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I was swimming in a river with some friends of the family...
Just after they smashed my face with a rock, I felt myself raising from a horizontal position and slowly rising from the surface to an upright position...
I was born in Hawthorne, California, have an older brother and younger sister...
I was looking down at the hospital bed where I was lying...
I fell out of an attic onto a concrete garage floor head first...
It was a normal day...
As I was put in an ambulance, I was above watching what was going on...
I had been ill from a recent operation I had had...
I was in a field and this place was the most beautiful, peaceful place I had ever been...
Sunday afternoon on a beautiful sunny day in Georgia, my family and friends were at a local lake...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
