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GOD’s ECOSYSTEM 2015
I had never heard of IANDS, International Association for Near-Death Studies, until I read a recent article on The Atlantic.com by Gideon Lichfield (3/2015). I had my reservations but after reviewing IANDS professional research organization, I wanted to share my trauma - lifethreating occurrences.
I was in the Navy stationed in Wales. The traffic pattern is opposite ours in the USA, and I was riding a bicycle. I had been there for two weeks, so I was not used to the traffic, and I pulled out in front of an oncoming car going through the windshield.
I had cataracts removed from both eyes and in the months following the operations the glare from sunshine, from television, even from my computer screen was unbearable. Eventually I decided to use the pain I was suffering as a symbolic statement indicating that I was unable to deal with The Light, so dropping down into a deep meditative state I began a visualization – a sort of waking dream –
The anesthesiologist showed me that the line was in a blood vessel and she would have to retry it. At that moment, I saw my blood pressure drop to 40/20 and I knew what that meant. I felt myself starting to fall over. At the same time I saw a boundary between darkness and light appear. I started to rise above the dark boundary and go into the light. The most interesting thing was that I felt no pain.
I had a seizure that caused me to code (no pulse or heartbeat). The nurses called rapid response code and I was once again taken back to the ICU. When I got to the room with, machines connected to me, is when I started to drift from the world.
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