Divine Encounters Episode 076 | Near-Death Experience Story
Rev. Honi Borden grew up with gifts she tried hard to hide, and she says she spent years wishing she could just be normal. Then, on January 8, 2012, she says her heart stopped, and she crossed into a series of dimensions where she met an archangel, a council of tall blue beings, and a figure she knew as Yeshua. In this Divine Encounters episode she tells Alex Ferrari what she says she was shown and the mission she was sent back to carry out.
Key Takeaways
- Honi says she grew up sensing things she did not want to sense, kept it hidden, and describes herself as “more of a spiritual closet.”
- She says that on January 8, 2012, at about 7:30 pm, her heart stopped and she left her body, feeling joy at being free of it.
- She describes an archangel with a golden pink ray who placed three dusty pink rings around her and guided her onward.
- Honi says she was shown 844 flashing lifetimes by a council of 12 tall blue beings she calls the Arcturian golden Council of 12.
- She says a figure she knew as Yeshua told her, “You cannot be with us, my child. You must go back and share this.”
- She describes a planetary mission with 40 locations around the world, and a life that fell apart before it came together.
- Her message is to allow yourself to feel the depth of your gifts, “because that’s where the miracles are.”
| Guest | Rev. Honi Borden |
| Episode | Divine Encounters 076 |
| Date | January 8, 2012, about 7:30 pm |
| What Honi says happened | Her heart stopped after a period of serious illness and she left her body |
| Where she says she went | A luminous corridor, a dimension of pure consciousness and a circular room with golden windows |
| Who she met | An archangel, deceased loved ones, twelve tall blue beings and Yeshua |
| The message | “You cannot be with us, my child. You must go back and share this.” |
| What changed | She says she was sent on a planetary mission that reshaped her life |
Who Is Rev. Honi Borden?
Honi describes herself as someone who spent many years keeping a door shut. After her family migrated to the United States, she says, she did not want what she could sense. She “just wanted to be normal, like everybody else.” Her gifts felt lonely, and she says she could not relate to the people around her.
Then, in her 20s, her father transitioned. She says that opened the door again, because he began communicating with her from the other side. She did not welcome it. She says she was forced to listen, and she became very angry and bitter during that time.
The details of her timeline are told in the way many people remember hard seasons, in fragments. What is clear is the arc. She tried to hide, she says, and the doors kept opening anyway.
Anger, Grief and a Dark Season
Honi says she became quite depressed, and suicidal, during that period in her 20s. She does not dwell on it. She says the inner battle came from not being able to fully be herself.
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Honi has also said she had an earlier phenomenal experience in a fatal car crash. Thirty years later, she says, she was told to write a children’s book called The Day I Became a Superhero. Its message is that “you have this power inside of you that is always with you,” no matter how awful an experience is.
A Newborn Son and a Reckoning With God
A few years later, Honi had her first son. She says he was ill when he came into this life, and that week was a horrible tragedy for her family. She says she has no words for how angry she was. She was so angry at God that she turned to God and said, “You did this. You better have answers for me.”
From that demand, she says, the door began to open slowly. She opened an entire center dedicated to holistic healing, because she wanted to find a way to help other parents avoid what her family had faced. She also found the medical community did not always understand.
As the center opened, mediums and psychics began to come in. Angels started knocking again, she says, and the Ascended Masters. She kept pushing and hiding. “I’m probably more of a spiritual closet,” she says, because she did not want people to know what she knew. If you are curious about that last term, our glossary has an entry on ascended masters.
She was also married young, to a special agent with the Department of Defense. She says they had experiences around the births of their sons, including plasma ships and blue beings that her husband saw as well. As a child in Iran, she says, she had seen plasma ships and told her parents in the car, who could not see what she saw.
January 8, 2012: Leaving the Body
Shortly before that day, she says, she became very ill. Then, at about 7:30 pm on January 8, 2012, her heart stopped, and she crossed over. She says her entire world changed.
The first thing she noticed was that she was no longer in her body. Her spirit body rose above the room and looked down at the physical body, which seemed lifeless. She describes her spirit as excited to be out of a body that had suffered so much pain. There was no compassion in that glance, she says. “It was just the freedom finally out of that body.”
The Archangel and the Corridor
Her spirit lifted into what she calls the stratosphere, if you want to call it that. The first to appear was a luminous angelic being, mighty and gorgeous, with a golden pink whitish ray. Honi sensed a feminine energy. The being placed three dusty pink rings around her and introduced herself as an archangel. Honi says few people have that experience, and being met by an archangel first was the most loving thing her spirit body had known. For a short introduction, see our entry on archangels.
The archangel lifted her consciousness to a place with two sides. On her right was a corridor with her loved ones: her uncle, grandmother, grandpa, cousins, two other uncles, an aunt and a great-grandmother. They were laughing and radiant, and Honi says she was excited to see them. But the archangel said, no, this way.
To her left was another corridor, dark blue, silvery and indigo. The archangel told her telepathically that she had to go through, and Honi did not know why. She went fast, like the jump to hyperspace in Star Wars.
A Dimension of Pure Consciousness
On the other side she says everything was different. There was no body, only consciousness, and it was exuberant. The colors were ones we have never experienced on Earth. For lack of a better word she says it was like a nebula, as if she were inside a star.
Her consciousness then rose again. She describes going through dimensional shifts, each one lifting her higher, until she was brought into a structure with a large, round room. The room had gold windows on one side. On each side stood six very tall blue beings, translucent, with no visible faces or feet and a white hue behind them. They were waiting for her.
The Council of 12 and the 844 Lifetimes
They introduced themselves as the Arcturian golden Council of 12. Honi says she had no idea what that meant at the time, yet she knew she had been waiting a long time to be there.
A screen appeared in the gap between the two groups, and extremely fast, many lifetimes began to flash by. She says there were 844, showing significant points in history and her soul’s different incarnations. The lives were short. Her life in Lemuria was shown very specifically, including work she did with breath. She now teaches meditation and breathing, and says this finally made sense. A life in Atlantis was shown too, along with a significant lifetime during the time when Jesus walked among us, and many in between. If you wish to read about these places, see our entries on Lemuria and Atlantis.
Then the elders brought the consciousness of her DNA into the center. Honi says they began to reshift things, with color coded sequences and keys that she has no language for. Something was said about an eighth strand, which she did not understand at the time. All of it, she stresses, was telepathic. She was seeing as consciousness, not with eyes.
Yeshua and the Instruction to Go Back
After that, a blinding light began to descend in the middle of the room. Her consciousness was drawn toward it. As it grew nearer, a figure appeared, and Honi says she knew him as beloved Master, living Yeshua, the Christ. She makes a point of using that name rather than Jesus, because that is how it felt to her.
She calls the sight the most incredible she has experienced. He began to communicate. “You cannot be with us, my child. You must go back and share this.” With his hand, she says, he showed her a body of knowledge she was to bring back. He also said, “you will be with us soon.” Honi says he shared a few other things she cannot share on the episode.
She says her consciousness was beside itself with joy, with a feeling of being home. “This is where I belong.” And yet she was sent back, fast, through the planes of consciousness, and dropped into her body.
Returning With a Mission
Honi says she was not the same person who left. She says within three days her entire body was healed, and she came back with unusual abilities. She was sent on a specific planetary mission that involved 40 locations on Earth.
Answering that call cost her a great deal. Her marriage, her center and her product line all fell away. She says a different version of her, a part of the Arcturian, had to reunite with her so she could deliver the mission. She also says the blue being who had been with her since childhood was recognized as one of these Arcturian beings. “Everything finally made sense.”
Honi’s Journey Beside Other Near-Death Accounts
Leaving the body, meeting relatives and receiving a message to go back are common elements in near-death accounts. Honi’s story also reaches into territory that is less common: an archangel as the first greeter, a council of beings, a long review of many lifetimes rather than one, and a mission with specific places to visit. We share it as she tells it.
If past lives are new to you, our glossary entry on reincarnation is a good start, and the complete guide to near-death experiences places stories like this in context. Next Level Soul shares these accounts as personal experiences, not medical claims.
Allowing Yourself to Feel
Honi’s advice is gentle. She says to allow yourself to feel, and “don’t be afraid to feel the depth of it, because that’s where the miracles are.” For a practical step, pick one quiet minute today and simply notice what is already present in you, with no need to name it.
Questions to Sit With
- Honi spent years hiding what she knew. Is there something about yourself you have been keeping in the closet?
- She turned her anger toward God into a conversation. What would you ask for answers about, if you let yourself?
- If you imagined a mission that fit your life, however small, what would it be?
Spend ten minutes this week writing about a gift you have hidden, and one safe person you might share it with.
Spiritual Takeaways
- Honi says that what she once hid became the very thing she was asked to share.
- She describes dimensions of consciousness without bodies, filled with color and light.
- She says a council showed her many lifetimes, including ones she is now living out through her teaching.
- She says a figure she knew as Yeshua met her with love and sent her back.
- She says the depth of what you can feel is where the miracles are.
Please enjoy my conversation with Rev. Honi Borden.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Rev. Honi Borden?
Rev. Honi Borden is a minister, healer and meditation and breath teacher who describes a near-death experience on January 8, 2012. She tells her story on Divine Encounters with host Alex Ferrari.
What happened to Honi Borden on January 8, 2012?
Honi says she had become very ill, and that at about 7:30 pm her heart stopped. She says she left her body and crossed into spirit, where her experience began.
Who did Honi meet first?
She says an angelic being with a golden pink ray appeared, put three pink rings around her, and introduced herself as an archangel. She says it was a deeply loving meeting.
What is the Arcturian golden Council of 12?
Honi says it is how twelve tall blue beings introduced themselves to her in a circular room. She says six stood on each side and communicated telepathically.
What did Honi mean by the 844 lifetimes?
She says a screen showed 844 quickly flashing lifetimes and key moments across history. She names Lemuria, Atlantis and the time of Jesus among them.
What did Yeshua say to Honi?
She says he told her, “You cannot be with us, my child. You must go back and share this,” and also that she would be with them soon.
What was Honi’s planetary mission?
She says she was sent back to serve a mission involving 40 locations on Earth. She says answering it changed her marriage, her work and her whole life.
Why did Honi call herself a spiritual closet?
She says she hid her gifts for years because she felt lonely and wanted to be normal. She says she did not want people to know what she knew.
What was Honi’s earlier experience?
She mentions an earlier phenomenal experience in a car crash. Thirty years later she says she was told to write a children’s book called The Day I Became a Superhero.
What does Honi say about source?
She says source is the fullness and expression of all there is, the purest love we can experience, and the source of where life flows.
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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Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.
Rev. Honi Borden 0:08
January 8, 2012, in my 20s, when my father transitioned, that door opened, because then he was, he started communicating from other side, and I had shut the store very tight. Since we migrated in the US, I just didn't want it, and I was forced to communicate. So then I was very angry, I was very bitter, and I became quite depressed and suicidal, I have to say, during that time, because I couldn't again, I was back in this place. I had this phenomenal experience in the fatal car crash, which 30 years later I wrote, I was told to credit to write this book called the day I became a superhero. It's children's inspiration memo to assist children. No matter how awful you experience, you have this power inside of you that is always with you. It's God's sources power. So during this 20s, I was suffering around a lot of this, so I just there's this battle inside of me, not again wanting to because I couldn't fully be myself. So a few years later than I had my first son, and through my first son, when he was born, he was because he was ill during when he came into this incarnation during that week. It was a horrible week of what the tragedy that I faced, and from such place of anger, I can't even tell you how angry I was. I was so angry at God, and I turned to God, I said, You did this. You better have answers for me. And from that answers, that door open up. So the door started to slowly open up. And I opened an entire center just to dedicate a holistic healing and also many spots, because I wanted to find a way to educate, to help people to not go through what we went through any mother, any father, should ever face, what with their child, that stuff, and meeting all this medical community they don't understand. As I opened my center, I began experiencing people from mediums and psychics coming in. Meanwhile, the store started open, and I had, I've been fighting it. I just didn't want to because it felt so lonely. I couldn't relate. I was just, I just wanted to be normal, like everybody else, but that was definitely not the plan. So, long story short, during the during this time, I began having a lot of things started open up. So the doors were opening. I was having a lot of amazing experiences with the angels started knocking in again, the Ascended Masters, and I, again, I'm kind of pushing and I'm kind of hiding in and out. I have to say, I'm probably more of a spiritual closet, because I just didn't want people to know what I knew. And I happened to be married. I got married really young. I was married to a special agent with Department of Defense who was a top secret engine. And meanwhile, we were having a lot of experiences with the birth of my first son and second son with plasma ships and some of these other star being experiences he had seen also the blue beings. And so these were starting to happen until January 8, 2012, little bit before that, I was very ill. I became very ill, and that's when my heart stopped on that day, about 7:30pm and I crossed over into spirit side, and my entire world changed. The very first thing was when I left this body, I was not in this body. Naturally, it was not physical anymore. Yes, still was the spirit body. So as the spirit body came out of the room above the room and just looking at the physical body, then the physical body just looked just just lifeless. This, nothing yet this, there's my spirit body. Was so excited that it was finally out of that body that had suffered so much, had experienced so much pain, it was so happy to be free from it. So as it came out, it looked at it quickly, and it wasn't anything of I have to say. It wasn't any compassion, any of that. It was just the freedom finally out of that body. So then it lifted up, and the very first thing that happened is sort of like my spirit party came out of Earth, and it was like the stratosphere, if you want to call it that. The very first thing that happened for me was this incredible, luminous angelic being, this mighty angelic, gorgeous with a golden pink whitish Ray appeared before me, and it was more of a feminine energy, and she put these three, sort of like a dusty pink rings around me. She introduced herself as Archangel Daniel. A lot of people don't have that. Experience, but mine, the first one that met me was Arkin, Johann Yale, and it was just the most incredible loving experience my spirit body was experiencing, which was very much looked like this, except was in light, lighter form. So from there, she took me to this. She kind of like lifted my consciousness a little bit, and I came to this place that had two sides. One was a quarter on my right. That was my loved ones, my uncle, my grandmother was there, my grandpa, my cousins, my other two uncles, my aunt, my great grandmother. Although I could see them, they were like laughing. And they look so radiant and gorgeous. This radiant, luminous. And they were so excited to see I was so excited to see them, and but this Archangel looked at me and looked they said, no this way. And to my left was a like another corridor. The colors inside of them was very dark blue with a bit of a silvery and a bit of like an indigo color. And she telepathically communicated I had to go through there, and I had no understanding why. So I went through that, and it went really fast, kind of like when you see Star Wars, it's going really fast. So it went through that, and when I came on this other side, it was a different, complete, different dimension. It was a different consciousness, place where I there was no body. It was just consciousness. And it was exuberant. It was gorgeous, in the colors, colors that on Earth we've never, ever, ever even experienced. And again, lack of a better word would be like Nebula, if it's like I was inside a star. That's Nebula, like the most exquisite, gorgeous lack. I can't even describe what that was. So from there, my consciousness was risen again. So I was going through dimensional consciousness shifts. So as it lifted, I was brought into this place where it was more of a structure. And inside of this structure, it was a it was a very large room, semi circular, more circular, and there were windows onto my left, and it was all gold, and Windows to my right, and they were 12 tall, very tall, blue beings, six to my right, six to my left, and they were more translucent in color. Couldn't see their face. There was a kind of like a white hue behind them. No feet, and they were waiting. So my consciousness was brought there, and there was the communication as they introduced themselves as the Arcturian golden Council of 12. No clue that was like at that consciousness, but all I know at when I was when my consciousness was there, it was this feeling of funny. I didn't know how I knew that, but I just knew that I've been waiting so excited to be there. So within that I was able to they brought in the six that were here, and the six that was this side, there was a space gap in between. And within that they brought some kind of like a screen, and this screen started going through very fast, extremely fast. Many, many lives. So on mine, it was 844 fast flashing lives that they showed me very significant points in time of history and different incarnations that my soul had come in. The first thing that happened these lives were short, the lives my life in Lemuria was shown very specifically, the work that I was doing with breath. So I'm since this 30 years, I'm teaching meditation and breath in this incarnation. So finally, this was understood. Why the life in Atlantis was shown, the life The other very significant was shown, the time when Jesus walked amongst us was shown very specifically. Many other lifetimes in between were shown. And as that was shown, then my consciousness, these Arcturian elder beings, they brought my consciousness into the middle, but they wanted my DNA to come in there, so they brought the consciousness of my DNA right in the center. And they started re shifting things. With re shifting, there were these color coding sequences keys that I have no language for, and it was readjusted, and they said something about the eighth strand, and at that time, I didn't know what that was. And so few other things like this took place in there, and telepathically, it's all communication, and I'm seeing, my consciousness is seeing, not the bodies. And then after all of this, the center, this blinding light started more like descending in the center the room in where they were, started getting light around. Lighten that even it was blinding to my consciousness. My consciousness was getting pulled towards this light, and this was descending. My consciousness was going more towards it. As it got closer and closer, a figure appeared, and that figure remember my consciousness side like it was beloved Master, living Yeshua, the Christ. But he's not known as Jesus, and like how it is on earth, it's Yeshua, he appeared, and it was the most incredible experience of that sight, that seeing and my consciousness was pulled into this way. Then he began communicating. And very quickly he said, You cannot be with us, my child. You must go back and share this. He took his hand and with this, it was a body of knowledge that he showed that had to come back and share. And then he also said, you will be with us soon. Go back. And a few other things that he shared that I cannot share here, my consciousness was besides itself to finally be there, and this feeling of home, I was finally I was finally right. This is where I belong. And just like that, I was sent back in the lightning state, and it went through those different planes of consciousness very quickly, dimensional consciousness and drop into this body. As it dropped into this body, it was not that old Honi, because within three days, my entire body was healed. I was completely, completely healed as I came back, returned, there was these other unusual abilities, because I was then sent on a very specific planetary mission with 40 location on Earth that I had to go on. So that's where my entire life changed. Everything like my marriage, when my center had closed my product line, everything, everything went down to me. Then it came the aftermath to then answer this mission, the call to serve this planetary specific work. When I was sent back to come into this body, different version of me, this part of the Arcturian had to, sort of like, reunite, come back, so that it can deliver this planetary mission. I also want to share that blue being that was with me since I experienced as a child. It was recognized, it was understood. It was understood that it was also one of these Arcturian beings that was with me, watching over they had been around, I didn't know, but experiences I had special in Iran, with being able to see their plasma ships, for example, and telling my parents in the car, but they couldn't see What I could see. So after this, everything finally made sense. Everything was understood. For me is to allow that mighty essence, that gracious essence that we already are we created from, to be allowed in this human vessel, to bless it, really bless it in Islam, and bless everyone back on to its path that, to me, is a truly fulfilled life. It is such a gift that you can feel the depth that you can feel. This is one of your most profound gifts, that you will do so much good. Just allow yourself to feel, and don't be afraid to feel the depth of it, because that's where the miracles are. Source is that omnipresence of the fullness expression of all there is. It is the purest of the love that we can truly experience and are given the opportunity to experience in this incarnation, God's source is the source of everything, source of where life flows, life streams, and the creativity allows make the changes to alchemize the different ways. It's the source of nursha, the source of nectar. That's what that is the ultimate to experience true joy, real, authentic, pure joy, completely alive.
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