hi I'm Lisa Jones and I'm a former certified public accountant for Price waterhous ernston young and I also have had a shared death experience which changed my life and I'm really excited to share that with you so on February 22nd 2004 my husband passed away after a long illness he had been sick for seven years and he had lymphoma cancer and he was actually 44 when he passed away so the night that it happened actually h had been called that day because up until then he didn't even believe he was really dying but he was
incoherent that morning and I called his doctor and so they said let's send hospice over and they actually evaluated him and said that it'll probably be at least two to three weeks before he passes he's not looking imminent in any way and I called his brother and best friend and they came over and it was the first time I really wasn't alone in the house with him at this point we had two young children they were 1 and three when he was diagnosed and 8 and 10 when he died so after hospice came my kids
ended up leaving the house that night my son went to Ian's mother's house and my daughter went to her best friends and I went and took care of Ian that evening it was actually the first time he had been given any pain medication or anything and I just kissed him on the head and said good night and then his brother came into the room to take care of him so I went and slept on my daughter's bed and before I fell asleep I prayed to the angels and just said please help us there's no way
out at this point so I fell asleep and that's when basically two angels just came and escorted my soul out of my body and took me to the other side and what I call Heaven it was the most beautiful place I have ever been there were rolling gorgeous Hills and colors I've never seen the colors in heaven and again it's so hard to articulate because I feel like we don't even have words to express but the light of the colors were so Dynamic and so multi-dimensional I mean it's unlike again I almost feel like here
on planet Earth we live in this kind of Flat Stanley I don't know if you've ever heard of people sing around this little Flat Stanley doll to take on their vacation or whatever and you take photos with it and that's kind of what I feel like like here on Earth it's like we're we're living in this Flat Stanley world where it's you know the colors are just saturated but there's no there's no light in the colors here and then there is just such a wider range of colors and like said there's no words to even
express what they are because we don't have them here and then in the distance there was this beautiful castle-like structure that they just next thing I know we were inside of it and there were all of the sudden I could hear choir singing and there were just like all these banners in all the corridors and there was an announcement the grand Mr Ian sharp is about to arrive and as I was approaching down this Corridor it was to the end of this balcony and I could look down and I saw all these souls coming together
and I can't describe what they really looked like other than I just knew it was Ian's Soul family and that they were so excited and and they're like oh my gosh he's coming he's coming he's almost here he's almost here then all of a sudden there was this giant door that started to open you could almost hear it scraping on the ground and it just and everybody turned all the souls at the same time he's here and just at that moment he started to walk through and I saw him and the amount of unconditional love
and peace and I thought I never want to leave this place it's just so amazing and then right at that moment there was a knock on my door Lisa wake up wake up Ian just took his last breath and it was his brother waking me up to let me know and at that moment it was like a trap door opened in heaven and my soul fell back into my body and I remember it just like just this thud back into my physical body and I bounced out of bed and I was so actually excited because
I saw where he was going and yet I knew that just that was not like an appropriate response in that moment because my husband just died and yet I had all this excited feeling and to top it off I thought he was going to be going to hell because he hadn't been baptized I was very religious and I believed that you know because he was unwilling to be baptized that he literally was going to go to hell so that made it even more exciting to me that he got to go to heaven and and so
I ran down to our bedroom and you know his body was laying but it wasn't him it was just almost like a shell and I could just see that you know his soul was gone and that he had gone to heaven and I got to witness that I have never heard of a shared death experience and I didn't know for years after that until I just randomly read a near-death experience book that talked about near-death experience and I'm like oh my God that's what I experienced that I wasn't dead I wasn't you know I didn't
have a near-death experience but you know it was all so similar like the colors and the unconditional love and just the excitement and Beauty and the cleanliness that was the biggest thing is just how clean it is here you know in that Heavenly realm versus here and then only recently after I moved to Maui and I got involved with the International Studies of near-death experiences did I meet a man who wrote a book about shared death experiences and that's when I started hearing that they're now starting to study shared death experiences I was raised Lutheran
and in fact it was actually kind of traumatic because I was in a parish where our youth Minister ended up molesting a lot of the girls in my confirmation class and it's so interesting because actually this leads back to my near-death experience that when he took me to the basement like I knew something was going to happen and so I had the sense to get out before anything did happen and I attribute that to the fact that I recently found out that I had a near-death experience when I was two weeks old and this was
through a guided meditation and again it was just so interesting because I I was on a guided meditation not thinking anything of where it was going to take me but the next thing I know I was I remember being born I was adopted as a baby and so after I was taken from my birth mother I was just in a in a room for two weeks basically where caregivers would come and feed me and take care of me but I also had colic so I was crying a lot and they were having a really hard
time consoling me and so what I saw in this guided meditation is that one of the caregivers picked me up and shook me and I was like okay Not only was I taken from my mother but you know I don't have a consistent caregiver and I'm really uncomfortable in my body and so I just popped out of my body and I'm like I'm out of here and so in this guided meditation I witnessed again being in heaven and I was just surrounded by all these beautiful angels is going to again bring me to tears because
was just they just lovingly said you know you have work to do on Earth and you need to go back and so I reluctantly went back into my body and it was a few days later but my adopted parents that's when they picked me up or got me or whatever and I had the most loving mother that was just so I mean I even told her as a four-year-old you know like this was God's plan you know you were you couldn't have babies but another mommy had to have me so that I could be your
babies so because of that near-death experience it makes so much sense cuz as a child I saw energies I saw Cowboys and Indians outside my windows at night I felt aliens come and like put medicine in my mouth and poke my toes with needles when I was a little bait you know like a little child and my mom and dad of course didn't believe me but now that I know about near-death experiences and what happens after you have one that you do have these six sents you know really elevated you know that makes sense to
me why then like when I went down to the basement with my Minister I knew that something bad was going to happen and then when he confessed to to doing this to girls I stepped away from my religion at that point but then when I got married and had kids I felt like they really needed that foundation so I became Episcopalian and again I was totally in belief of all the rules that the church said that you have to be baptized and you know that there's Heaven and Hell and all of this and interestingly when
I went through the Episcopal church and my husband was dying I went for counseling and again the minister tried to hit on me so between the two ministers that were you know men that like I mean that's what I realize now that religion is just it's like an organization where men come to power generally men and then sometimes take advantage of of women and so between that and then having my own connection with that shared death experience I'm like I don't need this anymore I stepped away from the church I walked away and you know
and I really believe believe that a lot of that is just for control and a lot of times manipulation of other people so I am not a fan of organized religion any longer when people go to the other side they actually get to witness what they think their Heaven is because I do think it would be jarring if I had gone to the other side and I was in a Buddhist temple or you know like a mosque or something like that so I do believe and again I've interviewed a lot of near-death experiencers and it
seems to me that most people Witness what it is that they are kind of anticipating I don't believe in death I think we just transition into another realm and so a lot of times whatever your current belief is you just step right through the threshold and you're in the next realm with that same belief system with that same and then it might unfold from there but I think when you're first walked through or you know again all the people I've interviewed it just seems like that's a great way to welcome them in rather than having
it be I am not afraid of death I am in fact I'm looking for to seeing how this all ends because I've witnessed so many different you know deaths throughout my life and as I'm a hospice volunteer and a death dla and in fact a few years ago after moving to Maui I was just sitting on it was like a Saturday morning with my phone just looking at all a sudden I get an alert saying incoming missile from North Korea this is not a test this is actually happening take cover and I'm thinking oh my
God I had no idea this is how it was going to end I'm I'm actually really excited I actually like was ready to get in my car and go to the beach and say bring it on because I didn't you know if I'm going to go that way I want to go quick I don't want to like have the radiation poisoning or whatever after the fact and meanwhile I know like the whole all the islands just like people were driving off the road and freaking out about the whole thing but I've really again from interviewing
near-death experiencers every one of them says like before impact in a car accident or if they were falling or freezing to death or whatever their circumstances was their soul pop out before the impact so they don't feel the pain they don't experience that and so I trust that that'll happen with me too so am I doing the work that I'm here to do I feel like I'm leaning in closer and closer part of it is literally sharing my experiences with people just to help them whatever they're going through a lot of times I get feedback
from people that it really helps to know that these stories exist and can help them so I'm leaning into being an eternal love and abundance coach which is helping people as they are on their Journey here on Earth and if that's connecting with their past away loved ones if it's you know figuring out why they're stuck in life I've had so many experiences through these shared death experiences and talking about near-death experiences and cultivating relationships on the other side I call him my heavenly husband he's been helping me for 20 years and he talks me
he guides me he helps me my mom is the same way ROM Doss who's a spiritual leader here on Maui I had a shared death experience with him and he's guiding me at all times so I am here to now help people literally connect with their loved ones and cultivate that relationship so it's not over when they die it's just a new experience of a relationship with their soul and it's super exciting it's super fun and um yeah I feel like I'm I'm on my path we are all falling when the loes in our eyes
staring lost about the Skylight We All Fall in when the lovees in our eyes [Music]
