[Music] I was back in uh senior in high school actually and I was a beautiful sunny day and I was in a great mood uh just left school driving back in my little sports car so I was driving back and uh it's really funny because you always wonder sometimes how things unfold but uh I remember about a mile and a half before the accident scene I got this really strange gut feeling you know uh about something not so great was going to happen and I thought well maybe I should pull over the side of the
road but anyways like my hands were frozen on the wheel it's like no just keep driving and so that was strange I didn't think much of it except it was really weird it's like well something doesn't feel right uh but I can't seem to let go of the wheel so I kept driving and enough I got to this intersection that's on the main Highway 101 which is along the Oregon coast and this uh big old truck cross the center line and smashed into my sports car but what happened was as soon as the accident happened
it happened so quickly it just had a a flash of a second to barely register and then the next thing I knew of course uh I felt this tremendous impact on my head and my upper body and it was just just like basically they run it into a brick wall if I could use something to kind of describe it tremendous impact and then I was just kind of uh in a days and then uh stuper and I remember putting my hand up to my forehead and blood was flying everywhere and my forehead was all squishy
and I realized at that very moment uh that I was going to die I felt this like a hand on my shoulder and uh I couldn't see anything at that time you know I was still slump back and blood was squirting everywhere and this this hand on my shoulder you could feel it and you could feel the presence of this uh spirit this being this angel I couldn't tell at that time and he said hey Rich we got you it's not a big these are the words course they probably say them to what you thinking
you know what what your mind can absorb but hey Rich uh there nothing to worry about we've got you and you've died thousands of times before is what they what what I was told so no problem and uh and at that at that moment there was a huge huge sense of realization instantly that that's right and so then you just totally surrendered in the moment and just you weren't worried you know you knew that U everything was the way it was supposed to be um and so I was still in and out of it uh
I remember the uh police officer came up and they kind of yanked me out of the car and laid me down I was bleeding and all this kind of stuff and I was basically in and out of Consciousness and um and they took me to theal hospital and I remember bits and pieces of that and I got to the hospital and um and I just bled out is what happened they didn't have my blood type and they didn't have helicopters in those days to speak of like they LIF flight and all that kind of stuff
so I just lay there in the hospital and the doctors are I can hearing the doctor say oh he's not going to make it no anyway uh and so I just lost consciousness of the doctor talking and I was in this beautiful space face and and it was at that time that I was in that that beautiful mind space that all of a sudden I was just wasn't there anymore you know in the body uh I was in This brilliant absolutely blinding white pure white I mean whiter than white and blinding than blinding light uh
I didn't go through any tunnel I didn't see any relatives I didn't do this or that and uh I was just in this tremendously blinding light but it wasn't just light it was we describe it as love it was the most unbelievable overwhelming feeling of love that I've ever felt in my life I mean any loving moments before that and after that uh you know delivering my child and this kind of stuff every moment is beautiful but does not even compare to the intensity and the complete volume endless volume of love that was there it
was you you know it was who we are it was our it was a level of Consciousness that was just pure love flowing it just flowing and and it was so intoxicating you know it was like this is this is who we really are this unbelievable love I know and I probably repeat myself a lot that's okay but it it it was tremendous I thought the light was so bright it was going to burn my eyes out because you know I felt very much me and could you know could see parts of me and so
then I you know realiz it's not blinding my eyes you know it's so bright but it it just flows through you it's part of who you were but yet I was separate but I was part of it but I was separate so I was just there for quite a seemed like quite a while and um um and then all of a sudden I I heard a couple of Impressions voices just like we're talking here and kind of out of the whiteness came uh eight be angels I assume uh I didn't know at the time uh
they didn't identify themselves as such uh and they were also brilliant white just a little off shade different uh and so they kind of came out of the the white light and uh and spoke to me like we're talking but there was no lips moving and they were a little bit blurry it wasn't crystal clear as far as facial features you could see definitely see the head and the eyes and and the body and the shoulders and U but it wasn't a super clear as far as trying to make out exact features but one thing
I do know is uh around their head and a little bit over the shoulders was a little this is this is this is what what it was was a little Ting of gold a little off-color white that was a white gold just a little bit down around the head a little across the shoulders and so they spoke to me for uh who knows how long but so they uh they said we want you to take a look at something and uh so I like watching you here I I watched my life and uh like watching
a movie you know every little bit of course who knows like said there's no time so I watched my entire life uh from birth till my death and then they they asked me they said uh well what do you think and I said what do I think uh it was good it was interesting and you know I did some bad things and did some you know a lot of good things I like people uh I said we don't care what what your life was in that sense we don't care what matters is what you think
and so that was kind of reassuring in a way it's like that you know they don't judge you uh they just want you to review your life and then and it's up to you what you think so I uh I was there for a little while and then that right after that I had the thought it started to hit me I was like uh you know my folks are going to be fretting about me and uh so I started thinking I want to I wonder if I can see them so I kept looking around and
trying to find the Earth and I looked and I looked and I looked and I thought and I looked and I looked and I couldn't find the earth I couldn't find anything just brilliant white light and then finally uh something started to come into view and it was dark uh not like night so much more like a marble that's or more like something that's shrouded kind of in a fog a dark kind of fog part of it uh and um and that that was the earth and um it was kind of dark and and maybe
I don't know why maybe that's because it's a different density here or something like that but I focused in on the earth and it was quite dark and uh and I just kept thinking to myself you know they said that's the Earth but I uh I didn't come to the planet then I didn't try to find my folks or or something I just realized you know that they would be missing me and and Fring about me kind of thing and I felt sorry for that because I was in they didn't realize I was in such
a glorious Place uh the energy of that love is so powerful and these loving beings who just love you you're just part of them and uh and they're part of you and so the separation doesn't exist at the same level that it exists here where I was so then I asked him says now you know uh I want to stay I mean because it was so beautiful and I wasn't seeing buildings or anything like that it was just the beauty of being in that white light was just that was home that was the deepest home
I could ever feel like it's like I'm where I I mean this is where this is my home you know and uh and it was so wonderful and so they said no you have a whole bunch of things to do yet so you can't stay yet but they said don't worry you'll be back and we know right to what you would call the second when your time is up when you're going to die because in that sense there's no time so you're already dead uh it just doesn't matter uh it's but you have a lot
of things to do and so he came back and naturally uh you know we got into the fishing business and Charter Business and had a bunch of families to make sure everybody made a living and all this kind of stuff so you know the life is busy and the next thing I knew is I woke up and uh puking in the hospital you know with the head all bandaged up and the accident had peeled my uh gone up here and peeled part of my skull uh so you know the it was kind of a let
down for a minute coming back I mean I was relieved that my parents would understand that I was okay so that's that's actually my near-death experience [Music]
