Woman’s GOOSEBUMP-INDUCING NDE: MOST DETAILED TOUR of HEAVEN EVER! with Lura Ketchledge

On today’s episode, we welcome Lura Ketchledge, who shares her goosebump-inducing near-death experience (NDE) that took her on the most detailed tour of heaven ever described. At just 19, Lura was living her life like any young adult, juggling work, relationships, and a budding sense of independence. But one fateful day, a horseback riding accident changed everything. As her body remained on Earth, her soul embarked on a journey that transcended time and space, taking her into a mysterious dark tunnel and ultimately into the divine realms of love and knowledge.

Lura vividly recounts the surreal moment of her separation from her body, comparing it to being cast out into the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, completely detached from the physical world. This tunnel was more than just a passage—it was a reflection of her inner journey. As she sped through the darkness, she was bombarded with a flood of emotions, ranging from regret to awe, until the light finally appeared. What awaited her on the other side was not just the afterlife, but a reunion with her beloved grandfather, who appeared in perfect health, free of the burdens of his past life.

In this profound conversation, Lura Ketchledge describes the transformative beauty of meeting her grandfather, but this reunion was just the beginning. She takes us deeper into the heavenly realms, where she experienced a life review unlike anything described in traditional religious teachings. It wasn’t a judgment from above; instead, Lura was given the opportunity to see her own life from a higher perspective. Guided by her grandfather and a mysterious presence, she navigated through layers of her past actions, each revealing insights about her journey on Earth.

One of the most remarkable parts of Lura’s NDE was her encounter with what she called “the sea of love,” a place of pure bliss, where she floated as a point of consciousness. She describes it as a “beautiful, self-love sea” where she felt entirely at peace. “I was free of troubles,” Lura reflects. “If I could float in that every once in a while now, it would be so refreshing.” This experience, she believes, was not just a glimpse of heaven but also a reminder that our true nature is rooted in love, free from the earthly struggles that often cloud our existence.

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  • Life Beyond the Body: Lura’s experience underscores the idea that our physical form is only temporary. When she flew off the horse, her soul left her body and ventured into realms beyond human comprehension, a reminder that death is not the end but merely a transition.
  • Self-Judgment in the Afterlife: Her life review was not about external judgment but about self-reflection. Lura had the opportunity to view her life with clarity and understanding, offering a perspective that emphasizes the importance of living with kindness and intention.
  • The Sea of Love: The concept of a sea of love where souls float as points of consciousness illustrates a deeply comforting spiritual truth: that in the end, we are all connected by love. This reinforces the idea that our existence is far more expansive than what we perceive in the physical world.

As Lura’s journey continued, she encountered a grand cathedral, representing a synthesis of her past lives, both male and female. Each soul, she realized, carries the imprint of many lives lived across time. The experience was overwhelming but enlightening. She understood that her soul had traversed different paths in different forms, all leading her to the insights of this lifetime. Even though she was reluctant to embrace the idea of reincarnation, it became clear that life is a continuous cycle of learning and evolving.

In the final moments of her NDE, Lura found herself standing on a beautiful beach, surrounded by cliffs and the deep blue ocean. She saw a magnificent pine tree, which manifested simply because she had thought of it. This thought-responsive reality illustrated a profound spiritual truth: our minds have the power to shape our experiences, both in life and in the afterlife.

Lura’s NDE serves as a reminder of the infinite beauty and love that awaits us beyond this world. Her story speaks to the transformative power of near-death experiences and how they offer glimpses into a higher, more loving reality. As we listen to her words, we are invited to reflect on our own lives, to live with more compassion, and to embrace the mysteries of existence with an open heart.

Please enjoy my conversation with Lura Ketchledge.

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Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE028

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

Lura Ketchledge 0:08
Well, I was a teenager at the time. I was 19 years old. I had my first apartment. I worked at a rock and roll nightclub at night. I tried to model during the day. I was also flunking out of junior college. Let's see. I was juggling two boyfriends. How was your typical teenager having a real taste for freedom and just beginning to live well? My grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, and we were very involved in the church. I sang in the choir all my youth. I went to church camp, you know, things like that, but I have to say, I had my doubts about organized religion. I didn't believe the Bible, word for word. I had Judeo, Christian values that were very ingrained, but I wasn't buying what they were selling. Basically, I was involved in social life, having a good time. I can say this now, because I'm 63 but I was a pretty girl having a taste for freedom and fun and just living life in the Washington, DC area, just enjoying my life. I wasn't lost at all. My father was very, very strict, and he raised both his daughters like boys, so that we could be independent, you know, and things like that. Think for ourselves, going out and getting a job and holding an apartment and paying bills and stuff was a very easy transition. So I wasn't a lost teenager whatsoever. What's scary is you think you know it all, and you think you're just so cool. Well, I also want to preface this, I was a teenager that was responsible, even though I was a good time Charlie, I never got into alcohol, drug use or smoking, anything legal or illegal, so I was kind of more grounded and more responsible than most teens. And the accident was such a fluke. It was such a fluke. My girlfriend, Terry called me up. I was in my apartment in Falls Church, Virginia, and she said, Let's go horseback riding. I said, well, let's just go where I used to ride, you know, when I was in high school, let's go out to Centerville. And she kind of bailed on me. And it was such a pretty day, I decided to go over to my mom's house, pick up my helmet of boots, and then I cruised on out to Centerville, Virginia, and rented a horse. Now there were two horses tied up, and I could have picked either one, but I like the real pretty one. And the gal said, Wouldn't you like to take the white one? I said, I don't need a Western saddle. Give me an English saddle. I know what I'm doing. Big mistake. Big mistake, because the horse was a little bit above my abilities, but it was a nice horse. And I want to tell everybody the horse was fine. I'm the one that got hurt. I get a lot of email what happened to the horse. So I got on the horse, and there weren't any other riders around. So I decided to go out to a field and canter. And I walked around, and I had was having a great time. And then I met up with these two gentlemen. I didn't know them. They were, you know, maybe in their 20s or 30s or so, and we decided to ride together. And I was kind of like the ending the afternoon. I just wanted to get, you know, home. I had to go to work in a few hours. So what happened is, we had the bright idea to race the horses back to the barn. Not a good not a good idea. And of course, I had to have, I had to win. I had to win. And I hadn't been riding in a while. I was a little bit out of shape, so the horse was going pretty much at a canner, and then went into a hand gallop, which is like, like a racehorse. And it was, I was losing my balance a little bit. I was a little concerned, but I was holding on, and the horse stumbled, and I went flying.

I mean, I went aerial like a rocket off to the to the right of the horse. And I remember saying something profane, because I knew this was I was going to get clobbered. I wouldn't think I would get killed or anything. I just knew this was this, and this isn't working out. This was like that feeling of like, Oops, you know it's going to happen. So the funny thing is, I went off like a bottle rocket off that horse, and I never hit the ground. I never felt the impact, because my body literally went one way and my soul went another. I went straight into this black pit. It was a beautiful, sunny day, and I went into this big dark pit, and it was just as abrupt. Let's pretend you're sleeping in your bed. It's the middle of the night, and all of a sudden you're cast out into the Pacific Ocean. That's how abrupt it felt. So I went into this big dark, black tunnel at a high rate of speed. I knew I was off the horse. I knew where I was. I wasn't confused, and I knew I was dead. So there was a separation between body and soul. I knew it could happen because I had an out of body experience as a kid, and left my body before a terrible accident and went right back in, of course, with horses. So I'm in this black tunnel, and I got the feeling of total isolation. My thought, this is must, what this is must. It must be like this to astronauts in outer space. Here's alone. So a roller coaster of emotions came out shock, a profound sadness, because my life had just begun to live. It was every emotion you could think of coming like, like a roller coaster up and down as I was going through this tunnel. Now the tunnel itself was there wasn't any light at the end for a while, and it was like soft velvet tunnel. I felt like I was still me, like I had arms and legs. I felt like I was still me, and I knew that the tunnel was airy and light, yet dense at the same time. I don't know how I drew that opinion. I just did, but it was nothing structurally like anything here in physical reality that was real. So I'm going through this tunnel with every emotion, and then this profound feeling, like you did it to yourself, anger at myself, you did it to yourself, and now you'll never get to live, you know, coming so close to having this great life and then having it snatched and it was all my stupid fault for riding a horse above my abilities and racing a lot of anger at myself. And then there was a light, and then there was my grandfather that was wonderful. I know this sounds weird. I forgot about being dead. I was just so glad to see him. And he was older, you know, he died at 72 and he maybe looked 60. He didn't look sick anymore. He wasn't ravaged with cancer. And you know, to be reunited with him was worth the fall. It was worth the accident. Well, this part I didn't like, can I say you have a classic life review, like, it's like going through a Rolodex of your life. It is, but it isn't. It's not a judgment. You judge yourself. But I was be given the opportunity to show what my actions were. So, you know, I went through that my grandfather was guiding me and everything. There's a presence, somebody literally like holding my shoulders and guiding me and pushing me and mentoring me. And I got the feeling that there was whispering, talking, but I just couldn't hear it. I couldn't I couldn't decipher it. It had to be in English, but I couldn't other souls that were communicating that I was missing them. I couldn't plug into it, or was able to hear it. And you know, you're looking for a floor. There isn't one. So, you know, that's really pretty upsetting. It wasn't going well. I mean, it was great to see my grandfather and stuff, and then something beautiful happened. I literally zoomed through layers non physical reality, from dense to less dense. And I arrived at source going through that flying feeling, or that traveling feeling is a rush, is just freaking fantastic. And then arriving like I burst into this, and I can only say that my mind perceived it as not what it actually was. My mind perceived it as like a burst of clouds. There's sun, there's there's like almost an ocean of clouds. It's mine, it's source. There's music that floats in random waves through its bliss, and you're just wrapped in this sea of love. Now, I had no sensation of arms and legs, I believe, just guessing hypothesis now that I was a point of consciousness at that particular time, floating in a sea of love. I mean, just floating with other points of consciousness. I'm thinking, I'm not sure, but these other points of consciousness were versions of me, past, life's me, future, life's me. I don't think I was in with a like in heaven or touching God. I think this is far as most people can go though. So I'm guessing that that sea of love is almost self love. If that's a great that's a good word for it. But it was beautiful. It was bliss. It was floating. And I didn't want for anything. I didn't have regrets. I was free of troubles. There were no troubles. I mean, if I could float in that every once in a while now, I mean, it would be so refreshing. And as good as it was, it was over fairly quickly. Didn't get answers. There was a bright light there, but no visible sun. So the next place I went to, I'm standing or I had my body sort of drawn backwards. I had my body. I'm looking to the right, and there's a lot of black around me, and I'm looking to the right, and I see this blue look like the earth. And I thought, then I'm thinking, I hate heights. Okay, okay. I'm not scared. I'm not scared. Okay, I'm still me. I hate heights. And I'm, like, yelling in my mind, I hate heights. I don't like, you know this at all. Was it really the Earth? It was my perception of it. So kind of in front of me was this cathedral with like a main hall, and it did seem to have a floor, and then there was an aisle here, aisle there. So again, somebody's behind me guiding me into this, and then I'm flooded with information, knowledge. It's overwhelming that these were my past lives, and on one side is all the lives I've lived as a male, on the other side is all the lives I've lived as a female. And I'm like, I could never I'm a girly girl. I could never have been a male. I couldn't even conceptualize such a thing. But I'm going with it, and I'm looking down this row, and it's like they were lined up white, colorless individuals. And I, of course, I've got a touch, and I touched, and then I could actually see form of a man. Looked like he was in his 40s, or 50s, I don't know, white Caucasian, just kind of like, Oh, like that at me, and I just took my hand back. Oh, God, these are all the male and they had to be at least 50. And then I went over, and then I touched an individual on the female side. And I've always, I've said this on other shows, she reminded me of a really mean lunch lady. I had a grammar school. She wanted any beauty. And I'm not liking this. I don't like the idea of reincarnation. I don't like the law idea of past lives. I didn't like it kind of shoved down my throat. But I was curious. I wasn't afraid. Nobody was, you know, trying to scare me. I just thought, Oh, I've done this before. I don't want to come back and be 13 again. I don't want to, you know, this is just not I was kind of horrified. I mean, if I had to had over 100 past lives. I wasn't getting it right. So I don't know why this life, you know, I became aware because, you know, I'm not good in school. I was dyslexic, a little bit of a wild child. Why it was in this lifetime, this incarnation, that I would become aware? Maybe because I had too many accidents with horses. I don't know. So I have to say I was still me, but I was getting more knowledge and more understanding. So the general concept is, when a soul comes into physical reality to experience, learn and learn life's lessons. Not a song, you know, let's hold hands sing Kumbaya moment, you fracture into different personalities at different times in history, to live your life, to learn lessons, and it all happens at once again. Another thing for a teenager that really couldn't digest it. I was more confused than God answers. Oh, way more confused. And then everything changed, and suddenly I'm back, going back again, and I'm standing on a beach. And this was a beautiful beach with these cliffs that were big rocks, and you could see windows were carved out of it. And, you know, some people inhabited this beach or this cliff thing, gorgeous sand. I mean, the water was just so true blue. And then I was thinking a little bit about religion. I thought, What happened to the tree of life? You know, I haven't seen anything like that. And as soon as I thought it, there was a this beautiful pine tree right in the shoreline that came straight up where pine trees could never grow, and it was white, and it had like a light moss color to it. So I went over and looked at the texture of the bark and everything, and it was a beautiful pine tree. And then I realized later on, it was a thought responsive reality. So I'm back with my grandfather, and we're standing in this layer closer to physical reality, because it felt denser, felt heavier standing there, and all of these things I started had learned like in each thing I was like, gaining this knowledge just started to leave or fade or dissolve or Get Pulled out. I don't know how to explain it, but it all the epiphanies and the understandings were taken away, and there's only a skeleton of those memories left now, when I was coming back, but I realized I had to come back, and I wanted to grab my grandfather's hand. Now he had very large hands. He had the bluest eyes like Paul Newman. It still see his beautiful blue eyes, and his hand was white, and I want to grab his hand, and even my adult hand felt small in comparison to his hand. Then I started to travel backwards, and I couldn't hold on to him when I was looking around, when after I opened up my eyes in this beautiful field, and I just said to myself, this is not reality. I was that much in the closet because I didn't want to be labeled a wackadoo. And if I hadn't been having these constant dreams and paranormal occurrences, I would have kept those things quiet, but I kept dreaming about these stories. So if I had written books, I still would be not talking about it. When someone dies, their point of consciousness sometimes looks like a mauve color, fall or orb. What would they call and it's so beautiful. People, it's like liquid glass. It's transparent, and then just gorgeous. The best thing for me that was the icing on the cake was the fact that I'm going to see my grandfather again. I'm going to have a continued relationship with him and people that I really love. There will be an ocean or a area for you to go to that's very lifelike and comfortable after you transition to be with loved ones. So in a way, it is heaven. There were inhabitants, there were people in there, there were souls in there, and it was beautiful, beautiful that I was able to see it. Living your best possible life. You're your best possible person. You're kind to others. You're not taking your crap out on others, you're doing your best. You don't have to be a super saint, but you just got to be on a kinder path, or a path that's a little bit more gentle. Our creator was created towards that beautiful sea of love. But I think there's something beyond that. I think there's a creative creator that's organizing, that I felt the love of God or our Creator, but not an organized religious sense, to learn to love, and if you possibly can, to become aware of how things work.

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