Chilling NDE! Saved by the Holy Spirit After a Tragic Murder with Ana Christina

Life is a tapestry woven with threads of the unexpected, the sacred, and the profound. On today’s episode, we welcome Ana Christina, a remarkable woman whose near-death experience revealed the eternal presence of the divine in every aspect of life.

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Ana Christina’s life unfolded in a series of sharp contrasts. Her story is one of resilience—a journey through cultural transitions, a tumultuous marriage, and the depths of spiritual awakening. But it was in the quiet of an ordinary day that Ana Christina found herself on the brink of the extraordinary. As she describes it, the Holy Spirit’s voice came to her not in thunderous proclamations but as an intimate whisper, guiding her to embrace even the smallest details of life. “Child, I’m in every little detail of your life,” she recalls hearing. That moment became a cornerstone of her understanding: divinity is not distant but deeply intertwined with our human experience.

Ana Christina’s near-death experience wasn’t a gentle crossing; it was a profound initiation into the mysteries of existence. As she lay in her bed, feeling the presence of God through an overwhelming light, she was instructed to stop thinking and surrender completely. “You’d be surprised how difficult it is to stop thinking,” she shares with a laugh. But in this surrender, she encountered a presence she describes as endless love and compassion, a divine sweetness beyond words.

Her journey wasn’t just about personal transcendence. Ana Christina’s life before this moment was fraught with challenges—navigating cultural divides, enduring an abusive relationship, and facing betrayal. Yet, these trials seemed to prepare her for the moment she would stand on the edge of life and death, only to be sent back with a mission: to be an ambassador of God’s love.

What stands out about Ana Christina is her deep humility and trust in the divine. When the Holy Spirit revealed that her vision of impending death was not about her brother but about her own transition, she found peace not in the certainty of survival but in the knowledge that her children would be held by Jesus. This dream, where she and her children walked hand in hand with Christ, became a touchstone of faith, allowing her to let go and embrace the unknown.

Ana Christina’s story is a powerful reminder that life’s most profound moments often arise from the ordinary. Her connection to God deepened in simple acts, like adding yogurt to rice, a gesture that revealed how deeply the divine is enmeshed in our daily lives. These moments, she explains, are invitations to recognize the sacred in the mundane, to see God not as a distant overseer but as a loving presence in every heartbeat, every breath.

In reflecting on her journey, Ana Christina offers wisdom that transcends religious boundaries. Her message is one of unity—an affirmation that God’s love is universal, encompassing all of humanity in its boundless embrace. “We all have different journeys, different purposes,” she says. “Each one of us is unique.”

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  1. The divine resides in the smallest details of life, inviting us to recognize its presence in every moment.
  2. Surrender and trust can open pathways to profound spiritual transformation.
  3. Each individual’s journey is unique, yet all are woven together by the unifying thread of divine love.

As we part ways with Ana Christina’s story, we are left with a profound sense of awe at the divine mystery that guides and surrounds us. Her experiences remind us that even in our darkest hours, there is light, love, and an invitation to step into the fullness of who we are.

Please enjoy my conversation with Ana Christina.

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Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE049

Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.

Ana Christina 0:08
I was born in Alexandria, Egypt, migrated to Canada around seven years old, and then my father took us back to Egypt when I started being 12, just for us to learn our culture in Asia. There I was having challenges with the language, the Arabic language, my education was English and French, so my father hired a tutor, Sam, who we ended up falling in love, and I went back to Canada, but we stayed connected, and about four or five years later, we wanted to get married, and he proposed, and my father said over my dead body, and even though he liked him, Sam was Muslim, and I'm a Coptic Christian, and in Egypt, that's from dawn, it's like you just don't marry a muslim. So I knew I had to move on with my life. Came to California around 24 years old, met and married Paul. Paul kind of courted me, swoop me off my feet. We got married. It didn't take long to realize that he was a narcissist, but at that time, we that language wasn't even in my vocabulary. We didn't have internet. We didn't understand narcissist characters. It was He was very selfish and critical and argumental about everything, and broke my spirit and made it. It was always my fault, and he always threatened if I tried to leave, like once he said, in front of people, he would hire a sniper if I would hire a divorce lawyer, he would hire a sniper because he would lose his mind, and no Court will hold him accountable. So that was his logic, and I really believed he would do it. I believed he would snap and do it. I did have two beautiful children from Paul Colleen and Andrew, but it took about 13 years to finally be able to get out and be feel safe. And hired a known nonsense lawyer got me a restraining order, and Paul was out of my life. Then out of nowhere, Sam calls. We hadn't communicated for about 25 years. He calls, and I end up meeting him in Egypt, thinking that my heart is guarded. I'm not looking for any relationship. I was born again at that time, I didn't want to remarry, but once we met, all guards went down, and we fell in love again, and he was what I was looking for. I was very vulnerable at the time. Paul was very cold, just not a good marriage, and we ended up getting married. It didn't matter at that time that he was Muslim and I was Christian, because I saw the Christian, the Coptic one treated me really badly. So I thought God sent me this gentleman, and we got married. Lived in California. I was the breadwinner because I was the chief financial officer. Sam didn't have the language, so he was more of a stay home. I supported him. I supported his children in Egypt through medical and dental school, and we lived a good life. And then some red flags happened, and I started seeing our account being depleted. My Account was always NSF. I was making a lot of good money, and we were living from paycheck to paycheck, and just things were not adding up. So these red flags caused me to start like reevaluating this and deciding that we need to divorce. And we finally agreed on an amicable divorce that we filed in December, 2008 I thought he's going to change. Let's pray to change. Went to all the priests, the bishops, everybody at church to help marriage counseling, everything because of the kids. I didn't want to divorce. It's not something we take lightly back then and also in our community. But he could never change. He was just who he is. It was december 2008 that we filed for the amicable divorce, and then he asked me that he wanted to stay in the house, in our place for about three weeks until he finds another place. And I agreed I didn't want to throw him out. So about it didn't take long after we filed that that I started feeling sick and my whole body. Body was aching at a level that I you know, I have fibromyalgia, but my body didn't feel like this before. It was like a bus ran me over, back and forth, back and forth, like it wasn't just you wake up with that. The worst part was the headaches. I started getting these headaches that they didn't go away, and they were so excruciating that just blinking would hurt, just like I would try to stay, either just stay my eyes shut all day, or try to keep it open. And I asked him to take me to urgent care, and he wouldn't. It took like I was suffering with this for about a week, and then finally, took me to Urgent Care. Urgent Care, they didn't run any tests. They said, Oh, you're probably coming down with the flu. Gave me painkiller and set me up so the painkillers helped with the aches and my body. Then Sam started giving me his blood pressure medicine. Now, I didn't have blood pressure, but he started giving me that, and somehow the pressure in my head started going down, and I was able to function again, aching, but not debilitated. So this was year end. I'm a chief financial officer. Year End is the worst time to be away from work. And I was gone for about like two weeks or so, and then finally I said, I need to go in. I need to take care of things. And January 8, as I was driving to work that morning, I got a vision. I never get visions. I'm not a person that get visions. And all of a sudden I'm seeing this vision, and in it, there's somebody dying in my immediate family. It's like it's death. And I see my brother, my older brother. I see my two sisters. I don't see my younger brother, Steve. And Steve was born mentally handicapped, and he was actually the reason we came to Canada, because we were seeking better health care for him. And I thought this is a warning from God that something's going to happen to Steve and I need to go see and I remembered, like a year ago, my mom was ill, and she was calling for me, but I had a major project that I was in charge of at the company, and I couldn't go. I kept delaying going until I finished the conversion, and the day I finished, and it was a great project, I call up to tell it was her 80th birthday, and I called her up to tell her I just booked my ticket, and they told me she had gone into a coma that morning, and she never came out of that coma. So that was the biggest regret in my life, to put work before family. So when I got this vision of my brother. I didn't want to take a chance. I felt God is giving me a warning. And I went to the office, arranged everything so that I can leave. I told him I have to travel. I called Sam, told him, my brother is ill and I need to go to Egypt. He goes, Okay, and I said, this was Friday. I told him, I'm either going to leave Saturday or Sunday. I'll let him know. And I started my meetings with my subordinates, trying to organize things, trying to determine what I'm going to take with me, and so forth. And as I'm meeting with everybody, my head now is starting to hurt again, and I'm holding my head like this and my elbows on my desk, and I'm holding it tight so nobody like I don't want to show the pain, but somehow I felt a power telling me, leave everything. Stop thinking now, go home, and I leave, and I drive to Irvine, and as I'm walking out and walking to my condominium, I hear this voice. It wasn't an audible voice. It wasn't an outside it was a voice in my mind speaking to me.

And immediately I recognized it was the Holy Spirit. I always connected with Jesus. That was an easier connection, you know, God the Father, but I really never got the Holy Spirit. I didn't understand it, so I ignored his presence, or I just didn't get him. You know, it was to me all I can see Holy Spirit, a dove flying. But no, real concept of who he was, and he starts talking to me, but immediately he tells me to shut my mouth like I am, not to reveal what is happening right now. So I continue walking up the stairs. Sam opens the door and asks me, are you. You leaving tomorrow or the day after? And I looked at him and I said, I don't know. I can't think right now. I'll let you know tomorrow. That was it. And the Holy Spirit tells me, like I was standing there, the counter is in front of me and the refrigerator refrigerator is behind me. And he goes, child, turn around and get plain yogurt and put it on your rice. And I'm going come again like you care about the yogurt I put on my rice. It was such a trivial thing to do. It was hard for me to understand that he cared about that detail. And actually, that was my favorite way to eat rice. In Egypt, you put lean yogurt on rice. So I said, you care about the yogurt on my rice? And he said, Child, I'm in every little detail of your life. When I heard that, I felt like a fool, and I took my plate and I sat on the couch and I started eating it, and he's talking to me, there's dialog, and I remember he cracked a joke like he had such a beautiful sense of humor. I don't remember the joke. I wish I remember. And I went to my bed, I kiss my daughter Good night, and got into bed, and I'm lying there and just wondering what's going on? And he says, child, it's not your brother, it's you. I went to bed assuming I'm gonna wake up in the morning. We never went to bed thinking I that might be my last breath. And when he said that, I wasn't ready, I wasn't ready to die, all I could think about is, my daughter. It's gonna wake up in the morning, and that broke my heart. That was heavy. I just It broke my heart to know that the pain she's gonna suffer, and I'm just not accepting it, but trying to, trying to accept it. Then he reminds me of a dream that I had several years ago, where I dreamt of Jesus, and it was Colleen, Andrew and myself, and we were walking with Jesus down this beautiful meadow, and we were all holding his waist, and we're all laughing, and he had his arms around Colleen and Andrew. They, each of them were holding him from the waist, and he just had them. And I am with them. And I was always puzzled. I remember when I woke up that day from that dream, trying to understand, how did the three of us walk down and are holding him, and we didn't trip on each other's feet, but that night, as he was reminding me of that dream, it was like, you're there, but I like I was going to be there in spirit. And when I remembered that dream and realized that he's got them, I was okay with letting go. I was okay. I said, okay, like they're in his care. Then I was fine with that, and I accept the fact that it was me. And then he goes, child, you're gonna go on a journey and you'll be back to be my ambassador. And as soon as he said that, it was like, oh, no, that's not a big deal, that I can do that. It was ambassador the Most High God, so it's great. So I said, Okay, well, I can do this. What you want me to do? And he goes, Shay, I need you to stop thinking. I'm going what? Stop thinking, okay, I can do that. And I tried to stop thinking, but you'd be surprised how difficult it is to stop thinking. I kept trying to shut down my brain, but I kept wondering, did I stop thinking? Am I still thinking? What's going you know, like I kept tricking on my own thoughts, but he was so patient with me, and I finally got to that spot where I stopped thinking, and I laid there, and he could tell that I stopped thinking, and he goes, Okay, child, I need you to shut your eyes. And no matter what happens, do not open I said, Okay. As soon as I shut my eyes, a bright light came into the room, a light that I've never seen before, but it felt it wasn't just a light. It was a presence. And it was a presence I felt of God the Father. It was a higher power. And immediately the window to my right started shaking, and it felt like an earthquake, but the windows started shattering like moving, and then my heart started palpitating, and started slowly. It was simple palpitation, but then it got stronger and stronger, and as soon as I got scared, the. Whole process shut down. My heart stopped palpitating. The window stopped shaking. The light turned off, and the process stopped. I just screwed up my death. And he goes, he goes, try this one. You can't screw up. I just need you to relax more. And I said, okay, okay. And he took me through the process, and I started it again. Stopped thinking, and as soon as I shut my eyes, the light came back, and I felt that same presence. And this time, because I knew the process, I didn't get scared. So I kept going through it, but it kept getting stronger. Like I thought, This is how you die from a heart attack. Like my heart is just in it's gonna explode. And I had tremendous peace. And then the pain stopped, and it was peaceful, and I could breathe again. And then I realized the pain was gone. God is truly an endless love and compassion and sweetness and just anything good that we know. He's just goodness. He's so sweet and awesome, loving, loving, loving God to all of us. He loves all mankind. We all have different journeys, different purposes. There's only one. Each one is used different. You know, each one of us is unique.

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