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Medical Doctor encounters near-death experience during emergency procedure

A former atheist and astute observer named Dr. Theodore M. Homa, a 66-year-old medical doctor in the Chicago area had his brush with eternity after lapsing into a coma while awaiting a heart transplant.

The last thing Dr. Homa remembers is that there was a “bright, bright light” from the operating lamps that was “shining on me and my eyes were shielded and I was telling them I was short of breath and in pain and couldn’t handle what they were doing.

“And then everything went gray.

At that point, the first thing I realized was that the pain of breathing had subsided but I found myself in a place that I can only describe as gray without direction, sensation of weight, or sensation of up or down; and following that was a ripping or tearing sensation I felt everywhere in my body, instantaneous but severe.

“My conscious self — it struck me that this was the sensation that one would feel when one’s soul parted from the body.

“Following that I was relatively at peace for an undetermined period of time because everything seemed timeless, and then there was a voice; it had the characteristics of being ancient and it knew me well. But it was a voice that was accusing me of not being worthy to be with the Lord and urging me to choose to come with whoever the voice belonged to. At that point I realized I must be at the judgment seat and this had to be Satan. As soon as I realized that, I began to see in vivid, high-definition reality images of everything I did wrong and everything I omitted in my life — all of my sins and omissions and the effect they had. I even saw the effect of taking the Name of God had on God. I saw and felt how much that hurt Him. I saw the ripple effect. I saw what it did. I understood. I saw that I was not worthy to be with God.”

And if he wasn’t worthy to be with God, that meant he would be headed in another direction — purgatory, or lower. There was the urgency not to go — to return to earth - in most such cases, the person wants to remain on the other side.

While Dr. Homa had turned from atheism to belief after a visit to the apparition site of Medjugorje in Eastern Europe, there were obviously issues that remained in need of expiation. It is an unusual case — and serves as a lesson to all of us perhaps especially those who practice medicine .

I believed I should be saved because I had gone to Confession, received Last Rites, received a plenary indulgence and had not done anything to discount God, but I was led to believe with urgency that I was not worthy,” the physician goes on. “So I began to pray. Beyond reason, I started with the Father. I called Him every Name I knew — God, Yahweh, Father. And there was no response. Yet I knew he was there. So I went on to call upon Jesus and called Him every Name I could think of — Savior, my Jesus of Mercy, Lord, Lamb of God: I went down a litany, and He didn’t respond.

“Now I was getting desperate and decided it was time to talk to the Holy Spirit, so I called to the Spirit — and instantaneously I had an answer and it was not verbal and it was not a vision; it was a compelling inner voice or announcement, basically, to ‘call Mary.’

I hesitated. It was clear to me that Satan heard it because then there was a diatribe from him, to the effect that if I did that — if I called on Mary — the devil had me; if I called on her, I was a blasphemer. But while I was waiting the Spirit gave me a command. It’s kind of unimaginable, the power. The only thing I can liken it to is the reference in the Bible of how in the end times in the Second Coming all knees will bend. This was the nature of the command. I didn’t have a choice; I just called on her. And then Mary came.

“People describe her as having a crown. She had a glow around her — I guess that was sort of a crown — and dark eyes and she was young, beautiful, and the colors of her garments were white-blue-gray.

Then she spoke to me. She called me by name and told me to ‘go back.’ She said everything would be okay. And that was the end. All I remember after that is waking up in I.C.U. to the sound of my artificial heart and the nurse asking me to prove I was conscious by squeezing his fingers.”

Five days later, however, he revived and six months after that, Dr. Homa, who had been suffering for so long from viral cardiomyopathy, received his transplant.

From: CHICAGO MEDICAL DOCTOR GETS SHOCK OF LIFE WHEN HE ‘DIES’ DURING EMERGENCY PROCEDURE by Spirit Daily.

A nine-year old girl underwent a near death experience during an appendectomy. She recalls:

I heard them say my heart stopped… I was floating near the ceiling… saw my mother crying. The doctors thought I was dead. Then a pretty lady came and helped me because I was afraid. We went through a tunnel and went to heaven. There were beautiful flowers there. I was with God and Jesus. They said I had to go back to my mother because she was upset. They said I had to finish my life. So I went back…”

An eleven-year-old child was hit by a car while riding his bike:

I saw myself floating and saw many people around. Then an ambulance arrived. They loaded my body in an ambulance and I tried to follow… I looked around and saw myself in a tunnel with a bright light at the end. I reached the light and saw a lot of people in light. I did not know any of them but they told me to go back; it wasn’t my time to die yet. I was in the light for a long time I felt everyone loved me there. Everyone was happy. I felt that the light was God…

A seven-year old girl had the same typical near death experience traits. She had a drowning accident. She had the tunnel experience. She was helped through the tunnel by a very beautiful lady in light. When she reached the light at the end of the tunnel, she saw many beings in light. “Then I saw Jesus. I did not want to leave him but he smiled and said I have to go back because my Mom and Dad would be sad.” In a later interview, she was asked, “Were you dead at that time you saw Jesus?” She answered candidly, “Oh no, dead people are put in a box and buried ua near death experiencer the ground.”

Indeed, Scripture describes it perfectly: “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man ever imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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