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In September 2009, I was dying of cancer...
My expanded consciousness experience, at least this one (I've had several others similar to it), followed 4 nights and 5 days of no sleep whatsoever due to extreme neck pain...
On February 2, 2013, I went to bed at around 11 pm...
My experience is different in that it was NOT triggered by a near-death encounter, and yet I came to the same spiritual viewpoint expressed by many who did have that experience...
I was lying in the bed with my boyfriend...
I was 8 years old and I was attending a pool party for my brother's baseball team...
Before my special experience I experienced several blood pressure crises in a short time...
I was sitting in my living room thinking of what my relationship as creature could be with the Creator...
It was the Christmas holiday season...
I suddenly felt angry like I had been to lied my entire life about who I was and what I was and where I was from...
POUR OUT MY SPIRIT When I was eight years old, I had an unusual dream one night...
I was 17 and was sitting through a spiritualist church service on Easter Sunday...
