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In December of 1979, I was attending a National Guard weekend drill...
I had undergone stabilization surgery for my unusually severe scoliosis and for a spinal fusion...
My expanded consciousness experience, at least this one (I've had several others similar to it), followed 4 nights and 5 days of no sleep whatsoever due to extreme neck pain...
On February 2, 2013, I went to bed at around 11 pm...
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My experience is different in that it was NOT triggered by a near-death encounter, and yet I came to the same spiritual viewpoint expressed by many who did have that experience...
This time it started in 2014 when I saw '11,11' everywhere and for days...
I was standing in the hospital hallway when I saw four medical staff working on me...
I was lying in the bed with my boyfriend...
I remember my eyes bouncing and I felt decidedly faint...
My experience was the presence of a very beautiful woman who appeared first by changing a radio station to a country music station...
I believe what I experienced was in direct relation to my breast cancer diagnosis...
