A Silver Spring resident and technical writer for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Dye spends her spare time speaking about her near-death experience and coaching others through their own experiences.
Tell me about your work.
The primary focus is talking to people about what a near-death experience is. People who have had this experience have a totally different point view about life and what’s important. The biggest thing that most people experience is unconditional love. I teach people to tap into that without having to nearly die, and to use that to anchor their lives.
How do you help people through near-death experiences?
People don’t know what to do with an experience like that. Usually it has entailed some kind of physical trauma — I had a head-on collision in a car [in 1985]. I am available to people who have had those experiences and want to talk to somebody else who has had one, too. I can help them to understand that although not everybody has this experience, it is kind of a normal experience. Many, many, many people around the world have had them.
What is a near-death experience?
The definition of “near-death” encompasses people who have literally died — they were on the operating table, their heart stopped for X amount of time and then they came back.
What was your experience like?
I found myself out of my body looking down at the car. I was this expanded being, far more powerful and knowing than I ever imagined. I went through the tunnel of light. I saw relatives who had died. You remember everything about life in the universe. Some of the limitations that perhaps you have learned that you might have, you realize aren’t really true, and you start seeing other people in a different way because you realize that we’re all connected.
— Rachel Baye
