NDE life reviews are nonjudgmental

Harold R. Nelson, former Chaplain Emeritus of the University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona, explains that an NDE life review “involves a panoramic visual, detailed presentation of one’s entire life. Good deeds, as well as selfish deeds, are flashed back. The review is non-judgmental. The emphasis is on taking advantage of opportunities to love others and acquire knowledge.” Nelson affirms: "In my ministry and studies, I have come to believe that the near-death experience prepares us not only to die but to life live to the fullest until we say good-bye." {HR}

Cardiologist Pim van Lommel reports that: “Patients survey their whole life in one glance; time and space do not seem to exist during such an experience (nonlocality). Instantaneously, they are where they concentrate upon, and they can talk for hours about the content of the life review even though the resuscitation only took minutes. This panoramic review of one’s life seems to contain all the conscious and unconscious aspects or the essence of one’s self in constant and instantaneous connection with the consciousness of others.” [AS, 23]

Not only did I perceive everything from my own viewpoint, but I also knew the thoughts of everyone involved in the event, as if I had their thoughts within me. This meant that I perceived not only what I had done or thought, but even in what way it had influenced others, as if I saw things with all-seeing eyes. And so, even your thoughts are apparently not wiped out. Time and distance seemed not to exist. I was in all places at the same time. [AS, 23]

Radiation oncologist Jeffrey Long reports on data collected by the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation. I saw every important event that had ever happened in my life, from my first birthday to my first kiss to fights with my parents. I saw how selfish I was and how I would give anything to go back and change. {EA, 13}

I went into a dark place with nothing around me, but I wasn’t scared. It was really peaceful there. I then began to see my whole life unfolding before me like a film projected on a screen, from babyhood to adult life. It was so real! I was looking at myself, but better than a 3-D movie as I was also capable of sensing the feelings of the persons I had interacted with through the years. I could feel the good and bad emotions I made them go through. I was also capable of seeing that the better I made them feel, and the better the emotions they had because of me, [the more] credit (karma) and that the bad [emotions] would take some of it back . . . just like a bank account, but here it was like a karma account to my knowledge. {EA, 111}

My entire consciousness seemed to be in my head. Then I started seeing pictures. I think they were in color. It was as if someone had started a movie of myself and of my entire life, but going backwards from the present moment. The pictures were about my family, my mother, other members, others, and it seemed that the most meaningful, loving, caring relationships were being focused upon. I could sense the real meaning of these relationships. I had a sense of love and gratitude towards the persons appearing in my flashback. This panoramic review of my life was very distinct; every little detail of the incidents, relationships, was there—the relationships in some sort of distilled essence of meaning. The review was measured in the beginning, but then the pictures came in faster and faster, and [it] seemed like the movie reel was running out . . .. It went faster and faster, and then I heard myself, along with the entire universe in my head, screaming in a crescendo, ‘Allah ho akbar!’ (God is great). {EA, 48-49}

“The NDERF survey asked, ‘Did you experience a review of past events in your life?’ To that question, 22.2 percent of NDErs answered ‘Yes.’” {EA, 14}

HR - Harold R. Nelson, The Near Death Experience: Observations and Reflections from a Retired Chaplain, 002234090005400205.pdf

AS - “Near-Death Experiences: The Experience of the Self as Real and Not as an Illusion,” Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci. ISSN 0077-8923, 1234 (2011) 19–28, http://pimvanlommel.nl/files/NDE-NYAS-Experience-Self-article.pdf

EA – Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences (2010)