After her near-death experience, Ms. Sharp could see or feel the presence of angels. "Yes, everybody has what we call guardian angels. And I see them in places where comfort is needed: hospitals, libraries. So sometimes the angels come to us because we need comfort, sometimes we need guidance, sometimes we need to be tripped and fall so that we learn how to get up on our own. They have assignments. It's fascinating. I love it." When Ms. Sharp had her near-death experience, she learned that the purpose of her life on Earth was to be of service to others. "Everything in terms of how to live one's life boils down to love, actually.There are many forms of love. Sometimes it's opening the door for someone who's struggling. Sometimes it's helping someone cross the street. Sometimes it's listening to someone very boring on the phone, but you're doing a kindness."

On today's show, Ms. Sharp explains some of the profound effects these near-death experiences had on her life. "When I came back, nothing made sense. And so, it's been very easy. So, another after effect of my near-death experience is that I understood death so well and I had no fear of it. So, I could be around people dying or their families or loved ones and be very calming and very sincere." According to one study, about 70% of the people who have had a near-death experience report meeting their loved ones who have already passed over. "But the effect it has on the near-death experiencers who have that experience is such peace because they know that they will be with their loved ones again. And so that ache and longing goes away. And they know that now at some point it will happen. And so that’s a comfort that is precious."

Ms. Sharp is the author of “After the Light: The Spiritual Path to Purpose,” and the Founder of Seattle International Association for Near-Death Studies. On today’s program, Ms. Sharp describes her own near-death experience, which occurred when she was a 22-year-old college student. “In the emergency room. I then found myself in another place entirely. And then something showed up. That “something” I don’t have words for. Many people would say God. Many people would say ‘source.’ For me, it was a big bright light. It was just thunderous power and a light brighter than our Sun, brighter than anything. And I realized everything in Heaven and Earth is alive. And it’s wonderful; it’s all energy. And I saw myself, if I chose to live, being of service to others. I went, ‘Cool!’ And I was back. It was like I’d made the decision.”

Where does that come from? Is the thought coming from the individual? So, an analogy I like to use is the Sun and clouds. So, the Sun being consciousness and clouds being our mental state or our brain, things that are blocking the rays of consciousness to come in. And when we do things like meditate or a near-death experience is maybe the best example where all the clouds go away. There are ways of removing clouds so that more rays of consciousness come in. But I think methods like meditation, sensory deprivation, yoga, these are ways to remove some of the clouds and then maybe we get a spark of creativity and we don't know where it came from, but it's kind of that ray of consciousness getting in.

Does consciousness exist beyond the body and brain? Mr. Gober has found considerable scientific and anecdotal evidence suggesting that consciousness exists beyond the brain. Perhaps the most compelling support comes from near-death experiences. “In the life review, the example of Dannion Brinkley, after he relived his life four times, he saw the pain that the inflicted and he saw the joy that he gave to people. So, when he came back from his near-death experience, his life changed dramatically. He was much less materialistic. He became a hospice volunteer. And he understands the accountability that we all have, that our actions matter beyond what happens in this body.”

On today’s program, we’ll hear from Mr. Mark Gober, author of “An End to Upside Down Thinking” and host of the new podcast, “Where is My Mind?” In addition, Mr. Gober is on the Board of Directors at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), a research center dedicated to exploring and expanding human capacity. “What is the relationship between the brain and consciousness? Does the brain create consciousness? Let’s think about the philosophical implications.” “And the thesis that I arrived at is it’s not that consciousness comes from the brain, but it’s the other way around. That consciousness is the basis of all reality existing beyond space and time. And the material world is an emergence or an experience within consciousness.”

Today we’ll hear some accounts of near-death experiences from renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Lloyd Rudy, interviewed by Dr. Michael Milligan, president of the American Academy for Oral Systemic Heath. And all of a sudden! Nobody spoke. Because everybody in that room felt a ‘presence.’ And he stopped bleeding just like that. What is your take on that, Dr. Rudy? Oh, there’s something out there that people with faith, believers, is there. Some people call it God, some people call it other things, Buddha, or (Prophet) Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him), or whoever. It has convinced me there is something out there.

Twelve-year-old Aviral Pokhrel of Nepal has an unusual ability. He can see colors and objects through his senses of touch and smell. I try to feel using my hands, and if I’m unable to identify things clearly with my hands, then I try to smell them. And based on their smell, I can tell what they are. Sometimes it just comes to me, then based on that I say what it is and it matches, too. And when we practice even more and more deeply, and go even deeper, we may be able to just hold a book in our hands, just shake it to even figure out what’s there on which page number of the book.

For centuries, reincarnation remained a mystery, leading to questions about human existence and the nature of previous lives. Nowadays, however, many individuals are coming forward to share detailed memories of their past lifetimes. Dr. Jim Tucker, a renowned past-life expert from the US, has recorded 2,500 cases of children remembering their previous incarnations. Oscar winner, AFI Life Achievement Award recipient, and legendary Hollywood actress Ms. Shirley MacLaine has long been sharing her past-life memories in media interviews, including on the TODAY show.

People who undergo near-death experiences realize that there’s a greater form of love than the worldly variety. You realize the importance of love, perhaps to a much greater degree than before. Quite often you don’t know how to set about it. Now the kind of love God’s looking for, that really teaches us is not the kind of self-development love, but it’s developing other people, helping other people and so forth. Whichever way you look at it, your consciousness, or your spirit continues after death, and that you will meet with God, in one way or another again. You will find that God is a God of Love, and that He is concerned for you as an individual, and that I think is the main message I would like to communicate.

Mr. lvan Rudolph is a world-renowned author whose latest book, “Living beyond: Making Sense of Near-Death Experiences,” details near-death experiences he compiled over 40 years, since hearing of his father’s case as a young child. (In) a real near-death experience, the body is left behind, and the spirit comes out of the body. And the spirit can see the body there and the medical people working on the body perhaps. If you go far enough in this experience, you go into what’s called a Life Review. During this Life Review, you can actually see other people’s thoughts. So, we tend to think we live a very private life inside our heads. But it’s not quite like that.

So, one of the first lessons in the search for God material is to learn how to cooperate with God. And I think that the Cayce information emphasizes the fact that we are really Divine emissaries. Mr. Kevin Todeschi often prays to the Divine for guidance on how he can be of service to others. Cayce recommended every morning getting up, and after your meditation, to sit there quiet and just become very centered and say aloud or quietly to yourself three times, “Lord, what would you have me do today?” And then listen. And from that you can get insights into what you should be about, what you should be doing.

Cayce would say dreams can give you insights into your physical health, your emotions, and your spirituality. Your dreams have your best interests at heart. They come from your Higher Self, your spiritual self. Cayce would say that people are always trying to get guidance, and that the subconscious mind, the superconscious mind is trying to give you guidance. All you have to do is watch your dreams. I think dreams can give us insight into things we need to work on for our own growth and development. We might get insight into things only our Divine Self knows about.

If we pay attention to our dreams, they can play a beneficial role in our lives. Mr. Kevin Todeschi tell us why. Dreams are important even if we don’t pay attention to them. So, for example, many people have had the experience where they go to bed and they’re anxious or they’re worried or they’re upset and they wake up feeling fine. And basically, what has happened is the dreams have contrasted and correlated the events of the day, and made some resolutions for you. And so subconsciously the process is helpful even if we don’t remember. But if we remember, then we can get insights into what it is our subconscious mind has figured out. And Cayce would say that you could get insights for everything, that your dreams can give you answers to anything.

He tells how, as his soul returned to Earth, he learned many lessons. I saw how people affected one another and how every tree and every plant and every butterfly and every bee, are souls or spirits and that they affect everything around them. If you’re filled with light and love and kindness and joy, then your love and kindness and joy are going to go around you like in a wave. Everybody is blending together into this plant that I call Earth. It’s almost like a plant. The Earth is just one being itself and we’re parts of it. People think of love kind of like a girlfriend, boyfriend, husband, wife, love, but it’s not like that. Love is our kindnesses towards one another.

He just wanted me to gather up my life review because I was going to go to be judged. And so, I followed him into a cloud room. And there were alcoves off to each side of the hallway. And inside of the hallway, there was a book, and it would stand out. And when you looked at the book, it would be the story of a butterfly, the story of a spider. It might be the story of a person, there whole life. And it would just open up in 3D. You’d just see it. It was like you were there, you’re experiencing it. But what I understood was that every beetle, every butterfly, every spider, every person, every tree has a book. I was led to my life and the place where my life story was opened up.

Dr. Johnson believes that besides being able to enhance creativity and heal, lucid dreams can be spiritual experiences. Lucid dreaming can bring us closer to God, or our own idea of the Divine. Another wonderful thing to try, if you can in a lucid dream, is to meditate. And that can bring you to these states of absolute oneness and bliss. And these states are very rejuvenating, because you wake up feeling doubly alive. So, there are some amazing journeys to be had in lucid dreaming, and everyone’s journey is slightly different.

Lucid dreaming is a technique whereby we recognize and actively participate in our dreams. I think whenever we have a recurring dream the dream is trying to tell us something. So, all dreams are useful, and all dreams come to help us and to heal us on some level. Even the worst nightmares, they’re like gifts. They’re gifts in perhaps nasty wrapping paper that make us feel scared. But if we unwrap the nightmare and discover its meaning, there’s often a message of wisdom in there for us that will help us with our lives.

Dr. Clare Johnson is a world-renowned lucid dream expert, President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams（IASD）. Dr. Clare Johnson has discovered that becoming lucid in dreams can stop nightmares, increase creativity, produce psychological healing, and have other benefits. It’s something that anyone can learn. And I realized this is what I want to do in my life. I want to study lucid dreaming. I want to find out about the possibilities, and I want to help other people to discover this wonderful state of consciousness. How touching it is to hear stories of people being helped by getting lucid in their dreams!

In recent years, Mr. Hellyer explains, extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth more and more frequently. They are concerned because they think our actions could affect the entire galaxy. The more advanced planets in our galaxy have formed a Galactic Federation. Having observed our Earth for thousands of years, they have a message for us. Extraterrestrials have been helping us for many years to advance our technology. One important discovery they want to share is “zero-point energy.” Yes, that is the energy that exists everywhere in the Cosmos.