Approximately 15 percent of the global population has encountered a near-death incident, with many individuals sharing their accounts of glimpsing heaven. However, not all who experienced this phenomenon returned to life voluntarily.
A group of near-death survivors has revealed their ‘horrible’ experiences after being ripped away from the afterlife and returned to their bodies.
For instance, one individual who came close to death due to an overdose of a health supplement shared with the Daily Mail that he had embraced his time in heaven and was reluctant to come back to Earth against his desires.
Similarly, another person who narrowly escaped death after being struck by a truck disclosed that they heard voices cautioning them that it was not their moment to pass into heaven.
However, one near-death experiencer believes he was sent back to Earth intentionally to experience the negative emotions that don’t exist in the afterlife.
Whether they returned reluctantly or with a divine purpose, near-death experiencers have continued to share their stories of what awaits beyond death.
Daily Mail spoke with several who have dedicated their lives to spreading the lessons they learned in death and who now help others to lead a life that will one day grant them entrance to heaven.
Still, many of these returning souls keep their own pain hidden, as they now have to wait years to go back to a heavenly realm they didn’t want to leave.
California dancer Peter Bedard had a near-death experience after he was hit by a truck. Despite agonizing pain, he feared committing suicide would lead to him being rejected from heaven again
The stories of people who have seen heaven but then unwillingly returned to Earth were recently discussed on the ‘Outer Limits of Inner Truth Reborn’ podcast in May.
Host Ryan McCormick said: ‘I spoke to multiple individuals who have had profound near-death experiences where they describe reaching a light, or a physical afterlife, and then being forced reluctantly back into their bodies.’
‘Some of these near-death experiencers have spent many years yearning to return – but also hoping to share the knowledge they have gained with others,’ he continued.
Peter Bedard from California had a near-death experience after he was hit by a truck.
Bedard said his soul jumped out of his body just before the impact.
He could see his body and knew he was dead, but felt an ‘incredible sense’ of life filling him as he entered a spinning tube of white light towards heaven.
Bedard also encountered a guide in the afterlife, but was told that he was ‘not meant to be there’ and was returned to his severely injured body.
The former dancer endured multiple years in chronic pain after the accident. He contemplated suicide but feared heaven would reject him again if he carried out his plan.
One near-death experiencer, Vincent Tolman, says he was returned unwillingly to his body after getting fully comfortable with being in heaven
Bedard added that he now understands it was not his time yet, and has dedicated his life to helping others heal from physical, emotional, and psychological issues using hypnotherapy.
Vincent Tolman said he was extremely reluctant to return to his body after meeting a ‘gentleman dressed all in white’ who introduced himself as his ‘guide.’
Tolman had overdosed on a bodybuilding supplement in a restaurant bathroom. Before being returned against his will, the guide showed Tolman around heaven, which gave the dying man a sense of love and fulfillment.
‘I connected to the space. I connected to the grass and it’s odd to say, but I felt a tremendous love and peace and serenity coming just from the grass as I touched it with my feet,’ Tolman said.
‘Then I got to kind of extend my consciousness over to the flowers, the trees, the water, and feel a completeness as I was starting to get used to being in that space,’ he continued.
That’s when Tolman said his guide turned to him and revealed that it was time to leave the afterlife.
‘This is going to be hard, but it’s going to be worth it,’ Tolman recalled the guide saying.
As the man and guide hugged, Tolman said he felt a ball of energy explode between the two of them as he was thrown back into his body.
By the time his journey through the afterlife was over, Tolman had spent three days in a coma.
‘It felt as if I was pulled away from that heaven state, and I was forced back into my body, completely forced,’ he said.
Tolman admitted that for months after the incident he had a very hard time trying to pick up the pieces and make sense of what had happened.
After recovering from his overdose, Tolman married, began to share his near-death experience with others, and admits that he remains ‘super excited’ to go back to heaven.
Andy Petro was another near-death experiencer who was reluctant to return to his body.
A group of near-death survivors has revealed their ‘horrible’ experiences after being ripped away from the afterlife and returned to their bodies (Stock Image)
He said during the podcast that returning to his body was ‘horrible’ and that ‘all he wants’ is to be in the light again.
Speaking to McCormick, Petro described how he developed a cramp while swimming during a class picnic in Detroit in 1955.
Andy Petro claimed he was sent back to Earth to experience negative emotions that don’t exist in the afterlife
He found himself stuck in mud at the bottom of a lake.
‘I popped out of my body, and I’m heading towards a tunnel. I can look back and see my body stuck in the mud, and I’m saying to myself, ‘Well, that’s strange, because I couldn’t see it before, but now I can see it,’ Petro described.
‘I turned the other direction, and there’s this giant, beautiful, fantastic light. I would say it was equivalent to maybe 1,000 of our suns all at once, and it’s just shining on me,’ he continued.
Petro said that he believes people come back to Earth out of choice, to experience the ‘sorrow’ of individual life.
‘The reason I came down here was to experience fear, separation, hatred, segregation, all of these things you cannot experience in the light, because in the light, we are all one. There is no separation, there is no hierarchy, there is nobody in charge,’ the near-death experiencer said.
‘In the light, we are in charge. We are it. We are the big light, composed of an infinite number of smaller pieces of the light,’ he added.
Petro told McCormick that all he wants is to be back in the light, but he tries to share his knowledge of the light with others while he remains on Earth.
