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Your religious background at the time of the experience: Christian- Catholic Your religious background currently: Christian- Catholic Other/Comments: Do not recognize myself anymore in the too tight representation of the divine by religions...
I went to sleep like normal...
I had learn the Prayer of Centering while on a retreat at a Trappist monastery the prior...
The bus driver was pushing the brakes too hard...
I was 14 years old...
We lived in a neighborhood where we all felt safe...
Before the age of 5 years old I always felt as though I was special, as though God was watching over me...
I was suicidal; I wanted to die...
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PRIOR TO THE EXPERIENCE I was in the midst of another episode of debilitating depression...
I was approximately 7 months pregnant...
Having been raised in fundamentalist background, I was taught the standard doctrines of Christianity...
I was surfing in Florida and the waves were around 8 feet high, which is bigger than I am used to surfing...
