Former paramedic Bill Tortorella said he saw two alternate futures for our planet, including a terrifying Mad Max style apocalypse where humans fought for water, as well as meeting his three guardian angels
A former paramedic has said that a near-death experience in changed his understanding of life, death, as well as the future of humanity. Bill Tortorella was attending a jewellery convention in the US state of Arizona when he rushed to help a lady who had collapsed nearby.
Later that same evening the emergency responder began developing worrying symptoms himself, including a swollen throat and dangerously low oxygen levels. After a brief hospital stint, he returned to his hotel room with a course antibiotics, but his condition would only grow worse, with Tortorella he eventually lost consciousness.
What happened next, the 73-year-old claims, was unlike anything he had ever imagined. “I never heard of a near-death experience. I didn’t know what it was,” he told The Daily Mail.
“I was virtually watching myself leave my body through my eyes in this magnificent, glowing mist. It’s the colour of life. It was beautiful, magnificent and fluorescent.”
According to Tortorella, it felt like he was floating above his body before entering what he described as a tunnel filled with “complete love and light.” He recalled feeling a sense of detachment from earthly concerns and being overwhelmed by a wave of peace.
He said:“ I’m saying out loud to myself over and over and over again, thank God. Thank God. I’m home. I’m finally home.”
Tortorella also said he was greeted by three guardian angels named Antonia, Peter, and Oren, who guided him through a sort of “life review”, during which he relived important moments from his life.
Among the memories was a traumatic car crash he had been in during his time as a paramedic in Miami.
He also said he was shown several moments where he had caused others pain, including the impact his divorce had on his child. Tortorella believes the experience forced him to confront both the good and bad aspects of his life up to that point.
The most striking part of the experience, he said, was being shown two Hollywood sounding futures for humanity.
According to the former paramedic: “One was like the film Mad Max. I remember them showing me a society like that — they would kill for a jug of water. It was so bad.”
“Then they flipped it around. They flipped it around and they took me to a different plane, a plane of like utopia that was magnificently beautiful,”
“There was a world of craziness, of killing and murder and destruction. And then a world of beauty, where people work in harmony and kindness and service.”
Tortorella says he is now convinced that humanity’s future depends on whether people choose what unites us over the things that divide, although does not think religion is necessary to reach this mindset.
“I would say now I’m more Christian, but it doesn’t matter what religion you are, as long as you have God within your heart and you show kindness, love and service, that’s what brings you closer to the creator of the universe.”
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