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I saw myself in bed; I was at the ceiling and I thought that was fun, I loved the bird's eye view...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
I had just returned to Georgia from a reunion party in Texas...
The first event that I can remember was when I was three years old...
I was swimming in a pool and removed my life jacket...
I fell out of an attic onto a concrete garage floor head first...
It was a normal day...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
Beautiful day swimming in the sea side resort beach with sisters and cousins...
I floated above in the room, I could see everything that was going on, but not afraid or concerned with it...
I was giving flying instruction in Peru, 900 Km away from our operations center in Lima...
