Join Marin Villager Ellie Schamber to hear about her experience of death.

As a teaching assistant at U.C. Berkeley during the 1960s, she was involved in the political revolutionary activities there and taught her students that “religion is the opiate of the people.” When she was 29 years old, she was in a car accident that took several lives—including hers. “Looking down at my body, I was dumbfounded! I realized that everything I had believed and taught about consciousness had been wrong.” 

Ellie explains that for many years she rarely told people about her experience, but when she did, it seemed to help them. “This made me more open to talking about the experiences I had when I was on the other side, and the spiritual experiences I have had since then.”