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Elizabeth502
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I think Listener’s distinction is an important one. I agree: lots of people are calling pre-death experiences NDE’s. And I agree that the pre-death experiences are the ones we should focus on. That’s what I also was referring to on another thread (which I abandoned because someone got nasty and missed the point of the thread). Some priests witness and later report these pre-death experiences. Lots of them are as you describe. When these final experiences are upsetting and frightening, it’s because a battle is being waged within that soul, between light and darkness. Now, the outcome of that battle we don’t necessarily know, but it seems to me that we can assume – based both on these experiences and by Catholic theology which does not contradict such experiences – that a dying person who is affirming the light, is the person that (as you say) gets embraced by the light.
It doesn’t (naturally) negate Purgatory as an intermediate step.
It doesn’t (naturally) negate Purgatory as an intermediate step.