Angels-NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

Dr. Raymond A. Moody, in his well-known book Life After Life, writes
that the most common element in the accounts of near-death experiences
he has studied is the encounter with a light of unearthly brilliance.
He writes, “Despite the light’s unusual manifestation, however,
not one person has expressed any doubt whatsoever that it was a being,
a being of light. . . . The love and the warmth which emanate from this
being to the dying person are utterly beyond words, and he feels completely
surrounded by it and taken up in it, completely at ease and
accepted in the presence of this being.” Moody says the being of light is
seen differently depending upon the person’s religious beliefs or background
and training.

Some see this being as Christ, others as an angel

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Dannion Brinkley, modern author of the book Saved by the Light, a
story of his own near-death experiences, writes of his out-of-body journey
toward a brilliant light when he died after being struck by lightning.
Brinkley writes, “I looked to my right and could see a silver form
appearing like a silhouette through the mist. As it approached I began
to feel a deep sense of love that encompassed all of the meanings of
the word. It was as though I were seeing a lover, a mother, a best
friend, multiplied a thousandfold. As the Being of Light came closer,
these feelings of love intensified until they became almost too pleasurable
to withstand.”
Interestingly enough, angels are more often noted in the neardeath
experiences of children than in those of adults. In an interview
published in Angels: The Mysterious Messengers, Melvin Morse notes
that whereas angels were reported in only ten to twenty percent of
adult near-death experience veterans, children brought back from
death reported encounters with angels between sixty and seventy percent
of the time. In the same interview, Morse observed, “It’s almost as
if children have some sort of special relationship with angels, and you
hear these kinds of angel experiences coming again and again and
again” (p. 223). This is even the case among children with no religious
training. Morse also notes that, in comparison with children,
adults who survive life-threatening situations—situations that are not
technically near-death experiences—more frequently report experiences
that are regarded as encounters with guardian angels.