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I am an experienced emergency medicine physician...
Before: On Saturday, July 20th, 2013 I was at a music festival with friends in Ohio...
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Eight years ago, I was on life support because I had complete organ failure...
Having been raised in fundamentalist background, I was taught the standard doctrines of Christianity...
My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
I had a very bad drug problem at the time...
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My first memory is of a dark tunnel, either being pulled or "sucked" very quickly towards an extremely bright white light, so bright that I was afraid that I would be incinerated, or at the very least blinded if I was to enter the light...
When I was 15-years-old, I began suffering from a strange psychological illness that confounded doctors...
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I overdosed on multiple types of drugs...
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My ex-girlfriend went psychotic...
A second after my last thought I was standing in a vast cave/tunnel - it seemed to turn in on itself - the best I can describe it is to have you imagine that you are a speck or the tip of a pin standing inside one of those cat toys that the ball spins aroun...
I had ask God to take me from this planet and I was very upset and just wanted to die and go away...
