Spirit Talk & The Professional Medium Issue 5 | Page 4

What is it
like to be

Dead?
There are volumes of anecdotal evidence of near death experiences
– some fanciful; some make perfect sense even to those who haven’t
experienced it.
One thing that does seem to be
rather a contradiction in terms
is the multitude of accounts of
people who say they have actually
come back from the dead. That’s
completely different to a near death
experience. You can’t come back
from the dead if you are and if you
do, well you weren’t dead in the
first place!
What near death experiencers
talk about, in their intensely
personalised experience but with
many similar phenomena, is the
journey towards death, but without
ever going over the line. Near
means near, not there. Think of a
train that stops short of the station,
then does an about face and returns
to its departure point. During the
experience you can take in the
scenery, talk to other people in the
carriage, but you still don’t know

what Chattanooga Station really
looks or feels like.
To state the obvious we are all
spiritual as well as physical beings.
The mind, our consciousness is the
spiritual part and our biological
body is the physical part. They
interact to form a functional human
being and improve the spiritual self
along the way. But what about when
they are separated; completely?
Death is one way, but there are
other ways in which we can become
in the same state as death, as
opposed to actually dead.
The first and most easily
identifiable part of the physical and
consciousness separation is sleep in
its natural state rather than induced,
concussed or anaesthetised. Whe