Explore the link between near-death experiences and expanded states of consciousness through hypnosis, regression, and soul-level awareness.
There comes a moment for many people when curiosity about life quietly shifts into something more intimate, personal and internal.
Not “Is there more?”
But “Why does these stories feel so compelling?”
Stories of near-death experiences, like those shared on the extraordinary YouTube Coming Home Channel, don’t land like odd curiosities, they have resonance and weight to them. They somehow feel like they could be our own memories and experiences. People listen not because they’re chasing belief, but because something inside them recognizes the terrain, and longs to reconnect with who we are beyond the prescribed.
A sense of leaving the body.
The tunnel of light.
The knowing of unconditional love.
Clarity without judgment. The feeling that this is more real than life on Earth.
A knowing that life on Earth is meaningful and brutally hard.
And an overwhelming feeling of being held, even when things once felt unbearable.
What’s less widely discussed is this:
these same types of experiences arise every day in safe, intentional expanded states of consciousness, accessed through hypnotic regression, spiritual exploration in expanded states, Life Between Lives work, and transpersonal hypnosis sessions.
It may help to know that you don’t have to die to touch the edge or even go beyond of the veil. You simply need to be ready and a well-trained, well-trusted, client-centered, facilitator to be your way shower to these broader, very accessible states.
Why Near-Death Experiences Move Us So Deeply
Near-death experiences bypass philosophy and go straight to the nervous system.
Across cultures, belief systems, and decades of documentation, NDEs share striking consistencies: awareness outside the body, encounters with loving intelligences, panoramic life reviews free of shame, and a profound reluctance to return to physical life.
What’s most compelling isn’t the imagery.
It’s the aftereffect.
People come back changed. Less afraid of death. Less tolerant of inauthentic living. More attuned to meaning, compassion, and service. Many struggle to re-enter ordinary life because the coherence they touched felt more real than consensus reality.
This isn’t escapism.
It’s expanded consciousness.
And that matters.
Because consciousness doesn’t appear diminished during these experiences. It appears enhanced. For additional NDE resources, check out: NDRF (Near Death Experiences Research Foundation). Where over 5,300 personal accounts of near-death experiences are archived.
Expanded States Without Dying: The Overlooked Bridge
Here’s the part most people don’t realize.
Near-death experiences and deep hypnotic states access the same spectrum of awareness. The difference is not the destination. It’s the method.
Near-death experiences are by and large – involuntary. (Unless, of course, you consider the ones that happen due to attempted suicides.) When the human identity drops away abruptly, often during trauma or medical crisis. Hypnotic expanded states are intentional, guided, and like NDE’s tremendous opportunities for profound self healing and insight. In these sessions, the nervous system feels safe enough to release control without shutting down.
In past life regression, Life Between Lives sessions, and advanced transpersonal hypnosis and spiritual exploration, people routinely report:
A felt separation from the physical body or deeply expansive sensations like vibration and profound somatic experiences
Entry into non-linear realms of awareness
Encounters with guides, higher intelligence, or aspects of self
Access to memory beyond a single lifetime
A deep sense of being known, loved, and supported
This is not imagination running wild.
It is consciousness operating without its usual filters.
In other words, expanded consciousness doesn’t begin at death.
It becomes accessible when the mind relaxes its grip on identity.
What People Actually Experience in Expanded States
While no two experiences are identical, the themes are remarkably consistent and mirror near-death accounts with uncanny precision.
Identity Beyond the Body
More than feeling like they’ve accessed their true authenticity, people feel unbound. There’s a calm recognition: I am more than this body, and I always have been.
Review Without Judgment
Life reviews emerge not as punishment, but as profound opportunities for understanding the multi-faceted dimensions of a souls existence. People report developing more compassion for themselves and others, even in moments once associated with shame, judgement, pain and wounding.
Unconditional Love as a Field
Beyond the veil, love isn’t earned or granted. It’s ambient. Permeable. Vast, intelligent, personal, known.
Assistance You Forgot You Had
Many encounter supportive presences that feel ancient, familiar, warm and deeply knowing. Guidance is offered, never imposed, because it is understood that the experience of being an incarnating soul is one of total and complete free will.
Earth as a Chosen Challenge
A realization often surfaces: human life is hard on purpose. Density, limitation, and emotional intensity are not mistakes. They are features, and part of the challenge that we choose to navigate and participate in.
Across these experiences, core truths emerge again and again:
You are:
Loved unconditionally.
Never alone.
Always being assisted.
Far more than you perceive yourself to be.
Why Your Intellect Still Belongs Here
Expanded consciousness is not anti-intellectual. In fact, once back in the realm of human life, it requires discernment.
When you access true knowing through experience it becomes your truth, your core.
Healthy hypnotic and regression work doesn’t bypass logic or inflate belief. It integrates insight with grounding. The goal isn’t transcendence for its own sake. It’s coherence.
When intellect and intuition collaborate, people stop outsourcing authority and start embodying wisdom. They learn to evaluate experiences, integrate insight, and translate expanded awareness into practical life choices.
True expansion doesn’t dissolve the self.
It matures it.
From Victimhood to Participation
One of the most profound shifts people report after NDE-like states is a reframing of suffering.
Pain doesn’t disappear. Trauma isn’t minimized or forgotten. But the story around it changes. People move from “Why did this happen to me?” to “What did this awaken in me?”
This isn’t spiritual bypassing.
It’s perspective retrofitting.
Expanded consciousness restores authorship without blame. It invites responsibility without punishment. It reminds us that while we may not choose every circumstance, we can choose how we participate in the meaning that emerges.
You are not here to be rescued.
You are here to remember how powerful awareness can be.
A Natural Pathway: How Curiosity Becomes Knowing
Most people don’t move from curiosity to clarity in a straight line. Consciousness expands in spirals, not steps. Still, there is a natural rhythm many people recognize as they move from wondering into lived experience.
Read
At first, you read or watch. Stories of near-death experiences, expanded states of consciousness, past life regression, and Life Between Lives work don’t feel theoretical. They feel oddly familiar.
Many of these themes echo decades of research from organizations like the Michael Newton Institute, alongside the lived accounts of thousands of people who accessed awareness beyond the physical.
Witnessing through reading or viewing is rarely passive.
It’s often the first quiet permission to remember.
Reflect
Then something lingers.
Instead of asking “Do I believe this?”, more honest questions surface:
What feels compelling?
Why is this lighting me up?
What signs are initiated in the witnessing?
Reflection is where intellect and intuition begin to collaborate. You don’t need answers here. Only resonance.
Explore
For many, reflection naturally leads to experience.
Exploration means entering expanded states of consciousness intentionally, safely, and while fully alive. Through guided hypnosis, past life regression, or Life Between Lives–style sessions, people access the same terrain often described in near-death experiences without crisis or trauma opening the door.
If you feel drawn to explore this terrain directly, you can explore expanded states of consciousness with guidance through NoraYollesYoung.com.
Exploration isn’t about proving anything.
It’s about meeting your own awareness firsthand.
1:1 Session or Discovery Call
At a certain point, curiosity becomes readiness.
A 1:1 session or discovery call offers you an opportunity to have a personal phone call with Nora to discover what is the best path forward for you on your journey. Nora understands that each person has their own unique journey, so this step is essential. This step isn’t about commitment. It’s about conversation. A chance to ask questions, feel alignment, and sense whether this work is right for you.
Sometimes, that is all that’s needed for clarity to emerge.
Train
For some, experience naturally evolves into calling.
If you find yourself deeply moved not only by expanded states, but by the desire to hold space for others, professional training may be the next expression of that recognition.
The Soul Connection Hypnosis Certification Training is designed for those who feel drawn to facilitate expanded states of consciousness with integrity, nervous-system awareness, and depth.
Training isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about learning how to steward what you already recognize.
The Veil Is Thinner Than You Think
Consciousness doesn’t wait for permission. It expands when conditions allow.
Near-death experiences show us what becomes possible when identity loosens completely. Hypnotic expanded states offer a way to explore that same terrain gently, intentionally, and safely while still fully alive.
You are not imagining the pull toward something more.
You are remembering it.
And remembering, it turns out, changes everything.