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I arrived late in the evening at the hospital...
Sunday, June 20, 1954, I believe @ 10:47 am {Father’s Day} At this time, I was Five Years-Six months old...
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I was in a dark area, like in a room...
I was on a group, mountain biking ride in a remote part of San Mateo County and about 20 miles south of San Francisco...
I am an experienced emergency medicine physician...
I think my experience is hard to believe, yet it is real...
It was one night, I was asleep at home around 11 pm when the phone started ringing, it was my sister-in-law and she was crying...
July 1, 1988, I was a private in the United States Marine Corps, having just graduated boot camp in April...
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Eight years ago, I was on life support because I had complete organ failure...
Having been raised in fundamentalist background, I was taught the standard doctrines of Christianity...
My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
My first memory is of a dark tunnel, either being pulled or "sucked" very quickly towards an extremely bright white light, so bright that I was afraid that I would be incinerated, or at the very least blinded if I was to enter the light...
