It was eternity. It's like I was always there, and I will always be there, and that my existence on earth was just a brief instant. The physicist, David Bohm, said that the energy of the universe is not a neutral energy but an energy of love, and the near-death experiencer returns from his or her encounter with death, not just to confirm Bohm's intuition but to communicate it to others. This is the message that those who have already died have to give to those who are about to die. Studies have shown that the personal presence of near-death experiencers and the stories they have to tell have a direct effect on those dealing with or facing death.
Fear of death is reduced and feelings of comfort and peace are increased.
For these reasons, the near-death experiencer is an ideal midwife to those who are about to make the transition into death, for they have been there, and they know that what is coming is a glory that even a Dante would find himself powerless to describe. In consequence, all hospices, it seems to me, should desire to make use of near-death experiencers in their corps of volunteers. When we are born, we emerge out of the constriction of the womb and birth canal into the wondrous world of previously unimaginable and virtually unlimited sensory experience. And when we die, we go through a second birth, which may be even more difficult than the first, and leave the world we know for another that transcends anything we can conceive where we discover, finally, what it is to be alive. This is the the message those who have made the journey have to tell those who are about to undertake it.