The Story of God with Morgan Freeman

Beyond Death:
You can only hold your breath so long. You reach a point of release where you just, you just let go and you breathe in salt water. And it's — it's quite a violent way to die. … I had totally lost my awareness of my body and the ocean at this point. … Then I noticed this light. It was millions upon millions of fragments of light. In all different colors, and they were all dancing and swirling, but kind of like they were one mind, though, and it was infinite. … I mean, I knew I "wasn't in Kansas anymore", you know. I knew I had left my body, and as I approached this mass of light, it was a familiar home. And, and it was a relationship that was so much deeper than any relationship I'd ever had here. And then I reached a certain point where these millions of fragments of light spoke. And they said, "This is not your time. You must return, you have a purpose." I was watching my body and I was mesmerized, because I knew I was gonna go back in that body. And as the next set of waves came, they pounded my body up against all this wreckage and pushed some of that salt water out of my lungs, and that's when I found myself back in my body. … The crew that were looking for me said I was there from anywhere from 15 to 18 minutes under this, under the water. … I do believe in an afterlife. I believe that our being, our soul, whatever you may want to call it, lives on, and that we have opportunities to come back. And I never thought of any of that beforehand — it just wasn't on my radar. That light, that was God to me. … And I believe that you can find that spirituality in all different beliefs. I don't subscribe to just one belief anymore ... my library at home has all different beliefs represented. David Bennett, on his near-death experience of nearly drowning at sea in 1983.