I died after falling off a 60-foot cliff... then I saw the truth about humanity and why we're all here

A young woman whose body was shattered during a climbing accident says she discovered the human soul never ends during a shocking out-of-body experience.

Erica Tait was just 22 when she fell off the Palisades Cliffs in New Jersey in 2015 during a daredevil hiking trip alone and without safety equipment.

Tait ended up falling 60feet while attempting to climb down the rockface, breaking her spinal cord, pelvis, arms, and ribs, and puncturing both lungs.

Although she managed to miraculously call for help on her phone, Tait wasn't able to give her location and waited seven hours for rescue.

During that time, she left her physical body behind and entered a realm where her consciousness no longer existed as an individual anymore.

Erica said her near-death experience (NDE) began with a deep sense of peace as her consciousness floated away from the pain and damage on the ground, instantly understanding that the real 'her' was something eternal and separate from the body.

While encountering a brilliant white light that she could only describe as God or a universal consciousness, Erica said she learned that everything in the universe was one connected being, made of the same energy vibrating at different speeds.

This revelation filled her with overwhelming love and showed her that our real purpose on Earth was to remember this oneness and live with compassion, because hurting anyone else would be like hurting ourselves.

Like other near-death experiences, Tait told the YouTube channel NDE Journey she actually saw herself leave her physical body as she slowly died while waiting for rescue.

At that point, she then went through a life review, where her entire life flashed before her like a movie, and she clearly saw how her past traumas and choices had caused harm to herself and others.

'The only person judging it was the most objective version of me. So, there was no outside being telling me you're going to hell or you're going to heaven. It wasn't really that experience,' Tait said during the December 2 interview.

After that, she was pulled into what could only be described as a bright light that felt like pure unconditional love and the source of everything in the universe, which many near-death experiencers have called God.

Although Tait did not meet specific beings like angels or deceased relatives, she said the light itself felt alive and communicated with her directly, like a loving presence that knew her completely. 

'It was almost like information was being downloaded into my cells, and that was where I learned a lot about our inherent oneness, about how we are actually just this one thing. In this dimension that we call Earth, there's an illusion of separation,' Tait explained. 

The biggest realization was that we are all truly one being, so hurting anyone else would be like hurting yourself, and our real purpose on Earth is to remember this oneness and live with love and awareness.

'To awaken, to remember why we're actually here, what we actually are. That's been my sole focus ever since for myself to continue to remember and to continue to awaken to deeper and deeper remembrances of what reality is and to help the collective do the same,' she added.

Tait's experience was similar to other seriously injured people who claim they met a being that has been called 'Source.'

Nanci Danison, a scientist and devout Catholic from Ohio, previously told the Daily Mail this energy source also told her human life was an illusion, created so that Source could learn from observing human experiences.

'The most compelling thing was the information that I am not a human. I'm not a human being, that humans are animals that are indigenous to planet Earth and that what I am is a spiritual being that inhabited the human,' Danison explained last year.

It was a remarkably similar message to the one 'downloaded' into Tait's consciousness, in which she learned her soul was part of a great whole and no longer belonged to anyone named Erica Tait once it left the physical realm on Earth.

Tait's 2015 accident also shared similarities which testimonies from other near-death experiencers, who claimed they received an extraordinary message while journeying through the afterlife, saying that what we consider the real world is a dream.

Tait said the NDE completely transformed her. She went from being an atheist who only believed in what her senses could prove to someone with unshakable knowledge of a spiritual dimension.

Now 33, she's become runs a psychotherapy business in New Jersey, offering therapy that blends psychology, body-based healing, and spiritual practices.