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The experience began as a dream...
Whilst on the operating table and after suffering from a heart attack, I found myself in a dark tunnel...
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, or because of the fear of being singled out...
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I had 2 NDEs a few days apart in early August of 1997...
My memories are of Pre-Birth...
I am going to turn 62...
I want to preface my experience by telling you about two earlier NDEs I had as a child, and to explain the events of my childhood that led up to my main NDE story...
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I remember the beginning of the dream...
I experienced something more real than Earth, Heaven or Hell, and something beyond any religion...
I was having open-heart surgery...
Last weekend congruent with my experience, I attended an ecumenical retreat in which representatives of all religions of the world were invited...
At the time of my NDE, I was around four months pregnant with my first child...
