When Amber Cavanagh thought she was going to die, the unconscious mother could hear her family saying goodbye before entering the “meeting point of heaven.”
The 43-year-old psychic medium from Vancouver Island, Canada, suffered two strokes in December 2021 and was rushed to hospital for emergency brain surgery.
Although he was semiconscious and unable to communicate clearly, his family and doctors thought he couldn’t hear them as they said goodbye.
Mrs Cavanagh said: ‘It was horrible. I heard the nurses tell my children, “Tell your mom everything you want now, since you probably won’t see her again.”
As she was taken by helicopter to another hospital, she closed her eyes and when she opened them again, she was in another dimension.
Now, she reveals in her book where we go before we cross into heaven and the surprising decision we must make when we get there.
Amber Cavanagh was 43 when she suffered two strokes and entered the ‘meeting point’ of heaven, she writes in her new book.
The mother, from Canada, said that when she crossed she met guides who gave her two options: stay there or return to her family.
Mrs Cavanagh, who led a healthy lifestyle before suffering a stroke, was watching a film with her family when she suffered a sudden and “excruciating” migraine and went to bed early.
However, a few hours later, she woke up and fell to the ground because the right side of her body had been completely paralyzed and she was left blind in one eye.
In an attempt to call for help, she banged on the wall to alert her husband, who immediately called an ambulance and rushed her to the hospital.
Mrs Cavanagh had suffered a stroke and was semi-conscious. Doctors then told him he was having a second stroke and his brain was bleeding “uncontrollably.”
To stop the bleeding, he was given a blood clotting medication with a 50 percent survival rate due to its intense effects on the body.
However, this treatment was unsuccessful and she was flown to a nearby hospital for emergency brain surgery.
At first, Mrs Cavanagh thought the whole ordeal was a “dream”, but when she arrived at the hospital, reality set in.
Throughout the emergency, her family assumed she couldn’t hear them, but she could, leaving her “petrified.”
She said: ‘It was horrible. It seemed more than likely that he really was going to die.
“I heard the nurses tell my children, ‘Tell your mom everything you want now, since you probably won’t see her again.'”
“He was literally scared to death and wouldn’t talk, everyone thought he was just mumbling in an unconscious state, when in reality he was trying to talk to them to find out what was going on.”
Mrs Cavanagh added: “I heard everyone saying goodbye and crying, not knowing I was still there.
“To this day it is still one of the scariest things I have ever experienced.”
While in the helicopter, he remembers taking one last look at the sun before closing his eyes.
Opening them again, he said he was in another dimension, having crossed over to the ‘other side’.
Mrs Cavanagh said: “I could see my physical body beneath me, but I could also see my children being taken by their grandparents to hospital.” I could see my husband crying over my body.
“I wasn’t going towards the light and no one was calling me; I was just watching everything and everyone.”
Mrs Cavanagh said she “was (in) an incredible garden, where I could really feel the grass under my feet.”
Mrs Cavanagh said she could see her husband (pictured above) ‘crying over’ her body.
He added: ‘I entered what I can only describe as the ‘meeting point’ of heaven before officially passing. There was no fear, only love.
“I looked like the best version of myself and I had all the people I had loved who were no longer with us around me, including the dogs from my childhood.
‘There was no longer who, what, why, when or where to respond, I simply knew everything. Around me was an incredible garden, where I could really feel the grass under my feet.
‘Then, I saw all my loved ones on the right, every version of me, past, present and future on the left, and my guides were right in front of me.
“I spoke telepathically to everyone, including my grandmother and my grandmother… there was such a deep-rooted feeling of pure comfort.”
However, Mrs Cavanagh’s ‘guides’ gave her a difficult decision: ‘Whether I wanted to be with my children again or stay in this place where I felt a peace like I had never felt before.’
If he stayed, his family would suffer and he would have to overcome the intense pain of his death.
But if he returned to his physical body, he would face a grueling recovery and regret the decision.
Mrs Cavanagh said: “It sounds bad but I wasn’t scared for my family because I knew everything was going to be okay.”
However, he knew that it was not yet his time to die. He closed his eyes and was suddenly in his own body again.
She said: “Knowing that I had to leave this place that had an overwhelming glow of loving light was very difficult.”
For the next two weeks, he remained in the hospital and doctors insisted he would need care for the rest of his life.
However, she was talking and moving within hours.
She said: ‘They still don’t understand it. My doctor says I’m their “miracle patient” since I didn’t even need the surgery like they planned.
“Yes, my body and brain suffered a lot of damage, but I was alive and that was the main thing.”
Mrs Cavanagh added: “It really wasn’t easy, it was like coming home, I didn’t want to leave.”
‘I have had to relearn everything; how to walk, talk and eat. It has put my family through hell and back, but now I am not afraid of dying or going to the other side. I’m afraid I won’t be able to return to that place again.’
For 10 weeks, the psychic medium had to relearn all her basic functions and undergo physical therapy and speech therapy.
While the right side of his body is still numb, life has returned to normal, although his experience has taught him a valuable lesson and changed his perspective on life.
The psychic medium was given a 50/50 chance of survival upon arriving at the hospital after suffering a stroke.
While an experience like Ms. Cavanagh’s may seem like something out of a science fiction movie, near-death experiences and people who “crossed over” or went to the “other side” and came back have been topics of interest to doctors and researchers. for years.
Dr. Jeffrey Long, a cancer expert practicing in Kentucky, has studied thousands of near-death cases. His research has uncovered similarities between different accounts of people’s encounters with death and has disrupted what he originally believed happens when someone dies.
In 1998, he and his wife established the Foundation for Research on Near-Death Experiences, a website that allows people around the world to document their own spiritual and out-of-body experiences.
So far it has collected more than 5,000 stories in more than 30 languages from people of various religions and cultural backgrounds.
Throughout his decades of research, Dr. Long has concluded that about 45 percent of near-death experiences include an out-of-body feeling, in which people’s consciousness is separated from your physical being.
About three-quarters of those who experience this reported that they wanted to remain in the afterlife because of the immense love and joy that came over them. More than half claim to have seen a “heavenly” realm and about a quarter of them are shrouded in light or mist.
Ms Cavanagh hopes her story will help people feel less afraid of dying and realize that we are never truly alone: ”Death was the most incredible thing I have ever experienced in my life.” In fact, the whole experience has made me grateful for the hits.”
Mrs Cavanagh remained in hospital for two weeks recovering from her strokes.
And he added: ‘I have learned a lifetime of patience. There is more to life than society’s expectations of humans, and there is proof that we are not alone.
‘On the other hand, there is a team of loved ones cheering us on every day. I was stripped and had to rebuild myself again.
‘It has been horrible, but humiliating. My family and I are much closer and we don’t take life as seriously.
“It has made me appreciate the beauty of life and given me a new perspective.”
She continued: ‘I’m human so I’m afraid of having another stroke again, but I’m not afraid of dying anymore.
“I’m worried about leaving my children too soon as they’ve been through enough and I want to see them grow up.
“But it’s something I will never regret going through, it’s given me a chance to mourn my old self and welcome this new chapter.”
‘Sometimes when I’m having a hard day, I close my eyes and remember feeling the grass under my feet.
‘I question then if I made the right decision; but I know they gave me the option to spread the message that we are all here for a reason.’
Amber has written a book, At the blow of eternityhoping to educate people about their experience and what happens when someone is near death.