrist, another book by John White and Stalking the Wild Pendulum by Itzak Bentov. Bentov’s book resonated with me the most. He talked about the Physio-kundalini syndrome and I knew I had most of the signs and symptoms he described. (I go into great depth about this in my second book Spiritual Awakenings: Insights into the Near-Death Experience and Other Doorways to Our Soul Health Communications Inc. 1995)

Book Spiritual Awakenings: Insights of the Near-Death Experience and Other Doorways to Our Soul

The letters between Professor Kenneth Ring and I started flying between Storrs, Connecticut and Pembroke Pines, Florida. Finally, not being able to contain my enthusiasm any longer, I wrote Ken and asked him if I could come up there to talk with him again. And

he called to tell me that a letter from him was on its way (mailed the day earlier) inviting me up to the “near-death hotel” as his house was called in those days. It seems that many near-death experiencers had come to visit and tell him what they knew. And now he was writing his second book (Heading Toward Omega) stemming from our interviews.

Book Heading Toward Omega: In Search of the Meaning of the Near-Death Experience

We agreed that I would come up in a month and that’s when the visits

started. Late at night as I lay in bed thinking about all I was reading, two “Beings” would float into the room from the doorway. (No, they did not come through any walls!) They barely had a shape that wavered and radiated a low pulsating light. So I wouldn’t become terrified over this, I told myself it was my grandmother (who met me in the tunnel in my NDE) and my aunt who I had adored. They stayed near the bed for several minutes but I don’t really know how long because when they were with me it seemed like time stopped just like it did in my NDE. This went on every night for the whole month.

The day I was leaving, as I was packing I picked up a new book I had just bought by Itzak Bentov called A Cosmic Book on Creation. As I tossed it into my suit case, I saw the back cover for the first time and jumped because there was Bentov’s picture. He had died in the 70s in a plane crash. But that face was the same face I had seen over and over while meditating. He was trying to talk to me but the “transmission” was garbled. This was when my worry about losing my mind caught up with me. Between the visits at night with the Beings of Light and meditating with a man trying to talk to me-I came face to face with my fear of this all being psychotic. In Dr. Sannella’s book he was asking if this was “Psychosis or Transcendence” and I was asking the same thing.

At that moment I made up my mind that I was going to tell Ken, Dr. Ring, a professor of social psychology that I was seeing Bentov and if he told me I was crazy, I was going to turn around in the airport, get back on the next flight to Florida and put this all behind me.

When I landed and Ken was standing there waiting for me, I stuttered and stammered, “Ken, Bentov has been trying to talk to me in meditation!” 

Ken’s answer, rather dryly delivered was, “Bentov’s been seen all over Boston!”

(That’s where Bentov lived and worked with many scientists trying to prove his “Physio-Kundalini Hypothesis.)

Ken Ring’s near-death hotel was an incredibly picturesque converted mill on a bubbling brook. It was New England at its finest and also my first visit to New England.

As I crawled into bed that first evening, there they were. My two Beings of Light were with me. And they just stayed next to the bed until I fell asleep. And they were there all four nights. I looked forward to climbing under the covers and looking at them until I feel asleep because they gave me some kind of comfort I really needed. They settled down that voice in my head that kept asking me who I thought I was-this respiratory therapist who heard a few NDE and DE stories. Did that make me an important enough person to fly up to tell a professor what I thought I knew for a book about which I knew nothing!* 

My ego was relentless until I would look at my (now they were MY) two Light Beings and drift off to sleep.

When I came home they were gone. I knew they had served their purpose and needed to go on to someone else who needed their comfort.

Flash forward four years. I moved to Connecticut to become research

assistant to Bruce Greyson, MD at the University of Connecticut Medical School. We looked at the after effects of NDEs including the Kundalini Hypothesis. We collected stats that were significant and published them showing that there really is an Energy arousal in us after a “core” experience. That’s what Ken had called deep experiences. And these experiences are not exclusive to coming close to death. They can also be triggered by: childbirth, withdrawal from alcohol or drug dependence, loss of a loved one, psychedelics, severe trauma, spiritual sex, bottoming out from overwhelming loss, and intense moments of bliss (and probably other triggers that I haven’t heard yet.)

My Light Beings Return

One evening I was lecturing at a hospice just outside of Hartford. This audience was a group of hospice volunteers who are open and loving people. One of the questions thrown at me was about visitations from angels or other beings and I opened up and told them a lot of what I have just written above plus some amazing visitations that I have witnessed while sitting with someone who is dying or transitioning. 

A cold shiver ran up my spine as I remembered that a reporter from the Hartford Courant was in the audience. “Oh My God!” I thought. “I am going to be the laughing stock of the medical school. And not just me but my colleagues especially Dr. Greyson!” I walked out of this meeting in a cold sweat.

I got in my car and started to drive the hour it took to get to my house. I was clenching the steering wheel white-knuckled.  I looked in my rearview mirror on the verge of crying and there they were in my back seat-my two Light Beings. I couldn’t believe it so I pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway and stopped. I turned around and they weren’t there. I started driving again and when I checked my side-view mirror, they were glowing from the back seat. I looked in the rearview mirror and there they were. I started talking to them and laughing.

Finally, after telling them all my worries about bringing some kind of a shame to my boss and myself, I calmed down and told them I was feeling better. And within a few seconds after that, they were gone. I smiled for the rest of the ride telling myself we are never ever alone!

And by the way, the article in the Hartford Courant (and other affiliated newspapers across the country) came out a few days later and my talk at the hospice was never mentioned. And it was a great article!

*Kenneth Ring PhDs book Heading Toward Omega: In search of the meaning of the Near-Death Experience came out two years later, 1984 and I was a key subject in that book.

About The Authors

Barbara H Whitfield RT

The Whitfields have authored and co-authored 24 books on healing from trauma and other problems in living. Dr. Whitfield is a retired associate professor of medicine and psychiatry at two medical schools. Barbara was a medical school psych researcher studying the after-effects of near-death and other spiritually transformative experiences. They each taught at the Rutger’s Institute of Alcohol and Drug Studies for a total of 24 years. They have a private practice helping trauma survivors in individual and group psychotherapy.

Visit www.barbara-whitfield.com for more of their excellent work. 

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