I believe this being for some reason I didn't believe many humans let alone a being at the end of a tunnel but I trusted him and I went further into the light and this resulted in me feeling more and more euphoric and I wanted to continue all the way to the other side I wanted it to see what it was like life is hectic so wherever tomorrow takes you be ready with Factor's Chef crafted and dietitian approved meals delivered right to your door with over 35 options a week including keto calorie smart vegan and veggie
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to factor meals.com Otherside 50 and use the code Otherside 50 to get 50% off that's code Otherside 5 at Factor meals.com meals. 50% off your delicious hasslefree meals well hello everybody how are you today my name is Ray Katan and I am an nde and I'm here to tell you that the nde is very very real I'll tell you a little bit about my background before we get to that however I would say that well unfortunately my childhood was not a particularly special one it was a lot of trauma drama turmoil fighting and things of
that nature which led me to spend a lot of time by myself and in those isolated moments it was almost like I was meditating if you will I didn't know I was doing that because I was 5 6 7 years of age but I was isolated and just staring at a wall we didn't have cell phones or anything back in those days that would entertain us so I was just basically hiding in a closet under the bed in the basement or the backyard and just trying to stay clear of everything that was going on in
the household eventually when you do this uh multiple hours a day and multiple days a week you will start to strip away the things that are man-made and the wall becomes colorless and it's not made of wood anymore you just begin to see the energy that makes up the particles and what holds things together and when you get in tune with energy in that way it changes the way you see the rest of the world now as a child this didn't bother me one bit it didn't scare me at all we have no preconceived notions
at that age but coming from a home like that and then getting into my teens and 20s well since chaos was my comfort zone I took chaos with me outside of the home and I would bring it with me wherever I went so as a young teen and throughout my 20s if there was no chaos around me well I would create the chaos or I would look for the chaos to be part of the chaos because of the way I lived I didn't really fear death I didn't really care if I lived or died so
I lived life rather recklessly put myself In Harm's Way many times and some pretty bad situations where I could have wound up dying and one time well I did and that's my near-death experience and I didn't put myself in this one surprisingly it was a fire that took place in my home and I was still living at home with my parents and uh my bedroom was on the second floor the first floor was the kitchen directly underneath me and there was a stove that ran on gas it was natural gas and if you know anything
about natural gas is it raises and it goes up into it was coming into my room and I was breathing it in for hours and um I didn't notice this at the the time I guess the morning came around and my mother went downstairs to turn on the stove to make breakfast or something like that and second she lit the stove it was just a big ball of fire just you know kind of erupted out of the stove and it caught the wall on fire and there was smoke and the way I understand the story
is the fire wasn't terrible was put out rather quickly by my father but it wasn't the smoke or the fire that hurt me in any way it was the gas that I was inhaling all night long so I heard the fire trucks I heard the police cars and I tried to struggle to get out of bed and I say struggle because I couldn't feel a good portion of my body I couldn't feel my legs they felt like they were just 1,000 lb and I couldn't move them couldn't get my head off the pillow couldn't yell
so I was trying to get to the edge of the bed and I figured if I could get to the edge of the bed and I could fall out somebody would notice that I was up there because I didn't even know if they knew I was there there so I kept pulling and pulling and pulling until I finally did get to the edge of the bed and I did fall out I landed face first the interesting thing about this was is that I knew I hit the ground face first but I felt no pain whatsoever
I knew I hit it but there was no pain and that's because I was not inside my body in that moment I've heard this from a lot of nders that right before the pain sets in you leave your body and I was in the corner of the room and I was looking down at my lifeless body next to the bed the light was adjacent to me it was across the way in the opposing corner and it was shining on my energetic self and this light was everything you've ever heard and more it was love it
was kindness it was compassion it was euphoric and my energetic self blended with this light became one with the light when and if you've ever experienced this this is not something that you want to leave by any means means the light was like a long tunnel that I could go into and the further I would go into this tunnel or light the more the Euphoria would increase and I won't forget at the end of the tunnel there's a being and this being is saying Reay it's okay to come into the light and I believe this
being for some reason I didn't believe many humans let alone a being at the end of a tunnel but I trusted him and I went further into the light and this resulted in me feel feeling more and more euphoric and I wanted to continue all the way to the other side I wanted to see what it was like but then my father came bursting into the room he kicked the door in and he picked me up and he was distraught he was crying and yelling for the paramedics and you know he and I we didn't
have a very good relationship and in that moment I felt something that I had never felt from him before I guess that was something that I always wanted or longed for and in that moment I asked the being at the end of the light if I could go back and I said something like I can't leave him like that so I kind of made it about him like I was negotiating or something and I don't know but for whatever reason I was allowed to come back and I was no longer in that room I woke
up and I was on the living room floor and the paramedics were working on me very diligently and they had all their tools and equipment and they were yelling bring up the truck bring up the truck and that meant the ambulance I woke up and I said guys I feel great in fact I feel fantastic the Euphoria stays with you it lingers for a while I felt like I was fine I didn't need any medical attention or so I thought and they said trust me son you're not fine and insisted that I go to the
hospital which I did I said well didn't you hear the voice didn't you see the light I mean didn't you guys see that stuff and then now they're looking at each other like I'm completely out of my mind and I'm starting to to think that I'm going to wind up in a hospital a different type of hospital where I can't check myself out of if you know what I mean so I just basically kept that to myself and even afterwards later on when I told anybody about this they just told me I was crazy in
those days we didn't have personal computers yet there was no internet I couldn't just jump on and look it up and see if other people experienced what I had it was only word of mouth and like I said anybody I told would just think I was out of my mind so I just buried it now because of my upbringing and my parents coming basically teaching me Christianity and it didn't nothing against Christianity I would have rebelled against anything and I rebelled Against All religion and I became an atheist or so I called myself an atheist
and even after the nde I insisted that I was an atheist because this is the way I chalked up my nde I figured well my analytical mind takes over and says you fell in front of a window on what was likely a sunny day day so the white light was the sun you inhaled enough gas fumes that you were hallucinating and that's the being in the light and whatever else and so I just kind of put it away in a little box and shoved it into the corner of my mind where I didn't have to
deal with it and didn't have to address it nonetheless I never did get that relationship that I was looking for with my father and I'll tell you when you come back into your body the pain is like a bomb goes off inside of you all the aches and pains everything that you have an injury that you had in a sporting event 10 years ago they all just flare up you feel everything and it's times 10 and I was just like why in God's name did I make this choice I should have gone into the light
so in the back of my mind even though I'm really trying to cling to Atheism in the back of my mind I know that there's no reason to fear death and I'm a young person again coming from a troubled environment and didn't have any particular reason to live it didn't matter so I worked for some shady characters and you know they would have disagreements shall we call them and a lot of these would happen in nightclubs and bars and things like that and I remember one time I was under the bar to get a bottle
of something or other and I heard po po and I know that they're shooting at each other and I'm trying to figure out how am I going to get out of this place alive and the being comes to me and says side door side door and I said I can't get out the side door because the side door the shooter's going to see me I'm not going to make it to the side door So eventually I have absolutely nothing to lose there only is a side door and so I run to the side door and
even if I got through that door which I did I still had to go down a long Corridor it was like a 40t long Corridor to get to the next door which was another side door to the outside in the parking lot and I made it and ironically enough I had parked my car right outside that door and I never parked there before I always parked on the other side of the building and yet I chose to park there for some reason on that night that's just one of many examples in my book about this
being saving my life and being there for me so this being has been with me throughout the majority of my life saving me over and over again even in times where I can recall manifesting a car accident and one of the things that I've learned through throughout the years is you can manifest good and bad things and I had a job that I didn't want to go to anymore for just simply because of the harassment and the things that I was dealing with being at that job so I really didn't want to go to this
job and one day I REM met a friend I should say and he had all this money and I was like well where did you get all this money from and he said oh I had a car accident and I sued and I got all this money and I was started to think well what if I have a car accident and I can sue somebody and I can get a lot of money I don't have to go to this stupid job anymore and I would think about this every day how can I pull this off
how can this happen how can I be sure I won't get hurt that much or whatever so I kept thinking about it and thinking about it and then one day I was driving to work and it was raining and I was in the Middle Lane of a highway and the car in the right lane started to just cut over into my lane without looking and he didn't cause the accident he actually went back in his Lane as I blew my horn but being the idiot that I was back in those days I had to pull
up alongside him and tell him everything that I thought about him every four-letter word that I could think of and I was yelling at him what I wasn't looking at was what was right in front of me and that was that traffic had come to a dead Halt and so at 55 M hour or plus I drove right into the back of the car that was in front of me and then the car behind me hit me and it was in that moment that the being said get under the dash get under the dash we
didn't wear seat belts in those days we didn't have to there was no laws yet so I put my head under my arms and I got myself under the dash and the next car that hit that car hit me again and now I went into the left lane where another car hit me again another car hit that car which hit me again and finally when I saw the pictures the car was halfway on the divider fac the wrong way and I remember the policewoman came tried to open the door that was on my side and
she said something like is he with us meaning am I dead or alive and I was so crunched inside the car I couldn't really move but I could move my finger and I just tried to move my finger so they could know that I was alive I was in and out of Consciousness but again I escaped death and I don't know why they saved me I have absolutely no idea so having being this young person who has no fear of death puts themselves In Harm's Way doesn't really care too much about anything I've crossed over
I've been to the other side and back I have this experience with energy as a child when you cross over and you come back and you can read energy and you can see energy well what transpires is is I opened a portal to the other side and anyone could just come through me and what happened was is there was kind of like the energies well they were still there but they weren't as prominent they weren't really bothering me because what I later learned in life is that if you're not going to help them and you're
not going to interact with them because you don't know how I didn't know how they're going to eventually leave you alone but they were present and they would float around and I would see it and I would just tell no one because God forbid I told anybody I I would be labeled crazy years goes by and my marriage falls apart very quickly but I still have my kids and I'm raising my kids and as they get older I think it's it's time well maybe I should start dating again settle down I did very well for
myself I had two kids that were in college life was good but I was alone and so I went on a dating site because that's what most people do they look at dating sites to try to find somebody I guess and uh when you go on these sites they give you a couple of examples of uh women that are in your area to entice you I guess to get you to join the website I went on the website they showed me four that were local to my area and one of them just stood out and
struck me and I had a feeling that I had never felt in a very very long time and I just said to myself that is her that is my wife and I knew that we had a soul connection I knew it was much deeper than anything on the surface and so I emailed her and I told her this and in a rather comical way uh introduced myself hi my name is Rey and you're my future wife and you just don't know this yet and Hope you'll answer my email and so we can get married and
blah blah blah we are still married we did get married soon thereafter and we're still together today and she no doubt is my soulmate but here's what happens when we first meet things start to get strange again and up until the point that I had met her the energies that I had seen were just simply energy in other words they were lines or they were pressure or things were you know moving about the room not big things moving like lines moving across the room but when I meet her it's the first time the energy takes
form of a what looks like a human being and it's not I know it's not because I'm not seeing this with my eyes I'm seeing this with my third eye and it's in my mind and it's like a movie screen opens up and I can see on the movie screen that there's a man and the man says to me I effed up I made a mistake you can help her I cannot I don't know who the man is I don't know why he's there I've never seen anything like this before and I don't know what
he's talking about first I just shake it off it's probably I don't know my imagination I'm sober now so I can't even blame it on that I don't know what it is but he comes back again and says the same thing I effed up I made a mistake you can help her I cannot and I'm just seeing this thing it's like an 8-second video Loop and it's replaying in my mind over and over and I am starting to think that I am insane because insanity is something I understand I still do not believe in spirits
or anything else and that's completely ridiculous to me in this moment and I had always maybe thought that in the back of my mind the things that I've seen the things that have happened I never looked at them in some sort of spiritual way I looked at them as I was nuts and now this is catching up with me and I have to make Provisions for my children so I had to make sure my will was in order and I had to make sure that I had a DNR because there was no way I was
getting resuscitated again I was going into the light if there was one and I made sure that my children children were taken care of because I thought I was out of my mind and now I have to tell this woman who I just met and just fell in love with and I have to explain to her that I'm losing my mind and if this story isn't crazy enough well let me add this to it by trade she is a doctor of psychology and a doctor of neuroschistosomiasis that I need she'll point me in the right
direction she'll give me the name of a doctor she'll write it down and she'll say just never call me again and that's what I expected but that's not what happened at all she actually asked me about what I saw how I saw it and I explained it to her I explained it to her in terms that I could try to best explain it to anybody and I explained what the guy looked like and I said he was a husky guy and he had a beard and a mustache and thick black hair and he has this
particular shirt on the shirt was very significant after I told her I'm waiting for it to come you know that you need help and instead she says oh my God that sounds like my dad and I said your dad is dead and now I think she's crazy because she's thinking I'm seeing dead people so she goes on to explain mediums have she's been to mediums and her dad comes through very powerful similarly to the way I just explained him front and center very powerful and I said what the hell is a medium I have no
idea what this is and I don't think I want to know what this is so I'm more scared of that then I am the insanity and she says listen relax there's a medium a very prominent one that's going to be in our area I'll make two appointments and we'll both go and you can go in there and you can tell her what you see and how you see it and you guys can kind of talk about it and you can get to the bottom of whatever it is and I said okay let's do it what
have I got to lose so we go and um I met with the medium and the second I walked in she says how can I help you and I said well I'm losing my mind I believe she kind of chuckled and said have a seat tell me what's going on and so I began to tell her that you know I feel these vibrations and then I feel like there's a presence in the room and then the movie screen in my mind opens up and then I can see something on the movie screen and she said
stop and I said what she said that's exactly the way I see it and I said you see dead people she said yes I do that's exactly the way we all see it and I said okay and I felt in the moment like there was a big relief but at the same time there's now a new added pressure what do I have what do I do with it how do I handle it because it's controlling me right now and she said well what happened when you told your wife about the experience and I said it
went away and she said that's right because it was her dad and he wanted to deliver a message and the second you delivered the message he went away that's all you had to do do was deliver the message and I said oh now I understand and so she took me under her wing for the first year and she was my mentor for the first year of my mediumship thank God she did because if I wasn't crazy that would have made me crazy and in fact she shared something with me that when she was young her
parents thought she was crazy and they put her in an institution to deal with schizophrenia when in fact she was a medium so when I heard her story it made me feel a little bit better about the circumstances and I guess it somewhat normalized it for me so what I really started to take away is that we don't fully lose all negative emotions in other words I still experience some anger I still experience some sadness but it dissipates quickly and I started to see life in a different perspective and I saw it in a positive
way and for me coming from a place where I came from to that point was nothing short of magical and today I wake up and my life is amazing and what I've learned is that nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so and that's Shakespeare's quote and I think it's really remarkable because when you think about it you can determine how you want to feel about things most things and again there are tragedies and there are some horrific things that can happen that'll take time to work through but for the most part
many of the things that we worry about and we have anxiety about we really just don't need them and we can let them go I firmly believe today that we are all one and that we all come from one source and one Creator and you may call it the universe or God or whatever term you wish to use it doesn't matter this energetic entity we are all a part of and to hurt your fellow man or woman is to harm yourself and it's really really important that more people understand this very very quickly otherwise we're
going to wind up with a world headed in a direction that we don't want it to head in and believe me when I say we're all a part of that light that I was a part of on that one day and one day we'll all return to it and until that day I wish you all well thank you very much for joining me today we all fall in when the loes in all right staring lost at the skyl we all falling when the in our [Music]
