You are cared for at every minute of your life, including just before your transition into the next life, what we call dying. But your transition is a special event, so the care you will receive will be more than you could imagine. In this video, I’m going to tell you what the Afterlife Research and Education Institute has learned from people living in the afterlife about what will happen to us when we go on into the next life.
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We have many hundreds of thousands of reports from people living in the afterlife about what happened when they made their transition to the next life. This is what they tell us.
There is a “Call” to Loved Ones
When the transition is expected, as at the end of long illness, there is a “call” to loved ones to come in the period leading up to the death of the body and at the time of the transition. Loved ones in the afterlife receive the call and come to be with the person in the days before the transition and are there to help at the moment of transition.
In the case of a sudden transition, there is no time for the call, so loved ones are not immediately with the person. But there are always “deliverers” who come to help the person make the adjustment.
Healers from the Other Side Revitalize the Spirit Energy to Help During the Lead-Up to the Transition
When the end of the Earth School experience is near, Our Universal Intelligence, or God, helps with movement into the next realm to aid us in the transition and revitalizes our spirit energy while the body is failing. During this period, “counselors” from the next life help the person make the adjustment.
Pre-death and Deathbed Visions Are Common
Everything we know about the afterlife tells us that Our Universal Intelligence has set up life so the transition into the next plane of eternal life is as easy as possible; the universe is filled with love and compassion. Pre-death visions are an example of that preparation for a gentle transition.
People who have been bedridden often talk of going on a trip shortly their bodies die. Then, as they are in the transition experience, they say they see long-dead loved ones who have come to take them away. They may hold conversations with them or reach for them.
Pre-death visions are visions of deceased loved ones that patients commonly have in the weeks before they transition. Deathbed visions are the visions dying patients have in the days or hours immediately preceding the transition. Both help the person prepare for the transition. One estimate is that they occur in 25 percent of people’s transitions to the next life.[i]
Dr. Diane Komp, a Yale pediatric oncologist, described a 7-year-old girl who sat up in bed just before her death from leukemia and told her parents that beautiful angels were singing to her. A boy dying of leukemia said that God spoke to him and that he asked God to live another year so he could explain his death to his 3-year-old brother. Amazingly, against medical odds, the boy lived one more year.[ii]
In 1959 Karlis Osis, PhD, psychology professor at the University of Freiburg, and Erlendur Haraldsson, PhD, psychology professor at the University of Munich, studied deathbed visions in the U.S. and India. They found that some transitioning people reported seeing angels and other religious figures, but most reported seeing familiar deceased people who often communicate that they have come to help take them away. The transitioning person’s mood and health often change when they have such a vision. During these visions, a once depressed or pain-riddled person is elated and relieved of pain.[iii]
The deathbed visions were not due to any medical or psychological influences. They could be explained only as visions of loved ones in spirit helping the transitioning person through the transition process.
Deathbed visions are consistently of people the person knows, are clear and rational, contain wonderful, uplifting messages. They are always calm and never disturbing. Studies of the visions have shown that the visions are not related to the hallucinations that drugs, fever, and certain illnesses can produce; drugs and fever may even inhibit rather than generate the deathbed visions.[iv]
These experiences are evidence that people whose bodies had died come to greet the person about to make their own transition away from the body. The gesture is another demonstration that the transition from the body is a life event planned carefully by all involved. It is the birth into the next stage of the person’s life.
[i] C. A. Moore, “The unseen realm: Science is making room for near-death experiences beyond this world,” Desert Morning News, February 18, 2006.
[ii] Diane M. Komp, A Window to Heaven: When Children See Life in Death (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing, 1992).
[iii] Karlis Osis and Erlendur Haraldsson, At the Hour of Death (Norwalk, CT: Hastings House, 1997).
[iv] Osis, At the Hour of Death.
People May Recover Briefly and Talk Lucidly before Passing
Patients with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders who have not been lucid, perhaps for months, may suddenly regain their normal conscious self just before their transition and have wonderful conversations with loved ones. It is called “terminal lucidity.” Their moods are upbeat and they speak with vitality. In many cases their brain has deteriorated so much that having a conversation is impossible. But our minds are not in our brains, so people about to make the transition to the next life are able to have periods with free, clear, lucid conversations even when their brains have deteriorated. Their deteriorated brains don’t affect the eternal person they are. They just have the condition as part of the role they’re playing on Earth, much like being an actor in a play. They don’t realize it, of course. But their minds are clear and healthy, just blocked by the role they’re playing.
When Might I Experience Glimpses of the Afterlife Before the Transition?
It is very common for people about to make the transition to describe seeing wonderful scenes that are enthralling and uplifting for them just before they make the transition.
People making the transition often describe having glimpses of beautiful landscapes and hearing music and choruses singing, as though a curtain were gradually opening. In her eulogy for Steve Jobs, his sister described his last words:
Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them. Steve’s final words were:
OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.[i]
Thomas Alva Edison, the inventor and businessman famous for his work on electricity, sound recording, and motion pictures, opened his eyes shortly before his transition and said “It is very beautiful over there.”[ii]
[i] Mona Simpson, “A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs,” The New York Times, October 30, 2011.
[ii] Neil Baldwin, Edison: Inventing the Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Will I Be Given Help leading up to the Transition?
All people are given help after the transition. They are met by loved ones, acquaintances, counselors, or others who will help them.
In the period after the transition, some people are bewildered and must become accustomed to the new reality. Loved ones provide perspectives for the newly arrived person and help that person understand the realities of the afterlife.
In most cases the person is greeted by a loved one or acquaintance. Such was the case with a priest named Edwin who transitioned. He explained that when he arrived in the next realm he was joined by another priest, whose body had died some years before. The priest in the afterlife greeted him as an old friend, saying he was happy to see Edwin there. He said they were both “too jolly, too happy, too carefree, and too natural.”[i]
[i] Borgia, Life in the World Unseen, 125.
What Will My Experiences Be If My Body Dies Suddenly?
The experiences when a person’s body dies suddenly are different from those of someone who has been ill for a while. The person may go on with what they were doing before their bodies died, unaware they are not in their body. They may be bewildered at the change in conditions, not realizing what has happened. It may be awhile before loved ones come because the transition was not expected.
People who transition suddenly and unexpectedly in the prime of life typically describe transitions that are a little different from those who transition after a period of illness.
The natural death for most people is typically followed by a “sleep” but when there is a sudden death, the person is most often awake and alert almost at once after leaving the body. They may be confused. But they are received by what we might call “angels” or “helpers” who explain to them what has happened and help them go on to meet their loved ones already in the afterlife.
Often, people who transition suddenly continue with their activities in the moments after transitioning. They may watch events unfold around their lifeless bodies. Finally someone comes to help them understand that they have transitioned out of the body. It could be a loved one, an acquaintance whom they knew had passed, or a helper who has accepted the role of helping people who are confused when they cross into the next stage of life.
A World War I soldier named Alf Pritchett speaking from the afterlife said just before his body died, he was running toward the enemy on the battlefield but noticing that the enemy was running past him, as though they couldn’t see him. It wasn’t until some time later that he realized he had been killed suddenly, most likely in an explosion, but was still running on the battlefield as the spirit person. His physical body was lying dead on the battlefield somewhere, but everything else—his Mind, personality, and memories—was exactly the same.[i]
We have recordings of this soldier speaking on seekreality.com.
[i] “The Alfred Pritchett séance,” Leslie Flint Trust, November 4, 1960, https://www.leslieflint.com/alfred-pritchett.
We know more about the transition to the next life than people have ever known. We have many hundreds of thousands of communications from people now living in the afterlife. They tell us without doubt that the transition is easy and painless. You needn’t worry about the transition to the next life. You will have a wonderful reunion with the people and pets you love.
