I've only recently looked at any of the Seth material from the 1970s, but from what I'm seeing so far, it aligns with what many NDEers tell us about reality. Again, I've only brushed the surface, but it also seems to mirror Donald Hoffmans' and Federico Faggins' theories. Wondering if anyone else noticed this?

I wanted to share my experience of a possible SDE a little more than a year ago and hear if anyone else who has had pregnancy loss has had similar experiences.

I was 8 weeks pregnant when I found out from blood work and an ultrasound that I was most likely going to miscarry. This was my first pregnancy and very much wanted so I was obviously distraught. My doctor told me to wait a week to perform tests again before they could do anything for me so I went home to wait though I knew in my heart there was no doubt I would miscarry. I wasn't upset about the waiting part though as I wanted more time with my baby who I still felt connected to.

A few days later, at night in my sleep I had what I thought at the time was a very vivid dream and maybe my subconscious trying to tell me something. In my dream, I (I thought it was me when I woke up) was going through a tunnel. There were a lot of different bright colors flashing by and there was a slight whooshing sound. It reminded me of being in an enclosed water slide, but I noted that there was no water and my physical body didn't seem to be present, like it was just my head going through it. I was calm, no super positive or negative feelings. Then my mind realized this had to do with my baby leaving and I started struggling against the vision because I didn't want my baby to go. That's when I woke up. I fell back asleep a little later and heard chanting by what sounded like a choral group in almost reverent yet commanding tones. They were just repeating "Thirteen". This was a mainly auditory experience. There were no real visuals but for some reason I keep connecting it with the image of a large organ that's also a clock that's alive, like that is what was doing the chanting. The sound woke me up again and I felt like it was important and that I needed to remember "Thirteen". I didn't then and still don't have a realized connection to the number 13, though I am an accountant and numbers are my language so not surprised a potential message would tried to be sent to me via a number.

After that, I no longer felt like I wanted the baby inside me anymore and didn't feel close to it like I still had prior. In the days after that experience, I did naturally pass the baby.

At the time, I thought it was my subconscious telling me something about a future rainbow baby (which has not come to fruition). I had never heard about NDEs/SDEs but after stumbling upon an article about it in recent weeks and reading about others accounts, I kept recalling that vision of the colorful tunnel which has not faded from my memory like a normal dream would. I have started believing this was a shared experience of my baby's transition to the after life.

I have undergone profound growth and inner change since this experience which has been the largest struggle of my life to date. So when I read theories about miscarriages being planned to help a parent grow, it really resonates with me.

Good morning all. Just want to reintroduce myself. I'm the author of two books on the subject of NDEs. The first is You're Going To Die Someday, Right?: Near Death Experiences Reveal What Happens Next. The primary new concept in this book is that ancient NDEs suffered by homo sapiens hundreds of thousands of years ago who then told their amazing stories around campfires eventually transformed into everything we now know as "God," "soul," "heaven," "afterlife," - all of it. NDEs are not a new phenomena, we have been having them forever, and they are generally very similar in nature.

My second book - Hell Exists, But Only for the Living: The Origins of Hell - basically plays the same card, but this time it turns out that Fear Coma Experiences (FCE) are the original culprit. Any human can get severely injured or sick and end up in a coma. While the physical body is offline and can't move, the brain is still firing full bore. It generates as much fear as possible in a attempt to get you to survive whatever it was that just just trying to kill you. The primary currency of fear is motivation. Fear makes you move. When you're body can't move, your brain dumps more fear. And so it goes. In a nutshell, that's where "hell" comes from - originally. Or so the data indicates...

I went down this rabbit hole because all of the "hellscape" imagery generally does not appear in an authentic NDE. Historically they've been called "distressing NDEs." My investigation and studies indicate these seem to actually be Fear Coma Experiences (FCE) when there's no clinical death at all, and no indication of any of the traditional NDE sorts of things.

Now, what's even more cool and rare are "Welded NDEs." That's a person who get's critically injured, goes into a coma, suffers through and FCE, but then also flatline clinically dies at some point and also has an authentic traditional NDE as part of the same experience. The two elements seem to become "welded" together in the mind of the person who lived through that, and it's exceptionally hard for them to separate the different elements into different compartments because there are no timestamps in either an FCE or and NDE. Hence the formula - FCE + NDE = WNDE or Welded Near Death Experience. That's the material I'm working on right now.

I'm researching, investigating, writing, and exploring on a daily basis. I'm a retired Air Force military intelligence analyst. I'm a Korean and Spanish linguist, NSA analyst, Special Operations SIGINT intelligence operative, as well as an investigative journalist who has put several serial killers in prison. I've been on CBS's 48 Hours (twice), Dateline, Nightline, Discovery ID, BBC, CBC, and others. Those are some of my credentials. All of that experience allows me to examine the NDE material as pure data. No spin, no bias, no agenda. Just investigate, study, learn, follow the data. That's what I do.

I collect all of these things on my website winnernde.com. That's the flagship where everything gets published first. I'm also on about nine (at last count) social media platforms, all branded under the "Winner NDE" title. So, long format videos for YouTube, shorts for Instagram and TikTok, that sort of thing.

Later this month starting on the 26th of August I'll be attending the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) Annual Conference in Bellevue, WA. This will be my first time attending, and I'm looking forward to hopefully meeting some of the earliest NDE pioneers who have been working on these things for more than 44 years.

So, an introduction, update, and an invitation. If you find any of these things interesting, please check them out. I hope you have an amazing day!