Man DIES in Surgery; Travels to OTHER DIMENSIONS & PAST LIVES (NDE) with Mark Hodges

Life has a way of unraveling us in order to reveal what truly matters, and in today’s profound conversation, we meet Mark Hodges. A man shaped first by the discipline of the Air Force, then by the labyrinths of software and corporate life, and finally, by the mysteries of near-death itself. He has walked the sharp edge between this world and what lies beyond, and what he brings back is less a story and more a transmission of truth.

Before his journeys into the realms unseen, Mark lived a life of precision and order. He worked as an intelligence analyst for the NSA, navigating the complexities of electromagnetic waves—perhaps unknowingly preparing himself to understand the subtler vibrations of the soul. Later, as a software development manager, his world became one of logic and systems. Yet, no system could contain the unraveling that came when his health began to fail. A decade of surgeries and pain became the threshold through which he crossed into something timeless, an experience that defied explanation yet felt more real than the ground beneath his feet.

Mark describes leaving his body as if pushing off the wall of a swimming pool, gliding backward through his own head into a sea of love so vast it dissolved all fear. He recalls, “It’s like the biggest high you could ever imagine—people call it love.” What awaited him was not darkness, but the brilliance of colors unseen, the thrill of a cosmic amusement ride, and the realization that the soul is more electricity than flesh, more infinite wave than finite particle.

One of the most striking images he shared was being pulled into an electrical outlet in the operating room, discovering that our essence moves with currents far beyond what science has yet grasped. From there, he traversed wormholes faster than light, arriving in a San Diego that was not this San Diego, a reality both familiar and strange. Time dissolved into something elastic; seconds stretched into centuries, and lives unfolded within lives. He realized each incarnation is woven into the next, a continuum of lessons in love and awareness.

Through these journeys, Mark came to know what he calls “the Infinite One.” God not as an entity apart, but as all of us—every face, every being, every vibration converging into one endless source. He learned that our so-called “higher self” is not individual but shared, a vast consciousness we tap into from different vantage points across space and time. He understood that everything around us, every stranger in a café, is not separate but profoundly connected—threads of the same divine fabric.

The message Mark carried back is disarmingly simple: the wasted time of negativity, of arguments, of trivial pursuits is the greatest loss. What matters is gratitude, love, and the vibration these states produce. He realized that even forgiveness is less important than the resonance it creates, for gratitude itself vibrates higher than love. And in this vibration, we align with heaven—not as a place far away, but as a frequency already here, waiting for us to rise to meet it.

His story is both wondrous and sobering, reminding us that death is not the end but a doorway, and that life’s true purpose is to learn the lessons for which we came. Each experience, joyful or painful, is part of a curriculum of the soul, teaching us to embody love and gratitude in ways that ripple through eternity.

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  1. Gratitude carries a higher vibration than even love, opening the doorway to heaven already present around us.

  2. We are not separate beings but expressions of the Infinite One, all sharing a higher self across countless dimensions.

  3. Every life lesson—whether small or monumental—is part of a sacred design to awaken us into deeper states of awareness and love.

In listening to Mark, one cannot help but feel that life is both fleeting and eternal, a dance of breath and spirit played against the backdrop of infinity. His near-death experience isn’t simply about what happens after death, but about how to live more fully now. To waste less time, to love more completely, and to remember that what we seek is already here, shimmering beneath the surface of our ordinary days.

Please enjoy my conversation with Mark Hodges.

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Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE079

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

Mark Hodge 0:08
I had a military career before my professional career in civilian life, I was in the Air Force, but I worked for the NSA. They would call my job now, nowadays they would say I'm a or my job was a, what's now called an intelligence analyst, and then I did that for four tours of duty, did the whole Pacific Rim, and you could say I was involved in communications technologies, anything having to do with electromagnetic waves, really primed me to understand all the paranormal stuff that was happening and would happen in my life. From there on, I realized that I had been groomed my whole life to understand that part of all this so I could put the pieces together to tell you, tell you all how I see things, how they work in the universe, at least some of it, still have questions on how a lot of it works. So after I got out of the Air Force, I became a software development manager for a major bank and retired in 2014 really not by choice. I just became really sick in 2008 and somehow managed to survive retirement until I had enough vested time in the company. I was able to not work anymore at that time. So I was in surgery number five of 13, and my last two surgeries I had, I was in a coma. Okay, so the first surgery happened about a decade ago, about 12 years ago now, I had surgery. They opened me all the way up from my like my sternum area, all the way down past my belly button, and they had to, they put this mesh inside me. You've seen all the commercials and TV about all the lawsuits and all that stuff. Well, I'm one of those victims. But of course, my company that made my mesh wasn't part of those major class action suits, so maybe one day I'll see some kind of compensation, but they put my life through hell for over a decade. Now, I'm still not right because of it. When they took it out, they didn't replace it with any more mesh. They just and I say, Well, what happens now? And the surgeon goes, I don't know. And here we are, five years later, that was 2017 so when I at some point, something stopped working in my body. I used to think it was breathing, but I had a there was an anesthesiologist didn't think so she thought maybe it was my heart stopped. So something happened, and it stopped me from stopped my bodily functions, from doing whatever, and I came out of my body. That's that moment I came out through my head, backwards. It feels kind of like you're in a pool, and you got your legs, your feet up against the wall, is the side of a pool, and then you push off. And that gliding back motion is kind of how I felt when I came out and mixed with the biggest kind of high you could ever imagine, like people call it love. It's just the biggest feeling of warmth and love and everything's gonna be all right, kind of feeling like so I did this kind of slid back, glided back, kind of at an upward angle from my body. And I was looking down at myself for a while, and I was trying to tell them I didn't want to go back to that body, like, stop trying to save me, you know, because I had been in so much pain and misery for the five years before that, I was done. I was at the end of my rope. At that point. I just didn't want to go along anymore. And so after a little while, you know, they couldn't hear me. That was really frustrating for me. But eventually I got, like a tractor beam would suck you back. I got sucked back into one of the outlets, electrical outlets, in the operating room of the hospital. And because of that, I now know that our soul or spirit, body, whatever you want to label it, it runs on alternating current, or there is alternating current associated with our sword. I can tell you that it's very important. And so anyway, I, once I got inside one of those prongs in the outlet, I went, I shot really fast, like through this long tunnel lash wormhole. It was more like a wormhole, like in a Star Trek movie or something, or like in contact when you see her going through all those wormholes. It was, it looked exactly like that, except the difference is, I was going faster than light. I know that's doesn't seem possible, but I was in it, and I was going faster than light, and I just remember just seeing colors that I've never seen before sparkling everywhere. And it's just kind of like going on a ride in an amusement park, the best ride you've ever been on for the first time, kind of terrified, but yet, you know everything was going to be okay. And then at some point, I don't know, I don't know how long that was in our time, when the tunnel stopped, when the wormhole stopped, everything just went all the light, and everything that I had been passing sort of all caught up with me, and boom, like that. And when that, when that happened, I was in a bathroom, and I knew that I was dead on the operating table in Tampa, Florida. But where I was in this bathroom was San Diego, California, but not this San Diego. It was a different San Diego. And I don't know how to tell you how I knew that. It's just something you I knew things when you're out of your body. I can see why our brains are designed the way they're designed. Because when you're out of your body or. Were in between lives. I guess you could call it. There is kind of no time or space. So it's hard to say how long I was actually dead on the operating table for. It could have been seconds, maybe. But in this time, it went on for years and years and centuries. I know it sounds like I'm a crazy person, but this is exactly what I experienced. And so in this bathroom, I looked in the mirror. I was looking in the mirror when I stopped in this wormhole. And I at first I thought I was kind of like a fly on the wall. I was experiencing somebody else. I was observing somebody else's life, because I knew I was dead on the offering table. So I was like, okay, so I don't know what this is, but let's roll, roll with it, this kind of thing. And eventually I realized that I was controlling the body of the face looking in the mirror. I'm like, How is this possible? And, you know, and then I started touching myself, and I was like, How is this possible? Because I was looking at a kid in a mirror. I was like, 16 years old in that one. Imagine, I was trying to figure this out. And so that, that was the first life I was able to experience, and I was able to experience that life for a couple years, from like when I was 16 till I was 18. In that life, while I was experiencing this, I figured out I understood a lot of things. It took a while. I'm not even sure how long it took. So when you come back to this brain, a lot of this, the details of all this kind of go by the wayside. But the most important thing for me to know about that experience was that this life was connected to this life, the one I'm talking to you right now, and the things that I was experiencing in that life mattered to this life, and vice versa. So a second here seems kind of fast to us, but in many other dimensions, a second is a long time. That's exactly what I experienced. Some people think there's no time outside of this dimension, but I don't think so. I think there are time in dimensions, outside of dimensions, that's another whole story. One thing I knew for sure is that there is this greater force. I call it the infinite one. Now you know you could call it God or source, you and me are part of this source, a part of this infinite one. We all make it up. And when somebody says we we have higher selves, I even believe. I've heard others say this too. I believe that we all share that higher self. There is not an individual higher self, you know, they're in other galaxies, other places. I don't even know how to describe it, like different bodies, different atmospheres, different all kinds of things are happening. They were living at the same time. I knew why I came here, but I didn't really know that till I was two years old, or I didn't remember until I was two, because I told my parents why I came here, because I had to deliver a message all of humanity one day, an important message. And I had to learn all the languages on earth. Well, there was a point when I got to right before I came back into this body. And I don't know how long it was from that point until the time I woke up in the recovery room, because I was back into general anesthesia at that point. So I don't remember that. What I remember what I was experiencing at the before I came back was I got to see a place where we're all going call it heaven, but it wasn't seen with eyes. It was feeling. It was a feeling I got and I was at a distance from it. I can tell you, this place has a lot there's a new type of love we're going to learn about this 2017 I was just visiting some friends in Nashville, or north of Nashville, that year, on Christmas Eve, I was taken by ambulance down to Nashville to the hospital, and so basically, this mesh got infected inside me. They didn't know it at that time, but the mesh got all entangled with my insides, and they had to open me up again. So they did the first surgery. It was kind of like an exploratory surgery, because they didn't know exactly what was wrong. And so the next thing I did was I woke up and a lot of pain. Every time I hit the button on that pain pump, nothing happened. I was just I kept getting in worse pain and worse pain. And then finally I developed this thing called, what they called a fistula, which is a fancy term for a tunnel, a tunnel developed inside of me, which wasn't good. I didn't know that they were going to put me in a comatose state. So at some point after that second surgery, they just took all the mesh out of me during that surgery, and they put me in a coma. So I woke up in this coma because they didn't give me enough medication, or whatever. They were giving me fentanyl, which is toxic to most people. Fentanyl doesn't even work on me at all. I had two central lines in my neck, I didn't know. So when I woke up, the first thing I saw was I was in this dark void, like or a dark hallway, and at the very end of this black, kind of like tunnel, I was like, where am I? You know what? What's going on here? Because last thing I knew, I was in excruciating pain, and I was on my hospital floor, and they just started shooting stuff in my ID. That's the last thing I remember until this moment. That's why, when I talk about astral projection and stuff nowadays, it's really nothing. We're not traveling anywhere. We're already everywhere, because basically everything has a black hole. And that's how we travel. We travel through black holes. That's how it works. And black hole is kind of a misnomer. It's really more like a gateway or a portal. That's what they are. The portal time, if you will, time and space. But what I experienced was that that's the last thing I experienced, was where we're all going, and that's that was part of my message to bring back to you all, was to tell you there's something so amazing. I don't have words for it, but it's an amazing and it's already here. It's already here all around us right now. And call it heaven on earth. It's everywhere, and we can't experience it until we are vibrating at that frequency. Put it that way, and that is part of what I'm learning about. I don't even remember coming back to my body at all. I just remember waking up in the recovery room. At some point after that experience, I had feeling that next place we're all going to, and we're talking about, like, 1000 year span of time that I was gone from here. I know that sounds crazy, but I was able to experience lives like that far ahead, and got details about every life a lot, but I'm still remembering every day I have dreams about places I've been at. So what I remember the most was the reason for the lives more than the lives themselves. The details, those are kind of mundane details, but the lessons of why I was in these other lives is more important. You just can't imagine how connected we all are. It's mind boggling when you go to a restaurant with your wife or something and you see all the people around you, they are all connected to you. And when I the hospital from that surgery, and my mind was just going a million miles a second, and it took me about a month for everything just to calm down to where I could cope here in this life because of all the things I experienced, the first thing I realized when I got back to this body was I've wasted so much time in my life. I'm talking about, like, even watching TV or arguing with people. That's not important at all, all the negative stuff. It's just it's a waste of time. Like, next time even your viewers are having a bad day or something, try to turn that bad day into something positive, because energy doesn't die. We just go change it to a positive energy. That's really the secret to this life. Mastering this life is love is really all that matters here. That's why, and it's not really the forgiveness. Learning to love and forgive, just in the last eight months, I've learned that it's not those things that we have to master, it's the vibration that those things generate. Like being grateful. Being grateful is a higher vibration than love. That's being grateful for everything you have, for every soul we have to learn how to love every soul in our heart. I mean, think about how difficult that is. God is all of us put together, everything, everything and every all of us everything. That there is God. It's I call it the infinite one. God is always beginning in the end. But there our minds want to don't believe that. We think there has to be a beginning to that living a fulfilled life. We all seem to have little different takes on that living a fulfilled life. I haven't lived it yet, even though I've had a full life. I mean, I've experienced things that most people will never experienced in their life, like these lifetimes. So I always try to think about that the ultimate purpose in life is to learn the lessons we came here to learn.

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