“You Get to Choose”: What a Voice in the Void During an NDE Taught Me About Consciousness

A telepathic voice asked me one question that changed everything. Here’s why your answer matters.

Why realizing Higher Consciousness Matters in This Lifetime

When I had my near-death experience during surgery eight year ago, I discovered something that changed everything I thought I knew about life, death, and consciousness.

I found myself in what near-death researchers call “the void”—pure blackness. But it wasn’t frightening. I was in a field of pure love where everything was perfect. The body was gone, but I was more alive, more conscious, more myself than I had ever been.

Then something extraordinary happened. A voice spoke to me telepathically:

”You get to choose how you go through this situation. What will you choose?”

In that moment, suspended in the void, held in that field of pure love, I understood: We don’t end when our bodies do. Consciousness is eternal. We are all connected to something infinitely larger than ourselves—what some call the Divine, Source, or God.

And here’s what I’ve come to understand since: the level of consciousness we attain in this lifetime doesn’t just affect us. It affects everyone and everything around us.

The Question That Changed My Life

When I came back from that experience, I became curious. What was that place I went to? Why was I given that choice? What did it mean?

My search for answers led me to study consciousness deeply. I began to explore the spiritual teachings that help us understand these extraordinary experiences, to discover the work of Dr. David R. Hawkins.

What I found was that my experience in the void wasn’t unique. It was a glimpse into the nature of consciousness itself.

What Dr. David Hawkins Discovered About Consciousness

Dr. David R. Hawkins, MD, PhD, spent over 20 years researching and conducting more than 250,000 calibrations using kinesiology to map human consciousness. What he discovered was revolutionary: consciousness exists on a spectrum—a logarithmic scale from 1 to 1,000—and each level carries its own energy field that radiates outward, affecting the world around us.

Your consciousness is an energy field that influences everything you touch.

Dr. Hawkins found that lower levels of consciousness—shame, guilt, apathy, fear, anger—actually weaken us. They drain our life force. But higher levels of consciousness—courage, acceptance, love, joy, peace—carry immense life energy. They heal. They uplift. They transform not just our own lives, but the lives of everyone we encounter.

This resonated deeply with what I experienced in the void. That field of pure love I encountered? Dr. Hawkins found that near-death experiences can reach as high as 600 on his scale—the level of Peace, where love becomes unconditional bliss. At this level, you experience yourself as consciousness itself, beyond all form. This is exactly what I felt: more alive, more aware, more myself without my body than I had ever been with it.

The Power of Higher Consciousness

Here’s what Dr. Hawkins discovered that mirrors what I experienced in my near-death state: **with each rise in consciousness, the frequency or vibration of energy increases**. Higher consciousness radiates a beneficial and healing effect on the world.

When you operate from love rather than fear, from acceptance rather than resistance, from peace rather than conflict—you become a carrier wave of healing energy. Your presence alone begins to shift the energy in any room you enter.

“That which weakens life energy is to be avoided: shame, guilt, confusion, fear, hatred, pride, hopelessness, and falsehood,” said Hawkins. “That which uplifts life is to be realized: truth, courage, acceptance, reason, love, beauty, joy, and peace.”

In the void, I experienced this truth directly. In that field of pure love, there was no shame, no fear, no separation. Only perfection. Only peace. Only the energy that uplifts and heals.

The Choice We’re Always Given

The voice in the void asked me: “You get to choose how you go through this situation. What will you choose?”

I said, “I don’t want to be a victim. I’ll take the High Road and I’ll use love and gratitude to heal.”

I went through six abdominal surgeries in four months - five in fifteen days. My intention on being in a place of love and gratitude helped me heal rapidly.

That question the voice asked me didn’t just apply to my surgery. It applies to every moment of our lives.

Dr. Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness shows us that at every moment, we’re operating from some level of consciousness. And at every moment, we have the choice to rise higher.

The Map of Consciousness:

Lower Levels (weakening energy):

- Shame (20)

- Guilt (30)

- Apathy (50)

- Grief (75)

- Fear (100)

- Desire (125)

- Anger (150)

- Pride (175)

The Critical Point - Courage (200)

This is where true empowerment begins. At 200, you cross from force to power, from being a victim to being a creator. This is where you realize: I have choice.

Higher Levels (empowering energy):

- Neutrality (250)

- Willingness (310)

- Acceptance (350)

- Reason (400)

- Love (500)

- Joy (540)

- Peace (600)

- Enlightenment (700-1,000)

The beautiful thing? You don’t have to reach enlightenment to make a profound difference. Even moving from fear to courage, from anger to acceptance, from pride to love—these shifts change everything.

Three Eternal Truths From the Void

That experience in the void, held in that field of pure love, taught me three truths that I now know not as beliefs but as direct experience:

1. Consciousness does not end when the body dies.

We go on. The essence of who we are—our awareness, our connection to the Divine—is eternal. I know this because I experienced it. The body was gone, but I was more present, more aware, more alive than ever.

2. We are all held in a field of pure love.

In that void, there was no fear, no suffering, no separation. Only love. Only perfection. That field exists always—we just forget it’s there. Dr. Hawkins’ research confirms this: the highest levels of consciousness are literally fields of love that heal and uplift everything they touch.

3. We always have choice.

Even in the darkest moments, we get to choose how we go through our circumstances. That choice is the essence of consciousness. And that choice determines not just our experience, but the energy we radiate into the world.

Raising your consciousness isn’t selfish—it’s one of the most generous acts you can perform. It’s how we heal not just ourselves, but our families, our communities, and ultimately, the world.

Dr. Hawkins discovered that a single person operating at a high level of consciousness can counterbalance thousands operating at lower levels. Your decision to raise your consciousness—to question your beliefs, to choose love, to surrender your resistance, to seek truth—literally changes the world.

Why I’m Sharing This With You

If you’re reading this, you’re already on the path. You’re already asking the questions that matter. You’re already seeking to understand consciousness, to break free from limiting beliefs, to connect with something larger than yourself.

And that matters more than you know.

The reason to attain higher consciousness in this lifetime isn’t to escape the world. It’s to transform it.

It’s to become a healing presence.

It’s to break the patterns that have held your family captive for generations.

It’s to radiate the kind of energy that helps others rise.

It’s to remember what I experienced in the void: **we are all held in a field of pure love, consciousness is eternal, and we always have choice.**

The Invitation

Your body will end. But the consciousness you cultivate, the love you embody, the truth you live—that goes on forever, rippling out through the infinite web of existence.

This lifetime is your opportunity. Not to become perfect. But to become more conscious. More loving. More true.

I’m asking you the same question today.

What will you choose?

I’d love to hear: Have you ever had an experience that showed you consciousness is more than we think? A moment where you felt that field of love? A time when you realized you had choice even in the darkest moment? Share in the comments.