Divine Encounters Episode 078 | Near-Death Experience Story
Carlos Vivas had asked God a hard question that very morning, and a few days later, he says, he was fighting for his life far out in the ocean on Memorial Day. In this Divine Encounters episode he tells Alex Ferrari about a rip current, a thunderstorm, a dolphin that he says carried him to safety, and a dream-like visit that night in which he says Jesus showed him heaven and a life review.
Key Takeaways
- Carlos says a news story about children had him demanding answers from God, and moments later a friend called with a beach invitation.
- He describes a day of repeated warning signs, including strong wind and a stranger telling him the open-ocean side was dangerous.
- Carlos says a rip current carried him far from shore, and that after 30 minutes of fighting he surrendered and said thank you.
- He says a soft voice told him three times to ask for help, and that a friend then spotted him from a hill.
- He describes a dolphin that, he says, rose from below and carried him until a boat arrived, then followed him to shore.
- That night, he says, a visit with Jesus took him to heaven, where he says he was told “the only thing that you’re gonna find is love.”
- He says Jesus told him to go back and tell everybody what happened there.
| Guest | Carlos Vivas |
| Episode | Divine Encounters 078 |
| Setting | An island off Panama City, Florida, on Memorial Day |
| What Carlos says happened | He was swept out by a rip current, then rescued with the help of a dolphin |
| Where he says he went | Heaven, in an experience that came as he rested that night |
| Who he met | Jesus, as Carlos understood him, and millions of people in white robes |
| The message | “Carlos, I want you to go back and tell everybody what happened here.” |
| What changed | He says he gave his life over to God’s purpose |
Who Is Carlos Vivas?
Carlos grew up in a family that kept him busy. His mother signed the kids up for swimming, taekwondo and music classes, and he says he was on a swimming team as a child. By the time of this story, he lived near Atlanta, Georgia, and had worked at the same company for almost 20 years.
He says he was not superstitious. That matters, because the day he describes was full of what he now calls red flags, and he ignored all of them.
A Question for God, and a Phone Call
One morning, Carlos says, he sat on his sofa, turned on the television and saw news of a tragedy involving children at a school. He felt awful. He turned the TV off and said, from the bottom of his heart, that if there was a God, he needed to explain why this was happening to innocent souls.
At that moment, his phone rang. It was one of his best friends. What are you doing this weekend? Nothing. His friend’s family was going to the beach in Panama City. Did he want to come? Carlos said yes. He now sees that call as the start of what happened next.
Fifteen Red Flags
Carlos says a lot happened on the way there that could have turned the trip around, about 15 red flags in all. Because the Memorial Day crowds were enormous, he suggested taking a charter boat from a state park out to an island. It was a beautiful day, with blue sky and blue water.
The bay side of the island was packed. Carlos suggested the other side, facing the open ocean. On the way, a man with five children stopped him and said that side was the dangerous one. Carlos told him he had been coming for more than ten years and nothing had ever happened. Everything will be fine, he said.
On the far side, the wind started blowing so hard that their tent opened like a parachute. They fought with it for 45 minutes until a friend put rocks on every corner. They stayed from about nine in the morning until four in the afternoon. Around then, his friends decided to walk around the island and told him to expect them back in 45 minutes to an hour, because the last boat left at 5:35.
Alone in the Water
Carlos was alone, it was hot, and he decided to take a short swim. He was not afraid of the water. Almost at once, he says, a rip current like a whirlpool under the surface pushed him far from shore.
He did not know what a rip current was, so he fought it. He fought for 30 minutes, with his head farther and farther from the island. Then his arms and legs cramped. He says he realized there was no way he was coming back alive.
He looked to heaven and said, “I never thought this is going to be my last day,” but if God wanted to take him, he was ready. Before he went, he wanted to say thank you for his mother, his father, his brothers and sisters. “Thank you for everything you gave me.” And he said he was sorry for anything he had done wrong.
A Voice Behind Him
As soon as he said it, Carlos says, he heard a voice behind him say, ask for help. It was “a very soft voice.” He looked and saw only water and wind. A few minutes later it came again. He asked aloud if anyone was there. Nothing. Then, a third time: “I told you to ask for help.”
So he began waving his arms and shouting. At the same time, one of his friends back on the island felt something was wrong and left the group. He ran back and forth on the beach, climbed a hill, and spotted Carlos. He shouted that he had called 911. Carlos says he could not believe it was happening again, and that his friend was determined that nobody would die this time.
Rescuers, a Storm and Surrender
His friend threw tubes from the hilltop, but the wind blew them back. He ran to get people from the other side. Six men jumped from the rocks and started toward Carlos. He says he cried with relief and thanked God.
Then came thunder and lightning behind him. A storm was moving in, and the men turned around. Carlos says he did not blame them. They did not know him, and they had families.
In that moment, he says, he surrendered. “If you want to take me, just take me.” He stopped fighting. A huge wave crushed him under the ocean.
The Dolphin
Under the water, Carlos says he opened his eyes and saw a black shadow rushing toward him. He covered his face, sure it was a shark. The shape grabbed him by the stomach and pushed him all the way up. When he broke the surface and looked, he grabbed a tail. It was a big dolphin.
He was crying with gratitude. The dolphin did not move. It just floated beside him. Ten minutes later, a boat appeared, and the captain shouted that he could not get too close because of the waves, but would throw a rope. Carlos reached the boat, then stopped to catch his breath. The captain urged him to hurry, because the boat itself was taking on water. Carlos got in. The dolphin stayed right behind them.
On the ride, they discovered they were neighbors, from Duluth and Norcross, near Atlanta. The captain turned and shouted for Carlos to look behind them. He filmed as the dolphin jumped in their wake and followed them around the island to the bay side.
As Carlos waded in toward shore, something bumped his leg. The dolphin had followed him. He fell to his knees and made a vow. “Carlos died into the ocean.” He told God that if the dolphin was a sign that he had a purpose, “I give you my life. I give you my soul.” As he finished, the dolphin left, and thunder, lightning and rain began. He took that as a yes.
A Church Garden and a Hot Meal
Police arrived, and Carlos signed a report. He told the park management that he had seen no sign about rip currents, and that others should be careful. Then he asked his friends to take him to a church. The nearest Catholic church was closed, but its garden held a grotto with a statue of Our Lady of Fatima, full of candles.
Everyone who had come from the beach formed a circle, hugged each other and prayed for twenty or thirty minutes. Then Carlos asked to go to the hotel, eat and shower. He was exhausted, and when he put his head on the pillow, the second part of his experience began.
The Night Visit: A Cruise Ship, a Tsunami and a Hug
Carlos describes it as something like a dream, but he did not treat it that way. He was holding the rail of a huge cruise ship on a sunny day, and he saw something rising on the horizon: a tsunami. He covered his face, sure he was about to die. Thirty minutes passed and nothing happened.
Then someone pushed him from behind and told him to open his eyes. “You never gonna die with me.” Carlos looked back and says he felt in his heart that this was Jesus: a tall man, about six foot five, in a white robe, with light coming from his face. He asked Carlos to close his eyes. He hugged him from behind. Ten seconds later, he said to open them, and Carlos was in heaven.
Carlos thought he was dead and asked to be taken back. Jesus told him he had not died yet, but he had made a promise and needed to fulfill it. From that day, Carlos was part of him and part of all the people there. Carlos says he saw millions of people in white robes.
Questions and Answers in Heaven
Jesus asked if Carlos had questions. Carlos had two. Where did all these people come from? They came from all over the world, he was told. And which religion is the true one? Carlos says he was told heaven is not religious. “The only thing that you’re gonna find is love.” And, “Love is the most powerful force in the universe,” the force that will unite humanity again.
Carlos asked for a life review. He says he was shown “all the good and bad that you did during your life,” and that you can feel how your actions made other people feel. To him, it is a reflection of your life and what you did for others. To read more about the life review, visit our glossary entry on life review, and our entry on heaven.
At the end, he says Jesus told him, “Carlos, I want you to go back and tell everybody what happened here.” Carlos felt himself pushed back.
Back at Work on Monday
They drove back to Atlanta on Monday and Carlos went to his office. He told the other managers he had been saved by a dolphin. They laughed it off. Then his boss, behind him, said, I believe you. Carlos says his boss is a Christian, and that the others are atheists.
His boss told him to look up what the dolphin means in the Christian tradition. Carlos says he learned that it stands for Jesus, “the hope of eternal life,” and that in the time of the Romans, dolphins were pictured carrying souls to heaven. He notes that you see dolphins everywhere in the sculptures of Rome.
What Carlos Says We Can Take From This
Carlos shares a few practical thoughts. First, breathe. “People don’t breathe these days.” Second, he says prayer is less about repetition and more about the emotion, intention and energy you put into it, which he compares to what activates the mail you send to heaven. Third, “Earth is a big school,” he says, where we come to learn and to give love to others. That, to him, is a good life.
Carlos’s Account Beside Other Near-Death Experiences
Carlos’s story has two parts. In the water, he describes surrender, a guiding voice and a rescue. At night, he describes a visit to heaven, a figure he understood as Jesus and a life review. Surrender, a sense of being guided, and a message to return and share are themes that people often report.
Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson created the 16-item NDE Scale, published in 1983, to help researchers compare such experiences. In 2001, a study in The Lancet by Pim van Lommel and colleagues found that 62 of 344 cardiac arrest survivors, about 18 percent, reported a near-death experience. These accounts remain much discussed. We offer them as personal experience, with no medical claims. Start with our complete guide to near-death experiences and the entry on near-death experience.
Questions to Sit With
- Carlos asked God a hard question in the morning and says he got an answer he did not expect. What question are you carrying right now?
- He surrendered only after he had fought as hard as he could. Where in your life might letting go be a different kind of strength?
- Carlos says he gave his life to a purpose. What would it look like to give a little more of yours to something that matters?
Sit for three minutes this week and breathe slowly, then say one honest thank you out loud.
Spiritual Takeaways
- Carlos says heaven is not religious, and that love is all you find there.
- He says surrender can come after you have done everything you can.
- He says a life review lets you feel how you made others feel.
- He says Earth is a big school where we learn and give love.
- He says that being rescued gave him a purpose to share.
Please enjoy my conversation with Carlos Vivas.
Guest Links: Connect With Carlos Vivas
- Carlos Vivas’s official website (Help From Heaven)
- Beyond Near Death Experiences on Facebook
- Carlos on Instagram
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Carlos Vivas?
Carlos Vivas is a near-death experiencer who lives near Atlanta, Georgia, and tells his story on Divine Encounters with host Alex Ferrari.
What happened to Carlos Vivas in the ocean?
Carlos says that on Memorial Day he swam off an island near Panama City and a rip current carried him far from shore. After about 30 minutes of fighting, he says he surrendered and a dolphin carried him until a boat arrived.
Did Carlos really hear a voice in the water?
He says he heard a very soft voice behind him three times, telling him to ask for help. He says he began waving and shouting, and a friend then spotted him.
What does Carlos say the dolphin did?
He says a dolphin grabbed him from below, pushed him to the surface and stayed beside him until a boat came. He says it then followed the boat and later followed him to the shore.
What did Carlos promise after he was rescued?
On his knees at the water’s edge, he says he told God he was giving his life and his soul to whatever purpose God had for him.
Who did Carlos meet in heaven?
Carlos says he understood the tall figure in a white robe to be Jesus. He also says he saw millions of people in white robes.
What did Carlos say heaven was like?
He says the only thing you find there is love, and that heaven is not religious. He says he was told that love is the most powerful force in the universe.
Did Carlos have a life review?
Yes, he says. He describes it as seeing all the good and bad you did, and feeling how you made other people feel.
What was Jesus’s message to Carlos?
Carlos says he was asked to go back and tell everybody what happened in heaven.
What does the dolphin symbolize, according to Carlos?
He says his boss told him that for Christians, the dolphin represents Jesus and the hope of eternal life, and that dolphins were shown in ancient Rome carrying souls to heaven.
Is a near-death experience medical evidence?
Next Level Soul shares near-death experiences as lived experiences 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.
Carlos Vivas 0:08
One morning, I wake up, I go to my living room, I sit down on my sofa, and I turn the TV on, and on the TV was the news that was a massacre of kids in school. So I feel super bad. And I turn the TV off, and I say, Okay, God, this is it for me, how these beautiful kids that their innocent souls have to die? This is not possible. If there is a God, you need to explain me. You need to give me an explanation why this is happening. In that moment that I asking God from the bottom of my heart, like, what's going on? My phone rings. I grabbed the phone. He was one of my best friends. Carlos, what are you doing this weekend? Said nothing. Why my family want to go to the beach and we're going to Panama City. Do you want to go? So yeah, let's go. So we planned the trip. We traveled to Panama City. A lot of stuff happened on the way there for us to stop the trip and go back to Atlanta. Like 15 red flags. I wasn't superstitious, so I didn't believe any of these signs that were happening at that time. So we drove to Panama City. We go to different places to stay the day, but it was packed because it was Memorial Day. And I told my friends, you know what, let's go to an island. It's called chill Island, and we need to go to this park. It's called San Andres State Park. And when we get there, we get a charter boat and take us to the island. So we did that to the shuttle boat. The boat took us to the island. It was beautiful day, blue skies, blue water. When we arrived to the island, it was around 9am in the morning. It was packed with people the bay side. So I told my friend, well, I didn't know these people was coming here. So what about let's go to the other side of the island, this open ocean. So my friend said, yeah, yeah, let's go. So we went there. We walked to the other side. On my way, walking to the other side of the island, there was a guy with five kids. And the guy says, Excuse me, sir, excuse me. I was walking first. My friends were behind me. I said, Yes, sir. What's going on? I said, like, what do you think you're going so I'm going to the other side, sir, because this side is packed with people. I said, Yes, but here is the most, most secure area of the island. The other side is open ocean is dangerous. I said, Look, I've been coming here for more than 10 years. Nothing ever happened. Don't worry, everything's gonna be fine. So okay, we'll just be careful. So we continue walking. We arrive to the other side of the island. Like I said, this is a piece of land in the middle of the ocean. They don't have any pump, nothing, just sand. Right when we arrived to the other side, there was nobody there. So I told my friends, let's put a big tent, because the sun was really spicy, was really hot, so I have a big tent. So we start putting the tent together, and the wind, that was another red flag. The wind started blowing really, really hard, and the tent opens, and the tent was like a flag, like a parachute. So when the parachute opened, that was the tent, the wind was blowing, and we couldn't put it together for 45 minutes. We're fighting with this thing because the wind was so hard. And after 45 minutes, one of my friends grabbed some rocks and put it on every corner of the tent. And we stayed there all day. We put chairs, we bring food with drinks, and we stayed there from 9am to 4pm one of my friends said, Carlos, me and my family were gonna walk around the island. Do you want to come with us? I said, No, I taking care of everything. You guys go. I know this island, but you have between 45 minutes to an hour to come back here, because the last boat leave at 5:35, it's 30 to 6pm Okay, so they leave me alone. I was by myself. It was a little bit hot, and I said, You know what? I just gonna jump and swim a little bit. And I'm not afraid to swim, because when I was a child, I was on a swimming team, and my mom, she always put us on Ferrari, taekwondo, swimming classes, music classes, piano classes, I mean, you name it. And I said, Okay, I just gonna swim. So I jump into the water, I start swimming. And out of the sun, this rip tie came under the water. It was like a whirlpool, like a twister under the water, and pushed me far, far away into the ocean. I didn't know what a riptide was, so I was fighting and fighting and fighting. The first thing that you do with a rip tie is never fight with a rip tie. And I was just fighting because I didn't know what it was, right? And after 30 minutes, fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting when I put my head out of water and farther and farther and farther away from the island, and this current is still taking me into the ocean. After 30 minutes, I have cramps on my arms, on my legs, and I say, You know what? There is no way that I'm going to come back alive from here. This is it for me. This is it for my life. So in that moment, I look at heaven, I say, Okay, God, you know what? I never thought this is going to be my last day, but if you want to take me, I'm ready. So before I go, I just want to say thank you. I want to say thank you for my mom, thank you for my dad, thank you for my brothers and sisters. Thank you for everything you gave me. And I'm sorry if I did something wrong. And as soon as I said that, behind me, I heard this voice that said, ask for help. So I looked back, it was a very soft voice. And I was like, what? I don't see anything. I just hear the water and the wind. And then minutes later, I heard again, ask for help. And I was like, Are you kidding me? Are you here? Like, is anybody here? Help me? Please. Nothing. Few minutes passes, and then I heard again, I told you to ask for help. Oh, my God. Okay. Okay. So I started waving my hands. Hell, you. Him that barely could see the island. This voice is still insisting behind me. I said, Help. Help. Help. At the end of the island, something happened. One of my one of my best friends, he came out of the group because he felt something was wrong. So when he was looking for me, and he went back to the beach, and he didn't saw me there, he started running back and forth. He went to a top of a hill. When he went to the top of the hill. He saw me, and he started jumping Carlos. Carlos, I call 911. Hold on, hold on. And he told me the Carlos, I couldn't believe this was happening again to me, but this time, I'm gonna do everything on my soul so nobody's gonna die, you know. So he went back to the tent and he grabbed some tubings. He went to the top of the hill, and he started dropping the tubings. But like I say I was like, half a mile away. And of course, the tube was flying back to him because the winds was against him, right? And then when he saw that that didn't work, he said, Okay, hold on, hold on. Let me get people from the other side. So he went back to get the people that was boarding the boats going back to Panama City. A lot of people came, and six guys jumped from the rocks. When this these guys jumped from the rocks. Everybody's coming my way. And I was like, Oh my God, thank you. God, thank you. They're going they're gonna save me. They're gonna save me. 10 minutes later, after this happened, we hear a thunder behind me, and then a lightning, and when I look behind me, I see that it's a big thunderstorm coming. And I said, Oh my God, there's a thunderstorm. So when I look in front of me, the guys that's supposed to be Rescue me, turn around, start turning around. And in that moment I said, Well, I don't blame them, because they don't know me, and maybe they have families that they don't want to die for somebody that they don't know. And in that moment when they turn around, I said, You know what, God, just take me. There is no way I'm going to get out of here. So in this moment, I'm just going to surrender. I don't want to continue fighting for this. If you want to take me, just take me. So in that moment, I surrender. And then I saw a huge wave that came and crushed me all the way under the ocean. So when I was under the ocean, I opened my eyes, and from far, far away, I see this black shadow that's coming my way. So I covered my face, thinking that it's a chart. I was like, oh my god, it's gonna kill and it's gonna kill me. So this Black Shadow, come, come, come, come, grab me by my stomach and push me all the way up. I didn't know at this point what it was. And when I think, come out of the water and I look at it, I was like, what? So I grabbed the tail. It was a dolphin. It was a big dolphin. So I started crying. I look in the face of the dolphins, like, how in the world I can do like, I cannot believe this. Like, wow. So I was crying of gratitude. You know, it's like, wow. Look at this. Like, this beautiful mammals. Like, wow. So just there, hanging with there. He didn't move. He just was floating there. And 10 minutes later, a future boat show up in front of me, and the guy started screaming at me, Hey, son, I can save you, but I cannot get close to you because the waves are so big. I'm gonna hit you with my boat. I'm gonna throw you a rope. So he throw me a rope. I go to the boat, but as soon as I get to the boat, I just grab air. So I grab the things, and when I do this, the guy's like, what are you doing? What are you doing? I said, Sir, I'm super tired. I have cramps all over my arms, on my legs. I feel super exhausted. I just need to grab some air. I said, No, no, no, you need to hurry up right now. Come on. It's like, why? I said, my body's sinking. I said, How do you both is sinking? I said, like, yeah, I have a pump, and the pump is stopped, and all the waves are getting inside of the pump, and all the boat is floating inside. I said, like, what? Come on. Hurry up. Go to the back. So I go to the back. I see the steps I jump in. The dolphin is still behind me. As soon as I jump in, the boat was like, this full of water. And I was like, Oh, my God, sorry, we need to take this water out. Do you have a bucket? Say, No, I don't have any bucket. Come on. We don't have time for this. Sit down. And I was like, Okay, I sit down. And then he started driving away from the that part of the island. And then he asked me, like, Okay, are you okay? Are you fine? Yes, sir, I'm fine. Let me ask you a question. What is your family and your friends? Everybody's in this part of the island? What happened? Well, I just went to swim a little bit, and this ride brought me all the way here. And then he said, like, Okay, let me ask you this question, where are you from? I said, I'm from Atlanta, Georgia. What about you, sir? I said, I'm from Atlanta, Georgia, too. I said, Really? What part? I said, I'm from Duluth. And the guy said, I'm from Norcross, Duluth and Norcross is next to each other. So I was like, what we're neighbors to? And he's like, Yeah, we're never this amazing. And then in that moment, he's like, Oh my God, look behind you. Look behind you. So when we look behind us, he grabbed his phone and he started filming. When I looked behind me, the dolphin was jumping behind the boat. Follow us all the way around the island. So when we get to the other side of the island, the Bayside, the guy said, Look, brother, I have to fix my boat. But if you want to see me again every Memorial Day, I'm going to be here. So you can come into Memorial Day and find my boat and my family, and we can meet us again. Okay, sir. Thank you so much. God bless you for saving my life. I jump off the boat. This was the Bayside, so the water was low, and I started walking to the church. Nobody was in that side of the church, because everybody was in the other side of the church, moving from me. So when I started walking to the church, something behind me hit my leg, and when I looked back, the dolphin was behind me. I was like, what this dolphin? What do you want from me once this dolphin is following? So I still cry like, Oh, my God, this is incredible. This is incredible. So when I get to the chore, I go on my knees, and I said, You know what? God, if you save me with this dolphin right here, it's because you have a purpose for my life. I just want to tell you something from today, Carlos died into the ocean. The person who's coming out of the water is not going to be you. It's not going to be Carlos. It's going to be you. From this moment, I give you my life. I give you my soul. And whatever you have to do, do it through Carlos. This is not my life. This don't belong to me. Just do it like this. And in that moment, Dolphin leave, and in that moment, start thundering lightning and start raining. So I took that as a yes. After that happened, the everybody started running from the other side of the island. The police arrived. I have to sign the police report and tell what happened. They take me back to the island. I speak with the management and tell her, Look, what happened was that I didn't see in the island any red flags or any signs that he said a riptide, so I didn't know what a riptide was. So just be careful with that. After that, my friend asked me, like Carlos, what do you want to do now? So Well, I think this was a miracle, so I just want to go to a church. So let's go. Let's go to a church. So we Google a church, and the closest church to St Andrew State Park School, it was a Catholic church, and we drive there. When we arrived, the church was closed, but outside of the church was a garden with a big sanctuary. It was a virgin Fatima. It was like a cave, and inside of the cave was virgin Fatima. It was full of candles, all the candles on so everybody that came from the beach with me, we did a huge circle, and everybody hugged each other, and we started praying. We prayed for like, 2030, minutes after we finished, my friend said, Carlos, what do you want to do now? So just take me to the hotel. I just want to get something to eat and take a shower. So they took me back to the hotel. I get something to eat, took a shower, and as soon as I put my head on my pillow, I was exhausted. I have an Epiphan like a dream. And in this dream, I look in front of me, I'm grabbing the hand rails of a cruise, like a cruise, cruiser going to the Caribbean, right on the third floor of this cruise, it was the size of like the Titanic. So I grabbed the handrail. Look in front of me, and it's the blue ocean. Blue skies. Is a super sunny day, but at the end of the ocean, I see something that is rising that's coming my way. What's a tsunami? I was like, oh my god, tsunami. So I cover my face. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. 1015, 30 minutes passed, nothing happened. And after 30 minutes, somebody come behind me and push me like, Hey, open your eyes and look at me. Wake up. Come on. Look at me so I know we're about to die. I look as an army is coming. And he said, You never gonna die with me. Look at me. So I look back. It's like, Who is this? So as soon as I look back, so what I feel it was Jesus, because that's what I feel in my heart. It was, it was this big guy was like a six five with a lot of light coming from his face. He was with a white robe. And he said to me, Carlos, please close your eyes. So I closed my eyes. He hugged me from the back. And then 10 seconds passed, and then he said, Carlos, now open your eyes. So I opened my eyes. He's holding on his arms, and when I look in front of me, I'm in heaven. So imagine how children was like what I'm in heaven, that means I'm dead. And I look back to his like she says, No, you need to take me back. I cannot die right now. I have a lot to do. I said, Carlos, you didn't die yet, but you make a promise to me, and you need to fulfill that promise. Welcome to heaven. From today, you are part of me and part of all them. From today, just talking, just start work, walking with me and walking with all of them. When I see all of them, there are millions of people dressing white robes. And then Jesus asked me, Do you have any questions? I said, Yes. Number one, where all these people come from, and said they're coming from all over the world. Number two, what is the true religion here in heaven? I say in heaven that is not religious. When you come to heaven, the only thing that you're gonna find is love. Love is the most powerful force in the universe, and that's where I'm gonna unite the whole humanity in one again. And as soon as he said that, I said, Okay, let's do a live review. So he put his arm over me and said, Let's walk inside heaven, and let's start this live review. And the way that I explained the live review is all the good and bad that you did during your life. You can feel how you make feel other people in good times in bad times. So it's just a reflection of your life and what you did for others after this end, Jesus said, Carlos, I want you to go back and tell everybody what happened here. So it pushed me back. Next morning, I wake up, I told my friends we dropped to Atlanta on Monday, I go back to work like I said. I've been working in my company for almost 20 years, and I go my office and say, Hey guys, to other managers. Guess what happened this weekend, I went to Panama City Beach in Florida, and this huge dolphin came when I was drowning and saved me. I was like, yeah, right, Carlos, whatever. And then somebody behind me say, I believe you. And when I look back, was my boss. And so like, why do you believe me? They don't believe me. And my boss said, because all of them, they're atheists, I'm Christian. Number two, I want you to go on your computer and Google how many people has been saved by dolphins through history. I said, like, what? Google it. So I Google it, and a lot of people has been saved by dolphins. And then my boss said, Now Google, how many dolphins get killed in the other side of the world every year? So I Google, in the other side of the world, the other hemisphere, 100,000 dolphins get killed every year, and they're still saving people. I was like, wow, this is crazy. Now Google, how many people die by Rip ties current in Florida every year? So I Google that, yes, how many more than 100 people die every year by reptiles. Is the silent killer. Now, he said, and the last one Google, what is the meaning of dolphin for Christians? He said, The dolphin represent Jesus, is the hope of eternal life. In 1000s of years ago, Romans, they used to put the dolphin like angels. They used to go. To Heaven and deliver the soul from Earth. And that's when you go to Italy and you go to Rome, you see dolphins everywhere in the sculptures. You know, like, status of dolphins everywhere. Another thing that I believe is a good life breathe. People don't breathe these days. Another thing that I want to tell people like, when people pray, I've been praying for years and nothing happened. But it's not about the praying. It's about the emotion that you put on the prey. It's about the intention that you put on the prey. It's about the energy you put on the prey. That's what is going to activate the mail that you're going to send to heaven. You know, Earth is a big school, so we came here to learn and to give love to others. That's what I think is a Good Life.
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