Experiencing God as The One True Light

Near-death survivor P. M. H. Atwater writes: “The vast majority of adults in any country see God/Allah/Deity as a formless, shapeless brilliance so powerful and so strong and so magnificent that Its Beingness is felt as if a power voltage equivalent to 10,000 suns. You’re instantly ‘fried,’ yet there is no pain, nothing negative or hurtful. The present of this Light is associated with Deity. And this Light knows your name, knows all about you, can converse with you answer questions, and give guidance. There’s nothing this Light doesn’t know, especially the things you don’t.

"And this Light loves you and forgives you, but can be cryptic in the giving of mission and what next needs to be done to heal, help, and uplift self and others. You cannot fool this Light, nor can you hide or pretend in Its Presence. Other-worldly guides and guardians, angels and greeters of every strip, can appear, too, and ‘fill in the blanks’ for you if you missed anything.

“There is an undeniable electrical component to near-death experiences and the aftereffects that spring from them. Here’s a ‘for instance’: the electromagnetic field in and around experiencers alters afterward, with displays of electrical sensitivity becoming common place.

“Pardon me, but isn’t that what near-death, mystical, spiritual, and religious experiencers have claimed for centuries? That the Light of Enlightenment is actually, that, literally a waking up to the Light, an illumination of Light, a reunification with The One True Light. And there are groups, isms and schisms, that decree how people can reach such a state of enlightened knowingness. The rules are many, the pathways numerous, still, the goal is always the same . . . union with the source of your being . . . God!

“You know the Light is God. No one has to tell you. You know.

“You can no longer believe in God afterward, for belief implies doubt. There is no more doubt. None. You now know God. And you know that you know. And you’re never the same again.

“And you know who you are . . . a child of God, a cell in The Greater Body, and extension of The One Force, an expression from The One Mind. No more can you forget your identity, or deny or ignore or pretend it away.

“There is One, and you are of The One. One. The Light does this to you. It cradles your soul in the heart of its pulse-beat and fills you with love shine. And you melt away as the ‘you’ you think you are, reforming as the “YOU’ you really are, and you are reborn because at last you remember.

“Although not everyone speaks of God when they return from death’s door as I have here, the majority do. And almost to a person they begin to make references to oneness, allness, isnss as the directive presence behind and within and beyond all things.

“I’ve noticed that although God never changes, God is forever changing. As our perceptions alter, as personal experience trumps what we thought we knew, the name of God can and often does undergo a ‘make-over.’”

P. M. H. Atwater, Dying to Know You: Proof of God in the Near Death Experience (Rainbow Ridge Books, 2014), 9-12.