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0:03May 20th, 1967.
0:05An unremarkable day.
0:07A 16-year-old girl eats dinner with her
0:09mother and a friend.
0:11She starts to feel herself being pulled
0:14away.
0:15"Stretched," she said, "like a piece of
0:18taffy."
0:19Woozy, she stands up to tell her mother
0:21she's going to pass out.
0:23But before she can speak,
0:25she collapses.
0:27They put her in the car to go to the
0:29hospital.
0:30The nearest one is 20 minutes away.
0:33They're running out of time. She's
0:34stopped breathing. Someone calls for
0:36help. The girl hears sirens, ambulances.
0:40She's tired. She wants to be done. But
0:43she realizes something.
0:45She has to fight.
0:46She has to fight for her life.
0:49She tries. She urges herself to hang on,
0:51to stay.
0:53But it's just too hard. It's too much.
0:57She can't do it.
0:59She surrenders. [music]
1:13Renee Passero grew up in La Crescenta,
1:16California.
1:18It was a town so small they didn't even
1:20have a post office.
1:21Everyone knew each other.
1:23At age four, Renee nearly died of
1:26scarlet fever.
1:28The illness lingered for years and kept
1:30her bedridden. [music]
1:32But a sweet elderly man who she saw
1:35around and called her granddaddy kept
1:37her company.
1:39When later she identified her granddaddy
1:41in a photo, she learned that he had died
1:44before her mother was born.
1:46Later, her dear friend and cousin
1:49Nanette appeared to her and told her
1:51that she had died that day during a
1:53tonsillectomy.
1:55Nanette was happy but sad her grieving
1:57[music] parents.
1:59Renee told her mother about Nanette.
2:02Soon after, the phone rang
2:04>> [music]
2:04>> and Nanette's mother was on the other
2:06line
2:07telling her that Nanette had died.
2:10At age seven, Renee was diagnosed with
2:13rheumatic [music] fever.
2:15Things were worse this time and she
2:17nearly died.
2:19Granddaddy came back
2:20>> [music]
2:21>> as well as a beautiful, radiant being.
2:24She felt peace and did not want to get
2:27better.
2:28But she had something to learn.
2:31As I was grieving and bemoaning to my
2:33granddaddy about being sent back in a
2:36flash it became clear to me that
2:38suffering in this life can be a gift.
2:42Suffering is a catalyst which creates
2:44for us opportunities to grow
2:46spiritually.
2:48It helps us both individually and as a
2:50society to develop spiritual qualities.
2:55It's an interesting statement. It sounds
2:57like a bit of a paradox but it's one
3:00that strangely enough has been echoed in
3:02other spiritual experiences.
3:04It was explained in the greatest detail
3:06by the [music] 18th century Swedish
3:08scientist and theologian Emanuel
3:10Swedenborg
3:12who encountered [music] the same thing
3:13in his spiritual experiences.
3:17Anyone who imagines that the outer self
3:19can be brought into correspondence
3:21without inward struggle is mistaken.
3:25Times of trial are the means for getting
3:27rid of evil and falsity and replacing
3:30[music] them with goodness and truth.
3:33Renee Passero had already glimpsed more
3:36spiritual truth than most
3:38and at 16, in the middle of this new
3:41medical crisis she was about to [music]
3:43see them fully.
3:56>> Renee was barely conscious. She heard
3:58her friend calling to her, shouting,
4:00"Renee, don't die. Don't die."
4:03Weak, overwhelmed,
4:06Renee surrendered.
4:08She entered a state of peacefulness.
4:12She became a ball of light and energy
4:15hovering in the crowd around her body.
4:18She could feel everything. Every feeling
4:21that everyone around her was feeling.
4:23She knew what her mother, her neighbors,
4:25her friends, and the firemen were
4:27feeling.
4:28And she felt it, too.
4:31She felt so alive, so peaceful.
4:35Why was everyone so sad?
4:37Suddenly, she was bumped up higher,
4:40floating above the scene of her death.
4:42She felt sad for the people below her
4:44and tried to tell them she was okay.
4:48But she was light and energy. She had no
4:50body, no mouth to communicate with.
4:54There was nothing she could do.
4:56So she turned away, floating farther and
4:59farther away until she could see the
5:01whole Earth.
5:04But at the same time, she could see
5:06every detail, every being [music] and
5:08molecule on the Earth.
5:11And she realized the Earth was singing.
5:15Everything on it, every living being
5:17>> [music]
5:17>> had a note to sing.
5:20All life was part of the song with a
5:22unique tone to contribute.
5:26>> At this point,
5:28I became so enchanted that I was beyond
5:32being, I think, a self.
5:35I simply
5:36>> [music]
5:36>> was, and it was as if I were singing my
5:39own note
5:40>> [music]
5:40>> in this grand symphony
5:43of life and existence that's the Earth
5:45and all of us.
5:47And I began to sing I am, and it was not
5:51a statement of ego or self. It was
5:53really a statement of absolute love that
5:58that by my being I simply was expressing
6:01absolute love and connectedness and
6:04unity and harmony with all of existence.
6:08And I was adding
6:09my particular and absolutely unique note
6:13to this grand
6:14song of life that reverberated
6:16throughout all existence.
6:19>> Swedenborg would agree. He described
6:22heaven as a grand human.
6:24One united being where every individual
6:28plays a crucial role within.
6:32Heaven, taken in a single all-inclusive
6:35grasp, reflects a single individual.
6:39People who love to do good to others,
6:41not for self-centered reasons, but for
6:43the sake of the good itself, are in the
6:46universal human, that is, in heaven.
6:50As Renee absorbed this new awareness,
6:52she began to feel an irresistible,
6:55almost magnetic pull from a radiant,
6:58beautiful light.
7:00She didn't resist.
7:14The light drew her to a tunnel,
7:17a place of transition [music]
7:19where she was aware that other beings
7:20were there with her.
7:22They were moving, but the movement
7:24wasn't physical.
7:26Renee knew they were moved by love.
7:30She was propelled by her connection to
7:33and love for God.
7:36As she approached the end of the tunnel,
7:38she wondered if she'd be alone.
7:40Instantly, her uncle Gene appeared.
7:43He had passed away about a year and a
7:45half before her.
7:47She hadn't known him well when he was
7:48alive, but their reunion was joyful.
7:52And in this world, she knew him better
7:53than she ever had,
7:55being immediately aware of things about
7:57him she'd never known.
8:00He was concerned for her mother and
8:02confused that she was there, but happy
8:04to see her.
8:06Again, she felt the pull of the light.
8:09She perceived a light past her uncle, a
8:12sea of light, sound, and unconditional
8:15love.
8:17It welcomed her.
8:20>> I was being moved through the sea of
8:22light on waves of greater and greater
8:24and increasing love.
8:27Then again, in an instant, like that, I
8:30entered the center of the sea of light,
8:33which was, to me, the essence of all
8:35essences, the source of all sources, the
8:38source of all life and all reality and
8:40existence.
8:42And with the entering into [music] this
8:45sun, I can best describe it.
8:48It was as if I had become the
8:49quintessential phoenix.
8:52The entering into this sun really became
8:54the the instant of dissolution
8:58of self, the dissolving of
9:02uh the personal and and separate uh
9:05uh
9:06>> [music]
9:06>> reality that we know to be ourselves.
9:09And this state of absolute nothingness
9:13as an individual,
9:14>> [music]
9:14>> but this was a state of being in and of,
9:18and because of the light,
9:20was, to me, uh
9:23the apex
9:24>> [music]
9:25>> of everything that I could have ever
9:26hoped for. It was really the desire of
9:29all desires.
9:31To be as nothing
9:33in this loving and [music]
9:35powerful and incredibly beautiful light.
9:40It seemed that I existed in that state
9:43in that [music] state of nothingness
9:45really for a time beyond time. And yet
9:49then again, I was gathered together as
9:51an individual.
9:53It was as if I had become
9:56sands upon a shore
9:58and I was gathered together and and put
10:00back
10:01as [music] the individual that I had
10:03always known as my own consciousness.
10:06>> The same blissful interplay between
10:09being [music] a part of the whole and
10:11being our own person was articulated by
10:13Swedenborg as well.
10:15The more closely we are united to the
10:18Lord, the more clearly we seem to have
10:21our own identity.
10:22And yet the more obvious it is to us
10:25that we belong to the Lord.
10:27Next, Renee entered her life review, a
10:31common feature of near-death
10:32experiences.
10:34She felt loved and cared for as she
10:36experienced [music]
10:37her life again, but this time from the
10:39perspective of everyone involved in each
10:42moment simultaneously.
10:44She was stunned to learn that what
10:46mattered the most were the small acts of
10:49kindness. [music]
10:51>> But the greatest of all of my actions
10:54were those that were motivated by
10:56selfless love and the greatest of all of
10:58those
10:59was as a teenager I had worked with the
11:02children every summer and I had taken
11:06aside a small a young boy who was
11:09particularly difficult
11:10>> [music]
11:10>> and and particularly
11:13obnoxious and abrasive and
11:15>> [clears throat]
11:16>> and usually rejected by the people in
11:18the camp and the children and the
11:21counselors and whatnot and I had taken
11:22him aside one hot summer day and sat him
11:25on a wall
11:26and gave him uh
11:29uh some punch and uh saying to him
11:33and I simply wanted to express to him
11:36that he was precious, that he was
11:37unique, that he was lovable by the very
11:41by his very existence. I wanted really
11:44to express
11:46>> [music]
11:46>> a sense of selfless love to this child
11:48who seemed to be uh abandoned and
11:51rejected and viewed as worthless to all.
11:55This was an action that no one
11:57recognized.
11:59It was an action that I didn't even
12:01remember
12:02until uh the near-death experience.
12:05But this was [music] to have committed
12:07such an action, to have shown love to
12:09another individual regardless of their
12:13deservingness or or their station or the
12:16recognition of of anyone in this world
12:19to show for selfless love,
12:22just an instant of selfless love in our
12:24in our lives, to have done that, to have
12:26achieved that, was greater than to have
12:29If I had had been become president of
12:31the United States or won the Nobel Peace
12:34Prize.
12:36>> Swedenborg called this reliving of our
12:38events [music] our book of life.
12:42All our deeds and all our thoughts are
12:45written on our whole person
12:47>> [music]
12:47>> and seem as though they are read from a
12:48book when they are called out of our
12:50memory.
12:52They appear in a kind of image [music]
12:53when our spirit is looked at in heaven's
12:56light.
12:57Swedenborg also placed an emphasis
12:59[music]
13:00on love. For him, this is our essential
13:03quality, the only thing that determines
13:05our eternal life. [music]
13:08We do need to recognize, though, that
13:10volition [music] makes us who we are.
13:13Love or intent is the actual person. For
13:16the things that come forth belong to the
13:18person they come forth from.
13:22Renee learned what mattered.
13:24But now she wondered, what comes next?
13:27For humanity
13:28>> [music]
13:29>> and for her."
13:39Rene pondered the destiny [music] of
13:41humanity.
13:43In response to her curiosity, she was
13:45shown the history of [music] humanity
13:48from Neanderthals to ancient Rome to the
13:51Renaissance to today.
13:53And then, they showed her the future.
13:57She was told humanity is on the
13:59precipice of our greatest evolution ever
14:02in [music] history.
14:03But, we must choose this development by
14:06choosing to establish peace,
14:08unity,
14:09>> [music]
14:09>> and harmony.
14:12The road will be difficult. She saw
14:14conflict, confusion, chaos.
14:18Humanity was in denial of its true
14:20reality,
14:21>> [music]
14:21>> its interconnectedness.
14:23She saw that the suffering caused by
14:25this denial would have consequences,
14:28much like denying gravity would.
14:30But eventually, [music]
14:31she saw humanity evolve for the better,
14:34become more united, more connected, and
14:38more [music] loving.
14:39She was shown humanity's rebirth
14:42and the divine gift that is life.
14:46And now, she would be reborn.
14:49She did not want to go back.
14:51>> [music]
14:51>> She begged to stay as she fell through
14:53the tunnel.
14:55She heard the first responders saying,
14:57"DOA, DOA."
15:00Dead on arrival.
15:02They believed her gone.
15:04She felt the devastation of her mother.
15:07She watched from above as her body was
15:09moved to the hospital, her mother
15:11following close behind.
15:14A doctor arrived to work on her, but she
15:16perceived his state and felt his
15:19disconnection.
15:21He had just been working to save people
15:22who had been in motorcycle accidents in
15:24the mountains.
15:26He was exhausted and sure that she was
15:29dead.
15:30>> [music]
15:30>> He didn't care about her or show any
15:32affection. He just sent her to the
15:34morgue.
15:36Just then, her personal physician
15:39arrived.
15:40He was a gruff country doctor. [music]
15:42Renee described him as feisty,
15:45foul-mouthed, and good-hearted.
15:47He was appalled that they had pronounced
15:49Renee dead.
15:50>> [music]
15:50>> He ordered the nurse to retrieve him
15:52adrenaline and assist him
15:54and immediately began chest compressions
15:56on Renee's body.
15:58He administered shocks to restart her
16:00heart.
16:02Eventually, [music]
16:03his treatment worked.
16:05Renee finally returned [music] to her
16:07body.
16:09>> The next morning when my personal
16:11physician came in, he was furious. He
16:14was absolutely livid. He had thought
16:16that I had
16:18had a drink [music]
16:19or something that I had taken
16:22being a foolish young teenager, I had
16:24had a beer or something after taking
16:27antihistamine and that's what it brought
16:29on this uh
16:31tremendous uh shock reaction. So, he
16:33came
16:34bursting into my room that morning and
16:36he said, "What the hell did you do to
16:38yourself?"
16:40And I said, I immediately I had been a
16:42very rather normal, timid 16-year-old
16:46[music]
16:46girl, but then I responded right back to
16:49him and said, "What the hell did you do
16:51to me? Who do you think you are?"
16:54>> [music]
16:55>> I said, "I was dead. I was dead and you
16:58brought me back. Who do you think you
17:00are to do that to me?"
17:03>> Shocked by her distressed reaction, her
17:05doctor called for a psychiatrist to come
17:08speak with her.
17:10The psychiatrist knew Renee did not want
17:12to live, but she didn't understand why.
17:16Renee realized that a full explanation
17:18was the only thing that would keep her
17:19out of the psych ward.
17:21So, she explained everything she had
17:23seen in her NDE.
17:26She told her about heaven and the love
17:28there.
17:29But, the psychiatrist was more
17:30interested in the details of what
17:31happened in the ER.
17:34Renee told her everything. The first
17:35responders, the doctors exhausted from
17:38helping motorcycle victims, her own
17:40doctor showing up and barking orders,
17:42then finally reviving her.
17:45The psychiatrist told Renee she was
17:46going to investigate the details.
17:50She returned a few hours later,
17:52pale and subdued.
17:54Everything Renee had told her was true.
17:58The details were stunning. The blonde
18:00nurse, the dark-haired nurse, the young
18:02exhausted doctor, the possibility of an
18:05adrenaline shot, all confirmed. [music]
18:08The psychiatrist was at a loss.
18:11She suggested Renee speak to someone in
18:13the clergy about what she had seen,
18:16or else never talk about it again, even
18:18with people she knew.
18:21Swedenborg would have understood why her
18:23return was so devastating.
18:25Heaven isn't a distant place that we go
18:27after death. [music]
18:28It's a state that we carry within us.
18:31And once you've felt it fully, the loss
18:34[music] is real.
18:36Heaven is within us, and people who have
18:39heaven within them come into heaven.
18:41The heaven within us is our
18:43acknowledgement of the divine and our
18:45being led by the divine.
18:50>> [music]
18:54>> Luckily, Renee Pessaro did not heed the
18:57psychiatrist's advice. She shared her
18:59story with millions in teachings and in
19:02a book she published in 2018, [music]
19:05Answers from Heaven, The Near-Death
19:07Experiences of Renee Pessaro.
19:10She recovered from her near-death
19:11illness and lived a long and happy life.
19:14She passed away at 70 years old in
19:17January of 2020. She was a wife, a mom
19:20to five children, grandmother to four
19:22more, and great-grandmother to another
19:24two.
19:25She founded and directed several
19:27charitable organizations and projects
19:29[music] and was a devout member of the
19:31Baha'i Faith and community.
19:33Renee spent her [music] life putting
19:35what she had learned into practice.
19:39Swedenborg [music] taught that the
19:40spiritual world and the natural world
19:42are united through us.
19:44We are the bridge between them.
19:46And the bridge is [music] built from
19:48love expressed in action.
19:52Our acts are services in forms to the
19:54extent that we live according to the
19:56divine design
19:58>> [music]
19:58>> in love for the Lord and in
19:59thoughtfulness toward our neighbor.
20:02It is humankind through which the
20:04natural world is united to the spiritual
20:06world. We are the means of the union.
20:10Renee is now presumably in the place she
20:13described, still the embodiment of
20:16peace, unity, and love.
20:20>> Every action
20:22that one takes is like a stone cast in
20:25the water.
20:27And if it's [music] loving,
20:28that stone, you know, is cast in the
20:31water and the loving action goes [music]
20:33out and touches the first person that
20:35it's intended for, and then it touches
20:38another person, and then it touches
20:39another person because [music] that
20:41person interacts with other people, and
20:44so on and so on. And every action has a
20:47reverberating effect upon every single
20:51one of us on the face of this planet.
20:54>> What you love and why is the only thing
20:58the universe is [music] measuring.
21:01Renee Passero spent a lifetime proving
21:04it.
21:09>> Hey everybody, thanks for watching. Hope
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