Nancy Rynes

Rynes believes her childhood fall from scaffolding at age four likely produced an earlier NDE.

“it's very likely that that was an NDE. I just don't remember a lot of the details”

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Rynes says that during surgery she found herself in a sunless, silvery landscape underlain by pulsating lines of energy.

“It looked like tendrils of energy flowing everywhere. That's the only way I could describe it. Underneath of everything that I saw was these pulsating lines of energy”

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Rynes says a woman calling herself Ann, a trauma nurse, held her still until paramedics arrived, then disappeared and refused to identify herself to police.

“She refused to give him her name. She wouldn't give him any details about who she was or where she could be reached”

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Rynes says she no longer enjoys music, which she attributes to left temporal lobe damage.

“I used to love music and I think it goes along with that left temporal lobe. So I honestly don't like music anymore”

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Rynes says she permanently lost her ability to do mathematics and programming after the brain injury.

“The other thing that was impacted that actually never came back was my ability to do math, mathematics and computer programming”

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Rynes says her doctor could not explain why her bones healed in about a month instead of 16 weeks.

“well, I don't know how this is happening, but we can take all your casts and braces off right now”

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Rynes asserts that linear time is an illusion and all times are accessible at once.

“This time that we experience going past, it's an illusion. All times, all things, there's no time on the other side”

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Rynes argues that people incarnate with filters on awareness and memory so they can focus on what they are meant to learn on Earth.

“when we come into this life, we have to come in with a set of filters on our awareness, on our memory, in order to be able to focus in”

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Rynes concludes that reality resembles shamanism and quantum physics more than material reality.

“how our reality is more like both shamanism and quantum physics than we really understand”

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Rynes says she remembered attending the funeral of an acquaintance's husband who was alive after her NDE.

“in the reality that I left when I had my NDE, I had just gone to his funeral. He had died”

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Rynes says that after surgery she immediately apologized to her sister for a hurtful remark she had felt in her life review.

“one of the very first things I did when I got my senses back after the surgery is I called her up and I apologized”

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Rynes says her life review showed that a simple thank-you to a grocery clerk improved how the clerk treated her children.

“she was gracious and patient with her kids because one person in a checkout line said thank you”

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Rynes argues that people must actively seek out or build community rather than wait for it.

“Now it's up to you to seek that community out and keep seeking it or creating it until you get what you want”

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Rynes says the first lesson of her NDE was that God is love that includes everyone.

“God is love, all encompassing and all inclusive, not just for some people, but for everybody”

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Rynes says she chose her family in order to help her father change.

“I chose that particular family is I wanted to help him transition out of the kind of person he was”

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Rynes says that being an atheist was something she agreed before birth to experience.

“So being an atheist was an agreement that I had. I wanted to experience being an atheist”

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Rynes says that upon realizing she might have died, she questioned why she was not in hell as she had been taught atheists would be.

“If I did die down there on the operating table, this doesn't look like any idea of hell I've ever been told”

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Rynes says that during her atheist years she was terrified of death because she believed consciousness simply ceased.

“I would sometimes even lay awake at night shivering at the thought of no longer existing”

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Rynes says she felt no pain during the accident because of natural endorphins, which is why she believed she could get up and run.

“because of the natural endorphins that we have, I absolutely felt zero pain. That's why I thought I could get up and run”

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Rynes credits her bicycle helmet as the main reason she survived the accident.

“Honestly, the helmet is really the only reason I survived that accident. That and some people that helped out right afterward”

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Rynes says she knows the observer experience was real because it showed her how the SUV was stopped, which she could not see from under the car.

“So this is how I know now that that was real because underneath the car, underneath the SUV, I can't see much”

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Rynes says that while trapped under the car, a calm observer part of her separated from her terrified human self.

“my soul or my higher self popped out of that immediate trauma and was standing off to the side kind of watching everything happen”

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Rynes recounts locating a hidden rock art panel in western Colorado after a spontaneous remote viewing.

“And I found this incredible panel of rock art. And I said, see, it's right there, exactly where I said it was going to be”

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Rynes says she experienced intense grief and dark days for about 18 months after returning.

“It got bad. Some of those days were really dark for about 18 months”

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Rynes says the physical and spirit realms are separated only by energy level.

“because there is really no true separation between here and there except like an energy level. That's it”

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Rynes says the SUV driver accelerated into the stop sign while texting and never saw her on the hood.

“she had her phone up on her steering wheel kind of doing, she was texting while she was driving”

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Rynes interprets her recurring butterfly dreams before the accident as a message about transformation rather than physical death.

“Butterflies are really a symbol of transformation, if you think about it. So I think that's what those dreams were trying to tell me”

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