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I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago in the Englewood district...
When I was 3 years old, I knelt by the garden pond and reached for a water lily...
I closed my eyes as my essence left my body...
I was visiting a college friend's home in Kansas...
I felt myself float out of my body...
PRIOR TO THE EXPERIENCE I was in the midst of another episode of debilitating depression...
Before my experience, I was in a delirium that was apart from stress...
I was in bed and had been sleeping but during the experience I was definitely not asleep...
At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event...
It was night and I was asleep when I saw a sun colored light...
I went on a weekend white water trip with friends on the Gauly and New Rivers in rural West Virginia...
We were all training on combative techniques...
