“I broke my back in several places and received several internal injuries. Without health insurance, I had to wait 17 hours for the surgeon to perform the operation. I didn't have pain relievers or anything to stop the pain."
Trisha Barker experienced near-death experiences in 1994 when she was in college. The girl got into a car accident.
Her experience was featured on US TV channels and in The Crossing article by National Geographic magazine in April 2016. Trisha spoke about the events during her death, which were confirmed by witnesses.
The incident changed the girl's outlook. Tricia Barker has written the book Angels in OR: The Death Experience Taught Me Healing, Survival and Transformation. The work focuses on the importance of serving the world and the healing ability of unconditional love.
“During the operation, I left my body. Only the most inveterate atheist would be more surprised than I. For the first seconds outside the body I felt excited and electrified.
The soul danced when it realized that it exists beyond the physical. I again felt like a child: I was thinking about what would happen next, and I was glad that my soul was keeping my consciousness.
Although I was a little worried about the physical body on the operating table. Soft music played on the radio, and there was a long bloody slit on my back.
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The surgery turned out to be more brutal and bloody than I thought, especially from a 360-degree perspective. I immediately saw the doctors and the whole room, without blinking, without the help of my eyes.
After feeling joyful, I noticed two of the most amazing creatures I have ever seen. They were very large, approximately 2.5 meters, androgynous, with shoulder-length hair and more light than solid matter. I only call them angels because I have no other name.
Angels were part of reality and did not in the least resemble a dream. I had thousands of dreams, but this moment was more real than any moment of cheerfulness in my life.
People always want to know what the angels looked like. They ask: "Did they have wings?", "Were they wearing?", "How do you know they are angels?"
I don't know if these two beings were angels in the traditional biblical sense. I only know that I immediately perceived them as incredibly intelligent creatures, whose presence gave me an indescribable peace. It seemed that my understanding of this world was much more limited than theirs.
Outside of my body, I felt like a child who determines whether an adult is reliable or not. The angels were trustworthy, helped and reassured me, so I didn't question their authority.
They sent me waves of light that conveyed messages in the form of complete thoughts and feelings, rather than individual words. Through the light emitted by the eyes of the angels and sent to my spiritual body, I received information faster than at the highest possible speed of broadband access in megabytes or even terabytes.
The angels not only communicated with me, but also interacted with and acted through two neurosurgeons. The surgeons most likely did not understand this.
Before the monitor started making a sound that meant my heart had stopped, the angels slowed down the communication. They looked at me intently and said loudly and forcefully: "Look!"
The same light that they emitted into my spiritual body, they sent through the back of the doctors, through their hands and into my physical body.
The body on the table instantly changed and healed in a way the doctors could not possibly have healed. I knew that I would be able to walk again, and bone fragments would be removed from the spine, I would feel healthy and in the future I would even be able to run.
While the angels were working on the body, I thought that surgeons are conductors of angelic energy, which will become an integral part of my healing.
Perhaps the ego of the surgeons would not like to hear this, or perhaps they would be pleased to know that the angels were working through them. I only knew that I had to remember this moment well. The angels wanted me to realize how they would work through me in the future.
My physical body shimmered with light and energy. But the equipment reported that the heart had stopped.
I no longer wanted to look at the physical body, which technically died, so I slipped through the walls of the hospital.
Only when I saw my stepson did I stop. He stood at the vending machine and pulled out a candy. The boy walked around the hospital and returned to the waiting room with a lollipop.
After meeting him, I felt a unity with all the people I have ever known.
The feeling of understanding of all people led me to my grandfather Clyde for a few minutes as a child. He was the only person close to me who died.
During his lifetime, my grandfather, a poor country man, spoiled me at every opportunity …
I jumped into the back of his truck and the car drove us slowly towards the light. My legs dangled and touched bright clover and grass, greener and lighter than any grass I had ever seen on Earth.
Grandpa was younger and healthier than I remembered him. He leaned over to the window and asked if I wanted to keep going. I nodded, "Yes." The truck lifted off the ground and headed towards the light.
In an instant, the truck disappeared, and grandfather was gone …
I was very close to love, I cannot express it in words. I tried many times to describe it, but stopped, it is difficult to find the words. I miss love. I miss the light. Most of me never wanted to leave this safe place.
In this place, I felt no stress and felt more love than I could have imagined. I felt joy and satisfaction, greater than in the brightest moments of my life, and I did not want to return to my body.
My soul was smiling. I felt comfortable, I felt complete confidence.
When I went deep into the light, I felt the prayers of my mother, father, grandmother and two aunts. I especially felt the prayer of my aunt, who lost her daughter in a car accident. I clearly heard her praying and asking God that my mother would not suffer from the pain she endured when she lost her daughter. This affected me and I almost decided to return …
An important thought conveyed to me by the Light: "Love is all that matters."
While it sounds like a hippie slogan or a paraphrase of the Beatles' lyrics, the message has sunk deep into my mind.
Every interaction is meaningless if love is not attached to it in some way. Prayer is meaningless without love. Preaching is meaningless without love. Religion is meaningless without love.
The prayers of those who loved me, like the wind, slowed my progress towards the light. Although their tender love reminded of life on earth, their prayers did not defeat the desire to go deeper into the light. My soul has always loved adventure, and this is the greatest adventure I have ever participated in …
To summarize, the main lesson from my experience of death is that God or Light is a loving force that does not want people to harm others and wants us to feel joy and happiness in our lives.
Love and kindness is the greatest gift we can give to others. We are all part of this light, but out of fear we forget how to love. We forget how to go through this world with light.
Children are closer to God because their love is more natural. They can enjoy pets, birds in the sky, when they look into the eyes of their parents. Children are in love with the world, and the world is in love with them. When we were children, we breathed easier and lived brighter and fuller moments."
"Love is all that matters."
Upon awakening, Trisha immediately asked the surgeon how long she had been dead.
"The doctor was uncomfortable talking about it, but she admitted: 'About two minutes."
As soon as the girl was transferred from the intensive care unit, she immediately asked for a piece of paper and wrote down the details about the angels.
Trisha remembered in great detail any details that occurred at the time of death in the operating room and outside.
“I knew the song that was playing on the radio and the location of the people around my body. The memories were clearer than any dream or any reality."
At the time of her death, the girl saw scenes from the future. "I was shown the campus where I am currently teaching."
Trisha understood the meaning of love and fear
“In a nutshell, I saw that fear is like a shadow around people. I saw that we must illuminate the world with our fire and remind others so that they do not live in fear. Connecting with nature is important. And also love and enjoyment of life, as when we were children …
What I experienced was not at all consistent with my old beliefs. Although I grew up as a Christian and heard: "God is love," I saw more judgments from others than love.
The light was truly the most loving force I have ever experienced. Before the accident I was an agnostic * and had no interest in spiritism or religion."
After the incident, Trisha became more spiritual. “I hold several beliefs with an emphasis on love as a salvation from most problems. I meditate and pray daily."
“After the accident and the experience of death, great changes have occurred in life. I used to be shy, but now I like to lecture and speak in class. I enjoy interacting with others. I went from being an introvert to an extrovert. I became more optimistic, intuitive, more connected with others."
I was directly told to come back and teach
“I encountered a creature or voice of clearly extraterrestrial origin. I was told to return to earth and work as a teacher. I wanted to go to the editorial office and then go to law school. When she tried to argue with the Light, she was immediately sent back …
As soon as I was given the opportunity to enter the classroom, I realized how easy it is to stand in front of others and teach. Teaching has never been for me. Rather, it is about how much kindness, compassion and understanding I am willing to show others.
In class, I open myself to the angels who work through me for the benefit of the students, and this process is boundless joy. Every day spent with students is a gift from the other world.
In serving others, I forgot myself and my problems and focused on those around me. Whatever difficulties I faced in my life, when I stood in front of the students, I gave them success, healing, growth and happiness …
Not everyone can say that they had God as a career guidance counselor, but I had a specific mission. I was determined to help as many students as possible to realize their value, light and kindness. Perhaps I helped a few students get through difficult periods of life with fewer emotional scars than I did …
Anyway, I have been teaching English for about 20 years."
* Agnostic - a person who does not deny the existence of gods, but also does not take the side of any religion or belief.
