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I was headed to a dentist appointment at 9:30am...
A second after my last thought I was standing in a vast cave/tunnel - it seemed to turn in on itself - the best I can describe it is to have you imagine that you are a speck or the tip of a pin standing inside one of those cat toys that the ball spins aroun...
I would like to relate an event that first brought about my spiritual awakening in the year 2000...
I had experienced some transformative experiences prior to this, one on mescaline as a therapy tool and one in high school which popped up quite unexpectedly while musing about a photo of a galaxy...
I vividly remember the feeling of a white light and an absolute peace...
At the age of 9 years old, I was sleeping like other nights but saw a strange dream...
I was working in a psychiatric hospital...
Instead of viewing death as simply loss and failure, is it possible that death can actually offer an opportunity for growth...
First of all, excuse me for the mistakes in the writing, I am Brazilian and my native language is Portuguese...
At that night, June 12 1985 I was lying on my left side waiting to fall a sleep and a question came to my mind: “Will I continue like this the rest of my life, most of the time every year I do manual labor, and to be honest it is drudgery...
Around the time of the experience, I had a fairly easy life economically and I was not threatened physically, but I was growing increasingly despaired...
I simply have to tell it, but after reading so many accounts here, I don't know if my experience fits NDE...
