NDE and the deaf and blind

miller includes descriptions of people with lifelong deafness and blindness who have had nde’s with the capacity to hear and to see. an account is shared of a boy born deaf who had a nde in which he had “direct communication with about twenty ancestors . . . he’s neither heard nor understood verbal communication. yet he finds himself communicating effortlessly, not through sign language, but directly mind-to-mind, without learning a new form of communication.”

miller also shared that “blind persons, including those blind from birth, do report classic nde’s of the kind common to sighted persons; that the great preponderance of blind persons claim to see during nde’s and obe’s [out of body experiences]; and that occasionally claims of visually-based knowledge that could not have been obtained by normal means can be independently corroborated.”

miller stated further, “yet, nde’s reveal a personal god who both knows and cares about each of us.” the encounter with a being of light “is felt to be the most intense and most essential part of the experience. . . this encounter [with the being of light] is always accompanied by an overwhelming sense of unconditional love and acceptance . . . it is a personal being. it has a very definite personality. . . . the light . . . was of a kind that i’d never seen before and that differs from any other kind such as sunlight.”

so in these several accounts we are seeing a possible revelation of the truth of the living jesus christ given us in our space-time by god’s grace and boundless love.

Stan Lennard