Vision of Heaven
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Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels surrounding the throne and the living creatures and the elders; they numbered myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, singing with full voice… (vv. 11-12a)
Phillip Hasheider is a retired Wisconsin beef farmer and an award-winning author who was dead for six minutes and came back to tell about it. If you have ever thought about dying and wondered what it would be like, then Hasheider’s Six Minutes in Eternity is a book you will want to read.
Hasheider’s brief transition from this life to the next began on an ordinary day, October 5, 2015, a month shy of his 64th birthday, on his hundred-acre farm near Sauk City, Wisconsin. He tells of seeing his wife, Mary, off to work, then going out to the pasture to check on the cattle. He began talking to them, but on this day they did not ignore him as they usually did:
“Suddenly, there were twenty-eight burgundy-colored Red Angus bodies giving me their full attention… two shot off running away at half speed until the rest joined them in a full race across the wide field… When they finally stopped they were three hundred yards away. They all turned to stare back at me, ears pricked up…”
Hascheider wondered, “What’s this about? They acted like they’d seen a ghost.”
It was just twelve miles and a couple of hours later, at the Sauk Prairie Hospital’s Fitness Center in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, where Hasheider went regularly to exercise, that his six minute plunge into eternity began after “20 moderate arm curls.” He says, “…that was my last moment on earth. I collapsed to the floor and began a journey that has changed my life forever.”
“I didn’t recognize I had died because I didn’t feel dead. The place seemed vaguely familiar…” But “It didn’t have a dimensional form… I then sensed I was floating.” And sitting in something “…akin to a raft… Then, I heard the stillness. I listened because it was peaceful. It was warm and welcoming.”
Hasheider describes adjusting to his new ethereal body which resembled the shape of his physical body on earth. “I was floating on waves… upon this sea of silken energy vibrations that surrounded and enfolded me like a warm cocoon…I sensed there were other spirit energies around but I had not yet seen them…I felt unseen hands that surrounded and lifted me…”
What happens next for this Wisconsin farmer and author of thirty books on farming, local history and family stories, is what he would later come to understand was the reason he was “…sent back to explain my experience to those who are… afraid of what happens after life when our physical form ceases:”
“I looked up to see a gigantic sphere of light…It was infinite. It was immense. It expanded to the outer rim of this borderless space before me yet I felt I could reach out and touch it…It glowed with the energy of millions of suns although I could still look into it…This deep yellow and golden orb pulsed with a consciousness that made all things instantly knowable as those waves that passed through me transmitted a vibration of intelligence…I realized that here were all the answers to all the questions I could ever ask…Like liquid love, these waves cleansed and washed away any residue from my physical life…I was breathing in the illuminative breath of the eternal source of love.”
“I felt safer than I’ve ever been in this life…No one could harm me because I was entwined within the braided threads of love woven into the fabric of infinite time…”
“I felt no urge to leave. I had no feelings of longing or absence from where I had left my body behind. I had no particular desire to return to this life on earth…I had effortlessly slipped from a physical embodiment and dimension to one of a completely different expression, and one in which I could comfortably and contentedly stay forever. But I didn’t.”
Hasheider adds, “I had a difficult time reintegrating myself into life here. My time away in another dimension was so fresh that when I looked around and saw the mess of this world, it was all I could do to convince myself to hang on to be here just a little longer...” He said that in time, the love of his family and friends did help him reorient, but he never forgets his sojourn in the eternal for a moment and now has no fear of his inevitable transition to the next dimension (death) when it occurs again.
Six Minutes in Eternity reads like a who-done-it as compelling as any of my favorite murder mysteries. It kept me up way past my bedtime for two nights running. But for Phillip Hasheider this was more of a “Why did this happen to me and how could I have been so lucky?”
Hasheider is grateful for opportunities to talk about his near-death experience. I heard him speak recently. His vivid descriptions, of what he says, is to come for all of us when we die, were both stunning and comforting: “I don’t have any religious motive for telling you my story.” Philip, who is a church member, added, “You can believe it or not. You can take from it what you want.”
And when asked, “Could you have imagined all of this?” He replied, “That’s possible…But I am confident I couldn’t have imagined it because there were things I experienced that I had no other way of knowing.”
Hasheider concludes, “I need to share that I’ve seen no one will be left behind---no one regardless of their circumstances here…We will be transformed from this dense body back to the energy form or vibration we were before we chose to enter this human experience…I know now that death…as we experience it here does not exist in the higher dimension. I saw no hell as we would prescribe human language to it. I felt only love, a love extended to everything that exists… But the biggest thing I’ve learned is that leaving this life is not the end. It’s the start to a whole new experience in a different dimension of existence and in a different form of consciousness.”
Phillip Hasheider is a retired Wisconsin beef farmer and an award-winning author who was dead for six minutes and came back to tell about it. If you have ever thought about dying and wondered what it would be like, then Hasheider’s Six Minutes in Eternity is a book you will want to read.
Hasheider’s brief transition from this life to the next began on an ordinary day, October 5, 2015, a month shy of his 64th birthday, on his hundred-acre farm near Sauk City, Wisconsin. He tells of seeing his wife, Mary, off to work, then going out to the pasture to check on the cattle. He began talking to them, but on this day they did not ignore him as they usually did:
“Suddenly, there were twenty-eight burgundy-colored Red Angus bodies giving me their full attention… two shot off running away at half speed until the rest joined them in a full race across the wide field… When they finally stopped they were three hundred yards away. They all turned to stare back at me, ears pricked up…”
Hascheider wondered, “What’s this about? They acted like they’d seen a ghost.”
It was just twelve miles and a couple of hours later, at the Sauk Prairie Hospital’s Fitness Center in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, where Hasheider went regularly to exercise, that his six minute plunge into eternity began after “20 moderate arm curls.” He says, “…that was my last moment on earth. I collapsed to the floor and began a journey that has changed my life forever.”
“I didn’t recognize I had died because I didn’t feel dead. The place seemed vaguely familiar…” But “It didn’t have a dimensional form… I then sensed I was floating.” And sitting in something “…akin to a raft… Then, I heard the stillness. I listened because it was peaceful. It was warm and welcoming.”
Hasheider describes adjusting to his new ethereal body which resembled the shape of his physical body on earth. “I was floating on waves… upon this sea of silken energy vibrations that surrounded and enfolded me like a warm cocoon…I sensed there were other spirit energies around but I had not yet seen them…I felt unseen hands that surrounded and lifted me…”
What happens next for this Wisconsin farmer and author of thirty books on farming, local history and family stories, is what he would later come to understand was the reason he was “…sent back to explain my experience to those who are… afraid of what happens after life when our physical form ceases:”
“I looked up to see a gigantic sphere of light…It was infinite. It was immense. It expanded to the outer rim of this borderless space before me yet I felt I could reach out and touch it…It glowed with the energy of millions of suns although I could still look into it…This deep yellow and golden orb pulsed with a consciousness that made all things instantly knowable as those waves that passed through me transmitted a vibration of intelligence…I realized that here were all the answers to all the questions I could ever ask…Like liquid love, these waves cleansed and washed away any residue from my physical life…I was breathing in the illuminative breath of the eternal source of love.”
“I felt safer than I’ve ever been in this life…No one could harm me because I was entwined within the braided threads of love woven into the fabric of infinite time…”
“I felt no urge to leave. I had no feelings of longing or absence from where I had left my body behind. I had no particular desire to return to this life on earth…I had effortlessly slipped from a physical embodiment and dimension to one of a completely different expression, and one in which I could comfortably and contentedly stay forever. But I didn’t.”
Hasheider adds, “I had a difficult time reintegrating myself into life here. My time away in another dimension was so fresh that when I looked around and saw the mess of this world, it was all I could do to convince myself to hang on to be here just a little longer...” He said that in time, the love of his family and friends did help him reorient, but he never forgets his sojourn in the eternal for a moment and now has no fear of his inevitable transition to the next dimension (death) when it occurs again.
Six Minutes in Eternity reads like a who-done-it as compelling as any of my favorite murder mysteries. It kept me up way past my bedtime for two nights running. But for Phillip Hasheider this was more of a “Why did this happen to me and how could I have been so lucky?”
Hasheider is grateful for opportunities to talk about his near-death experience. I heard him speak recently. His vivid descriptions, of what he says, is to come for all of us when we die, were both stunning and comforting: “I don’t have any religious motive for telling you my story.” Philip, who is a church member, added, “You can believe it or not. You can take from it what you want.”
And when asked, “Could you have imagined all of this?” He replied, “That’s possible…But I am confident I couldn’t have imagined it because there were things I experienced that I had no other way of knowing.”
Hasheider concludes, “I need to share that I’ve seen no one will be left behind---no one regardless of their circumstances here…We will be transformed from this dense body back to the energy form or vibration we were before we chose to enter this human experience…I know now that death…as we experience it here does not exist in the higher dimension. I saw no hell as we would prescribe human language to it. I felt only love, a love extended to everything that exists… But the biggest thing I’ve learned is that leaving this life is not the end. It’s the start to a whole new experience in a different dimension of existence and in a different form of consciousness.”
