Divine Encounters Episode 068 | Near-Death Experience Story
Dr. Allison Snowden was on a spring break trip in Mexico when, she says, she was attacked and then struck by a vehicle, and found herself above her body, absorbed in a timeless love. In this Divine Encounters episode she tells Alex Ferrari what she remembers, what she says she was shown about who we are and why she chose to return, and how she came to see healing from trauma as part of her mission.
Key Takeaways
- Allison says she left her body after a violent assault on a spring break trip, and that she barely noticed the drama below because she felt she was home.
- She describes expanding in consciousness, enveloped in love in a place with no space or time, with messages arriving telepathically.
- She says she remembered who she really is: “I’m not my brain, I’m not my personality, I’m not my body.”
- She says she was shown that thoughts, intentions and actions are recorded between lifetimes, and that she had planned this life before birth.
- She says she realized she had already chosen to go back, and that her mother and a sister would have been devastated if she had not.
- Her message: the experience was not just for her. It was to be shared, along with a more compassionate understanding of trauma.
| Guest | Dr. Allison Snowden |
| Episode | Divine Encounters 068 |
| Setting | A spring break trip to Mexico |
| What Allison says happened | She was attacked and then struck by a vehicle, and left her body |
| Where she says she went | A timeless space of pure love, which she describes as like a void |
| Who she met | Other souls she says she knew, with no visuals |
| What she was shown | Past lives, a record of every thought and action, and her pre-birth plan |
| The message | This is not just for me; it is to be shared |
A Spring Break Trip That Changed Plans
Alex asks his usual first question, and Allison answers with a scene. It was a spring break trip that was meant for her sister, she says. At the last minute her sister could not go, because of her health and her doctors’ warnings about getting sick in Mexico. The trip had already been bought, so Allison went.
She tells it with candor. On the third or fourth night, she says, she lost her friend while they were out with her sister’s friend, doing the spring break thing. She knows she will get comments about it. She says she went through so much victim blaming afterward, and she is just as clear that she is not interested in it.
If this part of her story is close to your own, please take care as you read on. Her account does not describe the details of what happened to her, and neither will we.
The Night Itself
Allison was upset, she says, and did not wait for someone to walk with her. She decided to go by herself. She was attacked and assaulted, and then, though she does not know how, since no one else was around, she was run over by a motor vehicle. She was told it was probably going about 60 miles per hour.
She remembers fighting. Then it went blank. She does not remember the vehicle at all.
What she remembers next is being out of her body. She calls the body her meat suit, this amazing human shell, lying just below. She had lost a lot of blood. She remembers seeing it and thinking something like, oh, damn. She was way up there, she says, and then she went straight up into the divine, into unconditional love.
Absorbed in Love, Back Home
She was so absorbed in that love, she says, that she barely registered what was going on below: the ambulance trying to get in, people figuring things out. She notes that some near-death experiencers stay close and can report back on what happened in the room. Not Allison. “I’m taking a vacation,” she says with a smile. “I felt like I was back home.”
She was without a body, expanding in her consciousness, enveloped in love. “There is no space or time,” she says, which she admits is hard for even her own brain to get around. It was a timeless space, and she was enveloped in love.
There was a lot of telepathic communication, she says, with messages for her. The experience was not visual. She compares it to the void. It was very impersonal, she says, pure and potent, more raw than a realm where we have light bodies that look like our physical selves. There were other souls, and she says she knew people who had died before and after.
Who She Says She Really Is
Allison says she remembered who she was on a very deep level. She is a consciousness that survives and is more than physical. “This is the eternal part of me,” she says. “I’m not my brain, I’m not my personality, I’m not my body.” She is not her income or her social status either. This is the true her.
That memory brought an unusual calm about the body she could see below. She thought, in a very detached way, that if she died she might just get another one.
She is quick to say that this is her experience. She does not need anyone to buy into it. But she shares what she was shown, and she believes that when you are in that energetic space outside the body, you remember things humans forget. It is like awakening to what you once remembered, she says, and then fell asleep to when you were incarnated.
If you would like to see how this kind of remembering fits among other accounts, our complete guide to near-death experiences is a good place to start.
Past Lives and a Record of Everything
She says she was shown that she had had several previous lifetimes. She was also shown that everything is recorded between lifetimes. “Your thoughts, your intentions, your actions, everything’s recorded, and you have access to that.” You can study it, she says, and see where you need to heal or where you want to grow.
For more on how people describe a record like this, see the glossary entry on the akashic records.
She connects this to the ThetaHealing system she uses and teaches, in which the seventh plane is pure love. In that paradigm, she says, there are many planes. In the astral realm, you might see Jesus or other masters. On the seventh plane, there is pure unconditional love. That was what her experience matched.
The Plan Before She Was Born
Allison says she remembered pre-birth planning, including why she chose her parents. She loves the Buddhist take, she says, that “to be born human, like you’ve done something amazing.” Being incarnated, even in the hardest circumstances, is a remarkable accomplishment.
She says each lifetime has something you are learning or growing. In this one, there was a part of her that wanted to have this type of experience, to live, and to share about it. There was also a deep healer energy, she says, and it was apparent when she was little. She always wanted to help, and especially wanted to heal her sister. That is part of her essence, and part of what she is here to teach.
For more on this idea, see our glossary entry on pre-birth memory.
There Is Choice, But She Had Already Chosen
When she was up there, she says, it was clear: “there is choice, but you already chose” to have this experience, go back and survive. She did look at staying. But she had, in a sense, already decided she was going back.
She was also shown what would happen if she did not. Her mother and one of her sisters would have been devastated, to the point where their lives would have gone another direction. That mattered to her.
Then she came back at lightning speed, through what she describes as a portal. The divine consciousness, she says, was telling her to bring this energy and anchor it into her body, and also to share it.
Coming Back to a Body
When she returned to St Louis from Mexico, she says, she was covered in blood. The hospital in Mexico had not really cleaned her. It was a very disturbing sight, she is told. She asked her mother not to take pictures, because she did not want a visual memory of how she looked. Grown men burst into tears when they came to see her in the hospital.
She thought she was disfigured. She did not see her reflection for three weeks, because she was bedridden, and getting into a wheelchair was the most painful thing she had experienced.
But she had prepared herself mentally, because of the reactions around her. She had just had the experience. She remembers thinking, “I am not a physical body,” so she assumed she might not recognize herself physically. When she finally saw herself, she thought, oh, I’m me. Swollen, with a bandaged cut, but me.
Why Healing Trauma Became Part of Her Work
The biggest message, she says, was for her and also for others. “this is not just for me. This is to be shared.” Sharing the experience is part of what she is supposed to do, and equally, sharing about healing trauma.
She explains why. There is a lot of ignorance around trauma, a lot of shame and a lot of fear. As a society, she says, we need to upgrade how we understand it, in a holistic way, so we can support each other and heal. Survivors can be unintentionally hurt by other people’s fears and egos, including ideas like just world theory.
She also describes what a wound does inside. When we are hurt, we need care, emotional and spiritual. In her own wounded space, even after her experience, she says, the wounded lens takes things in and uses them as ammunition to blame or hurt yourself more. And when she shares her truth, people filter it through their own wounds. So she meditates and prays before she speaks. She says it is an amazing thing that we can actually communicate at all.
Living on Her Soul’s Terms
Allison closes with what she is working toward: freedom, love, “living on my soul’s terms,” and pure love with no conditions and no stipulations. She loves growth and connection.
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Questions to Sit With
- Allison says she is not her brain, personality, body, income or social status. Which of those do you lean on most to define yourself?
- She says a wounded lens can use things as ammunition against yourself. What do you tell yourself that you would never say to a friend?
- She says what she lived through was not just for her. What of yours might be meant to be shared, in your own time?
When a critical thought about yourself shows up this week, pause, breathe, and ask whether you would say it to someone you love. If not, restate it more kindly.
Spiritual Takeaways
- Allison says she is a consciousness that survives physical death, and that this is her true self.
- She says there is no space or time, only love.
- She says everything we think, intend and do is recorded, and can be studied between lifetimes.
- She says to be born human is a remarkable accomplishment.
- Her view is that trauma needs understanding and care, not shame.
Please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Allison Snowden.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Dr. Allison Snowden?
Dr. Allison Snowden is a near-death experiencer and healer who tells host Alex Ferrari about an experience she says happened after an assault and a vehicle accident on a spring break trip to Mexico.
What does Allison say she experienced?
She says she left her body, was enveloped in unconditional love in a timeless space with no visuals, and communicated telepathically with other souls.
Did she watch what happened to her body?
She says she saw her body below, but was so absorbed in love that she paid little attention to the activity around it. She compares it to taking a vacation.
What did Allison remember about who she is?
She says she remembered she is a consciousness that survives physical death, not her brain, personality, body, income or social status.
What does she mean that everything is recorded?
She says she was shown that thoughts, intentions and actions are recorded between lifetimes, and that you can study them to see where you need to heal or grow.
What did she learn about pre-birth planning?
She says she remembered choosing her parents and planning aspects of her life, including wanting to have this experience and share it.
Why did she return?
She says she realized she had already chosen to go back. She was also shown that her mother and one of her sisters would have been devastated if she had not.
What was her recovery like?
She describes a long stay in bed, not seeing her reflection for three weeks, and strong reactions from people who saw her. She says her experience helped her prepare to meet herself in the mirror.
What is Allison’s message about trauma?
She says there is too much shame, fear and ignorance around trauma, and that society needs a more holistic understanding so survivors can be supported.
Is a near-death experience proof of an afterlife?
Next Level Soul shares near-death experiences as lived experiences told in the person’s own words. Researchers continue to study and debate what they mean. Nothing here is medical advice or a medical claim.
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Follow Along with the Transcript
Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.
Allison Snowden 0:08
We were on a spring break. It was for my sister's spring break. She, at the last minute, couldn't go because they found out she had an autoimmune disorder, and her doctors were like, do not go to Mexico if you get sick in Mexico, it's not good. Their medical systems, which is super ironic, are horrible. And so, like the trip had already been bought, like, everything like that. So we went and in, I think it was like the fourth the it was like the third or the fourth night I lost my friend and I, because we went out with my sister's friend, so we were doing like, the spring break thing. And I'm sure I'll get like, some comments around that, because that always happens. But anyway, people are like, Oh, they, you know, they. I mean, I went through so much victim blaming, you know, when I was after this whole thing of like, Oh, you were drunk, all of that stuff. I'm just like, whatever. So I was really upset, and I didn't wait for someone to come and, like, walk with me, because I was like, Oh, my God, I need to go now. So I was walking by myself. I was attacked, assaulted, and then I don't know how this happened, because no one else was around, but then I was run over by like a motor vehicle. They said a motor vehicle or a motorcycle that was probably going about 60 miles per hour. I remember fighting these men, and then it was blank. I don't remember, obviously, a motor vehicle or anything like that. But then I remember I was out of my body, and I like I was laying this I was my, my meat suit, this, this shell that, or this amazing human body that I'm in, was just below there, and I ruptured it to my tibial artery. So I bled out a lot, and so I just saw my body, and I was like, Oh, damn, you know, like I was, I was way up there, but I just absolutely when I was went straight up to that divine, that unconditional love. I was so absorbed in that aspect. There was, like, the whole drama that was going below of like the ambulance trying to get in and all of them trying to figure stuff out. I mean, there's some near death experiences where they like, are very close, and they're like, they can report back what had happened and things like that. I'm like, I'm taking a vacation, you know? I'm back home. I felt like I was back home. I was like, without a body, and I was like, expanding in my consciousness. I was enveloped in this unconditional love on this plane. There is no space or time, which is very difficult for even my own brain to, like, get around. And so it's just a timeless space and just enveloped in love. And then there was a lot of telepathic communication, of messages for me. So I re remember, you know who I was on a very deep level, that I am this consciousness that survives, that is more than physical, and that survives physical death, and that this is the eternal part of me, and this is who I really am. And I'm not my brain, I'm not my personality, I'm not my body, I'm not my income, I'm not my social status. Like this is this energetic, you know, soul, spirit, consciousness, whatever you like. To put a word to it, that's me. This is, this is the true me. So that, I mean, that was just the most profound experience. Because here I'm looking at my human suit, and I'm like, Oh, well, if I die, then maybe I'll get I'll just get another another one, you know, another body, or whatever it was. Like, this kind of, like, very, like, detached sense of, Oh, okay. I also feel like, kind of reiterate what you're saying. Like, this is just my experience. I don't need anyone to, like, buy into my experience, because it is my experience so but what I was shown is I had had several previous lifetimes. There was a couple things that was also shown to me. Is that the universe or that everything is recorded in between lifetimes, you can study and you know, see where you need to heal or where you want to grow. So your thoughts, your intentions, your actions, everything's recorded, and you have access to that. So this is an interesting thing about my nd. It was in this plane of consciousness where there was no visuals, there wasn't, I guess it was like, kind of more like the void. It was like unconditional love. It was very impersonal, super impersonal. And I was like, wait, I knew all these people that had died before, after. When I started to look into near death experiences, I was like, that's interesting. And there were other souls, but it was very there was not like, it wasn't on the astral realm. Realm, right? Where the actual realm we have our light bodies and we look kind of like our physical it was almost more raw than that. It was it was more just potent, pure like unconditional love. And in data healing, my main technique that I do, or that I teach, and I heal with, it's called the seventh plane, and it's just pure love. And there's many different planes in that system, in her paradigm. But that made sense, because on a different plane, you there's the astral realm, there's like you see Jesus, you can see all these different masters. But on this on this plane of the seventh plane, is pure love, pure unconditional love. But when you're in this energetic space outside your body. You're just submerged, and you re remember certain things that we forgot as humans from the spiritual realm. And so it was just like this, re remembering of, oh, past lives. Oh, everything is everything's recorded. Oh, I Oh, so it's like you're awakening to what you once remembered, but it's like you fell asleep when you were incarnated or something. When I looked at the Theta Healing, how they, how she structured the planes. It was, it was the seventh plane is, is more of just pure love. It's pure, it's just pure, pure love. And the fifth plane and the fourth plane, that's where you'll see it in the astral realm. The thing that I had was, you know, in the RE remembering, I was remembering the pre birth planning, like before I was born, and like, why I chose my parents. In my experience, I chose my parents, and I love the Buddhist take about life is like to be born human, like you've done something amazing, like it is a gift. Like you like that is an amazing, remarkable accomplishment, evolution to to be incarnated, even in the shittiest of the circumstances, you've done amazing things, like you're at at this level, type thing. And also, here's the thing is, when we're hurt and when we're wounded, we need care, and that's emotional, and that's emotional and spiritual. And I definitely when I was in my wounded space and my wounded lens, and I was even after my near death experience, because traumas can be so impactful, you know, it just overtakes you. And so you view anything your wounded self, your wounded paradigm, takes things in, and then it uses it as ammunition to blame yourself or to hurt yourself more. That's kind of going into like everyone's in their own paradigm, in their own belief system. So if I share my truth, people are filtering it through their own wounds, insecurities, core wounds, unhealed, trauma and programming, and that's why I try to hopefully energetically transmute this on some level. I always, I always meditate and pray before, because I hope, because our words can be distorted, or it can be construed through our own, on our own lens of programming on healed wounds. You know? I'm like, sometimes I'm like, wow, it's an amazing thing that we can actually communicate. I'm like, Oh my God, a person heard me actually. Because it's like, I know, because I'm in a body, and I have programs, I'm in the process, and I can still, just like, my first kind of sense of when I when someone says something, or and if it triggers a little old thing, it'll, you know, your wounds will just like, oh, this is how it is. And you have to, like, really sit with yourself and like, is this the highest truth, or am I really hearing this? So I also was aware that there is a part of me in that pre birth, because each lifetime that you live, you you're learning or growing something or and focusing on something. So in this lifetime, there was a part of me that wanted to have this type of experience and to live and to share about it. So there is this spiritual energy, and also a deep healer energy archetype that was also coming through in this lifetime, and that definitely was like apparent when I was little. I always wanted to help. I always wanted to help heal my sister. I That's always been like part of my essence, and definitely part of like this lifetime, or what I'm here to share and to give and to teach. So when I was up there, it was like, oh, there is choice, but you already chose, like, to have this experience and go back and survive. And so there was this point where I was like, looking at staying, but I had already, kind of already been like, but I'm going back type thing, but I got to see and I was like, Well, if I died like my mom and one of my sisters would have been like devastated, to the point where their lives would would have gone like this way. When I came back from Mexico into to St Louis, I was covered in blood, and I was not clean. They didn't really clean. Me off in the hospital in Mexico. So it was a very disturbing sight, from what people tell me, my I told my mom not to take any pictures because I didn't want a visual memory of what I looked like. But people, when they would come to me in the hospital, I saw grown men just like burst into tears. I thought that I was disfigured. I didn't see my reflection for three weeks because I was bedridden, and they didn't get me up into a wheelchair for that long, and which was the most painful thing I've ever experienced because getting out. But I had mentally prepared, because people's reactions to me were so horrific, and I knew I'd broken something. I was like, it's gonna be okay, you know, I'm gonna roll with this. Because I had had that experience. And I was like, I am not a physical body, and so I had just assumed that, like, I wasn't gonna recognize myself on a physical level. The first time I saw myself, I can remember, I knew there was a mirror here, just because I know the hospital rooms. And so I was like, expecting that to recognize myself, but I was like, Oh, I'm me, really swollen and, like, I had a cut right here, so it's a bandage. And I was like, swollen as I was coming down, you know, through that lightning speed, like Portal, that divine consciousness, was like, oh, bring this energy and anchor it into your body and also share it. Or this needs to be embodied and also anchored into Earth and with others. So it was like this energy of of love needs, needs to come down right, come down to you. And the whole message, that was, the biggest message, is for me and also to share with others. Because this is not just for me. This is to be shared. This is a part of what you're supposed to do is to talk about this and to share. Share about it. Also share about the healing, and also, equally, part of my mission is also to share about healing, about healing trauma, because there's a lot of ignorance around it, there's a lot of shame around it. There's a lot of fear around it, and also, just as a society, we need to kind of upgrade from and to really understand this more on a holistic manner, so we can really support each other and heal because a lot of people unintentionally hurt, trauma survivors or survivors just by their own ignorance and their own fears, like just world theory, all of that, their own ego, feeling threatened and scared, living from a space of freedom and love, and living on my soul's terms, and completing that keep going and love, Pure Love with no conditions, no stipulations. Pure high vibrational love. I love growth and connection.
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