Sent Back with Purpose

Back in 2006 something happened within me, a shift you could say. I'm not entirely sure I could describe with words what changed, but something definitely did. It all started one night when I went to ...

In 1992 I had lung surgery. During the surgery, I was anesthetized but never fully seemed to lose consciousness. I remember lying there, watching the monitors as the surgeon began to cut on me. I reme...

I remember the beginning of the dream. There emerged our of deep-sleep darkness, luminous orange ovals against deep brown. The orange morphed into moist peeled carrots on tilled earth. Sensing a prese...

So I was driving home and on a little road by night, at one moment I just became more and more aware of the world and of my life and while I was asking questions, the answers were immediate. It was ex...

It was summer and I was a young teenager who was very physically fit. I rode my three-speed bike every day and would push myself to ride up steep hills, even without hands. One day I was riding with m...

I was up high looking down on a hospital scene. I saw a lot of people in scrubs standing around a table or bed. I did not understand at first that I (my body) was on that bed, and my spirit had left. ...

Last weekend congruent with my experience, I attended an ecumenical retreat in which representatives of all religions of the world were invited. This allowed me to experience the unity between men and...

Conditions around the time of the experience: Brief interludes of asphyxiation/apnea due to violent episodes of heavy coughing probably caused by allergic reactions to pollen that spring, reactions wh...

I was in an extreme emotional state. I had periodically suffered bouts of depression but this time I was unable to work myself out of it. I was not on any medication, nor had it ever occurred to me to...

At the time of this experience, I was in a very depressed period of my life. Following a work related injury, I had already undergone one back surgery and was scheduled for a second. Simultaneously my...

I woke up at 5am with the full moon shining in between the slats of the blinds in my room. I got up, opened the blinds and admired the moon then, I went back to bed and fell asleep. While I was dreami...

Before this event (days of this very enlightened feeling, actually) I had extensive counseling for depression. I came across a book written by Neale Donals Walsh, Conversations with God. This book had...