This testimony describes an intense near-death experience in which the individual feels overwhelmed by an immense white light filled with divine love and power. Initially paralyzed by the light, they surrender to it, experiencing an ecstatic unity with it. They are then carried through multiple celestial realms, each increasing in divine glory, love, and wisdom by a factor of a million.
On December 22, 1986 (around 4:15 pm), I suddenly felt like I was going to die. So I laid down, and soon I was inundated by an intense white light—filled with the most fabulous Power of Love in the universe.
Inside this light, I could hear the roar of deafening winds but also the most beautiful song—the voice of angels that covered the sound of the winds. My body was paralyzed by the power of this Light. This Love was beyond me. I was afraid of losing control of my physical functions.
The desire to stay in control—the desire itself, movement, thought—everything that was human died in the light.
BECOMING THE LIGHT
When it swallowed me whole, an explosion of Ecstasy and Love rose from my navel, merging with the light itself. Soon, I became the Light. I became Innocence, Love, Ecstasy, Peace, Power, Beauty, and Wisdom of Light.
Like a mother carrying her child in her arms, the Light carried me upward at breakneck speed. The Light spoke to me—and I knew it was God, the Power that had created the whole universe.
The First Heaven
The Light told me that this first sky of Light where I was—whose light and love exceeded a million times what I had known on Earth—was filled with an infinite number of heavenly planets. I looked at my body and saw that it was made of pure white light, but it still had a bright human form.
The Second Heaven
I stayed there for a while. Then I was transported higher, where the Joy and Glory of God crushed me to the point of not being able to bear this Ecstasy for a long time. I exploded in a new light, where the Glory of Innocence, Love, Ecstasy, Peace, Power, and Wisdom was a million times brighter than in First Heaven.
My new body was more radiant, clearer, and could somehow support an exponential increase in Glory. I was told this Second Heaven had an infinite number of planets.
The Third Heaven
I exploded once again inside a new light—a million times brighter than the previous one. It was the Third Heaven. My body still looked human, but there was so much white light in it that I couldn’t believe my eyes. I could see clearly and perfectly millions of miles away.
The song of the Angels above me was magnificent, deafening, and glorious. I felt that the vibration of sounds carried such sophisticated wisdom that it could actually create life and myriad possibilities in the universe. These Angelic sounds were intended to create.
The Fourth Heaven
I left the Third Heaven for the Fourth, where the Glory of God was so resplendent that I had the impression that the beings existing on this plane exceeded any concept of Glory imaginable.
My body was so bright here that it had little human appearance left. This Glory was so radiant that I said to God, “I cannot bear any more. You are so much larger than the God that I had imagined to be beyond my understanding.” Entire galaxies of energy could be created with this light.
The Fifth Heaven
I asked God not to bring me higher, but He did it anyway. At this stage, the splendor of Glory clearly exceeded my capacities. An astonishing quality of light descended from an even more radiant plane above me. I don’t think there were planets on this plane—but maybe there are beings living inside the stars themselves.
The Grace of God, its most poetic and marvelous quality, descended like millions of leaves falling harmoniously—soothing and purifying Ecstasy and Glory to a point that I could not bear. I could write an entire chapter on this Grace without being able to do it justice.
The Sixth Heaven
Then I was brought to the Fifth Heaven. My body now looked like a giant sun. I no longer had any human appearance. Glory is indescribable. What is happening there is completely inconceivable for humans.
I stayed there for a while. Then I was taken to the Sixth Heaven, a million times more radiant than the Fifth. I will not speak of the splendor of God on this plane. The Angels sing so loud that no human ear can hear this music of the universe.
My body had become an even brighter sun—merged with the light that is at the center of God.
The Seventh Heaven
I was then transported to the Seventh Heaven. What was going on there was so beyond my ability that God brought me down. I could only stay in Seventh Heaven for ten seconds.
Light could create entire galaxies with the utmost ease. The beings who can go there are a million times more advanced than me. Since the level of Light and Glory of Innocence, Love, Ecstasy, Peace, Power, Beauty, and Wisdom increases a million times from one heaven to the next, going through these planes and staying there is very difficult.
Supporting Scriptures
- 1 Timothy 6:15–16 “Which in His times He shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto…”
- John 14:2 “In My Father’s house are many mansions…”
- Colossians 3:2 “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”
- Philippians 3:20 “For our conversation is in heaven…”
- Psalm 73:25 “Whom have I in heaven but thee?”
- Psalm 19:1–2 “The heavens declare the glory of God…”
- Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To every thing there is a season…”
- Matthew 6:19–20 “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven…”
- Matthew 19:14 “The kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
- Matthew 24:35 “Heaven and earth shall pass away…”
- Jeremiah 32:17 “Ah Lord God! Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth…”
- 1 Timothy 6:7–8 “For we brought nothing into this world…”
- 1 John 3:2–3 “We shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.”
- Psalm 108:5 “Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens…”
- 2 Timothy 4:18 “The Lord shall deliver me…and preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom…”
- Amos 9:6 “He builds His lofty palace in the heavens…”
- Genesis 1:1–2 “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth…”
- Psalm 124:8 “Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth.”
- Isaiah 55:9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth…”
- Matthew 19:21 “Sell what you have and give to the poor…you will have treasure in heaven…”
- 2 Corinthians 12:2–4 “Such a one caught up to the third heaven…”
- Luke 24:50–51 “He was taken up into heaven.”
- Jeremiah 23:24 “Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.
—David