Symbols - What does heaven look like
Light

Light is not a symbol but an extremely important concept.
Nevertheless, because it is a not uncommon feature of the more blissful or powerful spiritual experiences we have provided a link here so that you can find out more.
Please turn to the concepts section - see Light.
Observations
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- A golden shaft of light beamed down through the middle part of his body
- A NDE from a prolonged grand mal seizure
- A near-drowning experience when he was a five-year-old
- A Psychologist goes out of body
- Acute porphyria attack produces a walk into Paradise
- Ahmad Ahsai, Shaykh - Kitab Sharh al-Ziyara - On alchemical metals
- Albertus Magnus – On union with God - How to achieve Union
- Alexander, Dr Eben - enters the Inner Court
- Alexander, Dr Eben - the light, the tunnel and paradise
- Although my nan had died, it will always comfort me, seeing her smiley face being taken up to a safer place
- Anaesthetist goes out of body
- Ancient Egyptian - The symbolism of the Sun and Moon
- Ann and the blue tunnel
- Anna from Greece has a NDE from childbirth
- Anne Thomson - Attempted suicide
- Appendicitis produces an NDE
- As they were tagging his toe to identify him as a dead man, he found himself out of his body
- Asian 'flu produces NDE
- Asthma attack gives bliss and love
- At the dentists he had probably received an overdose of the medication
- Atharvaveda - IV 10 The Pearl and its Shell bestowing long life and prosperity
- Atrial fibrillation
- Atrophic uterus produces out of body
- Attar, Fariduddin - God Speaks to David
- Attar, Fariduddin - Invocation
- Attar, Fariduddin - Mysticism
- Attempted suicide at the age of 18
- Aurora consurgens - 09 An allegory of the citadel
- Avicenna - Henry Corbin on the cosmology of Avicenna
- Aware during her NDE, that her newborn infant would die
- Aziz al-Nasafi
- Bailey, Philip James - from Festus I - Archangels
- Bailey, Philip James - from Festus I - The Guardian Angel's plea that man should know the Great Work
- Bailey, Philip James - from Universal Hymn 02
- Barddas - The Vision of Menw Manu
- Barrett Browning, Elizabeth - Human Life's Mystery
- Barrett, Marvin - Second Chance: A Life After death – An NDE from cardiac arrest
- Beausobre, Iulia de - goes to Samarkand
- Beers, Clifford - Light
- Bees – Lectures by Rudolf Steiner - What has consciousness?
- Beuys, Joseph - Lightning with Stag in its glare
- Beverly Brodsky is comforted by a Spirit helper
- Bingen, Hildegard of - And their sound was like the voice of a multitude
- Blake, William - We reap not what we do not sow
- Bliss from communing with nature
- Blithe spirit - I almost reached the Light
- Blithe spirit - The vast moving sheet
- Blithe spirit - Thought palaces in pink and gold
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Darkness and Light
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - Light
- Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - For I have swift and speedy wings
- Bonnard, Pierre - The Bowl of Milk c.1919
- Bonnard, Pierre - Cote d'azur landscapes
- Bonnard, Pierre - Jeune fille s'essuyant
- Bonnard, Pierre - l'Atelier au mimosa 1939
- Bonnard, Pierre - Nu a contre-jour 1908
- Bonnard, Pierre - Nu-accroupi-au-Tub 1914
- Bonnard, Pierre - Outside the Window 1923
- Bonnard, Pierre - The open window 1921
- Bonnard, Pierre - The Palm
- Bonnard, Pierre - The Red Chequered Tablecloth
- Bonnard, Pierre - The Terrace at Vernonnet
- Bonnard, Pierre - Toilet with a bouquet
- Born prematurely and weighed only two pounds at birth
- Bosch, Hieronymus - Ascent of the Blessed
- Botched Surgery produces Ecstasy
- Breedlove, Ben - This is my story (Parts 1 and 2)
- Broken neck playing rugby produces near death experience
- Bronwen from New Zealand falls from a cliff and translocates
- Brooke, Rupert - Lost into God
- Bullett, Gerald William - Maître de Ballet
- Busey, Gary - And his NDE
- C P Cavafy - The Windows
- Caesar, Ray - The vision of his mother that helped him become an artist
- Cameron, Norman - My soul is some leviathan in vague distress
- Car accident results in NDE
- Carlyle, Thomas - Sartor Resartus - Light sparkles floating in the aether of deity
- Carpenter, Edward - So thin a veil
- Cartwright, Sir Fairfax Leighton - The Mystic Rose - The Gardeners
- Cash, Johnny – An NDE from pneumonia, it was more than Light: it was the essence of Light
- Catholic priest dies for 48 mins, wakes up claiming God is a woman
- Chandogya Upanishad
- Chandra X Ray Observatory site - Dark matter
- Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - The First Day
- Childbirth and bleeding
- Cirlot on butterflies
- Cirlot on crowns
- Cirlot on music
- Cirlot on obelisks
- Cirlot on the Orient
- Claudio Naranjo: The Early Days' Ibogaine Experiments
- Coehlo, Paulo - Warrior of Light; a manual
- Cohen, Dr Sidney - A woman patient's experience
- Cohen, Leonard
- Cohen, Leonard - Alexandra leaving
- Cohen, Leonard - If it be your will
- Cohen, Leonard - Love itself
- Cohen, Leonard - Tower of Song
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - Lines from a Notebook 1806
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The Good Great Man
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - To an unfortunate woman at the theatre
- Colours more beautiful than he had ever experienced before
- Corbin, Henry - Jabalqa and Jabarsa
- Corbin, Henry - The Earth of the Emerald Cities
- Cornwall - A seaman's testimony from Mousehole
- Corporal William Vandenbush - Blown up when on patrol in Vietnam in 1969
- Corpus Hermeticum XI
- Count of Eulenburg – 02 1915, July 29th
- Count of Eulenburg – 22 1915, Miscellaneous communications
- County Meath - Tara - Lia Fáil
- Croiset, Gerard - A vision of a host of angels
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Ante Primal Triad
- Crowley, Aleister - Book of Lies - The Glow-worm
- Crowley, Aleister - Divine synthesis
- Custance, John - Wisdom, Madness and Folly - A truly truly special experience
- Dancing with God Amanitas - A. Muscaria by btorzyn
- Danny Penman's cat, Buffy, has an NDE
- Dante - Paradiso - Divine Light comes to a point upon me
- Dante - Paradiso - Purification by Light
- Dante - Paradiso - The Sun
- David-Neel, Alexandra - Bardo Thodal - Prayer for death or annihilation
- Delville, Jean - Dante drinking from the Waters of Lethe
- Delville, Jean - Mangod
- Denis - Figures in a spring landscape 1897
- Desnos, Robert - Demain
- Diana Merchant sees the most wonderful starburst
- Diane Sherman's near death experience
- Dickinson, Emily - I heard a fly buzz when I died The stillness in the room
- Dickinson, Emily - Pass to the Rendezvous of Light
- Dionysius the Areopagite - Celestial Hierarchy - Order of Angels
- Dionysius the Areopagite - De Mystica Theologia - Darkness and Light
- Dixon, Jeane - A vision of the snake
- Don't ever be afraid of dying; I have seen a beautiful Light
- Dorothy Counts [1983] - Near Death and Out of Body Experiences in a Melanesian Society – Andrew
- Doyle, Lady - wife of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dr Allen Smith - Experiences bliss, peace and love
- Dr G. B. Kirkland - The others were passing me very rapidly, hurrying towards the light which was brightening
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections - Mr George Sandwith has multiple OBEs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – John L. Lane has multiple OBEs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Miss Marion Price of 37 Osborn Rd., London, N.13 has an OBE
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mr and Mrs C. M. Langridge, of Poole, Dorset have OBEs
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Marion Stubbs, of Wimborne, Dorset
- Dr Robert Crookall - More Astral projections – Mrs Myles Reese of Codsall, Staffs
- Dr Yvonne Kason and the plane crash onto the ice
- Dying and TB
- Edward and the compulsive, highly energetic mode that he calls his ‘painting frenzy’
- Eizon - The Ganmon - excerpt
- Eleanor C Merry - The Flaming Door - Comments on the Pistis Sophia
- Eleanor Merry - The Flaming Door - Celestial music
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 02 Burnt Norton II
- Epileptic seizure causes near death
- Eriugena, Johannes Scotus - Homilia on the Prologue to the John Gospel – Darkness and Light
- Eva Gore Booth - The Quest
- Everything disappeared and was replaced by a bright white consuming light, in which was total peace, no pain, no thought, no time
- Faithfull, Marianne - Who Will Take My Dreams Away
- Fechner, Gustav Theodor - A light as of transfiguration lay on all things
- Feininger, Lyonel - Sailing boats 7
- Feininger, Lyonel - Sunset
- Ficino, Marsilio - Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus - Unity goodness and intellect
- Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Giovanni Cavalcanti, methods
- Fleetwood Mac - Sara
- Forman, Simon - Of the Division of Chaos
- Fourteen year old girl sees us from down a well
- Fourteen year old has NDE from pneumonia
- Freedom Long, Max - Becoming amber light
- Freedom Long, Max - Turning into Light
- From life to death, beyond and back - Dr Thomas Fleischmann - TEDxTUHHSalon
- Frost, Robert - Even the bravest that are slain
- Gardner, Ingrid - A large room full of mirrors and crystal
- Gardner, Ingrid - The big wet bathroom
- Gay man meets his lover in near death
- Genesis - That's me
- Genesis 01 - The Creation
- George Harrison - All those years
- George Harrison - Give me love [give me peace on earth]
- Gerhardie, William - Resurrection 01
- Gershom Scholem – On the Kabbalah and its symbolism - The Torah
- Gibbings, Robert & Jonson, Ben - The noble nature
- Gnostic Gospels - 'Peter'
- Gnostic Gospels - Sophia of Jesus Christ
- Godwin, Joscelyn - On butterflies
- Goryeo sijo - Yi Chono
- Gregory of Nyssa - Treatise on Virginity
- Grey, Margot - Description of her NDE
- Grey, Margot - Divine love and nirvana
- Gurdjieff - Ouspensky learns about leaking energy
- Guru Granth - Bilaval 01
- Guru Granth - Bilaval 03
- Guru Granth - There is a light in all
- Gynaecological haemorrhage
- Hagman, Larry – Takes LSD
- Haig, Matt - Reasons to stay alive - 12 Writing and the useful bite of the black dog
- Hasidism And Jewish Mysticism In Israel
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Creation by Night
- Hawkes, Jacquetta - Symbols and Speculations - Soliloquy
- He had "seen the face of God"
- Heading for the light with Pneumonia
- Healer H - Old clothes and a crocodile
- Hell Realms and Liberation DPT by Fr Moonwatcher 343
- Hennell, Thomas - On the abyss
- Henry Corbin - Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth - Zoroastrian cosmology
- Herbert, George - Heaven
- Herbert, George - The Call
- Hermes Trismegistus – Treatise XVI
- Hermes Trismegistus – Treatise XVI
- Heywood, Rosalind - The Infinite Hive - Oh, the Light! ... The Light!
- Hiroshige
- Hofmann, Dr Albert - Epiphany
- Holderlin, Johann - Once Gods walked
- Holderlin, Johann - Patmos
- Holderlin, Johann and Brahms - Hyperion's song of destiny
- Huai nan tzu - The great Light
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - The Weather
- I thought I was going to die
- Ibn El-Arabi - Henry Corbin - Fursus al-hikam
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - A ringdove wailed and a sad lover complained
- Ibn El-Arabi - The Tarjuman al-Ashwaq - My lovesickness is from her of the lovesick eyelids
- In the meadow with Grandpa from Pneumonia
- Intelligences - PLANETS VENUS Ashtar and Ishtar
- Isaac Loeb Peretz - Celestial music
- Jabir ibn Hayyan – Henry Corbin – The science of the balance
- Jainism - Philosophies of India – Dr Heinrich Zimmer
- Jami - All that exists in the created universe is illusion
- Jami - Perfume of the Desert - Hidden behind the veil of mystery
- Jami - Who is man
- Jayne Smith and her near death experience
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - The need for humility in physics
- Jeff Neff
- Jesus - Luke 8 - The transfiguration
- Jili, Abd al-Karim - Al-Kahf wa al-raqim - 043 Section 3
- John 1
- John Franklin's lifelong spiritual experiences
- Jules Lyons and her near death experience
- Julie from Lllanelli could stop watches after her NDE
- Kabbalah and Eros – Moshe Idel - Treatise on sex and eroticism in 13th century Castile
- Kabir - Breathe in that Word
- Kahuna - Tattoos of Kundalini Energy
- Katha Upanishad
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Art of Being and Becoming - On the stages of the mystic
- Khnopff, Fernand - Head of a Woman
- Khnopff, Fernand - Sleeping Medusa
- Khnopff, Fernand - Female Nudes
- Khnopff, Fernand - Mask with a Black Curtain
- Khnopff, Fernand - Maske
- Khnopff, Fernand - Nude Study, c.1920
- Khnopff, Fernand - Portrait of Jean Kefer
- Khnopff, Fernand - Silence
- Khnopff, Fernand - Study of a Woman
- Khnopff, Fernand - Study of a woman
- Khnopff, Fernand - The Cigarette
- Khunrath, Heinrich - Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeterna 1602
- Klimt - landscapes various
- Krishna, Gopi - the kundalini experience - enhanced perception
- Krishna, Gopi - the kundalini experience No 1
- Krishna, Gopi - the kundalini experience No 5 - hearing bees
- l lost sight of the light and music, I felt so bereft at being left behind
- Lady goes out of body on LSD
- Lalla - Fatten the five elements
- Lalla - My mind boomed with the sound of OM
- Lalla - Sunlight shines everywhere equally
- Lalla - There are two results and three causes
- Laubscher, B J F - I lost my baby; and my sister and sister-in-law each lost a child
- Lear, Edward - Jerusalem
- Leary, Timothy - tries DMT
- Led Zeppelin - Battle of Evermore
- Led Zeppelin - In the Light
- Leibniz - Light
- Leighton, Frederick Lord - Flaming June
- Lemaitre, Georges - Homogenous universe of constant mass and increasing radius - 03
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – Ridgeways and the role of Lucifer
- Lethbridge, T C - A Step in the Dark – Using the pendulum, correspondences
- Lethbridge, T C - Ghost and Ghoul - Dragonfly
- Lewis, C S - Prince Caspian - Sailing into the Light
- Li Po - Bathed and washed
- Light, tunnels and thyroid problems - the story of Maud
- Little girl has an NDE with a Sindy doll
- Look at that lovely light, isn't it beautiful?
- Lowell, James Russell - O dwellers in the valley land
- Lowry, L S - Industrial scenes and 'The Pond'
- Lowry, L S - Wales
- Luiseno - Native American Indians - Creation Myth
- Lusseyran, Jacques - And then there was Light
- Lyrics from the Chinese - The wind blows from the North
- Madam Home - D D Home his life his mission - A Near death from tuberculosis
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 26 Going out of body towards the Light
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 27 Out of body [continued]
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 28 Out of body [continued]
- Madame d’Esperance - Shadow Land - 29 The mole and the bird
- Maeterlinck, Maurice – Wisdom and Destiny – On the loom
- Magritte, Rene - La Bonne Fortune
- Maier, Michael - Themis Aurea - Fires and mountains
- Man has two near death experiences
- Manning, Matthew - The Link - 25 Communication from his dead grandpa
- Marie-Claire experiences divine love in her NDE
- Mark Botts has a NDE from bronchiolitis
- Martineau, Harriet - Arise, My Soul And Urge thy Flight 1
- Martineau, Harriet - Letters on Mesmerism - The healing
- Martineau, Harriet - Letters on Mesmerism - Transfiguration
- Mascaro, Juan - For Anandam, pure joy
- Masters and Houston - And particles of light
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 01 This is the beginning
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 02 Sky-earth, lake-sea
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 03 And then the Earth arose because of them
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 04 The Creation of the First humans
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 09 The Resurrection of Seven Hunahpu
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 13 Hymn to the Creators
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 15 The Vigils of Plumed Serpent and Noble Sweatbath
- Mayan - Popol Vuh - 16 The prayer to the gods
- Michael Harner - On quartz crystals
- Michelangelo - 1534 Sistine Chapel - 03 Last Judgement
- Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov – Oration on the Origin of Light. A New Theory of Colour – 01 On light and Light
- Mind machine
- Mircea Eliade - Initiation practises of the Wiradjuri people
- Mircea Eliade - On caves and rebirth
- Mircea Eliade - On rain, thunder and lightning
- Mircea Eliade - On the other names of God
- Mircea Eliade - Quartz crystals
- Mircea Eliade - The Eagle in Buryat and Yakut legend
- Mircea Eliade - The vault of the sky gods
- Mircea Eliade – Mishna and the Tree of Knowledge
- Monro, Harold - God
- Moody Blues - House of Four Doors
- Moody Blues - The Word
- Morata, Ursula Micaela - Wrapped in Light
- Morrells, Luce and the egg
- Morrells, Luce and the loom
- Mortimer, John and wife Penny
- Moses Cordovero – Shi’ur Komah
- Motor cycle accident
- Muller's false prophesies
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Myōe – Receives a vision of Light
- Natasha of Cardiff has a near death from whooping cough
- Native American Wisdom - Kiowa – On prayer
- Naval gazing as a source of bliss
- Near death
- Near Death Experience Witnessed By Medical Professionals
- Near death from accidental inhalation of gasoline
- Near death from car accident
- Near death from pain killers
- Nicholle, Charles - The nature of blue sky thinking
- Nick
- Nilakantha Mahadeva Joshi – On Laya [Translated from the Tamil]
- Ninety year old remembers his teenage NDE vividly
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Discourse 01
- Nizami – Makhzanol Asrar (The Treasury of Mysteries) – from The Second Seclusion 02
- Novalis - Hymns to the Night 1
- Nunn, Dr Chris - 02 Everything in the material world around me is made of Light
- Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - No more of THEE and ME
- Out of Body by Choking
- Out of body from Reflex anoxic seizure
- Pam Williams from Swansea
- Paramahansa Yogananda - Heart tapping
- Parmenides - On Nature - 01
- Parmenides - On Nature - 09 to 11
- Paul McCartney - Blackbird
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Illumination and the Light
- Pauli, Wolfgang - Letter [Zollikon-Zurich] 28th October 1946 [Handwritten]
- Peake, Mervyn - To All things solid as to All Things Flat
- Pelley, William Dudley - Seven Minutes in Eternity With Their Aftermath 06
- Petersen, William - Describes his NDE
- Philippine nurse has NDE after car accident .... with after-effects
- Plato - Misc. writings - The Mysteries
- Plato - Republic - The Cave analogy
- Plato - Republic X - 02 Tale of Er
- Plato - Republic X - 03 Tale of Er
- Plotinus - The Enneads - When you know you have become this perfect work
- Plutarch - De Iside et Osiride
- Plutarch - Stobaeus – At first there is a wandering
- Plutarch – The Vision of Aridæus 06
- Pordage, John - Eye of God
- Proclus - And the Mysteries
- Proust, Marcel - In Search of Lost time Volume 6 - A Vision of azure blue
- Pueblo and Mojave - Native American Indians - The hummingbird
- Pythagoras - Misc. Quote - Above all things reverence thyself
- Quakers - Margaret Fell and George Fox's sermon
- Rassenfosse, Armand - Nudes various
- Rassenfosse, Armand - The Dancer - study
- Reaction to Penicillin produces NDE
- Rebecca Martin's near death experience
- Receiving wisdom when in a trance
- Reichel-Dolmatoff – Amazonian Cosmos - Desana Creation Myth
- Renoir - Landscapes 4
- Renoir - Portraits 3
- Renoir - Young boy with a cat
- Reverdy, Pierre - Carrefour
- Rhys Brydydd - The smallest if compared with small
- Ricardo from Mexico experiences divine love
- Richard of St Victor - De Quatuor Gradibus Violentae Charitatis
- Rig Veda - Make me Immortal
- Rig veda - Rudra with braided hair
- Rig veda - Soma
- Rig Veda - The bond of existence is in non existence
- Rilke, Rainer Maria - 07 Second Elegy
- Ritter, Christiane - Seventy-eight days of darkness have already passed
- Robert Layton - Divine love in a constant stream, like a stream or pencil of sweet light.
- Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - Ecstasy, song and fervour!
- Rolle, Richard - Incendium Amoris - Violence
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel - Woman with a fan
- Rudd, Xavier - Messages
- Rumi - Love Poems - Bough and leaf set free from the earth
- Rumi - Quote - various
- Russell, George William - Letters
- Russell, George William - On being possessed
- Russell, George William - The gods feed upon men
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – A Vision of Mecca in the Bath
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Riding with the Prophets
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Scattered jewels
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – Shower of Pearls
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The attack of the Saints
- Ruzbihan Baqli – The Unveiling of Secrets – The Face of God
- Saint Anskar - Visions of Dying in the Ninth and Nineteenth Centuries - His NDE
- Saint Brendan - 01 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Saint Brendan - 07 The Voyage of Saint Brendan
- Samavedas – 01 Book 01 Chapter 01, DECADE II Agni
- Samavedas – 01 Book 06 Chapter 02, DECADE III Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 07 Chapter 03, XII Soma Pavamana
- Samavedas – Book 08 Chapter 03, IX Asvins
- Scarlet fever produces NDE
- Schubert - Rosamunde, D797 - VII. Chorus of Spirit ('In der Tiefe wohnt das Licht')
- Schwabe, Carlos - La Vierge aux colombes 1895
- Sean W, Delaware - Affirmations and taken to the Light
- Seeing grandpa on anti-depressants
- Seeress of Prevorst, the - Everything resolves itself into an unbounded sea of Light
- Segantini - Afternoon in the Alps
- Segantini - Die Eitelkeit 1897
- Segantini - Die Heuernte; La raccolta del fieno; The Hay Harvest 1890-1898
- Segantini - Engel des Lebens 1894 [L'angelo della vita]
- Segantini - Nature
- Segantini - Pascoli alpini; alpine pasture
- Segantini - Petalo di rosa
- Segantini - Rückkehr vom Wald 1890
- Segantini - Schattiger Ruheplatz
- Sellers, Peter - His out of body experience
- Sellers, Peter – 02 from Out on a Limb – Out of body from cardiac arrest
- Seymour, Jane - Youtube video of Jane talking about her NDE and other spiritual experiences
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - Actions give rise to endless multiplicity
- Shabistari, Mahmud - The Gulshan-i raz - All of the world has appeared by His Light
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Darkness and Light
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Higher spirit
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Levels and layers
- Shaikh Muhammad Karim Khan Kirmani - Irshad al-‘awamm - Star of David
- Shaivism - Concepts and symbols - Elements - earth, water, fire, and air [from Onbadukadir] and Aggregates
- She found herself in the presence of pure Light and Peace
- Shot up like a rocket
- Silesius - The Cherubinic Wanderer – 03 The Still Wilderness 056
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - The crystals of the after-life
- Socrates - Plato Phaedo - The Egg
- Sorolla, Joaquin - 1896 Mending the Sail
- Sorolla, Joaquin - 1905 Clotilde and Elena on the rocks at Javea
- Sorolla, Joaquin - 1906 Biarritz
- Sorolla, Joaquin - 1908 to 1910 Sea Idyll
- Sorolla, Joaquin - 1911 Portrait of Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Sorolla, Joaquin - Boats on the beach at Valencia
- Sorolla, Joaquin - Children on the beach
- Sorolla, Joaquin - The Arrival of the Boats & Fishermen
- Sorolla, Joaquin - Valencia beach in the Morning and Afternoon
- Sorolla, Joaquin - Valencian fisherwomen
- Spencer, Stanley - Landscapes 01 - Southwold
- Spencer, Stanley - Landscapes 02 - Boatyards
- Spencer, Stanley - Landscapes 04 - Cookham
- Spencer, Stanley - Landscapes 07 - Allotments
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 04 - Scarecrow Cookham 1934
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 07 - A village in heaven 1937
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 09 - Early visionary period
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 10 - The Blacksmith's Yard
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 14 - Farms, gates and cows
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 15 - Waterfalls, rivers and locks
- Spilliaert, Leon - Example later works
- Spilliaert, Leon - Jeune femme de dos asisse sur un tabouret
- Spontaneous out of body
- Sri Airobindo - Savitri - A Message from the Unknown Immortal Light
- Sri Aurobindo - 03 Book III Canto II - 02
- Sri Aurobindo - 03 Savitri Book III Canto III
- Sri Aurobindo - Blue Bird
- Sri Aurobindo - Bride of the Fire
- Sri Aurobindo - Musa Spiritus
- Sri Aurobindo - The Ascent
- Sri Aurobindo - The Fear of Life and Death
- St Vincent - Marrow
- Steiner, Rudolf - How to Know Higher Worlds - On humility
- Steiner, Rudolf - Nature spirits - Fire spirits
- Steiner, Rudolf - The Inner Nature of Music and the Experience of Tone 1906
- Sterry, Peter - The State of a Saint's Soul and Body in Death
- Steve Rushton has a near death from drowning
- Sting - Soul Cages
- Stone, Sharon - Description of her near death experience
- Strassman, Rick - DMT and becoming a child
- Strings 'N' Thing - Out of body on ketamine
- Suddenly the corridor filled with the brightest white light
- Suhrawardi - Book of Conversations - The encounter with suprasensory reality
- Suhrawardi - Book of Conversations - The pure lights
- Suhrawardi - Book of Oriental Theosophy - The number of levels and what they contain
- Suhrawardi - Mundus Imaginalis - The crimson archangel
- Surdas - Fatephur Sikri manuscript - NPS 368
- Susy Smith - The psychiatrist's experience
- Sutherland, Donald – A NDE from a severe case of meningitis
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Symeon the New Theologian - By what boundless mercy, my Savior
- Symeon the New Theologian - How are You at once the source of fire
- Symeon the New Theologian - In the midst of that night, in my darkness
- Symeon the New Theologian - The Light of your Way
- Tagore, Rabindranath - Song XXXXXII to XXXXXIX, Gitanjali
- Tales of the Trickster
- Taylor, Elizabeth - Describes her Near Death experience
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Hymn of the Universe - Light
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - In Memoriam A H H - On yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord - In Memoriam A H H - When summer's hourly mellowing change
- Tesla, Nikola – Empathetic communication with pigeons
- The atheist who decided she couldn't stand anymore, slit her wrists and has a NDE
- The atheist who met Jesus in an NDE
- The bridge or barrier in the NDE 02
- The Clear Light Experience MDMA by MindTripper
- The Good Drugs Guide website - summary of effects of LSD
- The humming bees of Dr Valerie Solheim
- The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism - Alan Unterman
- The light is usually described as bright and white and associated with strong feelings of love and compassion
- The Lotus Sutra - 07 Phantom City - 2 The Light that shines in the ten directions
- The Lotus Sutra - 22 Wonderful sound - 1 Adorned with Pure Light
- The Lotus Sutra - 23 Perceiver of the World's Sounds - 1 Brahma's sound, the sea tide sound
- The Means of achieving spiritual experience - Shaivism – 01 Sexual techniques - The experience of absolute Light attained through maithuna
- The Mithras Liturgy - Lines 475 to 535
- The professional guitarist, the car accident and the golden wall
- The role of Spirit helpers in an NDE 01
- The role of Spirit helpers in an NDE 02
- The Secret of the Golden Flower - 03 Turning the Light around and keeping to the Centre
- The Sophia of Jesus Christ - Do ye seek after these Mysteries?
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 01
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 02
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 04
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 05
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 06
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 08
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 09
- The tunnel and the light in the NDE 10
- Theodore Roethke – The Waking
- Thomas, Dylan - From Love's First fever
- Thomas, Dylan - In the Beginning
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - Prayer to the Higher Spirit
- TIKHAL - Seeing a tunnel
- To Heaven and Back Methadone & Ibogaine by Jasen
- Tolstoy, Leo - Confessions - We reap what we sow
- Touched by Death 5-MeO-DMT by Kawagyia
- Traherne, Thomas - Centuries of Meditations - It is not by going with the feet, but by journeys of the soul
- Trip to heaven
- Twinkle twinkle little star
- Vaughan, Henry - Childhood
- Vaughan, Henry - extract from Ascension Day
- Vaughan, Henry - Friends Departed
- Vaughan, Henry - The Pursuit
- Vaughan, Henry - The World
- Vaughan, Thomas - Aula Lucis
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home - 13 A question and answer session with spirit beings
- Viscount Adare - Experiences in Spiritualism with Mr D D Home – 32 When men know all about material light, they will then turn their attention to the much greater subject of spiritual Light
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1889 Angel with the Flaming Sword
- Von Stuck, Franz - 1890 Lucifer
- W.Y. Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries - The Sun and the Moon and being 'moon-struck'
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - Haunted Houses
- Waller, Edmund - Divine Poems - 04 Divine Love
- Waller, Edmund - On the foregoing Divine Poems
- Warner Allen, Herbert - The Timeless moment
- Warner Allen, Herbert - The Timeless Moment - An answer came
- Washington, George - A vision and a prophecy
- We three kings of Orient are
- Wendy has NDE from surgery
- White tunnel
- Whiteman, J H M
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass - Long enough have you dreamed
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Heather Whiteholme 06
- Whitton, Dr Joel - Case history Linda Irving [extract from full case history]
- William has NDE from cardiac arrest
- Wordsworth, William - Intimations of Immortality - Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
- Wordsworth, William - On the Power of Sound
- Wren-Lewis, John - A Terrible Beauty: Reflections on Love and the Near-Death Experience
- Yaqui Myths and Legends – collected by Ruth Warner Giddings - The first fire
- Yasna - The Divine Heptad
- Yeats, W B - Anima Mundi - Perception recall
- Yeats, W B - Collected poems - The solitary soul and the swan
- Yerka, Jacek and Rashani Rea - The Unbroken
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book II - Sutras 01 to 55
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book III - Sutras 01 to 55
- Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Book IV - 05. World Soul
- Yu Xuanji - Free of all those hopes and fears
- Yung-Chia Ta-Shih - One nature perfect and pervading
- Zen priest - The Hellraiser leaf 2
- Zohar - I 019b – The Universe shell and kernel
- Zohar - I 031b – The First Light
- Zohar - I 050b – The allegory of the candle
- Zohar - I 083b – Wisdom
- Zohar - II 042b – Sefirot
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 07
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Letter Omega - 11 and 12
- Zosimos of Panopolis - The Vision of Zosimos - 02