Near-Death Experiences in Childhood

Near-Death Experien ces in Childhood

By P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D.

Numerous stories exist today about people at the edge of death who not only defy the “grim reaper,” they experience themselves as someone with purpose, a value greater than dream images or flights of fancy. Not only do they “don’t die,” they return from that harrowing moment “different” from before. Research on stories like this have consistently identified out-of-body experiences, clear/ enhanced consciousness, self-identity with emotions, cognition-thought perception, full use of faculties, and intact memories as typical of the episode. . . all of this occurring when the brain is not working! Glib explanations don’t work, not even from medical staff. Near-death experiences are very real and have a pattern of aftereffects that cannot be denied. We know this is true with adults and kids in general. But what about the youngest of the young – those at birth, babies, toddlers, and youngsters up to age five? A few studies have touched on little ones, yet no one, not even the general public, have responded much beyond what I call the “out-of-the-mouth-ofbabes” syndrome. By that I mean we are so touched by words from the innocent that hardly anyone bothers to track or follow what happens to those kids as they grow up and mature. Did that early near-death experience make any real difference in their lives? If so, what? I took on the challenge. The result is a “game changer” in the sense of what I found. My book, The Forever Angels: Near-Death Experiences in Childhood and Their Lifelong Impact, covers what happened to 120 people: many from different countries, Aborigines from Australia, First Nation

in Canada, Native Americans, all races, all sexual types, some raised in Voodoo religions, three born into Satanic Cults for the purpose of being used for rituals, people in poverty who wanted to be heard, retirees who never dared whisper a word of this throughout their long life. Some sent tear-stained essays I could hardly read. A County Commissioner, Catholic Sister, one who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, are examples of those who barred their soul. Another, born into a Satanic cult, had 17 near-death experiences before the age of nine; the first at six weeks.

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There are lots of drawings in the book, 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s who look back some funny, some scary. One shows a on their life and answer the question: mother smoking during her pregnancy, what difference did the early near-death the nicotine affecting her unborn baby experience make in their life? No study who could smell and taste the cigarette and got a “high” each time her mother smoked. Another, who died during childbirth as her mother was trying to commit suicide, was saved by quickthinking emergency personnel. Actually, I did this type of research before, back in the eighties. That group, 277 of them, ranged from the very young up to the teen years: with most under the age of six. Published then as The New Children and Near-Death Experiences, these two projects (the one I did in the eighties and this recent one) give us a better understanding of what can happen to the youngest of the young, most of them without any sort of “before” to make life comparisons. Three main challenges are faced here: (1) most begin abstracting before the first grade, are smarter than their peers and teachers, display signs of near-death experiences before this of synesthesia (multiple sensing), are one has ever spanned a person’s entire highly intuitive and curious/creative; life. (2) what happens to the innocents No problem here with memory. within the family unit, when they go to One of the most consistent findings school, have sex, date, seek jobs, marry, researchers have made is that memories have kids of their own, abuse issues, of near-death experiences usually drugs and alcohol, the elder years; and remain clear and detailed regardless of (3) they forever miss “HOME”, the a person’s age. Yes, these experiences greater collective they know is real, can be blocked from a person’s mind, many feel lonely, can be suicide prone but once remembered – they remain in – not in a sense of grief but rather - memory. I found that to be true as well, homesickness. even with a woman who was 86 years I used two approaches. First old. group, research done in the eighties, A finding in this one-of-a-kind most of them small children at the study is that 90% were unable to bond time, teens, or young adults – all with their parents. They bonded with looking forward in life. This recent the “other side” instead. This doesn’t study focuses more on people in their mean, necessarily, that they did not love their parents but they could not form that sense of HID Lighting, Potting Soils, family closeness Fertilizers, Hydroponics, Ventilation, kids normally Greenhouse Supplies and more. have. Some other findings: 84% 3028 Esplanade, Suite E • TheChicoGarden 530 Cent .345 er.c .84 om 00 empathic; 75% highly intelligent – some to the

point of genius; 74% suicide prone; 70% had vivid dreams; 62% out-of-body experiences commonplace. And this is just a sampling of what I discovered. While adults integrate their near-death experience, children compensate. The average adult takes 7 to 10 years to integrate what happened to them: their experience and its pattern of aftereffects. Little ones are not like that. It takes the average child experiencer 20 to 40 years, maybe even 50, to do the same thing. That’s because the average child adjusts when something seems not to fit into their life; they’ll compensate or change as needed. Any sense of integration doesn’t usually occur until their later years. Individuals who had a neardeath experience as a very young child are often uncomfortable around adult experiencers. They do not relate to adult expressions of “life after death” and “love and light.” To them, life is ongoing, a life continuum, unending and forever. They’re interest is how to live in this world and what can be done to change it. Looking at the near-death phenomenon through the eyes of the very young...no matter how old they are by earth-years... is a startling surprise.

P.M.H. Atwater, L.H.D., had three near-death experiences within three months in 1977. This turned her life around completely. The following year she turned to research and became one of the original researchers in the field of near-death studies. Some of her findings have been verified in clinical settings, among them the prospective study done in Holland and published in Lancet Medical Journal (12-15- 01). To date, her work covers nearly 5,000 adult and child experiencers. Her latest, The Forever Angels, challenges the entire field and changes the conversation about life and death, reincarnation, and the life continuum. Her website is www.pmhatwater.com.