Anita Moorjani was born in Singapore of Indian parents. At the age of two, Anita moved to Hong Kong where she grew up speaking English, Cantonese and Sindhi, an Indian dialect. In April of 2002, Anita was diagnosed with cancer (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma). After four years of struggling with cancer, Anita’s body, riddled with tumors the size of lemons, began to fail. In February of 2006, she slipped into a coma. Doctors gave her hours to live. As her body lay dying, Anita entered another dimension. In this otherworldly place, Anita experienced profound peace and love. She also learned many things about life, and the laws of life, including how she had caused her own cancer. Then she was given a choice: stay on the other side, or return to Earth. After being reassured that her body would heal itself if she returned, Anita chose to return and share with others what she learned. To the amazement of her doctors, Anita woke up from her coma and within weeks her body was fully healed. Anita’s life is now filled with the depths and insights she gained while in the other realm. Her remarkable NDE and miraculous recovery has created enormous interest on an international scale.
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Books
Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing (2012)
By Anita Moorjani
Amazon Description:
“In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body — overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system — began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was able to be released from the hospital within weeks . . . without a trace of cancer in her body!
“Within these pages, Anita recounts stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge.
“As part of a traditional Hindu family residing in a largely Chinese and British society, she had been pushed and pulled by cultural and religious customs since she had been a little girl. After years of struggling to forge her own path while trying to meet everyone else’s expectations, she had the realization, as a result of her epiphany on the other side, that she had the power to heal herself . . . and that there are miracles in the Universe that she had never even imagined.
“In Dying to Be Me, Anita freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, ‘being love,’ and the true magnificence of each and every human being!”
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What If This Is Heaven?
How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth
By Anita Moorjani
Amazon Description:
“Following her near-death experience as shared in the New York Times bestseller Dying to Be Me, Anita Moorjani knows well the truths that exist beyond common knowledge and acceptance. The clarity she has gained has led her to further understand who she was born to be.
“Part of that truth has involved contemplating the cultural myths infused into our everyday lives. Passed down from generation to generation, these myths are pervasive and influential. From the belief we reap what we sow to the idea we must always be positive, cultural myths are often accepted as truths without questioning. Moorjani asserts it is now time for questioning in order to help us reach our fully informed, authentic selves.
“Moorjani explores these common myths in their real-world existence while presenting examples from her own life that reveal the falsehoods beneath the surface. By freeing ourselves from these ubiquitous expectations, we can break open an honest pathway to life as it was meant to be lived.”
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Sensitive Is The New Strong: The Power Of Empaths In An Increasingly Harsh World
By Anita Moorjani
Amazon Description:
The New York Times bestselling author of Dying to Be Me returns with “a gorgeous and powerful field guide to the empath living in today’s wild world” (Laura Berman, PhD, author of Quantum Love) and how they can fully embrace their gifts of intuition and empathy.
Empaths not only sense other people’s emotions, but also absorb them — sometimes to their own disadvantage, often leading to overwhelming sensory overload and feelings of confusion or low self-esteem. Their willingness to help and please others might make them prey to opportunists or cause them to give away more energy than they can afford.
But Anita Moorjani argues that it’s possible to turn this onslaught of emotional burden into a powerful tool. In a time when traits like sensitivity, kindness, and compassion are sorely undervalued, Moorjani helps empaths — whether emerging or acknowledged — navigate obstacles they may face and identify what makes them unique. She teaches them how to claim their true powers as empaths and to be their most authentic selves.
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Notable Quotes
• See below for a bunch of gems
• Quotes from Anita’s book, “Dying to Be Me” (pdf)
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From Anita Moorjani’s Instagram feed – Saturday, September 29, 2018
From Anita Moorjani’s December 19, 2019 Newsletter
“Many of you have asked about where we are with this so it makes sense to start here. Over the last few years we’ve had a number of people approach us with ideas and offers to make”Dying To Be Me” into a big-screen movie. Unfortunately, none of them have panned out as hoped – but I’m not at all sad about it, as I have met some amazing people in the process and know it will happen at the right time if it’s meant to, and with the right people. (All of the rights are safely with me until the right people come and talk to me.)”
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Click here for information about the December 1, 2013 one-hour special report that CNN ran on NDErs Dr. Mary Neal, Anita Moorjani, and Benjamin Breedlove.
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My Most Meaningful Lesson
By Anita Moorjani
Heal Your Life
August 12, 2012
EXCERPT:
“How could I have said something so stupid??”
“That was so dumb of me!! I should have known better!”
“I will never get it right! Why am I even bothering to try??”
“I wish I wasn’t so clumsy! Why can’t I be more elegant and graceful, like Janet?”
Does any of that sound familiar to you? That was my inner voice, several years ago. That was the voice in my head, constantly nagging, putting myself down, wishing I was different, better, smarter, stronger, more spiritual. Wishing I was anyone but who I am.
The most meaningful lesson I learned from being at death’s door is that unless I love myself, nothing else in my life can function at its best. The amount of depth, meaning, and joy I experience in my life is in direct proportion to how much love I have for myself. The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is also directly proportional to how much love, patience and kindness I have for myself, because we cannot give others what we ourselves do not have. And, unsurprisingly, the amount of love, respect, support, and compassion I receive from others is also in direct proportion to how much of the same I have for myself…
Because of my experience, I will never forsake myself ever again. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.
My life is much more joyful and meaningful now, and I have much more love to share with others than I ever did before, which I do unconditionally, and without draining myself. But most important, I now understand that if I do not express my authenticity, the Universe will be deprived of who I came here to be.
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Anita Moorjani Posters
Jerry Foster has created a series of prints with quotes from Anita Moorjani.
Anita writes:
“I love Jerry’s art because it’s fun and joyful, and Jerry has created a set of prints with my quotes on them, which are currently being sold through Zua Zua Studios, which you can visit here. Should you wish to purchase any of the prints with my quotes, 100% of my share of the profits will go to The Somaly Mam Foundation.”
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Watch this video with Chinese Subtitles and Spanish Subtitles
To learn more about Anita’s Sedona talk, go here.
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Anita Moorjani and Wayne Dyer join Lisa Garr on The Aware Show
March 8, 2012
Best-selling author and teacher Wayne Dyer joins Anita Moorjani to discuss her miraculous recovery from cancer and many other thought-provoking subjects. Topics include: what it’s like on the other side of life; how to enter the deeper state of consciousness that permeates all life; past lives, parallel universes, and multi-dimensional realities; how past lives (and future lives) are all happening right now; how every possibility exists right now — including miraculous healings — and you can switch from one reality to another by understanding this; how we are all God; how we have become a culture that is pathologically fearful; how there is too much fear around cancer (and illnesses in general); how cancer (and other illnesses) can arise out of our body’s attempt to heal itself and should be welcomed as such; how Wayne Dyer has dealt with his leukemia; the importance of being ourselves and living life fearlessly; how to practically apply the information discussed in this interview.
About 22 minutes into the interview Anita explains how she can still return to the state she experienced during her NDE:
“It’s actually the opposite of focusing or choosing … it’s almost like a release, like a letting go, like a surrender … so there is no goal or anything … it’s like any sense of wanting to attain anything has to be released. This is the dichotomy: even the desire to attain that state has to be released, so it’s literally a state of total release and total surrender, so there is no attachment to anything physical, any outcome or even the physical body … Once I do that … it feels as though I have access to the infinity, to the higher, to the unlimited, to the potential, to the ambiguity. The minute you put limitations on it, ANY kind of limitation, even the limitation of ‘this is the state I want’, you are limiting the possibility. It really means opening yourself up to absolutely anything … with NO expectations, and you become available to everything, absolutely everything.”
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Bob Olson Interviews Anita Moorjani
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Lilou Mace Interviews Anita Moorjani
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Anita Moorjani – Cancer Treatment Options
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Anita Moorjani – Supporting Children with Cancer
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Anita Moorjani Special Report
This special report contains three parts: In part one Anita Moorjani describes her near-death experience; in part two, Anita is interviewed by NDERF; in part three, Anita responds to a question posted on the NDERF website. Taken together, this is an exceptionally interesting, informative, and inspiring overview of not just the NDE experience, but how the profound insights gleaned from such an experience can be applied to every day life.
Anita’s story appears on the NDERF website and in Jeffrey Long’s book, Evidence Of The Afterlife: The Science Of Near-Death Experiences. The NDERF interview with Anita appears on Anita’s website and the NDERF website. A summary of Long’s book can be read here.
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PART ONE
ANITA MOORJANI’S NDE
I had cancer (Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), and on this morning, I could not move. My husband rushed me to hospital, where, after doing scans, they diagnosed me with grade 4B lymphoma (the highest grade). The senior oncologist looked at my report and told my husband that it was too late, and that my organs were now shutting down. I only had 36 hours to live. However, the oncologist said he would do whatever he could but prepared my husband that I would most likely not make it, as my organs were no longer functioning. They started me on a chemotherapy drip as well as oxygen, and then they started to take tests, particularly on my organ functions, so that they could determine what drugs to use.
I was drifting in and out of consciousness during this time, and I could feel my spirit actually leaving my body. I saw and heard the conversations between my husband and the doctors taking place outside my room, about 40 feet away down a hallway. I was later able to verify this conversation to my shocked husband. Then I actually “crossed over” to another dimension, where I was engulfed in a total feeling of love. I also experienced extreme clarity of why I had the cancer, why I had come into this life in the first place, what role everyone in my family played in my life in the grand scheme of things, and generally how life works. The clarity and understanding I obtained in this state is almost indescribable. Words seem to limit the experience — I was at a place where I understood how much more there is than what we are able to conceive in our 3-dimensional world. I realized what a gift life was, and that I was surrounded by loving spiritual beings, who were always around me even when I did not know it.
The amount of love I felt was overwhelming, and from this perspective, I knew how powerful I am, and saw the amazing possibilities we as humans are capable of achieving during a physical life. I found out that my purpose now would be to live “heaven on earth” using this new understanding, and also to share this knowledge with other people. However I had the choice of whether to come back into life, or go towards death. I was made to understand that it was not my time, but I always had the choice, and if I chose death, I would not be experiencing a lot of the gifts that the rest of my life still held in store. One of the things I wanted to know was that if I chose life, would I have to come back to this sick body, because my body was very, very sick and the organs had stopped functioning. I was then made to understand that if I chose life, my body would heal very quickly. I would see a difference in not months or weeks, but days!
I was shown how illnesses start on an energetic level before they become physical. If I chose to go into life, the cancer would be gone from my energy, and my physical body would catch up very quickly. I then understood that when people have medical treatments for illnesses, it rids the illness only from their body but not from their energy so the illness returns. I realized if I went back, it would be with a very healthy energy. Then the physical body would catch up to the energetic conditions very quickly and permanently. I was given the understanding that this applies to anything, not only illnesses — physical conditions, psychological conditions, etc. I was “shown” that everything going on in our lives was dependant on this energy around us, created by us. Nothing was solid — we created our surroundings, our conditions, etc. depending where this “energy” was at. The clarity I received around how we get what we do was phenomenal! It’s all about where we are energetically. I was made to feel that I was going to see “proof” of this first hand if I returned back to my body.
I know I was drifting in and out between the two worlds, but every time I drifted into the “other side”, I was shown more and more scenes. There was one which showed how my life had touched all the people in it — it was sort of like a tapestry and showed how I affected everyone’s lives around me. There was another which showed my brother on a plane, having heard the news I was dying, coming to see me (this was verified to me as when I started to come round, my brother was there, having just got off a plane). I then saw a glimpse of my brother and me and somehow seemed to understand it was a previous life, where I was much older than him and was like a mother to him (in this life, he is older than me). I saw in that life I was very protective towards him. I suddenly became aware he was on the plane to come and see me, and felt “I can’t do this to him — can’t let him come and see me dead”. Then I also saw how my husband’s purpose was linked to mine, and how we had decided to come and experience this life together. If I went, he would probably follow soon after.
I was made to understand that, as tests had been taken for my organ functions (and the results were not out yet), that if I chose life, the results would show that my organs were functioning normally. If I chose death, the results would show organ failure as the cause of death, due to cancer. I was able to change the outcome of the tests by my choice!
I made my choice, and as I started to wake up (in a very confused state, as I could not at that time tell which side of the veil I was on), the doctors came rushing into the room with big smiles on their faces saying to my family “Good news — we got the results and her organs are functioning — we can’t believe it!! Her body really did seem like it had shut down!”
After that, I began to recover rapidly. The doctors had been waiting for me to become stable before doing a lymph node biopsy to track the type of cancer cells, and they could not even find a lymph node big enough to suggest cancer (upon entering the hospital my body was filled with swollen lymph nodes). They did a bone marrow biopsy, again to find the cancer activity so they could adjust the chemotherapy according to the disease, and there wasn’t any in the bone marrow. The doctors were very confused, but put it down to me suddenly responding to the chemo. Because they themselves were unable to understand what was going on, they made me undergo test after test, all of which I passed with flying colors, and clearing every test empowered me even more! I had a full body scan, and because they could not find anything, they made the radiologist repeat it again!!!!
Because of my experience, I am now sharing with everyone I know that miracles are possible in your life every day. After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience “heaven on earth”.
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PART TWO
NDERF INTERVIEW WITH ANITA MOORJANI
anitamoorjani.com
From 2006
Anita Moorjani was born in Singapore and then lived in Sri Lanka until she was two years old. An ethnic Sindhi woman from India, her family then moved to Hong Kong where she grew up speaking fluent Sindhi, Cantonese and English, as well as being conversant with a multitude of cultural idioms. She was educated in English schools in Hong Kong and later studied in England before returning to Hong Kong to take up a senior management position for a French fashion company where she traveled all over the world using her multi-cultural, multilingual background in a variety of business and social settings. In December 1995, she married her husband and soulmate, Danny, who loves her unconditionally (and still does, despite her becoming a NDE freak now).
In April 2002 she was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and after nearly four years of battling the disease, she was taken to the intensive care unit of her local hospital in February 2006 where she was given less than 36 hours to live. Her remarkable NDE and seeming miraculous recovery from cancer has created enormous interest and commentary on an international scale.
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NDERF: Hi Anita. It’s nice to talk to you again. It’s only been a few months since your NDE and recovery, so I was wondering how are you feeling these days? Has media and public interest in your experience had any effect on your ability to come and go as you please?
ANITA: Physically, I’m feeling really great, thanks for asking. I don’t recall having this much energy at my disposal ever before. As for the media and public interest, that’s been a lot of fun. It’s not that people recognize me straight off the bat, you know. I mean, a lot of people have heard my story, but most don’t know what I look like, because they’ve mostly either read about me on the internet, or heard about me on the radio. (I’m becoming a regular on Chinese radio!!)
It’s only when I introduce myself that people say “ohhhhh, so you’re the Anita that died!!”
Another fun aspect is that I am getting a lot of invitations to attend social as well as spiritual gatherings. What I love most is that people keep hugging me. When they meet me, they say “I was really moved by your experience. Can I have a hug?” And of course, I say “sure!” I just love that part!!
NDERF: Yes, and I can see you are becoming expert at giving cyberhugs on the forum. Now you can hug worldwide! What has been the most difficult part adjusting to 3 dimensional reality since returning from your experience?
ANITA: That’s a good question. The most difficult part is not being able now to see this world in the same way as everyone else does. I don’t see things the same way as most people, nor can I process information in the same way I used to. I can’t. It feels like I have seen beyond the illusion of this physical world, and I can’t go back to thinking the way I used to. Sometimes I feel misunderstood. One of my fears is of becoming lonely, should no one understand me.
NDERF: Yes, I can imagine there would be a sense of loneliness that could come with an experience that is difficult to put into language. Can you tell me more about how this way of thinking affects your physical reality?
ANITA: When I was in the NDE state, it felt like I had woken up to a different reality. It felt like I had awoken from the “illusion” of life, and from that perspective, it looked like my physical life was just a culmination of my thoughts and beliefs up to that point. It felt like the whole world was just a culmination of mass consciousness. That is, the culmination of everyone’s thoughts and beliefs. It felt like nothing was actually real, but we made it real with our beliefs. I understood that even my cancer was not real, it was also part of the illusion, so if I went back to my body, I would not have the cancer any more.
And another thing is that, there was this incredible understanding of how we are all interconnected. And how what I felt within me affects my whole universe. It felt like the whole universe is within me. As far as I am concerned, if I am happy, the universe is happy. If I love myself, everyone else will love me. If I am at peace, the whole universe is peaceful. And so on.
Also, there is no such thing as time and space in that dimension. It felt like everything was happening simultaneously. I saw what could be interpreted as past lives, I saw what was happening currently (my brother on the plane, and conversations between my family members and doctors), and I also saw the future of this life pan out. But it was as if they were all happening at once, and I was living them all at once. It felt like, only after coming back, my mind has to process it as happening in linear time, but in that dimension, it didn’t feel that way at all. And distance and solid walls did not stop me from seeing and hearing everything that pertained to me at that time.
So now, back into 3D life, it feels like even solid walls and distance only exist because we decide or believe them to exist.
NDERF: Wow, I can only imagine an experience like that would mess with your mind!! So can you tell me more about how the NDE has affected the way you think and process information now?
ANITA: Well, first of all, my view of the world has totally blown apart. Over these months, I have had doctors telling me, over and over, that what happened to me is completely unexplainable. Medically, it should not be possible. They can’t figure out where the billions of cancer cells went in just a matter of days. Medically, every way they look at it, I should have died. My organs were shut down. Either the cancer should have killed me, the drugs should have killed me, or the billions of cancer cells trying to leave, flooding my shut down system, should have killed me.
In view of what physically happened to me, I am no longer able to see any physical disability in the same light anymore! Where, in my own mind, would I draw the line between what is “fixable” or “curable” and what is not? By what scale or logic would I draw these conclusions from? Certainly not from what is “medically” possible! I can’t apply that to my life anymore. The word “impossible” has no meaning to me anymore. The boundaries of what is possible or not is very shady to me.
I look at everything in our reality, including things like illness and aging, so differently. I challenge anything that is considered “natural” or “normal”. To me now, everything feels like human construct — that is, just another product of personal and mass belief.
Having had the experience I have, it feels like nothing is real, but every single possibility exists.
I now live my life knowing that I can create my own reality based on these new truths that I have learned.
NDERF: That’s a really powerful way to live. I want to go into what you say about creating your own reality, but before I do, just while on the topic of the physical body, it sounds as if you no longer see the challenges of illness in the same way — in fact, it almost sounds like you feel “invincible”. Can you elaborate more on that?
ANITA: OK, before my experience, one of my biggest fears in life was cancer, another fear was chemo (I watched 2 people die while on chemo), and also I had a myriad of other fears. It was almost as if my life was being “caged” in by my fears. My experience of life was getting smaller and smaller.
Now move forward to my NDE. This state caused a huge internal consciousness shift within me. Seeing through the illusion was a big part of it, feeling connected to the entire universe was another part, and becoming aware of being flooded in an all encompassing, loving, energy was also another factor. This was an energy of unconditional love — an energy that does not discriminate or judge. This universal energy is there for us no matter who or what we are. It was in this very awake state that I made the decision to come back into life. It was one powerful decision to come back and experience LIFE in this body again. You see, as soon as the choice to live or die was presented to me, I KNEW that once I made the decision, NOTHING outside of myself could kill me. NOTHING. Just the fact that I was presented with the choice and that I had made the decision, made it real. And as soon as I made the decision, every single cell in my body responded to that decision, and I healed almost immediately.
The doctors continued to take tests, but could not find anything. I understood that everything that was being done after that – all the tests, biopsies, drugs, etc. etc. was being done to satisfy everyone around me, and although a lot of it was very, very painful, I KNEW that I would be fine. My higher self/soul/spirit/connection to all that is, whatever you want to call it, that part of me had decided to continue to live through this body, and nothing in this physical 3D world could affect that decision. It felt like any decision made from the real reality far outweighs anything in this “illusion”.
This is that invincible feeling. The feeling that nothing outside of me can harm me.
NDERF: Do you think this feeling can be attained by others, or do you feel that it is something that can only be achieved either by an NDE or by a special few?
ANITA: I strongly believe it is something that can be attained by others. I certainly don’t feel special, or chosen or anything like that, in any way. Perhaps one just needs to be at the right “place” psychologically in their physical lives for something like this to happen.
It can certainly look like this is just a random event that happened to me. But bear in mind that I had cancer for nearly 4 years. During those four years, I changed dramatically. Living with terminal cancer at a reasonably young age and watching yourself deteriorate changes you and your perspective on life. It can’t not. I feel that those years “prepped” me for exactly the type of death experience that I had. I don’t know if I would have been emotionally mature enough to handle such a shift if it happened sooner, like say, without all the emotional and psychological “clearing” that took place within me from living with the cancer for almost 4 years. I feel that I had reached a place in my life that “allowed” this shift to happen. I was already at a point in my life where I wasn’t particularly attached to any way of thinking, and had also reached the stage of letting go of desiring any specific outcome. In my opinion, getting to this point was important for me.
The NDE gave me that last “push” that I needed, to see beyond the illusion. And once I saw that the body is not the real me, and that the cancer was also just an illusion, I was then able to see how loved I am, and I recognized my own magnificence, and once I made the decision to live, the physical body only reflected this “new found” state.
I’m sure there are people who are at exactly the right place internally, for such a shift to take place. And they don’t have to have an NDE for this to happen. Perhaps all they need to do is to bring into their awareness of what is possible. And perhaps, just by the fact that something like this has happened to me, I can be the catalyst for such an awareness to be brought into their reality.
I believe that once people are willing to expand their minds to let in such occurrences into their own reality, it may even trigger off further inner work to allow for such a shift to happen within them. I don’t believe everyone has to have to have something as drastic as an NDE to see such miracles occur. Perhaps just a willingness to let go of beliefs which may be holding them back.
From that state, where this life looked like an illusion, it looked like our strong attachment to certain beliefs is what holds the illusion in place. Perhaps a willingness to look at and let go of beliefs that may be holding us back could help us to move forward faster, as a mass consciousness.
NDERF: This now takes me back to a question I differed earlier. How do we create our reality?
ANITA: From the perspective of the other dimension, it really felt like nothing is real, only our beliefs about them make them so. Now knowing that, I review what I believe, and only hold on to what serves to expand my life, and let go of anything that feels restricting, or doesn’t make me feel positive in any way.
I feel that once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it into your awareness, and then it starts to become true for you. The more you believe it, the more it starts to become real for you. This is why it is so, very important to believe in positive things, rather than negative things. Whatever you believe, you will find that you are correct. The universe has a way of presenting to you exactly what you believe. If you think life is great, you are correct. If you think life is tough, you will be proved correct too.
My own personal intention is to bring to people’s awareness what our human body is capable of doing, so that they can let it into their belief system. The more people start to believe it, the more we will start to see this kind of thing happening.
For example, a miracle is only labeled such because it is an event outside of our belief system. Once we see it happen, we can start to believe it. Once we start to believe it, it can then enter into our own reality and happen more and more often. It’s as simple as that.
NDERF: Yes, if our beliefs create our reality, then it certainly is important to believe in positive things, and things that serve us, rather than things that work against us. But how do we do that in a world that is seemingly so full of negativity?
ANITA: Remember I said earlier that I felt that the Universe is within me? The external world is only a reflection of my internal world!
A lot of people say that the world is very negative, but that’s not exactly true. Look around you. EVERYTHING exists simultaneously in this universe, the positive as well as negativity. There is poverty, there is wealth, there is sickness, there is health, there is love, and there is hatred and fear, and there is happiness and there is despair, and so on. And there is NOT more negative than positive. It’s just because we choose to see the world in this way, that it feels like there is more negative. And the more we choose to see it this way, and give it our focus and energy, the more of it we draw into our lives, and create it in our own personal reality.
Remember, I believe that this reality is created by mass consciousness. That’s what I felt I broke through, during my NDE. Each of us as individuals ALWAYS has the choice to choose what we want to see and believe as reality.
NDERF: So if someone’s life was not working for them, how would you suggest they turn it around?
ANITA: I love this question. It gives me the opportunity to talk about the importance of unconditional self love. I would strongly suggest practicing unconditional self love.
Remember, I said that the universe is only a reflection of me. If I am frustrated with the way life is working for me, it is futile to change the external elements without looking at what’s going on internally. A lot of us are very negative towards ourselves. We are our own worst enemies. The first thing I would say is to stop judging yourself and stop beating yourself up for where you are in your life right now. If I am finding that I am constantly frustrated with people, and judging them, it is because that is how I am internally treating myself all the time. I am only expressing outward my own inner dialogue to myself. The more I love myself unconditionally, the easier it is for me to see beauty in this world, and beauty in others.
If I can love myself and not judge myself, and see my own perfection, then I will automatically see all these in others! And the more I love myself, the more love I will have for others. It’s not possible to love another more than you love yourself. Contrary to popular belief that it’s selfish to love yourself, this is just so not true. We cannot give what we do not have.
No matter where you are, it is only the culmination of your thoughts and beliefs up to that point. And you can change it. Remember, I reversed my cancer at the 11th hour. Even when the doctors said it was too late, it was still not too late. So the first thing is to realize that it is NEVER too late to do something, or change anything. It’s important to see the power that the present moment holds in turning our life around.
If you believe in things like “like attracts like” then the absolute best way to attract what’s best for you is to love yourself to the point where you are filled with love, and will only attract to your life everything that confirms this belief about yourself. It’s actually very simple, really.
NDERF: Can you tell me, how does one become unconditionally loving in a world that is not always loving?
ANITA: First of all, remember that I feel that the universe is only a reflection of me. So the unconditional love is not extended out to the world (or universe), it is unconditional love that I extend inwardly, towards myself! Each day, I learn to love myself unconditionally.
Also, let me explain that there is a difference between “being loving” and “being love”.
Being loving means giving love to another whether you have any for yourself or not. It means giving what you yourself may or may not even have to give. This type of giving of love can eventually drain you, because we don¹t always have a limitless supply. And then we look to the other to replenish our pool of love, and if it is not forthcoming, we stop being loving ourselves, because we are exhausted.
Being love, on the other hand, means loving myself unconditionally so that it overflows, and anyone and everyone around me just becomes an automatic recipient of my love. The more I love myself, the more it flows out to others. It almost feels like being a vessel for love to flow through. When I am being love, I don¹t need people to behave a certain way in order for them to be a recipient of my love. They are automatically getting my love as a result of me loving myself. So to stop being love, to me, means to stop loving myself. Hence, I will not stop being love on account of another.
NDERF: So how would you suggest someone elevate their own loving energy?
ANITA: I feel it’s my self-dialogue that either elevates or diminishes the energy I radiate outwards. When my inner dialogue turned against me, over time, it depleted my energy, and caused a downward spiral in my external circumstances. I was always really, really positive on the outside, effervescent, loving, etc. etc. and still my world was crumbling around me, and I was getting depleted, and sicker and sicker.
Sometimes, when we see someone who is really positive and effervescent and kind, yet their lives are crumbling around them we may think “see, this being positive thing doesn’t work”. But see, here’s the thing. WE DON’T KNOW that person’s own inner dialogue. We don¹t know what they are telling themselves, inside their own heads, day in and day out.
Remember, I am not advocating “thinking positive” in a Pollyannaish sort of way. “Thinking positive” can be tiring, and to some people it can mean “suppressing” the negative stuff that happens. And it ends up being more draining.
I am talking about my own mental dialogue to myself. What am I telling myself, day in and day out inside my head. I feel it¹s so very important not to have judgment and fear in my own mental dialogues to myself. When our own inner dialogue is telling us we are safe, unconditionally loved, accepted, we can radiate this energy outwards and change our external world accordingly.
I also think it is very important to see perfection in the moment. The present moment is very powerful. Each moment holds promise, and each moment can be a turning point for the rest of your life.
I am often misunderstood when I say that each moment is perfect. And that everything is perfect. People are afraid of seeing perfection in a situation that is not of their liking, thinking that seeing perfection means not changing it. To me, seeing perfection does not mean keeping the situation static. It means seeing perfection in exactly where you are in your journey right now, no matter where that may be. Seeing perfection in the journey. Seeing perfection in the becoming. Seeing perfection in the value of the mistakes as you are becoming. Seeing perfection in the moment, wherever in the journey that moment might be. That is seeing perfection.
NDERF: This is very powerful — being able to change the exterior in a very positive way, just by changing our internal world with a positive, self-loving, inner dialog. This is a very clear explanation of “The Universe is Just a Reflection of Me”. It also explains why there is so much negativity in the world. It must be a reflection of other people’s negative inner dialogs, being projected outwards. Is that what you feel?
ANITA: Yes, that is exactly what I feel. You want to know the best part about feeling this positive energy about yourself? I don’t feel I even have to say anything to anyone to uplift them, but just because of my own loving self talk to myself, people around me feel my positive presence. Without even having to say anything, you will start to notice people being attracted to your positive presence, and be energized by your energy. Your positive inner dialogue helps elevate others around you even when you are not saying anything to them, just thinking positive thoughts about yourself!!!! Because energy just radiates and flows out and touches others!! This is why this self loving inner dialogue is so very important in making a better world.
Have you noticed that there are people who just seem to light up a room when they walk in? Or people you just notice, even in a crowd because they are just radiating energy? You can bet that they have a very positive and strong self image and are running some very positive internal self dialogue programs.
What are we internally telling ourselves each and every day? Are we just beating ourselves up, and judging ourselves? Are we too hard on ourselves, and are we our own worst enemy? That’s the real work!! I feel we must start by changing that inner dialogue, by loving ourselves more and more, and then, even without having to say or do anything to anyone, the whole outer world changes to reflect that inner world. I have really noticed my physical world and others around me reflecting this.
NDERF: You’ve mentioned this feeling of oneness before. The connection to everything and the all that is, which you felt while in the NDE state. Can you elaborate a little more on this feeling?
ANITA: In that NDE state, I felt like I was connected to everything. I was everything, and everything was me. It’s something that is so hard to explain, because the right words just don’t exist. It felt like there is no separation, until we come into physical life and look at the world through the mind. In fact, it felt like the separation IS the mind.
There was SO much clarity in that state, but somehow, it did not feel like the clarity came from the mind. It’s as if something else was doing the understanding, and that something else was able to identify the mind as being separate, and the mind as being the cause for disconnection from the all that is. It felt like the ego and the mind were one. So in that state, which is beyond the mind, there was no ego and no attachment. And all was one. The connection was felt with EVERYTHING. There was no discrimination and no judgment against ANYONE or ANYTHING. Any crime committed, or any sickness of the body all stemmed from the same thing. All stemmed from a separation and disease of the mind, and is also caused by how the mind interprets the separation.
If we are able to stand outside the mind, there is no problem. We are perfect. Even imperfection is the creation of the mind. Judgment too. EVERYTHING. But as soon as we get “into” our minds, we feel a need to process, and see separation in order to understand. But ALL stem from the mind. In truth, we are not our minds.
Yet, when in that state, even though I felt one with everything, I still seemed to recognize myself as a separate being from the oneness, as if I had my own evolution. It was like I had this mind, which is not me, but I sort of … had an obligation to “evolve” it as best as I could, but I was OUTSIDE of my mind looking at it. When we are in the physical, we are INSIDE our mind looking out. And the separation between all becomes more glaring and obvious.
It felt like all the problems and the issues of the world stemmed from too much mind identification. That is the illusion. The mind is the illusion.
But I believe we always have the choice to wake from this illusion. If I become awake, then by extension, those around me are affected accordingly. We can live in this world, but choose not to live in the illusion. We can choose to see right through the illusion and yet express ourselves in the physical. After my NDE, it feels like this illusion is just human construct. A construct of the mind.
NDERF: And speaking of “mind,” what are your thoughts on telepathy? Do you see it as mind to mind communication?
ANITA: It definitely feels like something from beyond the mind, and not mind to mind. To me, it feels like it’s the connection we have with each other like I described above, the connection with the oneness, the all that is.
I feel that we connect with others when we are in touch with that universal connection. Here’s what it feels like for me. Let’s say, for the sake of argument, I am able to telepathically communicate with you. What has happened is that I have cleared my mind, and made it more transparent and become more connected to that universal oneness, and you are doing the same thing. So, you and I are sort of accessing the same pool of “oneness” info. But the reason it feels like mind to mind communication is because here in the physical, we are both communicating and connecting on the mind level. But because we are both accessing the same info at the same time from that oneness pool, and then when we use our mind to communicate with each other, we notice we have both come to the same conclusion, and then we interpret it as our minds have communicated to each other. But actually, we’ve both tapped into the same “oneness” pool. That’s sort of how it feels to me.
This is why I feel it is important to keep clearing the attachments of the mind, and make it more open to being connected to this oneness. And then the people who are appropriate for us, will connect with us because they will be at the same level of this clarity, and will be accessing this same oneness pool from the same level we are. People who are closed are walking around in a fog, colliding with others who are also in the same fog, and they are fumbling and struggling along with life. Whereas those with the clarity are transparent, and practically walk right through the ones in the fog. And no one can bump into them or derail them, because they are so transparent and light in their energy. That’s kind of how it feels like to me.
NDERF: I’d like to go a little deeper into your life, perhaps a little into your past, your beliefs, and how you currently live your life. In your NDE you said you understood everything about why you were who you are. Can you elaborate a little more on that and your specific life situation, like your cultural upbringing and any religious beliefs you may have?
ANITA: OK. I am multi cultural and multi lingual. My parents are from India, I was born in Singapore, my grand parents lived in Sri Lanka, but I grew up in Hong Kong, and I had a British education. In addition, when I started working, partly because of my linguistic skills, my work entailed my traveling all over the world.
I was born a Hindu, but am not a practicing Hindu. I went to a multi-national school and was surrounded by Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Taoists, and so on, as well as people who weren’t religious at all. Growing up in Hong Kong, religion is not a big factor in our life, because Hong Kong is very multi cultural. Spiritual beliefs just seem to be a philosophy that people weave discretely into their own lives.
I personally have no strong beliefs of any denomination, one way or another.
When I was still studying, I was very confused because I couldn’t understand the glaring contradictions between the different religions (because I was exposed to many religions), nor could I understand the glaring contradictions between the religions and the sciences. I couldn’t understand how we could be taught one thing in a religious studies class, about the creation of life, and then learn something completely different, about the same topic, in a science class. I spent a lot of years searching for answers to my confusion, but never found anything satisfactory. Until I had my NDE, that is. Now I don’t search anymore. I still don’t know all the answers, but I don’t feel the need to search anymore. I feel death taught me how to live life.
Anyway, during the NDE state, I understood the importance of my being multicultural, and I understood why I had been exposed to extremes in culture and education (a combination of Eastern and Western). It just all became so, so crystal clear to me. When I was given the choice of whether to come back or not, my initial thought was to continue to go into death, because in that state, there is no attachment to loved ones here. But immediately, it was followed by the understanding, or clarity of “I now understand! So let me go back into life and live with this new understanding!”
Also, there was a lot of clarity around why my (absolutely wonderful) husband is who he is, and why we had come together. I understood that there was still a lot we had to do together, and that if I chose death, he would follow shortly after, as it felt like our purpose was very linked. It also sort of felt like I would be missing out on a lot of the gifts that life still held for me, as a result of who I had become up to this point in my life if I did not come back. In a way, it sort of felt like…”The work is done. The stage is set. Now just go and be”. Words aren’t adequate, but that’s sort of it.
NDERF: In your NDE, you mentioned getting a glimpse of a previous life. Do you believe in reincarnation, and do you think it’s because of your Hindu background?
ANITA: Actually, truth be told, it’s because of my Hindu background that I interpreted it that way — as a past life. But in actuality, it felt like everything else I was experiencing in that state. It was all happening simultaneously. So in actual fact, it felt like a parallel life. I also saw my future, and it all felt just as real. Past, present and future. It all felt like it was happening simultaneously.
There are certain aspects of my experience that even my own mind sometimes has trouble grasping. But hopefully it will come to me sometime in the “future”, as I expand my own thinking to encompass it. It’s to do with time and space not existing in that dimension. So, in answer to your question, I feel we have to change our concept of time, and how we understand time, to really grasp an understanding of it. It certainly didn’t feel like “consecutive lives” or “consecutive events” the way we understand it here in the physical.
NDERF: Can you elaborate a little more on how you now live your life, while being able to see “beyond the illusion?”
ANITA: I sometimes hesitate to use the word illusion, because while we are here, it feels very real, and it’s the only reality most of us know. It can be frustrating for people who feel pain to hear that it’s only an illusion. But that’s not exactly how I mean it. If I may use it in this context, this is what I mean.
Bear in mind that during that state, it felt like I woke up into a different reality, a reality where time and space does not exist, and from that perspective, this physical reality looked like an illusion — a dream. It felt like even time is an illusion, which we need in the 3D (physical state) so our mind can process information in a linear fashion. Remember, in that realm, even brick and mortar walls and physical distance did not stop me from knowing what I needed to know. And there was no separation in terms of past present and future either. All was simultaneous. It felt like our physical mind needs to create the “illusion” of time and space in order to process this in a linear fashion.
It felt like I had awoken to a state that went beyond mass consciousness, and that the life I had been living up to this point was just an illusion/dream created by my thoughts and beliefs and also a culmination of mass consciousness. It was in this clarity, that I saw that even my cancer was part of the illusion, caused by my mind and who I believed I was up to that point in time. I saw that who I truly am is a perfect and powerful magnificent spiritual being. I understood that no one on this planet is more or less spiritual than another. It’s just whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.
And now, I can’t seem to live my life in any other way than with this knowing that there is nothing to forgive, nothing to judge, (these are all part of the illusion — mass consciousness beliefs). And I now feel that “God” is something that is within me, within you, and within every living creature on this planet. So how can we not be perfect?
So in answer to your question, I feel that the physical world is set up for us to see imperfection, especially in ourselves. However, the more I look through that “illusion” and can recognize my own magnificence and express it, and the more perfection I see in myself, the more wonderfully I am seeing my life unfold. Remember, I am not saying look for perfection in the world. I am saying, look for perfection in yourself. In your journey and in your becoming. And you will see it reflected back to you in the world. Life has become easier, and I have become much more loving as a result. That is how I see beyond this “illusion”.
NDERF: Which leads me to the question of your purpose. So would you say that your purpose now is to just be here, in the physical, and express yourself in the physical, or is there something more?
ANITA: To me, the purpose is BEING. And that is different from being HERE. The focus is different. When the focus is on being here, we can get lost here. The physical world is full of “other people’s version” of life. Whereas when the purpose is BEING, it means being YOU, and only subscribing to YOUR version of life (or creating your version of life). To me, it means being an expression of exactly who I am.
My purpose is to be as much me as I can be!
Before my experience, I used to pursue my purpose externally. But after my NDE, I discovered there was nothing outside of myself. And there was nothing to pursue. I just had to be, and the external would fall in to place
NDERF: Can you elaborate a little more on the difference between pursuing your purpose externally (which is what you used to do), and just “being” which is what you do now?
ANITA: When we “pursue” externally, we seem to see the world as being competitive and limited, and we use external measures to judge our achievements. To me, herein lies the illusion. There is no limited supply of “beingness”. We seem to measure our “beingness” by the achievement of goals. I don’t, and neither do most people who are happy. My point is to shift your views. See the magnificence in your being whether you are rich, or poor, physically impaired or not, with the one you love, or not, and so on.
I am now just focused on being, and am now the creator of my life — that is, the artist of my life. I don’t any more sit and think about the external competition. Each of us is unique, with unique traits and talents. I only have to express my own “beingness” and “uniqueness”. A true artist doesn’t really care about whether there is anyone who can create as well as or better than he. He is too busy expressing himself, purely for the purpose of expressing. He has found something within, and is only expressing his inner beauty, and the world shares in it. The more inner beauty you uncover and express, the more the universe shares in it and reflects it back to you.
That’s the difference between “being” and “pursuing”.
NDERF: Do you think what has happened to you could be attainable by anyone?
ANITA: I don’t know for sure, but it sure feels like it can be. I certainly don’t feel “chosen” or more special than anyone else on the planet. Do I feel I can “recreate” this state, now that I have experienced it? The answer would have to be yes. I feel like I am living my life from this state now.
In terms of others, the way I see it, each person is unique. And each of us processes information differently. Some of us are more logical, some of us are creative, some of us are more scientific, some of us rely on religion for our answers. My point is that it does not matter. We are all unique. I have a method of processing and expressing which may not be suitable to a lot of people. I am only a product of my own life situation.
However, I strongly feel that by whatever means a person processes their life’s information, it should be one that serves them, and expands them and their views of the changing world (not restricts or limits them and their life experiences).
Whatever or whoever you are, open yourself up to the possibility that perhaps life can be different if you think differently from the way you do now.
In terms of what happened to me, if it can happen to one person, why can’t it happen more and more? How can we, as a mass consciousness, allow it? How can we expand ourselves to allow it?
I don’t have all the answers for anyone else except me, because I only know how I process information. I am only able to process how I allow these things to happen to me.
But yet, in the state I am now, I can only see perfection in where I am, at not knowing any absolute answers and making it my own personal journey to expand myself, and experience more each day. As I express myself more and more, I feel more connected with the universe.
However, it does feel to me like an attachment to beliefs, and an unwillingness to let go of them and look at things in a new way is what is holding mass consciousness behind. But hey, that’s just the way I look at things!
NDERF: Can you expand on what you mean by people’s attachments to beliefs and an unwillingness to let go of them may be holding us back as a mass consciousness.
ANITA: It feels to me now that our “physical” lives have been built around things seeming to be a certain way. Bear in mind, though, that people depend on things being a certain way. Livelihoods depend on it. Our health, wellbeing and safety depend on it.
People’s lives are “built” on certain beliefs and their lives work within the framework of everyone around them believing that these things are true. If everyone around you believes in something, you are inclined to believe it too, and think of it as being true. And your life evolves, as a mass consciousness, based on these seeming “truths”. This way of being has been going on for a long time. It has the feel of being solid, with solid foundations. In that 4D state, it felt like, this is how we created this present physical reality — this “illusion”. By everybody believing in the same things. That, in itself, makes it true for the mass consciousness.
If we, as a mass consciousness, believed in something completely different, then the world would be a culmination of that collective belief. From that perspective, it really felt like our collective belief created this “illusion” of truth.
I want to add here, though, that perhaps the way the world is structured right now, it’s just not ready to know the whole truth. Humankind are not ready for the “illusion” to be shattered. Everything is held in place by everyone believing and thinking a certain way.
So if someone came along who is able to see beyond this “illusion”, it is much easier for those still living within the illusion to “shoot” the messenger than to alter this “illusion”. It would cause too much uncertainty and chaos. It can’t be done overnight. Human mass consciousness is not able to come to terms with it. EVERYTHING would have to be looked at differently if people saw through the illusion overnight, and it would cause CHAOS, not peace and love (which those who see beyond the illusion are trying to bring in). Our medical systems, our judicial systems, our education systems, our religious systems would have to be COMPLETELY overhauled and re-evaluated. And it can’t be done overnight.
However, those who see through the illusion, see this. And those who see this, become focused in creating a reality for themselves based on their own truths, rather than what has been created by mass consciousness.
The universe is changing at the pace that it is capable of changing, that’s why those who see beyond the illusion are able to see the perfection in things being “just so”. The so called “strife” that goes on, the wars, the disparity between rich and poor, the contradictions in religion and sciences, this could be just a natural occurrence of a consciousness that is waking up and starting to see through this man made illusion of mass consciousness.
Everything is happening at a pace which is perfect for our fragile consciousness to handle. The way our world is right now, it is not geared up to deal with the REAL TRUTH. The mass consciousness does not yet seem fully ready to handle it. Maybe it never will be. Maybe while we are here, we are meant to deal with things at this level. However, to me, it certainly feels like this ability (to live beyond the illusion) is something that is attainable by the individual, should they choose to do so.
NDERF: Thank you so much, Anita, for taking the time to answer these questions and for going more into depth with your story. Given all the interest your NDE is generating internationally, I think the things you have said here are extremely valuable for helping clarify the complexity of your experience. Much love to you and your family as you continue disseminating your NDE for all to hear!
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PART THREE
IMPORTANT CLARIFYING QUESTION & ANSWER FROM THE NDERF WEBSITE
Question: What I found most interesting in Anita’s account is that she talks about the information she got about the influence of her inner attitude on her life. Now if I understood that correctly it is about somehow being totally in tune or such … something like being totally yourself. I would appreciate if she could say more about that. To me, this is actually the key issue about the NDE. What can we gain from it to live life in a better way?
Anita Moorjani: Oh, this one is easy! The number one lesson I learned is that it’s really important to always be me, and to value myself. For me, this insight was the key to understanding why I had cancer. Now I’m not saying I know why others get cancer. But in my case, my biggest insight was that my inability to value myself was one of the key elements that fed my own cancer.
Living in a world where I learned to believe that I am not lovable enough, not deserving enough, and not perfect enough, until and unless I could live up to some unrealistic expectation of what it means to be perfect, is a big part of what caused my body to become sick and fall apart. I bought into a fictitious belief of what it means to be perfect. But my experience caused me to become aware of the fact that I was never less than perfect or less than magnificent. I just thought I was, and thinking and believing these untruths is what eventually drove me to become sick. I had been spending my life, up to that point, trying to attain something I already was.
Also, I used to mistakenly think that “positive thinking” is all that is required to lead a positive life. I learned, however, that it is far more important to be yourself than it is to be positive. And sometimes, being yourself does not necessarily mean being positive, and it’s important to know that that’s ok too.
I agree that it’s good to find things in life to feel positive about, and it’s wonderful if we are able to cultivate a disposition where we can easily find things to feel positive and grateful for. But I have learned to be careful not to deny myself the right to feel bad, negative, angry, etc, when I am really feeling that way. It’s not always easy to be positive, especially if things are not going well at a particular time. So it’s even worse when we are adding to a bad situation by judging our negative feelings about the situation!
Prior to my experience, I would have suppressed those emotions and not allowed myself to express them, because I would have judged them as being negative. I always thought I had to be positive. But by suppressing these emotions, I was denying a very real part of myself. In essence, I was sending a message to myself that parts of my being were not deserving of being expressed. And as I continued to deny these emotions, they only became bigger. As you probably already know, what you suppress only pushes against you even harder. So over a period of time, it became harder and harder to keep those negative emotions under wrap. Which means, it became harder and harder to be the positive person I was trying so hard to be, because I was just so focused on trying to suppress the negative emotions! Trying to stay positive then just becomes an energy drain.
Realizing my magnificence means accepting all my feelings and emotions (and not just the positive ones) without judging them. None of our emotions are actually negative. We only judge and label them so. I have since learned to embrace all my feelings and emotions without judgment, and this makes it much easier for me to be a happier, lighter and more positive person, and relieves me of the burden of trying to be positive during times when I don’t actually feel that way.
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Facebook Q&A With NDEr Anita Moorjani
By Anita Moorjani
AnitaMoorjani.com
October 17, 2014
On October 17th, I had a lot of fun conducting a live, one-hour, online chat on my Facebook page. I invited everyone who was around to just post any questions they may have for me, as I typed responses to them. Although I couldn’t keep up with all the questions being posted, I did manage to respond to quite a few, and wanted to share them here in this newsletter with you, especially for those of you who couldn’t make it during the session… Here are the questions, together with my answers, that were posted during the one hour Facebook live chat:
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QUESTION: After reading your book I let go of so much “junk” that was blocking my ability to be my true self but I find that I still have setbacks from time to time and when I get into a situation where I am around a group of people who think this kind of thing is ridiculous or cult like I tend to withdraw into myself. I find that I shy away from doing things for this reason. Does this ever happen to you? How do you deal with the people who want to tell you your crazy?
ANITA: People always think I’m delusional, but let me tell you something. My life works for me. It works great. It works so much better than the lives of those who think they are “real” and I’m crazy! Next time, just look at them, and ask yourself how their life is working for them. Chances are, they are not happier than you are. We have been brought up to believe in the opposite of what really works in life, and when we discover the truth of how to really live in joy and passion, we get judged for it! Remember, if everyone thinks you’re delusional, it means you’ve hit upon the truth! Stay on that unicorn, and don’t fall off!
And hang with people who indulge your delusions!
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QUESTION: Anita, one of your fans asked the question here yesterday… whether you follow any sort of fitness routine. Do you?
ANITA: Not any routine, but that’s more because of my current schedule. It’s too hectic at the moment, but I would love to include more exercise into my daily habit. I’m not great with routines. I would have to vary it a bit. I love yoga, and walking in nature.
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QUESTION: I have a question: Is it difficult for you to maintain your original and profound sense of awe (with knowing about the All-That-Is) now that you have such a busy schedule?
ANITA: On the contrary. I love my life as it feels like such an adventure! I feel that this new life of travel and meeting people lends itself to my sense of awe, as I am having new experiences all the time! It’s like my life has speeded up dramatically since my NDE.
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QUESTION: I would like to know your views about space, time and solid matter. In your book DYING TO BE ME, you once said that space,time & solid matter don’t always exist as we normally think of them.What do you mean when you say that? Please answer!
ANITA: Linear time does not exist except in our minds. All moments of time exist all at once, but our mind can only focus on one moment at a time. Then we string these moments together to form linear time.
For example, when I came out of the coma and my NDE, I knew that I was ALREADY healed. I knew that moment when my body would show no signs of cancer ALREADY EXISTS in time! But I just had to allow my mind and body to catch up to that moment.
One of the oncologists said that it was IMPOSSIBLE for all those cancer cells to have left my body in such a short time, especially since my body was so weak, and the organs had shut down. But you see, most people believe we have to travel from steps one to nine to get to step ten. I now understand that we do not have to travel from steps one through nine to get to step ten. We just have to expand our consciousness to let step 10 in, even if we are still standing at step one.
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QUESTION: My question regards animals in the afterlife. Did you feel any feelings/souls from the animals, do you think they have souls in the same way and that they have lessons to learn when they enter an animal body?
ANITA: I believe that animals have souls, but they are so much more connected than we are. I believe that they are connected with the universe, with the earth, and they have a bond with us. We become to cerebral, because of our education, and this “connection” that we share gets conditioned out of us. Animals are much more perceptive, and they have a purpose, but their purpose is very different from ours.
Their purpose is not mind or ego driven. Their purpose is more part of the grander plan of nature.
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QUESTION: How can I get your message across to my teenage children who are resistant to what I say at the best of times?
ANITA: Your children just want to be who they are. Allow them to be who they are. Step into their world. Speak in their language. Learn what their interest are. And then when you have their attention, start injecting little bits of about the importance of loving themselves and being their own best friend. Hope that helps!
Love your children for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
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QUESTION: What can one do if one is stuck in an unhappy situation, but there does not seem to be an alternative to it? These could be things such as a job situation, a place where one lives etc. My second question is that in your book you talk of diseases appearing at the subconscious realm before entering the physical realm. What about diseases that appear from birth?
ANITA: When there does not seem to be an apparent alternative or way out of a situation, I “surrender” it to the universe. Every day, I will tell the universe/my guides to take care of this situation, as I cannot be a full expression of myself if I am stuck in this situation. Eventually, a way shows up for me, and when it does, I even understand why the situation existed in the first place. I realize that I needed that situation to grow, and take me to the next place. Don’t force the change by pushing and struggling. Surrender and allow the new situation to come in.
With diseases from birth, there are several possibilities, and it’s hard to tell which one for sure. It could be that the soul chose to come with that, or it could be that the soul has been affected by the energy of the parents while in utero. I don’t want parents blaming themselves if their child is born with an illness, as they don’t do it deliberately, but an unborn child can sense its mothers’ fears and anxiety.
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QUESTION: I know that you and many others who experienced an NDE say that the other realm is really non-denominational, i.e. no specific religion/religious dogmas dominate, etc., and it makes sense to me. However, how do we/can we explain the events in which others (e.g. Immaculée Ilibagiza, whom you’ve met) say that they had visits/visions of e.g. Jesus, Saint Mary in which they were told to go to e.g. confession, build churches in their honor, say specific prayers (e.g. Rosary) – otherwise they will not go to heaven and humanity will suffer, and they will make God angry/displeased. These are such religiously (and humanly) specific “requests” and messages, and yet from what I understand, God doesn’t really care whether one is Catholic or Protestant, or nondenominational altogether. Are their visions of God and/or Saints an illusion or… what are they? Based on your experience, what is your understanding of all this?
ANITA: We all interpret our visions through our own “interface”, and religion, culture, race and gender give us these “interfaces”. For example, 5 people could go visit the same country on a tour, and they could all be part of the same tour group, going to the same sites and staying in the same hotel. If you then asked all 5 to write about their tour, you would get 5 completely different perspectives, because they have interpreted it through their own unique interface.
Also, anything that is “true” has to be universal — in that, it has to apply to everyone, and not leave anyone out. Any religion that only applies to some and not others is not “true”. Truth applies to all. Hope that helps.
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QUESTION: If we are truly formless and the truth is formless, what is the purpose of form, impermanence, the physical universe?
ANITA: I believe we come here to experience who we are. When we are formless, we cannot know physical love, pleasure, and so on. We are in a state of unconditional love, so we cannot know what it’s like to miss someone, and we cannot even know our selves. We need to be here, in this physical self to really know who we are.
We chose to come here to know who we are.
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QUESTION: I LOVE your book. It changed my life so much for the better. Thank you. I have changed the way I live, and decided only to do things that make me feel happy and alive and not do things which make me feel stress. I believe this will continue to improve my health and well-being. My question is, how do I continue to feel trust and faith that this will work? Sometimes I feel afraid that I am doing “nothing” with my life, because I have lost motivation to do things out of fear. But that does not leave a lot of “doing” at least not YET. So sometimes I wonder, how do I know when it is right to do something? How can I know that I am on the right path, when not a lot is happening, and I am not that motivated? I sometimes feel nothing is changing. Thank you Anita, I truly love you and feel you have helped me to experience unconditional love within myself for the first time. I simply can’t thank you enough.
ANITA: You are on the right track. But let me suggest one more thing. Ask yourself one question every day, Jenna. Ask yourself “What would I do if I loved myself?” What would you be doing, Jenna, if you loved yourself? That is really the only question you need to answer, and when that answer comes, that is all you need to do. Every day. And it may be a different answer on different days. Then you wait and see the life that unfolds before you. It will be YOUR life, of your OWN making, instead of a life that is built out of fear — fear of displeasing, fear of failing, etc.
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QUESTION: Just wondering Anita…when you said it wasn’t your time…and you really should come back to earth..to complete your Divine purpose with your husband…I have a hard time understanding that…because if it wasn’t your time…and you wanted to stay in the other realm..then it would have essentially been your time? Does everyone who dies..get a chance to come back..if they want to….as you did?
ANITA: If it’s their time, they don’t get a choice. But if it’s not their time, and they still choose not to come back, I suspect we will get another opportunity later to complete what we were supposed to do.
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QUESTION: Hi Anita how can you help us animal lovers cope with all the abuse they suffer and what do you think about how cruel nature is.
ANITA: I don’t think nature is cruel — but I do think that people can be cruel, because people can really be hungry for power, and sometimes abuse power, and therefore, abuse those that are weaker, like animals. Nature cannot be controlled. It is what it is. But people need to be taught to respect nature, respect animals, and respect other people.
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QUESTION: What do you think about free will versus destiny? I’d like to think its a 50-50 split between the two.
ANITA: We always have the free will as to whether to fulfill our destiny or not. Our “destiny” is like our highest possible potential, and then it’s our choice as to whether we follow our heart, be true to our self, and know we are worthy. Only when we follow our heart and are true to ourself do we actually follow our true destiny. We can choose to throw it all in, and live a life of what the world wants us to be, instead of who we came here to be — a life where we don’t fulfill our destiny, but there will be many reminders and signs along the way, pointing us towards our destiny.
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QUESTION: Can you speak to the idea of Karma — should it play a part in our current lives……..should we be paying attention to past life experiences, in this lifetime?
ANITA: We only need to focus on our present moment. We need to make this present moment the best moment of our lives so far. As long as we focus on making our present moment the best, then every moment in the future will be better than the last, and we create a great future! Don’t worry about karma, or it will have your head in a twist, and will leave you feeling helpless. No matter what, you always have a choice as to how to handle and interpret this moment.
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QUESTION: My question is what do you think about god?
ANITA: You are god. I am god. We are all god, expressing him/herself in all his/her various forms and disguises!
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QUESTION: I believe you’ve said that if we’re feeling undirected, it means we’re not connected to our deepest self. Do I have that right? Does being connected to it then assure clarity, focus, etc.? Thanks!
ANITA: Yes, if you lose your sense of direction in life, it means you have lost your sense of self. The way to find your direction again is to find yourself, which means, to love yourself, value yourself, and know that you are worthy and deserving, and allowing yourself to be who you are. Once you do that, your life and purpose will unfold before you. You don’t have to go in search of it.
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QUESTION: What would you say to someone who refuses to change, when they have cancer already, and the body is bringing up even more illness, and that person doesn’t want to change any habits, eating, habits, thinking habits…but its not feeling happy?
ANITA: It’s very hard to actually set out with the hope of trying to change people. They may avoid you if they feel you are trying to change them. Many people are resistent to change, and even more resistent to taking advice from others. The best thing we can do is to be joyful and bring our self actualized, joyful self into their presence, so that they feel our presence and happy energy. They feel our joy. And just being around us will open them up to us and want what we have, and we can then talk about what it is we do, and how we deal with life. Slowly, they will start making changes, not because we tell them to, but because they can see it’s what we do, and they can see how it is working for us.
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QUESTION: Anita what is your morning ritual?
ANITA: I look into my eyes in the mirror, and tell myself that I will always support me, never let myself down, never forsake myself, and will always be my own best friend, no matter what, even if I fail, and even if others are disappointed in me! And then I give myself a hug.
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QUESTION: My question has to do with beliefs and the toxins in our environment and our world. I remember you were fearful of cancer and feared eating foods. The question: Do you truly know that your beliefs affect your health and well being to the point that the toxins can have no effect on you if you believe they do not? Thank you.
ANITA: Here is one thing I know for sure: When you are happy, and passionate about life, and feel like you have a purpose, then your immune system is at it’s strongest. And when our immune systems are at it’s strongest, we are resilient to all kinds of things that others can fall prone to, including toxins in our environment. The more you feel empowered and passionate about life, the less the environment will impact you. Ideally, we do want clean food and a clean environment, but your strength, passion, love for life and yourself can overcome a lot! Hope that helps.
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QUESTION: What perspective do you have upon the justice in this world? How do you make sense of suffering of billions of factory farmed animals who are tortured and slaughtered and live their entire lives out in pain by no fault of their own. Where is the justice when innocent people die in Genocide or are murdered? I am interested in learning how you conceptualize the injustice that the innocent animals or people suffer.
ANITA: It upsets me as much as anyone else. I think it’s important for people to wake up and become self actualized, so that they will not treat anyone, including our beautiful animals, in this way. The best way for people to wake up and become self actualized is to realize that we each of us have a purpose, and we are loved, deserving, and worthy. And when we realize that, we start to see a higher connection with the universe, and realize that all of us, including animals, are all connected, and are part of this universal web. When we start to realize we are all connected, we are less likely to abuse others, or seek power over others.
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Excerpted from “Dying to Be Me” (pdf)
