The following near-death-experience account by former Epoch Times journalist Dana Betlevy tells of how she discovered her life’s meaning after dying, floating to a blissful ethereal dimension, then returning to her body upon being resuscitated. She struggled to tell her story within her materialist milieu growing up in Eastern Europe.
In my childhood and adolescence, I had extraordinary experiences I could not explain. I didn’t dare to tell others, fearing ridicule from people with a materialistic way of thinking. I am an engineer and I have spent my life with a love of math and physics, yet I never rejected the idea that this is not the only life I have lived.