President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Geospace
Search every verified Richard Kelley interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote โ each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Richard Kelley, president, CEO, and director of Geospace, has described a near-death experience he said occurred when he was 15 years old. In a 2015 interview, Kelley stated that he drowned in the ocean after being caught in a wave while on a blowup raft. He recounted experiencing a profound sense of peace and feeling loved, and said he perceived himself leaving Earth and viewing the planet from space, where he felt all information about any person's life was available. Kelley described the experience as being in a "wonderful place" where he felt "completely loved and in touch with a vast array of other beings," and said he was told it was not his time to go. Kelley has also shared philosophical reflections based on his experience. He described life as a "play" that people co-author, and stated that "you can never be a victim unless you choose to be one." He compared a potential God to "the root and the tree" with humans as "branches and leaves." Kelley said he has "never looked at life the same again" following the event.
“I died when I was 15 years old. I drowned out in the ocean more specifically I was out beyond the waves on a blowup raft. It took some energy to get out there so I turned around and was facing the beach, not realizing the waves come in sets and break progressively closer to the shore.”
“At that point, this incredible profound sense of peace overcame me. Somehow I had this sense that I was going to be okay, no harm was going to come to me. This was a distinctly feeling that I was loved, which begged the question by whom.”
“I pictured myself leaving the Earth and out in space looking at the Earth from not a considerable distance. At that moment, I could have told you any given moment in any person's life on that planet and all of that information was right there, available to any person that had ever lived or ever would live there.”
“We are all co-authoring each other's plays as well as our own and getting together and putting this play together. What happens here is all an experiment in what it's like to focus on a given set of circumstances of our own making, and it's okay. It doesn't make any difference how it turns out.”
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