Biblical Concerns [4021, 4077]

4021
IANDS 455 Radiating Warmth 2008
13
Suggestive Evidence
9
Low Compatibility
psychic abilities, seeing spirits, mediumship, Reiki
This experience contains some biblical elements overshadowed by significant non-biblical practices and beliefs. The positive aspects include the bright white light that could represent divine presence, the life review which has some biblical precedent in judgment concepts, and the initial transformative impact. The out-of-body experience and encountering beings in the spiritual realm have biblical parallels. However, the problematic elements are substantial. The subject developed and embraced psychic abilities including seeing spirits, communicating with the dead (mediumship), and precognition, all of which are condemned in scripture as divination and necromancy (Deuteronomy 18:10-12). The practice of Reiki is an occult energy healing method incompatible with biblical Christianity. The subject's current work involves channeling spirits and energy manipulation rather than prayer or faith in God. While the subject mentions being "blessed by the power greater than any of us," there's no specific reference to the biblical God or Jesus. The emphasis on reincarnation preparation ("prepare for another incarnation") directly contradicts biblical teaching about resurrection and eternal life. The overall trajectory led toward New Age and occult practices rather than biblical faith.
At age 16, the subject was in an accident with a school bus. After impact, they felt themselves outside the car looking in, observing people running toward the accident and a man trying to save another victim. They began rising above the scene and floated past a traffic signal that wasn't installed until the following week. They felt warmth radiating from above and to the left, discovering they had no physical body. A beautiful bright white light drew them upward. During the ascent, they experienced a complete life review where they saw and understood everything that had happened in their life without judgment. They felt immense love and electricity, swimming in bliss. Five shadows approached and stopped, communicating through "thought talk" to discuss whether the subject could continue. They determined it "wasn't their time" despite the subject's pleas to stay. One shadow lingered to convey there was more for them to do. The subject awoke after two weeks in a coma, unable to speak for a week. Upon recovery, they developed numerous psychic abilities including precognition about deaths, thought reading, seeing spirits, and prophetic dreams. They turned to alcohol and drugs to suppress these abilities but has been sober for two years. They now work as a massage therapist and Reiki practitioner, helping others heal.