#253 My Near-Death Experience: Why Death Is an Illusion with Lorraine Kane

Lorraine Kane was 26, trapped in a car after a head-on collision, when she died — and found herself out of her body, watching rescue workers cut her free. In this episode, the Reiki master, author, and elementary school teacher shares what she experienced during her near-death experience, why it upended her traditional religious upbringing, and how it launched her into a life of intuitive healing.

You'll learn:

• What Lorraine saw and felt during her life review
• Why she believes trauma lives in the body, not just the mind
• How her NDE opened up mediumship abilities she didn't have before

Find Lorraine online at Riverview Wellness Center or on Instagram and Facebook @LorraineKane.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro

00:36 The Day of the Crash

01:01 Healing Journey and Reiki

01:59 Impact and Leaving the Body

04:24 Dark Voice and Calling to God

05:25 Light Hand and Out of Body View

07:17 Oneness and Life Review

09:02 Choice to Return and Resuscitation

11:44 Hospital Ordeals and Dying Again

12:51 Angelic Music and Clear Guidance

15:27 God vs Guides and How It Changed

17:03 Early Angel Encounter and Past Lives

19:54 Orbs and Mediumship Awakening

22:59 Reiki Messages and Validations

29:03 Death Is an Illusion

30:56 Where to Find Lorraine

https://lorrainekane.com/

Transcript

Johnny Burke 0:01

Welcome to Closer to Venus. I'm Johnny Burke, and today's guest is Lorraine King. She is an elementary school teacher, Reiki master, and author of A Gift in the Wreckage, which chronicles her near-death experience following a head-hone collision. Through her work, she helps individuals restore balance, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with a deeper sense of inner peace. In this episode, we'll discuss what truly happens when we die and why there is no fear in death. Lorraine, welcome to the program.

Lorraine Kane 0:32

Hi, Johnny. Thank you so much. It's good to be here.

Johnny Burke 0:35

Starting with the experience that day, was there anything like out of the ordinary or not really?

Lorraine Kane 0:42

No, it was a typical day. We were on vacation and we were driving home. There was a construction site. It was pretty unclear. We had, in fact, been the fifth accident on that stretch of highway that year. So, no, it was a typical day.

Johnny Burke 1:00

Did you become a Reiki master before or was it after the near-death experience?

Lorraine Kane 1:05

It was most definitely afterwards. Before my accident, I was a born-again Christian. So I had the traditional view of God, hell. And then after my accident, and going through 60 surgeries and having to heal, I really became aware that our bodies hold trauma. It's not in your mind, it's not something you need to overcome. Your body holds it and it needs to be released. So that's energy, that's trauma. And I learned it just through my experience in my own healing journey.

Johnny Burke 1:44

Near death experience survivors do report heightened senses of mediumship type skills, psychic activity, and just everything is just heightened, so it doesn't surprise me. So the experience itself, you said during that day there wasn't anything out of the ordinary, it was just a typical day. When it actually happened, this was a head-on collision. What was the first thing you noticed during the experience?

Lorraine Kane 2:12

When I had the collision, I remember I thought it was going to be a fender bender. It was just going to be this accident, we'd get out, we'd exchange insurance, and I would go on. When we were colliding, it was like through the lens of a camera, and I could see the lady that I was in collision with, that I was colliding into. And when I looked into her face, Johnny, I was so aware that she was almost vacant. And I truly believe she had already been taken. She was already gone. Her body was there, but she was not there in spirit. She was gone. So that was the first experience I had. Then the cars collided, the rescue workers came. As I was sitting, they took my children away, they took my mother-in-law out of the car. I was trapped in the car, so they were using the jaws of life to cut me out of the car. As I was sitting in the car, I remember watching the rescue workers, and it was really, really noisy. The metal and the grinding, and it was extremely scary. I was terrified. And I remember sitting there wondering what was going to happen. And then it was like the volume started to turn down, and I wasn't hearing things quite as loud. I was fading. And then I started to think, oh, I'm gonna die. This is it. The curtains are coming down. I'm 26 years old. Wow, I'm gonna die in this car. So I started to wonder where I was going to go. What would happen? What this is it, it's the end. Where am I going? Oh, right, I remembered. I'm a born-again Christian. I'm going to heaven. I'm gonna see God. Angels are going to rejoice. This is going to be a beautiful experience. And then the volume got really quiet. And it seemed like everything was almost still. And I remember hearing this voice. It was an audible voice. And it said, No, you're not going to heaven. There is no God. You're going to go to the ground, and maggots are going to eat your body. And it was like I was at the lowest point of my life. I was trapped in a vehicle. I was alone. I was afraid. I didn't know what was going to happen. So I called out to God and I said, if you're there and if you're real, please help me. I need your help. It's not that I had this specialized prayer that I said. I didn't have a ritual. There was nothing needed other than just calling out. And in that instant, immediately, it was like my whole body broke open. And this brilliant light filled my whole body. And I heard the voice and it said, Take my hand, I'll show you heaven. And as I looked up, that big, beautiful, bright light started to merge like a hand reaching down to me. And I reached up, and as I put my hand in the light, in that hand, I didn't come out of my body. I transformed into a different level of consciousness. I lifted up and I became part of that light. And I remember looking down. I could see other things. I was lifted up into the air and I saw the cars. I saw all of the accident scene. I saw the cars that were flipped, the other car was flipped, and I saw my body sitting in the car, and I remember not feeling connected whatsoever to it. I was equally as interested in the cars, the rescue workers, as I was the body. And I found that super interesting because it was no longer me. The true sense of who I was was now with my creator in another conscious level, in another area.

Johnny Burke 6:47

Similar reports echo the exact same thing. When you get to that point and you look down at your body, there's little or no attachment. It's almost like it's a set of clothes or it's a costume. So at that point, you were taken out of the car. Did you then go to the hospital? What was the next thing that happened?

Lorraine Kane 7:06

So what happened was when I was up into the next level of consciousness, what I noticed immediately was that we didn't use words. We didn't need words. That was fascinating to me. That there was a knowing. And we were just one. We had merged into oneness and we were flying through the sky. It was like I could see bright lights and stars, and we were just in this whole different area. And then we stopped. I had my life review. So as I stood in that space, I was shown things in my life where I had made the wrong choice. There was a better choice to be made. And I had always been really frightened of this, thinking, oh my gosh, God is gonna judge me, he's gonna be mad, because that's what the church taught me that God is judgmental. That was not the case. I was met with absolute unconditional love. And the emotions were so heightened, it was all about feelings. I felt safe, I felt loved, this amazing unconditional love, a warmth, a knowing, a sense of just being at home. I was home. So then I we continued after after my life review. We started to go off again. And I I do believe that I was going to heaven. I was going to that space.

Johnny Burke 8:35

I wanted to try and get a connection between the timing of the life review and when you were in the hospital and you flatlined. Did that happen after you remember the life review or was it about the same time? How did that happen?

Lorraine Kane 8:49

So I flatlined in I actually died in the car, and then I died again in the air ambulance going to the hospital. My first encounter after we started to go to the next place, we stopped again. And I saw a photograph that came out from the side of this brilliant, bright, beautiful light. And I looked at the picture, it was like a recognition was coming back, and I thought, oh, I know those people. Hey, that's my children and my husband. And oh, I'm Lorraine. There's been an accident. And at that very time, I was asked, do you want to continue or do you want to go back? Which amazed me. I didn't realize we got a choice. And I thought of my children, and I thought, I need to be there for my children. I'm not ready to come. So I said that. I need to go back for my children. And again, absolute unconditional love. And it was just okay. And we started to drop, and it felt like dropping through an elevator, like just a very quick drop. And just before I came back into this consciousness, God said, Don't let go of my hand. I'm holding your hand. And I popped back into my body, and I remember feeling this pressure in my eyes when I popped. I could feel the hand, but my shirt was off. I had this neck brace on, and they were resuscitating me. And as I readjusted to my space, which was very dense and very heavy, it's a completely different experience here. They started to say, We got her, we got her, she's breathing, yeah, and they were really excited. The air ambulance came in and they said, Okay, we're gonna lift you now, we're going to take you to a trauma center where we can take care of you. So they lifted me out, they put me in the helicopter, the air ambulance, and they took me to a trauma center. En route to the trauma center, I had lost an amazing amount of blood. I started to die again, and they gave me a placebo blood, or they would have delivered me dead to the hospital. So I got into the trauma center, and then I had an 11-hour surgery. My femur was shattered in 54 places, my foot was off, so I had to have a lot of surgery right away. So they began saving my life. Yeah.

Johnny Burke 11:30

During this time when you apparently died twice, were you going in and out of beyond the veil? Or were you there pretty much the whole time?

Lorraine Kane 11:40

When I left my body the first time, I was completely gone. I was on the other side. I was there. When I came back and when I was in the air ambulance, I did not have any kind of experience. I barely remember it. It's what a lot of things they told me afterwards. I spent two weeks down in the States. I'm from Canada, but the accident happened in the States. So I spent two weeks there having numerous surgeries. Then when they felt I was able to fly back to Canada, when I got to Canada, I began to die again. They called my family in and they said, We don't expect her to make it, you should come quickly. They gave me emergency blood transfusions, and I rallied and I I came around.

Johnny Burke 12:33

So that is quite an experience. Now, during this experience, there were messages from guides and loved ones. Did you see anything? Like, did you see any other entities other than the hand that reached out for you?

Lorraine Kane 12:47

No. I feel like I was almost just before the entry point of no return. I was just there. And it was just my creator and myself in the entire experience.

Johnny Burke 13:01

What were those messages though? Because you did mention something about messages from guides and loved ones.

Lorraine Kane 13:08

So when I was flown back to Canada, I was very much in between two worlds. I was in my dense body, my very badly broken body. It started when God said to me, Don't let go of my hand. And I had a constant sense of someone holding my hand, but I couldn't see them. But I felt it. Then when I got back to Canada, I remember one night I was in my hospital bed and I heard the most amazing angelic, just music that far surpasses what we know as music here. And I opened my eyes and the entire room was filled with angelic beings. I knew they were angels, they were little bright lights that all merged together, and out from them came the most amazing music. And it was just not from this world. And then that continued. So that was my experience. And then I started to just I would ask, what should I do? I had to make a decision. Do I have a surgery in West Virginia or do I come home to Canada to have my face reconstructed? And I didn't know what to do. And I said, God, what do I do? And it was as clear as day, don't go home. You have the surgery here. And that continued through my entire hospital stay. So for about three months, I was living in between two worlds. I just had it was, you know, people say joke about having a hotline to heaven or a hotline to God. God was my companion. He carried me through that time. And it wasn't until I went home and I started healing a little bit more that I didn't hear God the same way. I was coming back to this realm fully.

Johnny Burke 15:09

Now, when you say you had a connection to God, could that have maybe been a spirit guide or something else? Or how did you really know it was the God, or Jesus for that matter?

Lorraine Kane 15:22

That's an excellent question, Johnny, because it really is relative to our programming and how we believe, right? I was a born-again Christian, so a lot of people that are born-again Christians will see Jesus or will see something along that vein. I didn't see any of that. I believed it was God. Now, fast forward 31 years, I communicate with my angels and guides. I have a whole team. We all have teams, I believe, that are here leading and guiding us. But it's not the same for me as it was right after my accident. That felt like a direct phone line. And it was very clear, and I didn't have to put forth any effort. I just asked the question and the answers came. Now I need to spend the time, I need to ground myself, I need to connect. So there's many resources I use now that I didn't have to use back then.

Johnny Burke 16:25

Okay. Let's talk about the angels and the guides going forward after the experience. Did you experience any like direct messages? Did you see them at all, or did you just know it was there? What was the communication like?

Lorraine Kane 16:40

Are you asking me about my communication currently with my guides? And ain't so now for me, I have direction all the time. My first experience with the angelic realm was I was about four years old, and I remember walking out of my room down a hallway, and there was that beautiful light. It was a female presence. I believe she was an angel. She was sitting on this radiator and said hello to me. And I wasn't afraid. I said hello. And she said, I want you to know we're always with you, and everything is going to work out. That was my very first encounter. I never told anybody about it. I didn't really think a lot about it. I just remember back to what my first experience was, and that's it. So then I became a born-again Christian. I got into drugs as a teenager. I had a very, very difficult life. A lot of my friends passed away from drug overdoses. It was a hard time. And I really wanted to know more about this God. And I wanted to know where my friends are going. And I became a born-again Christian. And I had a radical transformation then. I stopped drugs instantly. I started reading the Bible. I started going to church. I was reading the Bible up to six hours a day. I was very religious. And then when my accident, my faith changed. I no longer believed the way I used to believe. I had experienced God, and it wasn't a distant God that somewhere when you die you get to meet him. None of that felt real anymore. It felt to me like God is meant to be experienced here and now. And I think that when my journey started, it was about six years ago, and I went for a Reiki treatment, and the lady asked me if I wanted to do past life regressions. Well, at this time I wasn't even sure I believed in reincarnation. So I was open though, and I said, okay. So we started to do some hypnosis work, and I met two of my past life characters, which was absolutely incredible to me. And that is what started my journey. That's what allowed me to tap into that different consciousness.

Johnny Burke 19:15

I think it's important that you mentioned that you had an angelic experience. You actually saw one. So fast forward to after the accident, you're getting guidance from spirit guides and angels. Was any of that verbal or was it telepathic? How did that work?

Lorraine Kane 19:34

I was telling you about that where I went and I had that past life regression experience. When I was sitting there, afterwards, we were talking about it, and I was really trying to understand it. And as she was explaining it to me, Johnny, I saw this orb on the wall, this light just moving. And I thought it was my glasses, it was my jewelry. So I started to try and identify it, and it was jumping all around the room. And I said to the lady, Do you see what I'm seeing? What is happening right now? And I started to wonder if she was playing tricks on me, if it was something she was doing. So I was like, This is really weird. So she said, Oh my goodness, I thought it was jewelry, but it's not. And we began to investigate. And the more we focused on it, the more erratic it became. It started moving. I had six sessions with this lady, and every single session, that orb showed up. My last session, it didn't even wait till I was in the room. It went out to the front hallway, and there were other clients there, and they saw it, and they were like, what is going on? Everybody was really kind of up in awe, like amazed by this light. It's happened to me three times since then. I've had so many experiences of loved ones from the other side coming through, giving me messages for people. It's a learning curve. For me, I'm learning as I go. As I do this, I learn. I'm hugely interested in inner child healing. I'm hugely interested in moving stuck energy out of people's bodies because I believe it's only then that we create the space to allow our creator to give us those experiences. I don't think I'm special. I think I'm the same as everybody else. You can do it. Anybody can experience this. It's just about creating that space, getting rid of all of your old programming. The fear is the biggest thing that keeps us away from experiencing all these beautiful, magical things we can experience here on Earth.

Johnny Burke 21:56

Okay. The messages that you were getting are albeit for other people. People, well, it sounds like mediumship, and that goes back to what many of us have heard from near-death experience survivors is that they now have abilities that they didn't have before.

Lorraine Kane 22:11

Absolutely, it's true.

Johnny Burke 22:13

You might not position yourself as a medium, but if those souls are coming through, that's pretty much the classic definition. So we can see how that experience had a huge impact on your life. It changed your outlook on religion. It inspired you to get involved in Reiki, and from there you discovered two of your past lives. So, in sum, what are the most important things that you've learned from the experience altogether?

Lorraine Kane 22:44

Wow, that's so good. I view the earth almost like a video game. We're here, we can level up. Some people do, some people don't. I think that there are a lot of traps here in this world that will prevent us from experiencing those things. Look at our world right now. There is a lot of people out there that are living in constant fear. Every time we turn on the news, there's fear. It's fear-based. I haven't listened to the news in four years. If we shut that off and we open ourselves up and say, I want to experience these things. Lead me, I fully believe our creator will lead us. So when I started doing Reiki, it was just about healing the body because I have had so much healing. And I knew in my own experience, my body was remembering the pain. Even though I was healed, my body held on to that trauma. And it wasn't until another Reiki master came along, explained this. I was open to it. I wasn't afraid. I put my fear aside. I allowed it to happen that I started to heal. So then I got interested in Reiki. I started doing Reiki. And then two years ago, I had a lady, it was after a meditation class, she asked if I would do a Reiki session on her. I said, sure, and I had my routine down. But this time I saw a lady in my mind's eye, and she was just watching. So I said, Oh, hello, what's going on? Who are you? And she moved forward and she said, I'm with her. And it was my first experience. So I said, Uh-oh, okay. And then I knew it was her mother, and her mother wasn't with us, she was on the other side. So I said, Oh, what do you want me to do? And she said, Would you please remind her about the rose bush? And I was thinking, Am I losing my mind? Am I going crazy? So I said to the lady, This has never happened before, but is your mother on the other side? And she said, Yes, she just died four months ago. And I said, Well, she's actually here, I think, and she's asking me to tell you about a rose bush. And she burst out crying. She started to sob and she said, Oh my God, when my mother was on her deathbed, she asked me to please plant a rose bush at this area in her home. So that was validation for me that, oh my gosh, this is real. It just grew and it grew. I really believe. We are here to experience this realm, it is experiential. And as we have these experiences, then spirit can use our experiences to connect with other people here on this realm to help them heal. So I happen to have a brother who overdosed on drugs. He died, he had two young girls, and he had a terrible relationship with his ex-wife. Okay? So this lady comes for a Reiki treatment. She gets on my bed. I start with a pendulum. I use my pendulum to see where the blockages are before I move on. And all of a sudden, her brother showed up and he laughed and he was right in my space and he said, Oh, you can put that pendulum away. She's not here for a Reiki treatment. I have to talk to her. And I went, Oh, wow, okay. So I said to her, and now it's happened so many times, I'm fully confident that it is in fact her brother's energy here. He had some unfinished business that he needed me to help him with. So I said to her, Oh, your brother's here and he wants to talk to you. And she gasped and she went, What? Because I hadn't even told her that I was an intuitive Reiki master. And then he said to me, Remind her of the promise she made and tell her I need her to honor it. So I said to her, He wants me to remind you that you made a promise to him and he really needs you to honor it. Do you know what he's talking about? And she again began to cry and she said, I know exactly what he's talking about. And he said, Tell her it isn't about her, it's about my children. So I said that and she wept and she said, My brother died six months ago of a drug overdose. He has two little children, and I made the promise to help him by raising these children. I would be active in their lives, but his ex-wife is so horrible and making it so difficult, I can't do it. And he said, tell her again, it's not about her, it's about my children. And by the time that lady got up off my bed, Johnny, she was a changed person. She was ready to take it on. She believed that she was ready to honor the promise she made her brother. So I believe that I am an intuitive to help people that have crossed over to help heal the people that are still left here on this earth.

Johnny Burke 28:37

You feel that death is an illusion. How did you come up with that?

Lorraine Kane 28:42

Again, it comes back to fear. I think that's just one more thing that this world uses to keep us in fear. So many people are absolutely afraid of dying. They're so afraid of dying. It's the unknown. What's going to happen? And we're so focused on our loved ones, and I don't want to leave my loved ones. It doesn't work that way, I don't believe. When I died, I simply closed my eyes, and when I opened my eyes, I was in a whole different level. I believe I was back home. We come here to have the experiences. I believe we work out our past life trauma as well. I believe there's lots of reasons and experiences to be had here on earth. But when we're done, we simply return home to where we came from. There is no death. We've given that the name death. We're not dying. If anything, we're waking up. Here, we forget who we are. We forget the power that we have here on this earth. We forget where we came from. But we can remember those things and we can wake up here and now as we surrender the fear and create the space to allow, even uh uh from a curiosity. I'm just curious about it. Show me.

Johnny Burke 30:09

Like you say, death is an illusion because we come here to learn, as Earth is a school, as we have all been told many times, then we go back home, which also reinforces the belief that we are eternal souls. Lorraine, thanks for joining us today. You've had some life-changing experiences, and I also think that your experiences are going to make a lot of people run out and get Reiki treatments as well.

Lorraine Kane 30:34

I hope they do.

Johnny Burke 30:37

In the meantime, how can our listeners find you online?

Lorraine Kane 30:40

I run a wellness center in Ontario, Canada. It's called Riverview Wellness Center. You can reach me at riverviewkayaking.ca. I'm on Facebook, I'm on Instagram, Lorraine Kane.

Johnny Burke 30:55

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