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When I had my near-death experience in 1990 it was an experience I will never forget because of the tremendous impact it had on my life...
On December 29, 2007, I had a phone call from a doctor telling me that I needed to immediately come back into the hospital to have an emergency surgery...
Growing up, I was raised in a very restricted environment; close-minded views surrounding me always and family relationships were as thin as paper...
For years, I was an obnoxiously militant atheist...
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I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
It was the spring before my 11th birthday...
My experience took me back to my previous life, I was an American soldier fighting in Korea...
At that night, June 12 1985 I was lying on my left side waiting to fall a sleep and a question came to my mind: “Will I continue like this the rest of my life, most of the time every year I do manual labor, and to be honest it is drudgery...
This is my best recollection of what I experienced at age 6 when I was drowning in a Wisconsin lake...
I was six years old and was very ill with scarlet fever...
I experienced an imprint of what was a body of light above my body...
