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Sleeping at night at a friend's home, on the guest couch...
It was December 26th at 6:30 in the morning I laid down to take a few hours nap before my children would be out of bed...
Translation: I was lying down face-up on my living-room sofa doing a relaxation exercise...
My experience completely changed my life during during a surgery over half my life ago...
I was walking along, and just as I was about to cross a street with lots of traffic thinking about the love of God, when I was completely enveloped by an extremely brilliant light and felt overtaken by an infinite, complete love...
My mom passed away three and a half years prior to when I had this experience...
I was meditating for the first time...
As mentioned, I shut my eyes for a short time as I laid in bed...
I was hopping a train and my legs were about to be cut off via catching them on the wheel...
I was playing out on the ice with a couple of buddies, when I fell through the ice...
My experience didn't really seem to have a beginning, I just seemed to become aware...
In 2018, a sudden and severe illness put me into a coma and in the ICU for some time...
