I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.
And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.
Near-death experiences release a lot of endorphins, resulting in a natural high," Tod whispered. "And it's totally true that one passion feeds another." "You know we're way past 'near-death', right?" "My endorphins aren't listening to you.
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.
Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.
One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.
My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.
Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
The craziest thing I've done getting over love is skydiving. I had a really upsetting breakup. When I broke up with my boyfriend I needed to like do something different and so I actually went skydiving to turn over a new page.
You look tired." "Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me . . .
I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.
It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.