“The moment I realized I was going to die — and knew I had seconds to live before the plane crashed into one of the emergency vehicles set up beside the runway — I experienced a profound horror from my body to my heart and my whole body.”
So retired Navy Air Force engineer Tony Woody, 65, told The Epoch Times about his miraculous out-of-body experience, and memories of being in close contact with the Creator .
“ No fear will draw your attention like that, absolutely terrifying! There is a huge difference , ” he added. " I don't know how, but I do know that the feeling of horror became to some extent the catalyst to expand my consciousness far beyond the limits of the human body. "
That crash happened in 1982, when Woody was 24 years old and stationed at Naval Air Station at Cape Barbers, Hawaii. An incident on a 70-ton, four-engine plane triggered a spiritual transformation experience (STE), and he felt himself leaving his body - a trip that forever changed his perception of life. living.
He shared with The Epoch Times how he became an Air Force engineer and instructor at such a young age, how he came into contact with the P3 anti-submarine aircraft that day. and what he saw outside his body transformed his perception.
An "unorthodox" start for a US Navy Air Force engineer
“When I was 17 years old, I joined the Navy through a delayed entry program while still in high school. Two months after graduating, I went to Navy training camp in Orlando, Florida. After the training program, I went to Millington, Tennessee, for three months to train and learn in jet engine mechanics. Then I went to Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, for my first tour of duty in Patrol Squadron 49.”
Naval Air Station Cape Barbers, Hawaii. (Public Domain)“When I was just 19 years old, I had the opportunity and challenge to learn how to be an Air Force engineer (FE) on the P3 Orion through on-the-job training. I won Navy Crew Wings and the privilege of being a P3 Orion Air Force engineer, qualified to take charge of FE missions aboard a 70-ton, four-engine heavy-lift aircraft when I was 21 years old. age. I attended FE trainer training and became an Air Force engineer instructor at age 24 in Hawaii at Naval Air Station Barbers Point . Due to the nature of most of our missions are sea related, I was also required to complete a deep-water survival training as well as a Survival, Dodge, Resistance, and Escape course that I hated so much. It was a two-week course on how to survive in the wilderness behind enemy lines in a mocked POW camp… During my time there, I was qualified to... Test work was performed on the P3 Orion, S3 Viking, H2 Sea Sprite, H3 Sea King and H-60 Sea Hawk, all of which are five anti-submarine warfare aircraft platforms.”
“Ironically, my last name was on the list and I didn't know… I didn't know until I went to the squadron mission office to check that the person in charge of details in Washington DC, a sailor who determined a sailor's command for their next duty station was having a little fun when he decided to send me, aeronautical mechanic apprentice ' Woody ', to the VP-49' Woodpecker' for my first mission trip was like a joke to me."
“Initially, I was not happy about it at all, because I was always chosen and teased throughout my childhood because of my last name. But this time, it really was the best thing that ever happened to me in the Navy, and here's why I say it. When all junior enlisted personnel first board a squadron of P3s, you are immediately dispatched to the Second Lieutenant Division, where you do a lot of errands, like sweeping and polishing hallway floors in workspaces and other such chores. months, before going to a physical work center for actual work on the actual aircraft.”
“During my time in the Second Lieutenant, I was assigned to work in the ' geedunk ', running the cashier counter and taking food orders. Each squadron has their own ' geedunk ' ( which is Navy slang for what commoners call a snack bar ). About 10 days after I joined the squadron, I was working in geedunk alone when my commanding officer put on his flight suit to pick up some food to bring on the training flight. The work uniform I'm wearing has my last name pinned to the front of the shirt and the back of the pants."
“Up until this point, my captain had never met me and had no idea who I was. My captain was delighted when he first walked in the door. But that immediately changed when I went back to get him some food… when he read my name on the back of his pants. He's clearly not happy anymore, and I don't know why he's mad at me. He was very serious as he stared at me and said in a firm voice, ' Son, just because you're in VP-49 Woodpecker doesn't mean you don't have to have your own name engraved on it. his uniform! ' I think he thought my name was Woods or Wood or something like that and I was making a play about my name because of the name of the team I was on."
A US Navy P3 Orion anti-submarine aircraft. (Public Domain)
“Here I am, an 18 year old cadet pilot with the captain who is very angry with me, and I am so scared that I cannot say a word back to him. Without saying a word, I pulled out my wallet and gave him my military card. He took it from my hand and looked at it, saw my real name on the card, then looked up at the face of my ID card in surprise and said, ' You mean I have a Woody from Woodpecker. ? ' I said with great relief, ' Yes, sir, I guess so. ' Now he's happy to know that he actually has Woody in Woody . Then, as he started to walk out the door, I blurted out the best question I've ever asked in my Navy career when I said, 'Captain! What does it feel like to fly in one of those great big planes?' "
“He gave me a big smile and said to me, ' Well son, come with me and I'll show you! ' The next thing I knew, my captain hooked me up with the Air Force engineer on his flight that day to watch him during the two-hour pre-flight. After the plane started, while the engine started and moved to the runway, I sat in the pilot's seat and watched everything. We drove the plane to the end of the runway, where we had to wait a few minutes for another plane to land. I was wondering if I should get into a seat somewhere because I was the only person on the plane not wearing a seat belt at the time.”
“Just before I spoke up to ask about it, my captain in the co-pilot turned to the Air Force engineer and said, ' What do you think? Should we put him in there? ' And the Air Force engineer said, ' Sure, captain. ' And then the Air Force engineer unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the FE seat. My captain turned to me and told me to sit in the Air Force engineer chair. I must have had a ' are you crazy? ' when my captain raised his right hand with palm facing me and said, ' Don't worry, son. We'll tell you what to do. '
“I couldn't believe he said that, but didn't wait to ask a second time. I immediately jumped into the seat and the next thing I knew I was pushing all four electric levers forward to set 4,600 hp per engine across the board while the Air Force engineer was actually overseeing the maneuvers. my move. Two and a half hours earlier, I was selling hotdogs at a US Navy store; next thing i know i have 18,400 hp in my control, in my hand via four electric levers, and it feels great! For the next few hours on that flight, I was living a dream. And that dream continued and eventually turned into 22 wonderful years of pure joy.”
"That's the unorthodox way of how I was destined to be a P3 Orion Air Force engineer at the beginning of my Navy career."
"Absolute awe" moment triggered Mr. Woody's spiritually transformative experience
“In 1981, I transferred to VP-6 Blue Sharks at Naval Air Station Barbers Point , Hawaii… where I had an airplane runway incident and experienced a psychic experience in 1982, about 10 months after my on-board test. VP-6 aircraft.
“Technically, the real reason we missed the runway in the first place should never have happened, and I take the blame for that too because there was a time when I could have prevented it from happening right away. from the beginning but I didn't. We all knew we were about to make an emergency landing when the number one outboard engine on the left wing went out. We know any time when the power supply is asymmetric with two engines operating on one wing and only one engine operating on the other wing in a landing situation, the pilot always make a brief landing, discuss the emergency and the asymmetrical power situation in anticipation of a possible turn off the centerline on the runway.”
“The pilot verbally states how he will use the rudder to counter the expected turn to stay on the center line of the runway. That day, my pilot, albeit jokingly, made an emergency rearward landing when he said the exact opposite of what he should do with the rudder to counter the expected turn. The copilot and I realized he was joking, and we let it happen and joked with him, probably because we were both on the same crew and had flown together for a while. long time; so we had a lot of familiarity with each other in the station.”
“I believe that, even though he was joking and we all knew it, his summary was imprinted on his subconscious and he did exactly what he summed up. off, it was exactly the wrong thing to do with the wrong timing , causing the plane to quickly leave the runway at 135 knots [just over 250 km/h]. I learned a very valuable lesson that day. I was told the flight station was not a Comedy Center and was not a place to joke around, especially in an emergency landing situation where the engines were not working. …
Represents Mr. Woody's experience during the unsuccessful landing of the P3 Orion in 1982. (Shutterstock illustration)“The pilot made a mistake and misplaced the rudder during the three-engine emergency landing, and since we have a fire truck on the side of the runway, waiting there to deal with whatever happens. In case we had an accident, we were off the runway and we went straight into one of the fire trucks — I mean straight into it . I was surprised when death was coming at me at more than 135 knots... It was coming at that speed, and I knew it, and all I could think was, ' I won't. I'll never hug my son again.' The boy is a little over 3 years old. I will never meet my wife, my family. You won't believe all the things that go through your head immediately, at that moment, when you know it's over. I don't think I'm going to die. I know it will come. And there's nothing I can do."
“In that moment, all of a sudden, I found myself outside the plane, looking down at everything from a height of about six feet to nine meters, above all. And I'm still having my view when I'm sitting in the chair. So somehow, I'm in two places between all of this, and I don't know what's going on. I am completely confused. I was terrified on the seat - emotionally , I could feel that energy - and I was on the outside of the plane completely calm, as if I were just an observer watching everything. Everything is the same; it gets really weird after that. That ultimately triggered the full spiritual experience where I was in the light, and it had the power, [a] life-changing event. I know that I am in the presence of the Creator. You can't not know. Because energy is exploding in you, of love, peace, harmony . There's so much going on there.
“I also describe another similar out-of-body experience that occurred two days later, when [one] spirit came to me in my sleep. … After I prayed a simple prayer of gratitude right before bed, that 10-second small prayer somehow triggered a total spiritual transformation experience, placing me directly in the presence of the Creator God . I knew at once that I was in the presence of God because I am one with all infinite power, infinite wisdom and intelligence, it is one and the same, because you cannot there is this without the other — and boundless, unconditional love. Only God can do that.”
Mr. Woody shared his story after more than 2 decades of shame and silence
“Within the first two weeks of my experiences on the runway and two days after that, triggered by a simple prayer of gratitude, was when I needed expert help most and did not. get what. I went to see the pastor of a small church in Waianae, Hawaii, and told him what had happened. He looked at me like crazy, turned his back and walked away and didn't say anything to me."
“My wife tried to stop me from asking another pastor at another church while in public, and soon after, a Navy lieutenant, who was on another P3 squadron and was also stationed at Point Barbers of the Naval Air Station , came up to me in the church car park after the service and said, 'I suggest you stop talking about your experience. Otherwise, you risk being labeled mentally unstable and possibly losing your security certificate.'
Mr. Tony Woody, currently 65 years old. (Photo: Tony Woody)“I immediately knew that would mean I would be forced to stop flying and most likely be eliminated from military service altogether. I love the Navy and I love being a P3 Air Force engineer, and swear no one will ever take that away from me no matter what. So my only obvious choice at the time was to stop talking about it. And I did, for over 20 years. But that doesn't work either. You cannot ignore God once He has acted openly in your life and it deeply affects you forever. You can not. I tried, though, really hard; and for a very long time. Doing so cost me a marriage and it caused a lot of other problems in my life, all because I didn't get help when I needed it in the first place. most helpful.
“If I have someone to talk to, anyone, who doesn't judge what I'm saying and just listens and admits that what I'm saying happening to me is completely real to me, then I thought my life would turn out completely different and not have to struggle as much . …
“Around 2010, I was reading a book called ' Lessons from Light ,' written by Dr. Kenneth Ring. After reading that book and learning that other people had had the same experience as me, it was then that I realized that I hadn't really lost my mind, and that I wasn't the only one who had this happen . Immediately after reading the book, I was asked to speak at a church site in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and tell my story publicly for the first time. That's when I decided it was time for me to tell my story, and in my opinion, it's also a way for me to serve God and be His people."
Mr. Woody received wisdom from the Lord of Creation
“I have seen and felt the most beautiful thing that exists. … I experienced God's perfect Love and the energy that filled and expanded endlessly within me with each wave of divine love. I still don't have words to describe that feeling exactly, but I will say it's the best and most amazing feeling ever and I never want to stop feeling the love. wonderful of God. My heart breaks in sorrow as my experience in the light ends, and I cried without tears afterwards. Not a day has passed since then that I have not prayed for another full experience in such light again with my Creator… Now I know I am more than just a human being. Actually we all are and I know it too. In fact, we are all one, and there is no such thing as separate. What we do with 'oneness' we do with people. And we do so most certainly, and especially with ourselves, whether we know it or not. "
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