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

Elizabeth Krohn 0:08
I was 28 years old, and I was married, and I had two young children, and my husband's career was really taking off. I had finished college and had gone to law school, but I was not working at the time because I had a four year old and a two year old, and I was staying home with them, and things were going great. My husband and I had been married at that point for eight years, so it was the first anniversary of the death of my grandfather in the Jewish faith, on the anniversary each year, the anniversary of the death of a loved one, they will read their name services in synagogue. So I decided I was going to go to hear my grandfather's name read. My entire family was going to be there. My parents and my sisters and my husband was actually out of town on a business trip, and so I decided to take my two little boys and go to services. And so I got myself and the boys all cleaned up and dressed up. And in fact, we looked so good. I took a picture of the three of us right before we left the house. And when I look at that photo, now, I see a totally different person. I mean, there was a look in my eyes that does not exist in me. Now, it's so strange. And people that I'm very close to have said the same thing, like, you don't even look like yourself. Anyway, I got the boys in the car, we drove to the synagogue, and it was a sunny day, and we turned into the parking lot, and suddenly there was this black rain cloud, and it felt like it was right up for my car, and rain just started coming down in sheets. I mean, it was torrential, this rain storm. And I parked the car, and we sat there for a couple of minutes, and I thought, you know, if we sit here, we're going to miss his name being read, which is the whole reason we're here. And I didn't like going to services anyway, so let's just go in and get it over with. And so I told my four year old to get out of the car and run to the door to the awning and wait there for us, and he did, and I watched him, and he got there, and then I climbed over the seat of the car to get my two year old out of his car seat, and I got him out, and I grabbed my umbrella, big mistake, and opened the car door, and we stepped out into this horrible storm, and I realized I couldn't carry my two year old. I couldn't carry him and handle the umbrella and handle my purse, and it was just a lot, and I figured I was going to put him down and hold his hand and hold the umbrella. I was holding his hand with my right hand. I had the shaft of the umbrella like all the way up the umbrella, and had it down real close to my head, so my wedding ring was touching the metal shaft of the umbrella, and we started walking. And being two, he didn't have real long legs, so we were taking short steps, and suddenly there was lightning and thunder, and I glanced at my hand holding the umbrella. I shouldn't be carrying an umbrella. There's lightning. And before I was like telling myself, just let go. Just let go. You'll get wet. That's not the end of the world. Just let go. And before I could let go of the umbrella, this was told to me later by someone that witnessed it, there was a large bolt of lightning with this tiny, tiny little tine coming off, and it was that tiny little tine that touched the tip, the metal tip of the umbrella, and that didn't knock me out. It hurt, but it didn't knock me out. And but what it did do was like paralyzed my arm. I couldn't move my arm. I couldn't open my hand. My hand was now frozen around the shaft of the umbrella, and then a larger bolt hit the top of the umbrella, and that did it. That was the sledgehammer. And he started screaming. I didn't realize what had happened. It did burst his eardrums, and it burst my eardrums, but he was he was in a lot of pain, and he had let go of my hand, I guess, and had clamped both of his hands over his ears, and was screaming. And Jeremy, my four year old, had witnessed the whole thing, and Kate started running back out toward us. And I was thinking, What is he doing? I told him to stay by the door, and he got to us, and he grabbed his brother's hand and started pulling him toward the building. And I thought, well, that's weird. They were both screaming at that point, and so I followed them to the building, and we got inside the lobby, and. And services had already begun, and there was a man walking through the lobby, I guess he had come from the restroom or something, and it was someone that knew us, and we knew him, and he came over to us to see why the boys were screaming. They were just screaming. And he came over and he was talking to the boys, and I thought, This is so strange. Why is he ignoring me? I'm here. Why is he talking to them? And my next thought was, where's my umbrella? I knew I had had an umbrella, and I didn't see it anywhere in the lobby. And I'm thinking, What is going on here? And I looked out the the door in the lobby there have a narrow glass window, and I looked out the window and I saw my umbrella, and it was like on fire or smoking, and it was just the metal skeleton of an umbrella, and smoke was coming off it. And I my gaze kind of shifted to the right, and about 20 feet away from the umbrella, I saw myself in the parking lot from the lobby of the building. I could not wrap my head around what was going on. It was too strange. And I noticed that my feet out there in the parking lot, that the soles of my shoes were gone, and my feet were like sticking out the bottom of my shoes, and I got really upset because they were brand new shoes, they were expensive. And I thought, oh my god, what? What is happening? So I looked down at my feet there in the lobby, and my shoes were fine. They were perfect. I wasn't even wet. Everything was great. The only problem was I was hovering about six inches off the floor, and at this point, the man that had been talking to the boys had run into services that were going on, and from the back of the room, he said, We need a doctor. And this being a Jewish synagogue, and about half a block from the Texas Medical Center, about 40 men got up toward the back of the room, and so I figured, and I saw that, it's like somehow I had seen that happen. And I decided, okay, the boys are going to be fine, because my parents are here, and they'll take care of them. I need to go back outside and see what's going on out there. And as soon as I thought it, I was out there, over my body, looking down at myself, and I'm willing myself to get up. You know, just get up. You're ruining your clothes. What are you doing? And then it just dawned on me, I can't get up, I'm dead. And my next thought was, You're so stupid. You wasted 28 years. You didn't learn anything, because here you are dead yet conscious. And a light appeared to my right and kind of above me, and this light, it felt like it was alive, like it was a living thing, and it wanted me to follow it. And so I thought I got nothing to lose here. I'll follow it. And this light led me to a place that I call the garden. The garden was not like any garden here on Earth. The colors were very different, like they're not colors that exist here. They must be from another spectrum, or, I don't know, but they don't exist here. There were flowers and a stream and a bench, and it was a very ornate bench. It looked like it had been hand carved out of some Glossy wood. I don't know it was very ornate. Once I was in this garden, I had this overwhelming feeling of unconditional love. It was overpowering, and when I say unconditional I thought I knew what unconditional love was. I had children. I loved them unconditionally. But this was whole different level. This was something completely different. There just aren't words to describe the depth of it, the breadth of it, the whole thing, it was overwhelming in a good way. Then a voice told me to sit down on the bench. The voice was my grandfather, who had died a year earlier, and when your dead grandfather tells you to sit down, you sit so I sat down on the bench, and he sat down next to me, and he told me that he was just going to we were going to have a conversation, and that he was just going to put the information into my head. I wouldn't hear his voice anymore. I don't think it was my grandfather. I do believe it was God talking to me. I believe that he was using my grandfather's voice so I wouldn't be terrified. I never did turn and look at him. I. Was afraid to look at him, which is strange. I mean, I know he was sitting right next to me, yet I never turned and looked and so we proceeded. So my companion, who I believe, was God, and I sat on that bench for two weeks, and we had a conversation for two weeks, one of the things I learned there was that time is not linear. Time is far from linear. I don't want to say it was a calendar, but it was kind of like a calendar, because it was keeping track of time. And people ask me a lot, well, why did you need to keep track of time, if it isn't even linear. What difference did it make? So this calendar was actually three orbs in the sky. I don't know if they were planets or what they were, but there were three of them, and I knew, I just understood, that the way they were moving in relation to each other. Was marking the passage of time, and it was, I say, it's a download. It was like all of this information was just instantaneously downloaded. Suddenly I understood physics. But while I was there, everything was all of the answers were there. And so we had this extensive conversation for two weeks. A lot of it was about my family and just personal stuff about me, my husband, our kids, my parents, just stuff that would be mundane to anyone else. Well, I was told that I could stay there if I chose to, and if I chose to stay, I would follow this path. There was like a path through the garden, and it led to a mountain range that was off to the right, and that light that I had followed to the garden had moved behind the mountain range, so the mountains were backlit by this light. And I was told, if I decided to stay, I would go beyond the mountains, and that's permanent, until you decide to come back into a different life. And if I decided to go back into this life, that was fine, too. He said he was going to help me make the decision by giving me information about certain things about my life if I chose to come back, he told me that it would be physically very painful, because I had burns from the lightning all over me, especially the bottom of my feet, and also that it would be very difficult, from a pain standpoint, to get back into my body, because when I left my body, my soul had expanded, and it was much larger than my body at that point. So he said he was going to have to squeeze me very tight and to get me back into my body. And he told me things about my marriage that I would end up getting divorced if I decided to come back, and you don't argue with God, not not advisable. But I didn't understand why he was saying that. Because we had been married for eight years at that point, and we were happy. I mean, I just I didn't see this happening. And I said, No, no, I don't think that would happen. And he said that that would happen. And he said, because look, if you go back, you're not going to be the same person you were when you left. And I said, Well, if there's going to be a divorce, possibly I need to be the one to raise my kids. I don't want him raising the kids, so I guess I better go back and finish that job. He said, Well, it's not just two kids. You're going to have a third one, and that one will be a girl, and she's already selected you to be her mother. And again, if anyone had told me that reincarnation was a thing, and you pick your parents and you make all these decisions before you even come into this life, I would have said, you're full of it. No way that is not true. And yet it is true. And so that was that was a tough lesson for me, but I figured, you know, if someone has already decided they want me to be their mother, then I'm going to go back. I want to meet this person. I you know, who would pick me to be their mother? And at the end of a couple of weeks, he said, Okay, God is the pinnacle, the apex, the spirit that runs through all of us. He's the unifier. He's what brings it all together, all of humanity and beyond humanity.