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I was on a 35 hour bus trip in Brazil, this was 1991...
We were living in a caravan park awaiting completion of the purchase of our house when the accident happened...
I sought to disprove the Zen Buddhism by following a Zen master's instruction...
I was a very cheerful, sociable and pretty much intelligent guy with a bright future waiting...
I went to the beach that day to go surfing...
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 lying in bed awake when I 'saw' a black, ropy, roiling mass coming down toward me from a point at my upper left...
My first love boyfriend had broken up with me and I didn't know why...
My mother was a widow when I was born in February 1963, only three weeks after my biological father passed away...
I was headed to a dentist appointment at 9:30am...
At the age of 9 years old, I was sleeping like other nights but saw a strange dream...
