(13:25 to 15:20)



The next stage has been called the Tunnel and it is literally a matter of traveling through a tunnel. There’s a lot of light at the other end of it and eventually you go through it and you emerge at the light.



Here’s another view of a tunnel this one comes from a painting by the Dutch Painter (?). I believe this is a fifteenth century piece. And he had many, many visions in the course of his life. Some people think that he actually took hallucinatory drugs, other people think he had a near-death-experience other people think he was schizophrenic and simply prone to visions and hallucinations.

The Tunnel is a common vision, it’s a common hallucination.

It can occur in schizophrenia spontaneously. It can occur with peyote in American Indian religion ceremonies. It can occur following a head injury, you get hit on the head and you see stars. I’ve talked to a couple of people who had closed-head injuries and for an instant after the impact they saw nothing but a black space with a tiny point of light.

I haven’t read about it in the scientific literature but I’ve spoken to people who’ve had this.

And, there it is

(14:38 image)



And it’s come to be called “The Void”.

But like The Tunnel it’s dark around the edges with a light in the centre. And like The Tunnel, the experience proceeds by moving along it and moving into the light where upon more things happen.

(15:00)

Out-of-body-experiences are not the only way that Near-Death-Experiences can begin and many Near-Death-Experiences have no tunnel in them at all.

So now we’ve got a couple of stages in, the next stage involves “Being in the other side”. (15:20)