When We Die, We Still Live | Nicole Campbell | TEDxDeerPark
The speaker recounts a powerful, nonlinear consciousness journey following a coma, where experiencing profound peace in a deep-sea boat led to realizing her life's purpose is rooted in empathy, caring for others, and guiding others. She found validation through writing to her brother, connecting with family, and undergoing a physical recovery that parallels her spiritual healing. This journey ultimately serves as a guide to living fully by trusting dreams and internal resources over fear. ## Speakers & Context - Unnamed speaker; recounting personal experience after a coma. - Family members present during the coma recovery include a brother and sister. - The speaker describes her initial state upon waking from the coma as being "in a life-and-death process," somewhere "in-between" dimensions. ## Theses & Positions - True understanding of one's purpose requires confronting the fear of death, realizing that death is often just the "thought of it that consumes us." - Human energy is comprised of resources available "beyond the veil of fear beyond the veil of distrust beyond the veil of disbelief." - The speaker's life purpose and successes are rooted in three core virtues: "empathy," "caring for others," and "showing others the way." - Trusting one's internal "dreams" and personal visions is crucial because "our wildest dream lead to our true with reality." ## Concepts & Definitions - **Commal state:** Described as being "somewhere in-between" dimensions, an intangible state deeper than dreaming. - **Permanent fulfillment and peace:** Associated with the experience of being in a small tugboat in a dark deep sea, guided by an angel, which provided a "deaf kind of peace." - **Void of emotion:** The look seen on the faces of family and friends during the coma, suggesting a profound, overwhelming presence. - **Deficit mentality:** A state of mind that arose from the "pain of trying to start something from nothing." - **Seppius:** Old Latin for "I have come to know." ## Mechanisms & Processes - **Consciousness Shift:** The progression from the immediate, unstable awareness of being "in-between" to a scripted, artificial experience (PowerPoint presentation) to a profoundly peaceful, natural one (deep sea boat). - **Communication Failure/Recovery:** Initial inability to write thoughts onto paper, which necessitated practicing writing to establish a reliable mode of communication with others. - **Spiritual/Medical Healing:** The recovery process involved nightly conversations in a "different state of consciousness" with beings described as "angels" who used medical terminology to guide the physical healing. - **Energy Utilization:** Redirecting focus from fear and deficiency to the active use of "energy that we create our thoughts multiply our hearts multiply our love multiplied." ## Timeline & Sequence - **Time of Waking:** Initial confusion regarding the military time clock, with no indication of the day, year, or location. - **Coma Duration:** Five days and nights. - **Recovery Period:** Over a month. - **Post-Coma:** Initial period of feeling overwhelmed by the return to stability, marked by physical signs (e.g., vision issues). - **Future Visionary Moment:** Experiencing a vivid, near-movie-like vision of the doctor's visit and subsequent observation of specific items (four bottles of Waterfield Spring). ## Named Entities - **Grey's Anatomy:** The source of the label on the nurse's uniform. - **Waterfield Spring:** Specific brand of water noted in a vision. ## Numbers & Data - Time period on the clock: No indication of the day, year, or location. - Coma duration: **Five days and nights**. - Physical recovery time: **Over a month**. - Number of bottles seen in vision: **Four**. ## Examples & Cases - **Initial Observation:** Looking at a clock that showed military time but lacked date/location context. - **The Dream Experience:** Being in a small tugboat in a dark deep sea, guided by an angel, with visibility going on for miles. - **Brother's Actions:** Brother running out of the room upon the mention of the mother, speaking to her with a "crush 3 2 tone in his voice." - **Sister's Support:** Sister staying by the side during the "5 days and nights of my coma," described as a "warrior." - **Visionary Detail:** The vision of the doctor walking in, kneeling by the bedside, the doctor chilling his head to the left, the smile, the discussion with someone unseen, the doctor pocketing a pan, and the four bottles of water. - **Dream Diagnosis:** Being shown in a classroom where the speaker's name was on the board, highlighting that the speaker was "mediocre at something that I was supposed to be great at." ## Tools, Tech & Products - **PowerPoint presentation:** Used to convey information during the post-coma consciousness shift. - **Tugboat:** The vessel in the deep sea vision. - **Hospital Bed:** Location of the speaker's awakening. ## References Cited - No explicit academic papers, books, or external sources were cited. The references are personal experiences or concepts like "Latin." ## Trade-offs & Alternatives - **Stagnation vs. Action:** The inherent conflict between the fear of "the end" and the need to "use our energy in and around us." - **Physical Healing vs. Spiritual Understanding:** The body (physical healing) continued to struggle (checking the eye daily) even when the speaker knew she was spiritually healed. - **Deficit vs. Empowerment:** Shifting from a "deficit mentality" derived from struggle to building a company based on empowering connection and technology. ## Counterarguments & Caveats - The speaker's vision and subsequent recollection are subject to the speaker's interpretation, but the experience was so vivid she questioned if her visions were "really true." - Initial difficulty in communication was noted when trying to write her thoughts onto paper, which required deliberate practice. ## Methodology - **Dream Interpretation:** Using the deep-sea boat experience as a symbolic reference point for "permanent fulfillment and peace." - **Introspection:** A deeply reflective process of analyzing emotional states (fear, love, purpose) post-trauma. - **Pattern Recognition:** Identifying patterns of angelic visits and specific instructions given during periods of altered consciousness. ## Conclusions & Recommendations - To live fully, one must recognize and utilize the "vast amount of resources available to us beyond the veil of fear beyond the veil of distrust beyond the veil of disbelief." - The speaker encourages listeners to "hold fast to your dream because our wildest dream lead to our true with reality." - The ultimate goal is to achieve a collective state of peace, exemplified by the deep-sea boat experience. ## Implications & Consequences - The inability to simply "be" when facing death (the initial screaming) is the obstacle that must be overcome to achieve emotional fullness. - Recognizing one's foundational strengths (empathy, caring, guiding) provides a permanent source of personal power despite external crises (e.g., company struggles). ## Verbatim Moments - *"I looked for the detail I distinctly remember looking up at the clock military time no indication of the day no indication of the year no indication of the location."* - *"The first live red Archangel and I thought Archangel communicating with me."* - *"the stillness of it all that soul reference was a reference for me for permanent fulfillment and peace that I felt in the depth of my soul."* - *"I'm not ready to die I'm not ready to die God do you hear me I'm not ready to die."* - *"there's so much more love we have to exchange and then I thought okay I need to be more convincing and I thought I still want to procreate in love I hadn't had a child here and I still had more growing of my soul to do and I still had my service to perform on earth."* - *"she had literally saved my life she's always been my warrior and protect her."* - *"death isn't eerie it's the thought of it that consumes us if the thought of it that misses that death is merely an extension of life which then forces us to live in alignment to be here to really be here to use our energy in and around us energy that we create our thoughts multiply our hearts multiply our love multiplied."* - *"if we take heed to the resources that are given to us and use them wisely against conventional wisdom we all know why we are here even if for things that we don't want to admit or things that we are afraid of."* - *"so be still in your boat hold on to your dream and you'll be on your way to that permanent fulfillment and peace that I felt in the boat."*