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Four years ago, I was driving home from work when I was rear-ended. I was struck so hard that the driver's side shock was ejected and it hit me in the head. The driver's side rear tire hit the back of my seat. In all I had a TBI, 4 broken vertebra, 6 broken ribs, punctured lung, and a stopped heart. I was called in as a fatality. During this time I had an entire conversation with my grandfather who had been dead 21 years. This is the only thing I remember from my accident. The only thing I remember from my 4+ week hospital stay was telling my granny that papaw said he'd "be waiting". She died less than a month later.
I was in college, partying. That evening, my friends and I had drank a lot, took some pills and smoked weed which we didn't realize was laced with something. I started seeing images and could barely walk; I don't remember much. My friends had to drag me out of the apartment we were partying in.
My NDE was because of an auto accident. The date of the accident was August 5, 2000. I had just finished some errands around town and I was heading to my counseling appointment. I was driving on a surface street around 9 in the morning. I had the green light going through the intersection, when an errant driver slammed his car into my driver’s door.
I attended a meeting for work in October 1996 at Aruba in the Caribbean Sea. The meeting was scheduled for a week and one afternoon during free time, I chose a "Sea Ventures Snorkeling Cruise" in a very large boat. The Captain recommended we wear life vests, but I jumped into the sea with just a snorkel and frog shoes. It was about 2:00 in the afternoon and the boat dropped anchor about 200 meters from the shore.
My first clear personal direct encounter with God as I see it was when I attended a service of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum just before Christmas of 2009. The subject was "The Birth of Light" and I clearly felt the presence of the Holy Spirit: subtle yet absolutely unmistakable. In 1983 I had been baptised in a rather liberal Baptist church in England, but the effect, ecstatic at the time, had not stayed.
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