Mellen Thomas Near Death Experience

Mellen-Thomas Benedict’s Near-Death Experience

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Mellen-Thomas Benedict’s

NEAR-DEATHEXPERIENCE

Transcript of I Dare You Radio’s

Angela Treat LyonInterview with Special Guest

Mellen-Thomas Benedict

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Near-Death Experience

I Dare You Radio’s Angela Treat LyonInterviews Special Guest,

Mellen Thomas-BenedictYou will love Mellen’s Teleclass on

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Near-Death ExperienceThis is the transcript from the interview held by Angela Treat Lyon

with Special Guest, Mellen-Thomas Benedict.

Mellen had a terminal case of brain cancer, died for an hour and a half, went to “the Light,” and came back. Now he goes to the light many times a day for more information and learning. The cancer is gone.

Angela: Welcome! This is Angela Treat Lyon with EFTBooks.com and IDareYouRadio.com—welcome and thank you for coming. And welcome Mellen, I am so glad you are here. I’m so honored to have you as my guest today.

Mellen: Yeah, its great.

Angela: I am really excited about this. You have got so much information to give us and I’ve been bubbling over since we talked this morning.

So, a little intro: Mellen-Thomas Benedict is just an amazing person, and as you know from my myriad of emails to you, he “died” for and hour and a half and went to the light and came back.

He’s got a big background in being a big doubter about life. He was thinking that humanity was a cancer on the face of the earth. And he believes that the cancer he developed was part of that. He’ll talk about that later. I am just fascinated by his whole story, and I know that you will be, too. And that you’ll just gain


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so much inspiration and lots of hope about life and the things that you aspire to. So again, I welcome you so much Mellen. Thank you so much for being with us today.

Mellen: It’s a pleasure.

Angela: I am just so delighted. Do you want to go into some of your background or do you want to go right into the story, what do you want to do?

Mellen: Well maybe a little of both. Really, before I had my near-death experience, I was not a spiritual seeker, I was not interested in religion or spirituality. I had never heard the word near-death before.

I’d also never heard the word “hospice” before in my life, and I really had no interest in the subject. Now that may be because early on, the first five years or so of my life, my parents put me into a Catholic boarding school, and—forgive me for saying this—but that is not a great start on spirituality.

We were constantly told we were going to hell! I couldn’t figure out why we were going to hell forever, but it may be the reason why later on I got into deeper subjects like eternity, what is life and death, and that kind of thing.

So when I got out of Catholic boarding school finally, I started travelling with my step-father, who my Mother had married when I was eleven. We were a military family then and I lived around the world in Japan and other places, and I never thought about spirituality again. It never crossed my mind again.


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I just wasn’t interested. I wasn’t an atheist or and agnostic or anything like that—at least they show some interest in the subject—and so when my time came to this critical phase, I had no spiritual background really to fall back on. I didn’t believe in God, or that there was a God, or that there could be one. It was just not part of my thinking or belief system.

What I was interested in, though, was the ecology, and I was always interested in the drama of mankind.

I was raised during the height of the cold war, and people were building bomb shelters in their backyards and all those kind of fun things were going on. At school we were being shown films about what was going to happen when the nuclear bomb was dropped on us and that probably only cockroaches would be the survivors.

This is what they told us children, and some people, other baby-boomers like myself, may remember those fun days. All the “best minds” of our time came up with a policy which was called Mutual Assured Destruction Plan. This was the “great plan” they came up with in case we were attacked—which was to annihilate the rest of the world.

Angela: Mutual, huh—like everybody agreed.

Mellen: Yeah, and if this is what the best minds on earth can come up with then we’re in a lot of trouble. Those were very dicey times.

I was very much into ecology. I thought mankind was seri-ously hurting the planet, and I believed all the experts at the time—even back then in the sixties they were saying that even


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if we stopped all human activity then, there was no chance for the earth to recover—and that really hurt my heart. Because I watched the films and I saw all the documentaries on TV and I read books on ecology, and I thought that this is what’s really going to get us. Then—some people say it was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but for me it was a single photograph—I was reminded of this in my life review that I had [during my NDE].

There was a photo I saw by an ecology group (I think it was a well-meaning group) at the time—these photos are still floating around out there in different publications—I saw this photo of an arial photograph of the city of Los Angeles, California.

Right next to it they had put a micro-photograph of a human cancer cell, and they were so similar it knocked me out. It was at that moment that I began to think that nature had gone wrong and created a living cancer on planet earth called humanity. I realise now that that began my spiral downward into developing brain cancer, in 1981.

Angela: Interesting that it was brain cancer and not colon cancer or heart cancer or something else, it was brain cancer—right there where you think, right?

Mellen: Yeah. And I tell people to be really careful what you think about everything. Harbouring these thoughts didn’t do me any good at all.

I was thinking all the time that humanity was going to probably take out the entire planet before I would die and in my lifetime.


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And that thinking was predominant in my mind. It was always there. It was like the background music of my mind. Why start a family, why have a career, why do anything, really. And it was that thinking over a long period of time that, for me, developed into incurable and inoperable brain cancer.

Angela: Incurable, inoperable?

Mellen: At the time, yes. I remember having, over about a year’s period, a series of these strange headaches, and a few blackout episodes—which really gets your attention—and I ended up going to a string of doctors.

First they started telling me that I might have an abscessed tooth, so I started out, actually, visiting a dentist. I was passed along until, finally, I ended up in a neurologist’s office, the best neuro-surgeon in the area.

I remember sitting in his office, and—life is quite ironic—because for fifteen years or more of my life, I was a professional stained glass artist doing architectural work and commissioned pieces, and I taught stained glass lessons. Life really is so ironic. I sat in this man’s office and I looked up at his window and there was a piece of stained glass. I realised that this man, years before, had taken a stained glass class with me.

Angela : Oh, for God’s sake!

Mellen: Then I remembered who he was, and I remember, that I would watch him in class. He was chain smoker and his hand shook a lot and he seemed not to have a lot of focus.


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And I remember saying to somebody at the time, “I hope that this man is never my brain surgeon!”

Angela : (laughing) Oh no!

Mellen: And look whose office I was sitting in! And I thought “Oh my god, oh boy, I tell ya!”

I went through some more testing, and then I was called in for the diagnosis. I remember when he walked in to the exam room—I was a wise-cracker at the time—

I said, “Hey, Doc, am I going to live?”

Just the look on his face—I’ve never seen a look like that before.

It really caught my breath.

Then he began to explain that the scans showed that I had a form of brain cancer that was inoperable and incurable.

About that time, I just felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. I couldn’t even pay attention to what he was saying.

Brain cancer, inoperable, incurable and all that hitting me. If anybody listening, or knows anybody who has gone through that experience, they would know it was quite an awesome revelation and shock. I can’t even explain the feeling you go through.


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He immediately suggested that I go into aggressive chemotherapy and radiation. And that surgery would probably not do any good, but they could probably slow it down a bit.

I kept asking how much time this was going to give me and he said, “no guarantees.”

It was shortly thereafter that he had me talk to the chemo radiation guy and specialist. I think he was from India or someplace like that, and he was telling me that this is going to be an aggressive treatment.

Then he said, “you know this is all optional.” I asked, “what do you mean?”

And he said, “well,” and he closed the door when he said this, he closed the door, and he said, “Listen, with the kind of cancer you have, if we do this aggressive chemo and radiation you, you will be a vegetable before you die.”

Then I asked how much time is this going to give me before I’m a vegetable, and he said, “there are no guarantees. There is no telling.” And I asked, “What should I do?”

The doctor said, “I would just go home and make my peace.”

So, that day—I don’t even remember how I got home. I just suddenly found myself parked in my backyard and just dealing with the whole thing.

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your family and make peace with the world, I thought, this guy doesn’t have a clue, because he doesn’t know what my life’s been like.

I’m someone who was raised in a military family. I was raised to serve my country, and my father was a green beret, highly decorated in Vietnam and the whole thing. When I got out of high school, it was at the peak of the war—you were given your 1A draft with your diploma. So I was drafted immediately upon graduation. My father was actually serving in Vietnam at the time.

I wasn’t in favour of the war at all. I wasn’t in favour of the policy, I wasn’t in favour of anything that we were doing over there. But my father was a good soldier and always did what he was ordered to do. So when I got the draft, I had the funniest thoughts.

I kept thinking, I am going to be ordered to go kill people, that I don’t want to kill, and that really bothered me.

My thought was, this may be the only time in my entire life that

I have to face who I really am.

I decided to resist the war. I decided not to leave my country. I wasn’t going to leave my country because I believe the country need all kinds of patriots, including those who won’t go and kill for silly policies.


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At that time, they were threatening either two years in the military or two years in prison, and that seemed to be the only options. So I announced to my family that I was going to resist the war and I wasn’t going to be drafted.

And everybody turned on me. My Mother, my brother, my father—I was immediately disowned. I pretty much found myself on the streets. So I didn’t talk to my parents for many, many, many years after that. I didn’t like them. I didn’t let them know if I was alive or dead.

Angela: So I take it you didn’t go to jail?

Mellen: No. I had never heard the word pacifist before, conscious objector, all those were new words to me. I just kept telling them “I don’t believe in this, I will never kill people on orders. If I ever kill anybody, ever in my life, that will be between me and my conscious.”

Oddly enough, I got a letter weeks later—this was after I had been disowned and all that—I got a letter saying that they had checked my medical history—because I did fill out all the forms and everything in the beginning of the draft process—and they found that in the fifth grade I’d had a leg injury that precluded me from military service.

At the time, I was skydiving, I was a pole vaulter and I heard this voice, clear as day—I was going to say, “But wait, I’m an athlete,” and this voice as clear as day said “shut up!”


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Maybe that was my higher self, I don’t know, but I heard this voice, clear as day, say “shut up.” So to this day I’m the only one in my family who hasn’t gone into the military. My brother, his children, my grand nephew—they have all served in Iraq and everything.

Angela: So let’s fast forward to what happened when you had this brain cancer and you knew you were going to die and you arranged for hospice—what all happened then?

Mellen: That was a pure, pure miracle. I was clueless, I was as thick as a brick in those days. I didn’t have any goals and I hadn’t told anybody. In fact, I didn’t even tell my parents until it was all over.

I felt isolated, I felt alone. I was a self-employed artist with no medical insurance and all my money was gone. And it was just by pure chance that a dear friend of mine called me one day and said that he had a friend and they were going to drive down to the beach, which was about an hour and a half away, and did I want to come with them?

I said, “Sure, I’ll go.”

But it was when we got to the beach and were sitting on the beach, the two of them got to talking about what they were going to do with the rest of their lives. Both of them were at an interesting point in their lives where they could really start something new and do things.

I listened to this and it just broke me up. That’s the first time I ever told anybody that I had no future, that I was terminal.


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So it was a very quiet ride on the way home.

But I had met, through a friend, a woman named Susan. A few days later she called me. And she explained she had hospice training and that she was going to be in a situation for the next year to be my hospice caretaker.

This was a window of opportunity; and she explained to me what hospice was, and where we could go, and where she could do this. And within two weeks I was packed up and living in a completely different location and moved in to the home that we turned into a hospice. And that’s where I lived out my days.

Susan was an absolute angel who just appeared suddenly in my life. There was only one problem with that though, once I got there. And that was that, I didn’t realise that she was a Christian, and I was not. She was a very nice Christian girl. She wasn’t preachy or anything, but she was very concerned about me.

She took very good care of me but she would ask me to occasionally pray with her. And I wouldn’t do it. It would make me angry. So I was not a happy camper.

I was probably not the best person to have in a hospice situation.

I blamed everybody, including a God I didn’t believe in.


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I had started withering away and lasted till February 1982. I was withering away steadily, following doctor’s orders that “you will be dead.”

Then a crisis moment came when she said—she just from the bottom of her heart one day—she just tried and tried to get me to pray for my soul, and I completely lost it on her. I completely let her have both barrels, one end to the other, about her stupid God, stupid religion, stupid prayers.

And I musted up enough strength to storm out and slam the front door and I got as far as the end of the sidewalk and it dawned on me, “where are you going? This is the end of the road.”

That’s the longest walk I ever took. Turning back around and going back to that door. I just knocked on it once and she opened it. She was right there, and she said “come in, do you want some milk?” because at that time, milk was about the only thing that I could take in.

And she took care of me, but she never asked me to pray again. She respected my wishes. Despite the tough case I was, and the bad attitude I had, she took care of me.

Angela: How on earth did you get her to agree to what you got her to do about your body?

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to machines. And I knew for a fact that if my parents found out that I was sick, and I went into a coma or something my mother would never let me go. She would have me hooked up to every machine there was. So they were not to be notified until after it was over.

We had an agreement to monitor my vital signs with some very good equipment to monitor my vital signs for up to six hours. Because

I really did want to be dead. I really did want to leave.

So when the day came, she found me in my room. I probably died a bit earlier. She found me in my room and she began immediately monitoring my vital signs.

She monitored my vital signs for over an hour and a half, in

which I had no vital signs at all.

In fact, the body—I don’t know if you have ever been with someone who has died, but they’re not passed out—their body changes. And so after about and hour and a half, she was convinced I was dead.

So she went into the other room and prayed for a while, and then at some point in there—and I will get to my near-death experience—I had had my trip to the light and back, and I actually fell back into my body and I fell off the bed.


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She came in and found me on the floor.

That was a rather strange experience for her and me! So, my visit with the light, this most transforming visit in my life—which was one of the most studied cases in the world at this point, and all these years later—go figure.

I began a process in which I literally felt like I’d woken up. I was looking at my body. There was, like, a vapour leaving my body.

And I had some notion—because this was more vivid than a dream—that maybe I was dying, or already dead. I thought I had, and of course I panicked. I tried to go down to her room and wake her up. I couldn’t wake her up and I found myself back in the room.

It all had feelings, it had dimensions to it. Some of the dimensions were feelings, some of the dimensions were “Oh, I get it now, suddenly all the dots are connected, I understand what happened.”

My story is interesting in that, and I will preface this with a bookmark right here—that as far as we know I am the only tested near-deather who goes back to the light at will, and retrieves useful information. And I thought that was normal. I didn’t know other near-deathers weren’t doing that until I asked for new dimensions of it. What did this mean, what did that mean?

I’m someone now who really understands the full dimension


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of my experience. And I can explain it from all the way to a quantum physics level, by this time. Depending to whom I am talking.

Angela: So when you started this life review, you say it went backwards in time to, let’s say, before you were born?

Mellen: Yes, and what was interesting was, it ticked all the way back till I was in my mothers I womb and she was getting pregnant.

Angela: Oh, that’s right. You told me about that, you realised about the anger you had.... OK.

Mellen: And one of the things is, I got to see that some of the small things in my life actually were quite heroic. I never thought I had done anything good. I was never anyone to hurt anybody or was a mean person but I thought I had wasted my life.

I saw because of the way that I had been born and the way that I was raised that I had never been able to receive love. And that also meant that I could not give love. And I had lived my life that way.

I saw that many people had tried to love me and I couldn’t receive it.

So I had a rather shallow life. One thing that was amazing though, is, that as I was a baby of less than a year old or so, I saw an incident.


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My mother had never talked about these things. I talked with her later and she confirmed all these stories, but she still didn’t understand how I could know all these things because I wasn’t even there, or wasn’t old enough.

One of the things that I saw was that I had experienced what you would call a crib death, sudden infant death, within the first year of my life. I got to see what that was about. And that is about a new spirit and a new life coming into this life with so much karma and so much family stuff going on that you say, “I can’t take this, I want to return.”

Angela: Oh, wow.

Mellen: My mother came in and found me stiff. They rushed us to the nearby hospital, with my father. The doctors took the baby and said, “we’ll try to resuscitate the baby. This looks bad.” Literally they thought I was dead.

And my mother was told to go back to the waiting room where she saw my father, my biological father—for the first time in her life—praying with all his heart. And I remember, from the near-death experience, I was a little baby on this gurney.

I remember hands made of light, lifting me to the light.

And I got almost to the light and then I woke up crying as a baby again. And it was at that very time that my father was praying.


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Angela: So you died twice in one lifetime!

Mellen: I call that a close encounter.

But it got even more shocking. Because after that, my life review continued to tick all the way backwards till I was a baby in my mother’s womb.

As a baby in my mother’s womb, I realised that babies, foetuses,

are completely aware of what’s going on.

You are plugged up to your mother’s emotions, her hormones, her hearing, everything. You’re plugged in, you’re wired.

And my mother, although she left my father when I was quite young, was never one of the divorced mothers to put down the father. She never talked bad about the guy, ever. So I didn’t know that any of this had happened, at the time.

And so what I saw was that my father was an alcoholic, and that he beat my mother repeatedly when she was pregnant. In fact, she had had five miscarriages before, because of this. She had never told me any of that.

Being a foetus in her belly with my father beating her, I could feel everything. It was like red thunder going on. I could hear her pain. And that she really did believe that she was going to die.


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And I believed it. And he beat her and threw her around and everything.

I saw that our life can be almost set by experiences we have

even before we are born.

And so my programming for the rest of my life was that this life is going to be dangerous. There is going to be a lot of pain in it. And that men are dangerous and untrustworthy.

I guess it affects different beings in different ways, but for me, it really made me angry. I was born angry. And I had remained angry until the day I died. That had affected my entire life.

Angela: So when you saw that, when you were in the light, what changes did you feel happen to you, if any?

Mellen: Well, the life review is quite emotional, quite mind blowing. It was when the life review ended, that—and you can read about this on my website—then, with grace, and the help of what I guess you would call a guardian angel, which surprised me, because I didn’t believe any of that, I made my way to the light.

It was when I was with the light that I really learned

everything else.


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The life review was like a download where you can connect the dots. Like, OK, now I understand why I ended up the way I did, but what does all that mean?

When I was with the light, which is what everybody tells you it is, it feels like love, it’s euphoric. And one of the things I can tell you is, part of that is the experience of dropping the karma of the world, the karma of the survival world behind you. If you could just drop all that, you would be euphoric at this moment.

Part of the euphoria about being with the light and about being out of body and out of the survival world is the releasing of the incredible weight that we carry every day, to live. And the heroic things we do every day to get through our day.

So when I was with the light, the first thought that came to me, like any good atheist—and I really wasn’t an atheist—was:

Are you God?

And the light speaks to you, TO YOU. The light speaks to you, the individual, in a way that you will understand it. That’s what I can report and I think that’s what many near-deathers can report. It is a unique experience for each individual. Yes, there are a lot of things that are similar, but the understanding of things, of what you see, is really unique to you and your experience.

I thought I was in a lot of trouble. (laughter) Oh boy, here I am. After all these bad things I’ve said about God.


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Angela: Get ready, buddy. (More laughter.)

Mellen: So when I said, “Are you God?” the light said to me—in a way that I perfectly understood—

“Who and what is not God?”

And at that moment I understood that there is nothing that is not what we call God. Nothing. The good, the bad, the imagined, the unimagined, the real, the unreal.

There is nothing that is not part of what we call God.

And we are as direct a part of that as anything else in the Universe is. So, if I had to answer the question of who is God, I would literally have to name everything in the Universe and that would take a long time.

So the proper answer to “Who and what is not God”—that’s any easy one to answer: “Nothing.” It’s all God.

And there are going to be many more layers of what we call God revealed to us now. Especially now in these times and in the future. Many, many more levels of what we call life and death, there is something even bigger going on.

There is much more than life and death going on in this universe, in fact. So that was my first major revelation.


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Angela: Now wait, just hold it a minute. When you say that there is much more than life and death going on, open up our minds here. What’s going on?

Mellen: That’s one of the most interesting and joyful things that I have learned—that:

What we consider life and death is a continuum.

It’s a continuum that we have been through from the beginning. In the beginning—and there was no beginning, there is no end to this experience that we are having.

We have evolved from the densest of the dense energies to the most subtle of subtle energies, and even beyond that into what you might call void or zero point consciousness. What’s so important about the near-death experience now, at this time in history, is that we need to get past the fear of death because that is an illusion.

I guarantee you, every time you think that you die, you just

wake up again.


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Every time you close your eyes, you wake up again.

Angela: In this body, or in another body, or—I mean, how does that work?

Mellen: Well, it can be in this body—for me it happened that way. You could begin a new incarnation—there’re a lot of things that could go on there. Probably one of the greatest things I learned on the other side—was information that’s really not that much on the website right now—I’d really love to do workshops on it in the future.

Angela: Let’s tell people what your website is: you can find out more at Mellen-Thomas.com.

Mellen: Yes. It’s very important for us in our evolution right now, both as material beings and as spiritual beings, to get past this heaven and hell, to get past this life and death illusion scenario.

Basically, we are maturing as spiritual beings. We’re maturing all the time as physical material beings.

And it’s always getting better and better!

No matter what anybody tells you. That was what was the big shock to me, because I thought it was all over. I thought we had come to the end of things.


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I was shown that creation has just begun.

This is just the beginning, if you could put any kind of measurement on it whatsoever.

Angela: When you say better and better, what does that mean? There are people who emailed questions like, “My life is so hard and I am so tired, what’s the point of all of this.” How is it going to get better?

Mellen: Well, this is the beauty of it all, from the Gaia point of view, which is what I was plugged into on the other side.

We are evolving out of darkness into light. We are becoming more and more light beings.

There is nothing but light.

I want you to understand that biology is light. Atoms are light. There are just very dense levels and very subtle levels of these realms.

Angela: You said that things were going to get better—?


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Mellen: Oh, Yes, and they have. This shocks people. It would have shocked me way back then to. But actually, if you really think about things, things are better now than they have ever been, for so many of us. There is so much going on, on the planet.

Sure there are big problems and there always have been for humanity and physical beings. There have always been problems. But every human that is human right now, has been through the entire evolutionary chain of everything that has happened. No only on this planet but since the big bang.

As we acquire more consciousness, what we call

negativity—darkness or evil—tends to vaporise.

Because the truth is that most human beings on earth are the most graceful things you have ever met. Humans are the most graceful vibration on planet earth.

And I go into that in my Gaia talk. I’ll give you an example. Right under your feet, right now, on your carpet, there is a war going on, with no rules whatsoever. Humans are very chauvinistic. We think only of the kind of life we live, but there is so much life in the universe—like microbial, bacterial. These are conscious life forms also.

Now just outside your window in you yard, there are wars going on that are unimaginable to you on your human scale.


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The truth is that humans hunt and prey on each other less than

anything else in the system.

Just last year the National Geographic had a front cover on its July issue which showed the greatest killer of mankind in all the history of the world. Do you know what it was?

It was not mankind. It was the mosquito. Is the mosquito evil? Mosquitos have killed more humans and caused more human misery on plan earth than any other activity put together, so far.

So what you have got to do is realise that we are part of this nature, part of the Gaia. We are part of a living system and a living universe. We are part of it. We are not separate from it at all.

Humans have come up with concepts like retirement. That doesn’t exist in any other system in our realm. Charity.Charity has been getting bigger and bigger since the 1850s. The amount of charity on planet earth is enormous right now. What a concept, charity. Granted, some of it is inefficient and doesn’t get where we want it to go, but it is just the beginning of that vibration.

Every time humans have had gigantic problems, they have always found an answer, historically. That is our pattern.

Our pattern is not the world ending.


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Our pattern is not becoming extinct, our pattern is not the end of things.

Our pattern has always been the beginning of things.

For example, today, in this world—yes, OK, there are a lot of problems—but people have a very short attention span for historical matters. There have been much worse times on planet earth than what is going on right now. There have been ninety percent extinctions on planet earth before we even showed up. There have been some serious things that have gone on to challenge mankind in history. Just in our brief history, it is amazing what we have been through to even be here now.

But historically, the pattern has been that we have always worked things out. We have always come to solutions. We’re in a world now that is totally hooked up so all the problems are soul-sized now. All the problems we have are planet-size now. And this is appropriate for the times we are living in. Because we are one being.

There is only one of us here.

But we are a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional being that is hard for us to imagine at this point. At this time in history, why do we need big answers? Why do we need answers on every level?

There are more scientists alive, there are more healers, there


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are more modalities of healing, there is more healing technology, there is more grace on the planet, right now, than there was in the dark ages or in the caveman days.

We are designed for success.

This is what I want people to start believing. We are, in fact, designed for success.

And in fact, ecological speaking, the biggest polluter on planet earth still to this day is still nature itself! Undersea volcanoes, volcanoes.

Also, you know, one of the things I learned, which I will get into later or in my Gaia talk that that we can do sometime, is that, one of the things that we have to realize is, we should be good stewards.

We should be certainly wiser and wiser as time goes on. And we are. I could go on in infinite descriptions of how we are, actually. In the end we either see the good in the world or we don’t.

I could not see any of the good before I died.

And now I see so much good.

In fact, it is mostly good. In my workshops, I have challenged people. I say, “What if it was legal karmicly and legally to hurt and kill anybody you wanted. And that was the way it was


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here? How many people would hurt anybody?” And I tell you, even if it was legal, and there was no karma to it, most people on earth would never hurt you.

Angela: Well, you know, that’s been my experience....

Mellen: Most people would help you. Strangers will give you a kidney. I mean how many times has that happened? So we have to see what is really going on.

Part of our enlightenment has got to be more than spiritual enlightenment. We have to become empowered through self-initiation.

Because if you are waiting for the Della Lama, or if you are waiting for Jesus or if you’re waiting for the Pope to do it, it is not going to happen, because they can’t do it for you. You know, even if they want to. They cannot do this step for you.

As we become enlightened, we become self-initiated, we get over the fear of death. Then it is less and less easy to manipulate us, which is beginning to happen now, big-time.

And we need to start interfacing with our systems here on earth. Like, I meet so many spiritual people who never vote! I meet so many brilliant people who never vote or participate. In fact, most Americans, don’t. If you look at the statistics.

Just think, if we all woke up and started putting our bias in the system—I couldn’t possibly tell you what to believe in—but I do tell you this. Whatever you believe in, now is the time to believe in it.


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You have more power now than you have ever had in history.

One thing that I suggest people to do is to open up your phone book and go to the Government pages. These have been provided to you for free—everybody from your local to your federal officials is listed there with addresses and phone numbers. You don’t even have to leave your house. You can do it in your pyjamas.

I suggest that everyone, once a week, fax, email or call everybody on that list. And give them your bias. If you did that, if that happened, that would be the biggest revolution on planet earth.

Angela: Wow. What an amazing thought. Why didn’t we ever think of doing that?

Mellen: I don’t know. People ask me a lot of things that I’ve done, and I say, “I don’t know why we haven’t thought of this.”

The other thing we could do, the most important thing we could do for the ecology right now, would be to go to electric cars. That’s something we could do right now.

It can be profitable. The biggest offender that humans do to the environment is automobiles. So here is what I suggest to people: whatever car you have, if it’s a good car, keep it for ten or twenty years and repair it.

Or if you need to buy a new are now, tell your car company


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that this is the last internal combustion car I will buy from you. I am going to keep my car and keep it in good condition until we have the electric cars that I’m looking for.

Angela: I’ve read that electric cars aren’t any better because of the electricity that it take to generate the electricity they run on.

Mellen: Well see, you’re thinking of a system that might use the old type of batteries.

Think out of the box. An electric car runs on electrons. The universe is full of electrons.

Very soon, because our consciousness is getting there, we are going to have things that resemble batteries that aren’t batteries, that generate more than enough electricity for your whole home and your cars and any thing you want.

Part of the future that I saw when I was on the other side is that we are even going to have electric jets. Jet airplanes will be electric.

So what we have to do—I call it the pyjama revolution—you don’t even have to leave your home, or even get out of your pyjamas to be a revolutionary.

Angela: So you just call these people up and tell them what you think.

Mellen: Call them, email them, fax them or whatever. See, here’s the other thing. You have got to be consistent. You


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have got to do it on a regular basis, forever, not just once.

The biggest problem with marching in the street and all this other stuff is the march goes away.

But if people did that once a week or once a month, we would have a different government than we have now. And the good news is that, and you may have heard this, I know it’s true, that the people in Washington get very little feedback from us, unless it is negative when they have screwed up.

But they are up there on their own and it’s like the head doesn’t know what the tail is doing. It is a dinosaur system.

You have to bring the wisdom to Washington. You have to bring the wisdom into the system.

Forgive me for saying this. I know it may rub some people the wrong way, but most politicians are real people-lovers. They love people. They really do. They have families, they have agendas.

Everybody has an agenda or a conspiracy. I am actively working on my conspiracy as we talk. My conspiracy is to bring heaven to earth. This is true empowerment.

You can’t wait for all the saints in the universe to come and do this for you.

You are already empowered to do all that you want to do.


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You can’t die, you will never die. You will only wake up smarter and smarter.

Angela: There is a question here somebody emailed in: “What is the point of it all?”

Mellen: I get asked that, and actually I asked that question of the other side. Here’s the beauty of it all. Because when you really get it you are going to love it: there is no point. There never was. There never was a plan. The universe wasn’t created as a plan. It doesn’t have a beginning and an end goal.

The light said we were given the Universe to make of it what we will. And that is the greatest gift you are ever going to receive. It’s a life that cannot be taken away from you.

Angela: That’s a pretty big gift.

Mellen: So what kind of world do you want? What kind of life do you want? That is ultimately up to you and that is what all our teachers are trying to teach us.

Angela: So what about suffering? Is it really necessary? Or is it something that we put ourselves through? And can we get rid of our karma? You were talking about if you could shed your karma right now, we would be euphoric. How do you do that?

Mellen: Well, we are living in the time of the end of karma. Karma really is, technically, cause and effect. This is a basic principle of the Universe, cause and effect.


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I asked the light about this whole topic. Because people believe there are no accidents.

From the Gaia perspective, the Light educated me that that is a form of hindsight wisdom. Hindsight. It’s not foresight.

In a free and open universe, there has to be room for accidents

and free radical activity.

...or this would be a closed loop universe.

The human mind is a very interesting form of consciousness. I have tested people in workshops on this. Our mind can make sense of anything. But that doesn’t mean it makes sense.

There was a bumper sticker I saw recently that said “don’t believe everything you think.” In my book that I am about to finish in the next couple of months, there is a whole chapter called the Rorschach Universe.

You know what Rorschach is—the ink blot test. Everybody can look at the same ink blot and get a different story. That’s the universe, that’s the stars you are looking at.

I’ve tested people with this, I’ve created these grids on poster boards—random dots. I had them all copied. The dots are all the same. I had them all copied on a big board and gave it out to five different groups.

I had them connect the dots without looking at anybody else.


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The same dots, in the same positions—and it is infinite how many different ways people can connect the dots. Does the dot make a picture?

You know, it’s a fascinating form of consciousness we have—it’s creative, brilliant. That’s why we live more in our metaphors. More in our imagination, right now, as children do. And so sometimes you create scary things, sometimes you create painful things.

Angela: We really do have the ultimate choice, don’t we?

Mellen: Animals suffer, plants suffer; in the physical world there is radiation, there are natural accidents, there is thunder and lightening, there are rocks that fall on you. Somebody has a bad mood one day and mows you down by accident or just mentally ill and hurts you.

As we raise our consciousness, suffering becomes less and

less for humans.

We are really entering into a period in which we are going to have foresight, not hindsight.

And that’s why children are very different today than they were when I was a kid. Children are very different. And that’s because there is more wisdom on the planet now. You know the average child today, just born today, this day, has more knowledge at their fingertips than Einstein could even imagine.


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So that’s why we must support our children. America needs to have the finest education system. In America, teachers need to be treated with the ultimate respect and treated very well and prestigiously.

You know, we say we love children, but we have one of the worst education systems in the

world at this time.

And who suffers? Our children.

And then the old people who have worked all their lives and paid their bills and their taxes—they are not being treated with respect at the end of the day. Which is ridiculous, isn’t it, in a conscious, enlightened society.

In the future that I saw, the industrial military complexes are winding down and what’s going to replace it, is that America will become one of the great education centres for the whole world—it will make more money than the entire industrial mili-tary complex.

Angela: Wow, that’s a thought.

Mellen: If we invest in our schools and we invest in our teachers and we invest in our children, the entire world will come here and it will be very profitable. Because a military industrial complex really doesn’t make that much money for a lot of people. Just a few.


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Angela: And it hurts a lot of people.

Mellen: Yeah, but you have to also look at this from a Gaia perspective. Because, you know, there are some people who eat meat and some don’t. There are some who, you know, go get their own food and raise their own food, and there are some people who just go to whole foods.

In the Gaia perspective, what the military represents is our immune system. Those we call patriots or soldiers, the people who volunteer or give their life to go fight our “enemies” are really like our T cells, our white cells, our immune system.

We should respect our immune system. We shouldn’t misuse it on misadventures. Our immune system needs be focused on what it needs to be—I saw the military turning into a service organization. Which it should be. I mean Katrina should be over by now. New Orleans should be rebuilt.

Angela: Well, that’s the truth. I love the idea of the military becoming a service system, where they help people get back on their feet again.

Mellen: You’re going to see this worldwide. A metaphor I saw on the other side was talking about the American West.

There was a time in the American west when anybody could pull out a gun and shoot anybody. There was no law. And in fact, because of the way the guns were designed back then without any rifle barrels, by-standers got killed more than the combatants! Which is true in every war in history.

There have been more civilians and children killed than ever


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in combats—and that includes Iraq.... I get a little emotional about that. It still gets me. What we’re paying for—every American is paying for this right now.

We have to become enlightened and say that we are not going to pay for this kind of thing.

Law finally came to the west and now it is illegal to have a gunfight in any street in America. Isn’t it? It is illegal.

In the not too distant future, it’s going to be illegal to have a war no matter who you are on the planet.

Illegal to have war—that is coming. Law is going to come to the west. And you’re not going to just be able to start a war because you are some President or you’re some King, you know what I mean?

Angela: Well, I hope so.

Mellen: That’s what I saw coming.

Angela: Well, let’s talk about something that’s related to that, which is forgiveness. I mean, we have questions here from people who have done bad things in their life and they can’t forgive themselves.

Where does forgiveness come in, and how do people do that for themselves?


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Mellen: The end of karma is forgiveness. That’s how you end karma. You have to forgive and forget.

Love and forgiveness are two of the most important things we

could ever come to.

You have to be able to forgive those who did things to you, and yourself for what you did to others during the particular stage of life that you were in. I was a really dense character. I never took very good care of pets when I was younger. But now my pets are like kings and queens, because I see them as sensitive beings.

To end karma, you must forgive and forget. And for some people that may seem like the most impossible thing right now, and it also may seem like the hardest thing in the world to do, is to forgive yourself.

Angela: Yes. I think that is the hardest, yeah.

Mellen: But it is the end of karma. We must come to this on our own path and realize that today is today and yesterday was yesterday.

We must forgive and forget— and forget means don’t repeat.


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Angela: It doesn’t mean forget the thing, it means don’t do it again?

Mellen: Nature never forgets anything. That’s why our cellular memory can never be cleared, you can only change the charge on it, neutralize the charge to the negative.

Nature loves memory. You cannot lose memory. It’s an incredible part of the universe.

But we can change the charge on memory. You can be enlightened. You can put light to it. And that means, even with people. If there are some people who you feel you can never forgive—well, if you can’t forgive them, you are going to repeat incarnations with them.

Angela: Oh, joy forever!

Mellen: For your own good, if for no other good, you must forgive others. But the forget part means: don’t hang out with them anymore. Because they are liable to do this again to you. So, you know, once fooled, twice, shame on you. That’s what we have got to learn. All these emotional things with people, with most of them we should just get away from them.

Angela: Either that, or become more self-empowered.

Mellen: And that’s part of love and forgiveness. They are the most empowering things you can embody.

Angela: Well, Mellen, I am going to skip completely to the left here—we had a question about crop circles and you gave


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me a really interesting answer when we spoke before when you told me what you found out in the light about crop circles.

Mellen: Yes, I’ve been asked to look into things like that, and every time I have gone to the light and asked for an answer—and I have gotten answers to genetic diseases and stuff like that and questions for other think tanks—but every time I go to the light and I ask about the crop circles they just laugh.

Angela: Like it’s a cosmic joke or something.

Mellen: Yeah, it’s like there is something so obvious about the whole thing.

Angela: I think that the crop circles are manifestations of the earth just making art.

Mellen: Could be. Could be. Now, many times people say, “Mellen, you have the ability to know everything now,” but I’m telling you, you don’t want to know everything. I actually love a mystery. If you could read most peoples minds, believe me, after a while, you wouldn’t want to read them.

Angela: Yeah, it’s fun having a mystery.

Mellen: It is. It’s a thought—into how that mystery evolves and unravels. I tell people that I crossed the line years ago. I know way to much. But I tell you this, whatever ignorance you have left, cherish it. You will miss it when it’s gone.

Angela: Mmmm. What a thought. Now somebody asked,


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can we really use the ideas behind quantum Physics to create the life that we really want, and how do we do that?

Mellen: The answer is yes. It’s what’s going on anyway. It’s the most natural thing in the universe. Remember that “God’s magic is physics.”

Too many people go supernatural before they have even explored the natural magic of the universe.

It’s childish to always want the super magic without even seeing

the magic in front of you.

Yes, Quantum Physics is real.

One simple explanation or example of it is what they call in physics the butterfly effect.

Angela: That’s real huh?

Mellen: It’s real, absolutely real. They know that one breath you breathe about a year later circles the whole earth and comes back again. See what I mean? So what I like to do is prayer.

Praying out loud goes around the world.


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I have a Native American drum. I love to drum. It’s a radionic vibrational instrument that you use to create and de-create.

If I have a bad dream, I get up with my drum and just de-create with my drum and vibration. When I pray, I pray with my drum and I add that radionic vibration to my prayer, and it goes around the whole earth, it really does.

Angela: Around the whole earth?

Mellen: Absolutely. So what really keeps the world going is, inside almost every human’s heart, is the desire to go on and see tomorrow. And that’s so powerful.

Angela: Well now, speaking of which, we have a class about How to Live to 100: The Secrets of How to Thwart Aging: Who Lives to Be 100 and Why, where you give us all kinds of information about how to stay healthy in order to live longer in ways people would never have guessed before—and inexpensively—very cool! (Find the 90-minute teleclass and complete transcript HERE)

Mellen: Yes, I boil it down and make it simple for everyone. One of the things I did ask on the other side is, why do we grow old and die? I’ve got a whole lot that I have learned. I have spent the rest of my life since my near-death experience exploring this, and I have been lucky to be funded to do millions of dollars of research in this area.

That’s where I spend most of my time, is deep in research. A lot of these technology things will probably be coming out this year, 2008.


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In Who Lives to Be 100 and Why, I boil down the reality for you. And show you who really is living to be 100, and exactly why. And I show you the things you can do about it—the simple things that you can do to make your life better and to live a quality life as long as you want to.

And the unimaginable, regenerative power of your body and spirit. It’s miraculous, once you plug into that.

Angela: And the ways you have found to do that. You’ve told me a few things, and they’re so simple—I was shocked at how simple some of those things were.

Mellen: It’s based on about twenty years of research that I have done. It will really surprise you, who’s living to be 100 and why they are—and most of it won’t cost you any money at all.

Angela: I love that. So again, you can find the 90-minute teleclass and complete transcript HERE.

Mellen: This research has become the passion of my entire life—regeneration, quality of life and longevity. I don’t think most people realize that your real work begins after fifty—so why not make those years incredible?

Most of the best work in the whole world has been done with

people over fifty years old.


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Angela: Wow, that’s exciting!

Mellen: So most of your best life is still ahead of you. You still have a whole life ahead of you.

Angela: So for people who say, I’m too tired, what’s the point and all that—the point is just to be here and love and live and have a good time.

Mellen: Yes. Make of it what we will. Most humans tend to want to make this a joyful, curious, regenerative experience. And that is called heaven on earth, bringing heaven to earth, which we will accomplish, sooner than we think.

Angela: We have got about 2 minutes more, Mellen, can you think of anything else you want to add to this information?

Mellen: Well, I would encourage everybody to remember this: prayer is so important. It doesn’t have to be religious, but if you do vocalize your prayer, like at the beach, or at home, or on the deck, it will go across the world.

One of the most important things that you can do is to hold a

good thought for the world.

Hold a good thought in your heart every day.


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That’s an important job, that’s an important piece that only you can do.

Angela: Now, when you say it goes across the world, what effect does that have? Does it ripple out?

Mellen: Oh, yes, it spreads out, and there is actually so little evil in the world that the more of us who become enlightened, the sooner the better, the sooner we will create this heaven on earth. It is the most important thing that you can do, no matter what is going on in you life.

I was in the worst shape a human can be in when I was sick, and I know that even at my sickest moment, I would have traded any one of you for the worst day of your life.

Because even that day has more potential than you can imagine.

Angela: Oh Mellen. I hear you. That is really wonderful. Thank You. Well, I think that we are right at the hour here. I thank you so much Mellen, this has really been awesome, I appreciate you so much; and thank everybody for coming.

Mellen: Blessings to Everybody.

Angela: Blessings to you Mellen, we will talk soon.

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Here are some of the topics that we will soon make available in teleclasses. We’d like to include your questions in these classes, so we’d love to get your burning questions about any of these subjects. Please write to [email protected] with your questions. Put “Q for Mellen” in the subject line. Thanks!

The Future:❖ From the Pyramids to 2012 ❖ The End of the End and Now a New Age❖ Only Now: it’s Never Been This Way Before❖ Self Realization, Self Initiation, Create your own Reality❖ Everything is in place, Mind; Body, Spirit and Technology❖ What will Your Future Everyday Life Look Like?❖ The Greatest Step Mankind Will Ever Take❖ The Human Star Seed❖ ETs’ Help and Influence ❖ The Beauty of it All

Gaia 1❖ Sacred Biology❖ The Natural and the SuperNatural❖ The illusion of Life and Death❖ The Greater Life that we live❖ Multidimensional life

❖ The Here and Now

Gaia 2❖ The Now from Here On❖ Enlightenment and Then What?❖ The Illusion of Control❖ Become Love❖ If Not You Then Who?❖ Our Manifest Destiny


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The Real Secrets of a Quality Long Life❖ Who Lives to Be 100+ and Why❖ Health Myths And Ancient Legends❖ Did the Ancients Really Live Longer, Healthier Lives?❖ The 3 Most Important Factors to Quality Longevity❖ Free and Simple things You Should Know❖ Longevity as a Lifestyle ❖ The Best Years of Your Life Can Begin After 50

Karma and Reincarnation ❖ What the Near Death Experience can teach us❖ It May Be More Real Than You Think❖ Ignorance is No Protection from the Law❖ The End of Karma❖ Do We Come Back Again?❖ Why Does Most of The World Believe in One Form or Other of Reincarnation?❖ The Metaphysics and Quantum Physics of Reincarnation❖ The Many Levels of Reincarnation❖ DNA❖ How to Prepare for You Next Incarnation

Advanced info on the Near Death Experience❖ The Two-fold Purpose of the Life Review❖ How to Rrepare for the NDE or Death Experience❖ It’s Your Experience, Be Interactive ❖ Learn to Die Conscious and Be Born Conscious❖ Looking Beyond the Veil

Please write to [email protected] with your

questions. Put “Q for Mellen” in the subject line. Thanks!


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Near-Death Experience

I Dare You Radio’s Angela Treat LyonInterviews Special Guest,

Mellen Thomas-BenedictYou will love Mellen’s Teleclass on

How to Live to 100: The Secrets of How to Thwart Aging: Who Lives to Be 100 and Why

How to stay healthy in order to live longer in ways you would never have guessed before—and inexpensively—very cool! (Find the 90- minute teleclass and complete transcript HERE)

Mellen-Thomas.com and IDareYouRadio.com

This is a printable ebook published byOut Front Productions, LLC

Kailua, Hawaii • 808-261-0941

Content© Mellen-Thomas Benedict and Angela Treat Lyon 2008

All Rights Reserved: Protected Internationally.

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