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Sometimes an experience can be so intense and so profound that it changes your entire life...
I was with my friends from taekwondo at the pool...
I knew I was dying and there was nothing to stop it...
In the year of 1995, I was living in Costa Rica with the father of my children...
When I was approximately 8 years old, my Father took my brother and me to see a wrestling match about an hour and a half away...
One day in July, I felt ill with cramps and could not walk or urinate...
The experience happened in 1999 or 2000...
I was 26 years old and highly stressed at calling off the wedding, which was a month away...
I was going to work on my motorcycle, when I saw a car in front of me, at an intersection...
After feeling as if I couldn't breathe, I went through a white, spinning tunnel...
I recall flying over myself while lying on an operating room table in a hospital...
When I was four years old, I climbed up the olive tree in my neighbor's yard...
