The Light

For a period of five days after surgery, I was in a semi-conscious state. My body was not responding to the antibiotics, and I did not have any energy to fight for my life. I began to leave my body an...

Months prior to my experience, I had gone through an abortion. I dreaded my decision and actually contemplated suicide out of remorse and guilt feelings. I struggled with how to forgive myself and how...

My sister and I were two and three years old. We climbed onto the sink into the cabinet and took out the St. Joseph aspirins. I split them up two for her three for me, one for her two for me. When the...

My experience occurred the summer of '87 or '88, when I was 18 or 19 years old. I was in a good mood and was heading home to Peoria through Pottstown, Illinois. The windows were down in my 1978 baby b...

I was taken ill on 01/31/2021 and wound up in hospital. I was diagnosed with atrail fibrillation (irregular heartbeat) and dilated cardiomyopathy. I was admitted to hospital because my blood pressure ...

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 ...

I must say that I have thought about it enough to publish what I am going to relate, either out of shame and stigmatization due to the environment or circumstances which caused the experience to occur...

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 thought I had acid reflux. On the third day, the pain moved to my shoulders and I had trouble breathing. I was sitting on the couch and all of a sudden I was no longer in my house I was standing on ...

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...

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...