I Left My Body During Surgery… Here’s What Happened - Near Death Experiences You Won’t Forget

I saw my aunts. They were present. I felt their presence, but I saw my grandmother right inside a flame, my great-grandmother. My name is Hila Baruch. I manage the IANDS Israel Association. It's an organization research and study of near-death experiences and clinical death. The idea to open the branch here in the country, it's an international organization, stemmed from a personal experience of mine. 7 years ago, following a simple surgery I had where they left a blood vessel open, I arrived after 3 weeks. They rushed me to the hospital when I was in a state of near death. I lost almost all the blood in my body. When they took me into the operating room, I said Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Shema Yisrael. They hadn't put me under yet. When I opened my eyes after Shema Yisrael, I saw my aunts. They were present. I felt their presence, but I saw my grandmother right inside a flame, my great-grandmother. And they were there to accompany me, and it felt like such a warm feeling, a feeling of security. And even before I said the Shema Yisrael again, it's as if I said it, but it wasn't me who said it. It was said through me. I felt what it was to be the pure meaning of the words. Shema Yisrael, I want to hear. Yasha El, Israel, straight to the heart. And then I opened my eyes. I opened my eyes and I saw my great-grandmother inside a flame. My grandmother, Miriam, of blessed memory, and two aunts who are no longer alive, whose presence I felt. And at that moment, a process of leaving the body began. I literally felt it in stages. I can't assess it now, but the stage when I broke through, I I it exactly like a hatching. From the root of every single cell in my body, and I jumped out toward the ceiling and floated there. The first moment was this is good for me. Wow, I've come home. And I didn't know that home could be so good. And here I'm here, my body is here on the operating table. I'm looking and it doesn't even interest me. Meaning I see it as a coat that served me, and at that moment it wasn't me. I was still here. All the questions I've asked all my life regarding what are we doing here? >> [music] >> Why is there suffering? Why live and then die? What is the purpose? As I walked with them, I received all the answers at once like drops of rain. Afterwards, this next stage was to leave the hospital. But I didn't leave right away. I was still floating there a little, and I saw my mother trying to pray for me. I was thrown into a cabin in the north where the first doctor who operated on me privately was staying with his wife. I was thrown into the cabin because that doctor who was operating on me at that moment was the one who had trained him. And he was thinking about him, and he was angry with him, and he was talking, and he took responsibility for me as if I were his daughter. And at the very moment he was thinking about him, I was thrown into the cabin in the north and saw him. Meaning I was also able to experience this reality and what people are doing here, but also something that is beyond this reality. From a young age, I went to study law. I wanted to I thought that through my speaking skills I would be able to help people. I truly thought so, and I also thought that there was justice. And in the heavenly court, what I experienced was so different from my experience as a lawyer over the years in the courts as a litigator. Everything I experienced was the opposite of judgment. The only one who judged was me, judging myself. There was a life review. In that life review, they showed me everything I had experienced from the moment I was born until that moment. In that life review, I experienced every hurt I had caused someone else. I was every one of the people in the scenes they showed me in that life review, and I felt all of them. I understood all of them. I understood what it was like to be in everyone's shoes. And if I had hurt someone, I felt what I had done to them. It's not a simple feeling to go through a life review. It's seeing yourself, and you can't [snorts] say anything else. You can't say I invoke the right to remain silent. You can't say objection. Not the facade, not the legal argument, not the rules of procedure, not the procedure. So, there were basically three approaches. An approach of judgment, mercy, and a middle approach. I didn't want to come back in any way after they showed me my life and showed me how I had acted. And just talking about the life review is a lecture in itself. So, I can't really get into it in this short conversation, but it brings a certain sense of acceptance and understanding. And then basically I was told to return, to come back here. Um I didn't want to come back, but that righteous judge told me it is not your time, and they showed me my funeral. The one on the right who was in front of me showed me my funeral. And even when they showed me my funeral, I didn't want to come back. The one in the middle said, "Okay, you will be in a world that it's hard for me to explain it. It's like a parallel world in terms of its level, maybe a little lower because it is a world of preparation for the new reincarnation. And then they showed me the family that I was supposedly going to be reincarnated into, and I still didn't want to come back. I didn't want to be reincarnated either. He told me, "You will return. You will be reincarnated, and that will go through everything you were supposed to go through from the beginning. Then the righteous judge, the one on the side of mercy, showed me the future. And then, only after he showed me the future, he asked me, "Do you agree?" And I agreed. So, for me it was clear, as clear as day, to all the souls who were there and to the judges, that I was making three promises. I would return in chuva, I would return inward to myself, to the spiritual part of me, and act from that place. That was the first thing. The second thing was that I would use the abilities the creator had given me for holiness. Before the experience, those abilities were talents. That's how I saw them, as talents. And after the experience, I understood that they were not talents, and they were not me, and nothing belongs to me, it is on loan. I was given an instrument, and that instrument needs to be played. And the last thing that I will tell of what happened, from my perspective, telling what happened meant that my coming closer again to the creator, returning to a place I had moved away from before the experience. Because of what I had absorbed not from my grandfather's home, I had quite a few conflicts. What I absorbed in school was reward and punishment. And I said, "Okay, I will never be able to keep everything. So, I'm already not okay, and no matter what I do, I won't succeed. There's more, there's also this and this and this." And it's like putting a label on the creator that he punishes. And suddenly, this understanding that he is full of love, so full of love. He is love and full of mercy, and wants what is good for me, and listens to me, and is always with me, even when I leave myself, he is with me. Even when we leave him and leave ourselves, he is with us. It blew me away. Not only did it blow me away, it also hurt me, because I felt that what I had thought about the creator was really slander. If I have a personal agenda, I say it openly. I say it as honestly and openly as I can. It is to bring out this truth because I felt that I had been misled. I wouldn't want anyone to experience that feeling of living with a sense of missing out, that I was irrelevant. It's like a person who just played a role in a movie, and he thinks he's the lead actor. And in the end, when they show him the final edit, you can barely see him there. He wasn't relevant. And I discovered that many things I thought were important were not. I may even have held people back from their development because it was something they needed to go through. We do not do anyone else's corrections. We connect. We want to fulfill love your fellow as yourself. So, we do not ask. We need to step out of that place for a moment. We connect. And when you connect, there is fullness. There is no lack because outside the body, I lacked nothing. I wasn't hungry. I could see everything, and I could hear everything without a body. More accurately, I could see better and also hear better because I could hear intentions. And when we are asked who we were, we need to understand who we were, the false identity or the godliness within us. First of all, understand who I am and what I am, okay? If a person thinks he is a monkey, then what can I say to him already, okay? I first need to help him understand what his identity is. And once you place emphasis in your attention, in your process of self-reflection, I'm trying to understand for a moment, why do I get up in the morning? What motivation do I even have to live here? Do people ask themselves that? No, but we travel abroad and we check the flight ticket, what the exchange rate is, which hotel we'll stay in, where we'll go sightseeing. We live here for 80, 90, 120 years, and we don't check where we're going. What will happen? And to say that these are philosophical questions, these There questions. The fact is that every person reaches a stage, even if they never dealt with this their whole life, when they reach the final moments of their life, something happens there. And if someone disagrees with me, go to hospices, accompany people in hospices. See the emotional processes they go through. How much we can learn from that as well, from what a person goes through. A person can be the hardest person, and a week before he passes away, he's a completely different person. Suddenly you see the light of the soul. Suddenly softening, that is important, too. That's it. May it be his will that we all truly act from that place. And that we merit to unite all the parts of ourselves, all our souls into one vision. The temple is a gateway. It is a gateway to something. It is not the ultimate purpose. And I say this because it is a part of the experience that I have not revealed. What blew me away was that people are always saying, "The temple will come. Messiah will come." Wait a minute. It's a gate. It's a gate to the creator. In the end, we want him. I want you. This is the gateway to him. And I recommend that people listen to as many experiences as possible. It awakens. It awakens. And before rushing out to do and to act, and before trying to change anyone, seek to influence, to awaken, to be just the presence of being the thing itself. You don't have to speak at all, and everyone will grow and flourish around you, like a sun. May we merit to be a sun, but with the right tools.