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My first NDE happened when I was about 5 or 6 years old...
At the time of my experience, I had a very hard life with disease and I had a feeling of disorientation...
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This experience is told to Peggi, a friend of Sheila's for almost 30 years...
I was 16 years old and born into a practicing, Catholic family...
I had a profound NDE as a toddler when I drowned in the ocean at Stinson Beach...
It happened when I was working at a construction site carrying bricks, as I was financially responsible for my family at a young age...
I am driving home from work on a snow-covered highway...
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At the time of this experience, I was in a very depressed period of my life...
This is about my wife, Vera Gonzalez, who passed on May 7th, 2016, and the attending physician assistant/NP-C and I witnessed a light orb leave her body within minutes of dying...
We had arrived in Key West with our two best friends for our annual trip to south Florida...
Six months before my NDE, I had an incredibly, peculiar dream with elements of deeply religious symbology...
I was upstairs, and my brother pushed me from the second story of our house...
