EXPERIENCES

1) "I work in the health care profession with terminally ill patients. I am usually with these patients during the last months, weeks, days, and moments of their lives. Some patients have experienced clinical deaths prior to their actual passing. I have been told by 90% of these patients that during their clinical death they have an out of body experience, usually being able to witness the viewing of their physical body with great detail. All claim to be in a more peaceful state of being while in this state. And many have reported that they wished that they could have remained in this state as opposed to returning to the physical plane where they were experiencing a great deal of physical pain or suffering. What I personally find noteworthy about these findings is that these patients come from diverse social economic racial and religious backgrounds. 70% are over the age of 55 years and would not consider themselves in touch with "new age" thinking."

2) "In 1990 I was in an automobile accident/lame suicide attempt. I was rushed to ICU with a flail (crushed) chest. I died 3 times. Each time there was a sensation of floating, looking down on myself on the bed, followed by what I can only describe as loud noise (I'm deaf, so matching it to a noise is not possible). Just when I thought I couldn't fall any faster, I landed gently on 6 or 7 rows of black and white checkerboard tiles. I walked to the last row where the edge was, and started to lean forward to walk over the tiles. Below was the most intense emptiness I've ever known. I felt pissed off and exasperated. I started to walk off the edge and a "voice" came to my head scolding me "EDDIE!!!" Again, the deaf thing comes into play, but I knew it was my mother who died a few years before. I felt her hand grab the back of my neck and pull me back. When this happened, I woke up in the hospital bed. As I said, I had the exact experience three times."

3) "Once, I was with my boyfriend at the lake. We were sitting on the dock talking. Somehow or other I fell in. I can't swim at all and I'm terrified of the water. It was late, so no one was there to pull me out except my boyfriend. I remember drowning and hearing the fuzzy sound of my name being called. I remember drowning and feeling sorrowful. Then I heard my boyfriend call my name again. I knew I had to go back to him. And I did."

4) "When I was 16, about 10 years ago, I was with my girlfriend camping in my van on some abandoned house, it was raining like I had never seen before, I went outside to take a leak and a thunder hit me. I remember standing up and my girlfriend sitting on the floor crying. I went up to her and she wouldn't answer me, so I turned back to see what was she looking at and I saw my body laying on the floor. Then everything started fading away and I woke up in some hospital. It was a pretty terrifying experience."

5) "I was formerly a sculptor and I used a lot of big steel beams in my outdoor installations. I was working alone in my studio one day when there was a hideous accident when the portable steel saw I was using slipped; severing my leg. Amazingly, I felt no pain; even though I was bleeding profusely. I saw everything very clearly for a few moments, then the exterior world faded and I saw a fabulous vision of the Sacred Heart. Then I heard a melodious voice telling me that my time had not yet come; and I must return. I was very reluctant to go back because I had never felt such peace and joy. Gradually the vision faded and when I returned to consciousness I was in the ambulance. I still have no idea who called 911 because I was alone on the property, but the paramedics claim to have seen a woman in white leaving my studio as they arrived. I have no idea who she was. After two years of sometimes painful therapy, I can now walk again using a prosthetic limb. I feel that I have found my true calling spreading the gospel of Our Lord and Saviour among the disabled."

6) "Well, I once was sleeping, and I woke up. I found myself floating towards a big, white light in the middle of my room. I wasn't sucked in, because I struggled. It was really weird, and it wasn't a dream, because I went to school right after that, with no in-between period. It was either real, or I have been dreaming for about 25 years. I still don't believe it, but I felt like talking to somebody."

7) "When I was approximately 12 years old, I was out on my bicycle on my street jumping curbs. I did this often as a child. I really enjoyed jumping this one curb that was very steep. The last time I jumped that curb my foot slipped off the pedal and I flew off the bike over the handlebars straight into a tree. I saw the tree flying straight at me. At that exact moment, I knew I was dead. The only thing I could say was, no. As I screamed "NO!" I felt a very HOT sensation flow through my body for an instant. I then became unconscious. When I awoke a few moments later, I saw that I was on the other side of the tree. I knew there was no way I could have missed the tree. When I stood up, I realized my entire body was covered in tree sap. I have no explanation on how it happened, but I passed THROUGH the tree unharmed."

8) "I once woke up and was standing next to my bed looking at my body. Then, I freaked out, and did not like it. I then opened the door to wake my sister, but I could not open the door, cause my hand did not function. I then woke up."

9) "I remember when I was about six years old, waking up in the middle of the night. I don't know what it was that woke me, but I do know that once awake I was starring nose to nose with a brown bear standing motionless and silent at the head of my bunkbed. This worried me quite a bit, so, after laying motionless and silent for what seemed to be eternity, I quietly exited via the foot of the bed moved swiftly out of my bedroom and off to tell my parents of my encounter. Needless to say, they saw no real need to investigate and I seemed pretty safe in their room. Of course the bright morning sun had chased off my nocturnal visitor by the time I would return and find my older brother soundly sleeping in the lower bunk. They can say what they want, but I can still see the moonlight sparkle in that great bear's eyes today........ "

10) "Like one time I was driving and I crashed into a tree and I left my body and floated around the city for a while until I awoke at the hospital! COOL HUH?"

11) "I was about ten years old and I was going to make an operation in order to take away my tonsils. Everything was just fine until I should be put to sleep; they put a gas mask over my face and I first started to see bending wavy lines in red on one side and green on the other. At the same time I heard an awful loud eery sound - then suddenly everything was comp- lately calm, yet I was still awake. I was only about ten, but the transparent woman I saw laying down, floating in the air in the middle of a black but peaceful darkness was - me!!! I was just about ten to fifteen years older!!! My older self was conscious, but resting with closed eyes, and I was some- where outside my body, looking at her, laying as if inside the body and on the brits, but I could only see "her"/"me", this clearly visible, but completely transparent - WOMAN."

12) "Once when I was about 7 years old, I had a really bad case of pneumonia. I was lying in my parent's bed, when all of a sudden I felt like I couldn't breathe. I gasped and choked for a moment, screaming for my mom. Then, strangely, I watched the scene unfold for myself before my very eyes. I felt as if I were hovering a few feet above the bed, staring down at my own motionless figure, with the blue face. Watching as my mother ran in, I tried to yell at her, tell her that I was okay. But she just started screaming and crying, and acted as if she couldn't hear me. As I watched she ran to the phone. Later she told me that she had dialed 911. When the paramedics arrived I watched as they performed CPR. It had only taken them a minute or two to reach my house. Suddenly, I was back inside of my own body. I have told this story to many people, and some say that it must have been a dream. But I know it wasn't. Because after they were able to revive me for a moment, my lungs failed again. I was rushed to the hospital. Today I am blessed with life, but left with only one lung."

13) "When I was 17 I overdosed and died for about 6 minutes. The maximum flat-line is 5 and I saw hell face to face."

14) "I got totally sloshed one night. I registered over 2.0 on the breathalyzer. I ended up heading north on the south- bound lanes of an Interstate. The last thing I remembered was huddling my car up against the guard rail - there was no room for me to get completely off the expressway - while sets of headlights rushed toward me at 70 miles an hour with horns blaring. The next thing I remembered was the flashing red lights of a police car come to rescue me. I was taken in to jail, released to my wife, given a reduced sentence. I quit drinking, became a wonderfully well-adjusted as I watched my children grown up, move on to begin families of their own, became a grandfather... Only there is that blank space between the time I realized I was on the wrong side of the expressway about to be obliterated by one semi after another hurtling toward me, and when the police arrived with his flashing light, the time between the attacking white lights and the saving red light. What if I didn't survive that night? How would I know? What if all that has happened since has been an illusion? An instant from now I could wake up and realize that it all has been an illusion, these past thirty years. How will I ever know for sure?"

15) "One day I was fishing with my dog and I fell in and drowned then it was like I was in a dream but then my dog pulled me out and I woke up with him licking my face."

16) "Once I fell and when I woke up, I was in a totally different place! weird..."

17) "My boyfriend and I were out doing drugs one night and on the way home we got into a car accident, I remember feeling warm and seeing bright lights...my boyfriend took my hand and when I turned around I saw our bodies laying on the pavement...next thing I knew I was in an ambulance on the way to the hospital...my boyfriend wasn't as lucky as I was though, he really did die."

18) "I have died many times and gotten a new life. My closest guess of how many lives I have lived is about 14. They all have similarities and I meet people from other lives in new lives with their personalities the same but bodies, race, sex... different. The main thing you must watch out for when doing past life regression is to not get stuck in a replay of one of your deaths for you can get stuck and be catatonic for a long time ((I did for 3 months))"

19) "I have strange feeling sometimes. I remember some of my previous lives. If I close my eyes and leave myself to be led by mindstorm I usually see uncommon things. I'm sure I fought in the 1st World War, I think I was a German soldier. I know I died in Japan in 1492. I remember my name, my rank, the shiro I should defend and I failed. Before this time I was a Scottish man or woman, I can't remember, but two things are clear: I loved whiskey and the national music. I lived somewhere in Europe in the XIII or XIV century, I was somebody related to the royal household. Maybe I was a musician. Also, I had a very bad life in Greece, sometime before Christ, I was a humiliated woman. I will never go there, because I feel pain still. I lived in France at the Revolution, in 1789. I do remember something, but it was a bad life for me. I know all lives are to improve the soul and prepare for something, I don't know exactly what for. Maybe, I have to live at least one more life, because this one is not perfect, but can be. Finally, I do not use drugs, never drink alcohol... yes, maybe I'm crazy, but what can you say if you know five seconds before the phone rings who will call you and why, and what are you if you can read people's minds like an open book? And what is the conclusion if you can see your light dark aura?"

20) "In my childhood I experienced out of body experiences on numerous occasions. This only occurred whilst living with my grannie. Whilst sleeping in my grannie's bed I would feel myself floating up to the ceiling and looking down on the room to see everything in its place. Upon wakening up I would feel funny wondering if this was a dream or if this was reality. Now that I am older I am still unsure if this was a dream or reality."

21) "I have died."

22) "I was at The Convention for Failing Immune Systems late last year. I was reading this advertisement for plastic bubbles (you know? to live in) when I had to sneeze. Well, I couldn't sneeze because I might get kicked out and I really wanted that plastic bubble. I held my my nose in a futile attempt at stopping this pathogen ejaculation. I Blew my !@#$#@#$% head off by holding my nose when I sneezed. Well I died and as part of the task for getting my wings to eventually go to heaven I must warn people of this mistake I made. I only hope that people can learn from this and just not hold their nose when they sneeze. Convention for Failing Immune Systems or not. It's just not worth it man!!! For more information call the HOLDING YOUR NOSE IN SIN Hotline at (1-317-747-9480) They can help. Thanks for your time.........."

23) "I have experienced 'astral projection' several times. I have seen myself several times from a distance. I have gone to Hawaii while my mortal shell has slept. Don't believe me?...I have the postcard to prove it!!!"

24) "People want more than one life. Because they don't like the one they have now. Or maybe they are just afraid to die.............. I've had a near-death experience. Saw nothing, Heard nothing, felt nothing. I was just dead!"

25) "When I was 11, me and my family went camping at Lake Gaston (the part crossing into Virginia) and we slept in the kind of tent that has a separator in the middle...well anyways what happened was while we were sleeping I woke and had to use the bathroom...so I headed up to the bathhouse and after I was done..I stepped out and closed the door...when I turned around I was staring right into the eyes of a baby bear on its hind legs...I was scared as heck.. I guess I passed out and woke up with the same baby bear sniffing me, licking me, and touching me with one of his paws...I figured it would be all right to pet it so I did.. then out of nowhere the mom-bear comes running up growling very loudly at me 'cause I was with her baby...I started to run (not knowing any better), I ran all the way to the tent and kept on going to the ranger station were I banged on the door..when no one answered I kicked the window and broke the glass out of it....climbed in and then there was a *BOOM*, I peeked through the broken window and there was the mom bear sitting back and seeming kinda disoriented...it started walking away and wobbling a little bit...I then started to walk back to the tent but before I did I wrote a note saying why the window was busted and why the side of the station had a large dent in it...I never did see the mom bear again...I did see the baby walking around near the bathhouse so I kinda changed course and went to the tent the back way..so to speak...."

26) "EVERY DAY IS A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE."

27) "Whenever I want I can leave my body -- weird."

28) "Several months ago I was asleep in my bed and I was dreaming. In my dream I was dead. The dream opened up with my eyes totally captivated by a bright white light. It felt like the light wasn't singular, it felt like it was made up of many somethings, kind of like a collective of souls. Around me small orbs of light, singular the way the main one wasn't, would drift slowly past me and I felt a tugging at the edges of my self, kind of like I was at the edge of a river, in the shallows, but far enough out to feel the pull of the current, and I wanted to flow with it so badly. And then I began to look around. I realized that for some reason I didn't care about anything. It was as if everything in my life and everyone else's life had ceased to affect me emotionally. It was mildly interesting to look at my friends and see them in tears, or laughing, but it didn't touch me inside. And the funny thing was that although I was in a room I could look past the walls at any place, at any time. And then I looked down and I saw myself, my body, laying as if asleep, but too still on a bed in a sparse room I wasn't familiar with. The walls I knew were white, but everything was bathed in a blue light and everything had a blue tint. I remember looking down at my body, I was hovering in the air, and I remember being touched by this sadness, this infinite sadness, because I knew I couldn't lose my self in that beautiful current, I knew I couldn't join that gorgeous collective and be accepted, for a change, for the beauty inside me. And I gazed at my body and slowly I sank down until I was on the bed. I then lay down in my body, and woke up. It was six in the morning, and usually when I wake up that early my eyes are grainy and heavy, and I'm stiff, but this time I was completely rested and not a bit stiff. It was a beautiful dream, but it was more than a dream. Dreams have a certain detached feeling to them. In this case my consciousness had been fully absorbed in what was happening. I had never really thought much one way or another about whether death was good or bad, but since my "dream" I certainly look forward to it. The feeling of relaxation and peace was so strong because nothing in my life was important any more, nothing had to be worried about. There was so much more to the dream, I couldn't begin to go into it because it was mainly feeling and it's rather hard to describe. It was just so beautiful. I tell people about my dream and the "soul collective," and they tell me I'm stupid."

29) "Quite often, I find myself walking in places I've never been. I see people that I've never seen. I try to talk to them but they never respond. This happens when I'm awake as well as asleep. I can sometimes walk through solid objects as well. But, it doesn't feel like walking. Am I having an out of body experience? There is always a significant loss of time when this happens. And I can't remember what I was consciously doing at that particular time."

30) "I died and came back as a ghost that's all I have to say, thank you."

31) "I was having sex one time when I suddenly had a weird sensation (no it wasn't my first orgasm). I was floating over the bed and watching my partner going on as if I were still there. I still felt like I was having sex. Suddenly I was violently dropped back into my partner's body and she was put in my body. Now I have the personality of a man but the body of a woman."

32) "I walked into a wall and knocked myself out and then I died and came back to life."

33) "Just last night I had a very strange experience. I lost myself. I cannot explain exactly what happened. All I know is that I was no longer "thinking" or connected to my brain. There was a strange sensation and I lost contact with my ears. I could not hear anything. I began to struggle, then all senses came back to me. That is all I can tell you."

34) "I remember I was hit by a car when I was 10. I was riding my bike and I didn't look both ways. There the car came flying down the road and hit me. I felt myself sort of being lifted up and I turned my head around, and there I was, lying next to my bike. I remember feeling like I wasn't real but yet I was. It was strange. Then I remember feeling real sleepy and I felt like lying down, next thing I remember, I was in the recovery room."

35) "I had a dream that I was outside in the inner city of L.A. and derailed a train and killed 400 people and I also dreamt that I kidnapped two people and when I woke up there were two missing and a train derailed in L.A."

36) "Once when I was about 12 I had a dream that these guys were upstairs in the kitchen banging pots and pans and making a mess and then I woke up and heard noise in the kitchen. It was really loud. Then it stopped. When I got up in the morning the kitchen's cabinets were all messed up. But the weird part is that I remember what the guys looked like."

37) "It was about three months ago that I had fallen on a rock and split my head open. You see, me and my girlfriend were hiking through this river system in Ohio and I slipped on some moss. I remember flying out of my body through my skull and picking myself off the ground and out of the water. I looked at my girlfriend as she started to cry, I looked in her eyes but she looked right through me. I tried to touch her face but I guess you can't touch heaven if you're already there. I then threw my body into the river and watched it float downstream. I then remember blacking out. When I awoke, I was at home in my bed. My girlfriend didn't remember going hiking that weekend and I thought she was joking. Then I remember walking through the woods the next day. I started walking along a stream and as suddenly as it had appeared, my blue duffel bag floated by, then disappeared."

38) "This isn't a 'near death' thing or anything but I keep on having dreams of a house I have never been in before yet I always have the feeling that I have and I'm very familiar where rooms lead. I don't know what to think."

39) "I have dreamt that I was a Frenchman during the inquisition and I was accused of being a heretic. They killed my wife, my children... I would have died too if I had not run into a monastery where they had no idea of my notoriety. I lived there comfortably until people no longer remembered me. After that, I led a sad, unfulfilled life."

40) "I can remember a beautiful place, with beautiful colors, beautiful music and it is not a dream as I thought for a long time . It is a real memory . And I'm hoping that this is the place I'm going to when I die."

41) "In 1978 I was in a motorcycle accident. I was a passenger on the back of my buddy's bike. We were going down the street at a rather high rate of speed. My friend didn't see the stop sign at the intersection, and we hit a car. I remember "floating" above my body, looking down at myself, my friend, the motorcycle. The next thing I remember, I was screaming "NO!" and taking off my helmet and throwing it to the ground."

42) “In 1993 me and my boy friend Carleton had left Tiertex and were driving to a gig in the village. Just as we passed Oxford Road Station, I went all funky in the head, I felt as if a great weight had come over my body and my limbs couldn't move. The world around me went bright and false, all I could hear was Carleton shouting Curley darling, the world went black then white, bright white. I was looking down on our car, a red Ford. I watched the car slowly smash into a white Citroen car, it was horrid but I felt strangely calm. At that I heard a scream, Carleton's scream, I felt my body arch, blackness and I was back. I and my Carleton were okay, just a little bruised. The man in the other car, an American chap called Greg had been drinking and had lost control of his car. I believe that day I left my body for a moment, why, I don’t know.”

43) "On September 18, 1978, I was eleven and riding a 50cc Honda mini-bike around the family farm. It quit and I could not get it to kick start. It must have overheated because the exhaust pipe was red-hot. I decided to push it down a hill on the road to get it started. It started but didn't have enough power to get me back up the hill. I had the throttle wide-open and in first gear and it was barely pulling itself up the shoulder of the road. I walked beside it as it went up the hill. I never heard the Chevy pickup coming from behind me. The driver of the pickup never saw me; the sun was just above the road and the asphalt glassy because of the hot fall day. He was traveling around 60 mph. I was in severe shock to the point that my body functions started to shut down; I told my mother that I was blind while in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. By the time I got to the hospital, the veins in my arms and legs had collapsed and they had to blood-type me by drawing blood from my stomach area above the pelvis. I was in the hospital six weeks. I was pretty much a mess. I know I am lucky to be alive. I do not know if I had a "near-death experience." What I do know is that I had the same nightmare repetitively for a long time after the accident. I was viewing a procession line from above. The room was absolute darkness with the exception of a man that glowed in pure white light. The light seemed to come from within rather than shining on him. I don't have an image of the man in my mind, just an impression of a silhouette surrounded by an aura. The procession line went off into infinity. The man was clearly the judge. A person would come up, get on their knees and beg for mercy. They would repeat over and over, "Please don't kill me. Please don't kill me. I haven't done anything wrong. Please don't kill me." and eventually the man would lash out and the impression I have is of chopping off the head. Then that person would fade and the next would come up and do the exact same thing. Now 18 years later, I don't remember if this was just an ordinary nightmare or actually occurred at the time of the accident with follow-on nightmares; I remember very little from age 11 to about age 15. I think that the mind tends to block out hard memories. I believe that when the body experiences trauma, the brain is affected by the shock and a type of day-dreaming occurs. I do not believe in the after-life."

44) "Briefly, I am a 53 year old woman who, in Feb. 1993, had been very ill with a flu on top of several chronic ailments, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I thought I was dying, as I was so weak and had not been able to get up to eat, and I could not have eaten I was so weak, anyway. So, I fell asleep. During the night, I had a very vivid dream vision of my self being up on the ceiling and looking down at my body sleeping on the bed. I saw the figure of a very, very large man sitting next to my prone body, and as he massaged my back, I suddenly heard the words, "The father is healing the daughter." Then I felt very warm, radiant waves of energy flow through my body and I was back inside my body on the bed. When I awoke the next day I recalled the dream vision and realized I felt totally!! all better, with no pain, no fatigue, no weakness or depression... etc. I remained totally happy and pain-free for over a week, and then the Chronic Fatigue symptoms began to come back. I feel I had a near-death experience during my sleep and was healed by my father who had passed away in spirit in Jan. 1980."

45)"My name is Cynthia. When I turned 16 years old, I had an experience of Out of Body. It seemed so real, but in very slow motion. At the time I got pneumonia. Maybe I was just hallucinating but it seemed like a message from God. After that I have been more aware of my inner self. Strange symbolic signs and visions have came to me."

46) "This story is not about a near death experience, but rather about a spiritual encounter. As a child my family did a lot of traveling on account of my father being in the Air Force. We spent a great deal of time together on the roads before flying to our destinations overseas. Well, on this particular occasion, we had stopped in California to stay with a friend of the family for a few days for rest and a long needed visit. She was a widow, mothering two daughters, whose husband had died of cancer a few years prior. On one particular morning, about 1 am to 3 am, as I was sleeping on the floor of the living room, I suddenly awoke from a deep sleep. Having a feeling of being closely watched, I lifted my head to examine the dark room. There in front of my lying body, two to three feet in front of me, was a transparent, blurry figure of a man sitting Indian style. I squeezed my eyelids together to make sure that I wasn't seeing a hazy blur from having watery eyes. I was completely awake by then. To my surprise, my first reaction was to wave my hand to him for some kind of reaction. I don't know why to this day I did that, but I must not have known what I was viewing at the age of 8. No movement came from him, just a blank cold stare, right at my eyes. I was so frightened by now that a could not talk or even nudge my sister who was sleeping right next to me. I proceeded to cover my head with my blanket, sweating profusely, I fell asleep like that. I told my sister, father and mother about the incident the following morning, only to be told that I was only dreaming. No, it was definitely NOT a dream!!!"

47) "I keep having dreams of this swimming pool. It had an early twenties art-deco type feel to it. There are beautiful swimmers around it, drunken flappers and their gentlemen. I am hiding in the surrounding shrubbery watching them. I take pictures of them, of a certain woman especially. A man, a bodyguard or something, sneaks up on me and drags me out. He hits me very hard, accidentally, I think, and kills me. Then I wake up. The dream is much more vivid than an ordinary dream would be. The details never change, and I feel the emotions, the excitement of getting the pictures, and the fear of the bodyguard, with extreme vividness. It is very real."

48) "i have very serious asthma
when i was twelve i had to run the mile in p.e. class
my asthma is exercise-induced
i collapsed dead after class
i was dead for twelve seconds
it seemed like twelve years to me...
it was wonderful
i was happy, floating, drifting through the clouds...
i almost can't wait to die for good."

49) "When i was 19 i was really in love with an Indian girl. She dumped me and i thought i was never going to get over it. She refused my calls and any attempt to see or contact her. I wanted to see her desperately. I told myself that before the day was over that i would see her. At midnight me and a good friend went to a midnight movie. The movie had already started when we went inside to sit down. I could barely see from being in the well lighted lobby just moments before. My friend and myself went in and sat down. When my vision started to adjust to the dark, my ex-girlfriend and her mother were sitting in the seats in front of us."

50) "I came home from school one day when I was 15 or 16 yrs old and lay down on our couch in the living room to take a nap. Soon I felt myself floating. I looked down and saw my body lying on the couch. I was very scared and began to struggle, and tried to scream, I remember hearing my voice, and I suddenly felt like I was "sucked" back into my body and I opened my eyes. My mother was sitting nearby and I asked her if she heard me scream. She said no. I was very terrified and to this day I wonder if it was a dream."

51) "I won't go into detail at this time but what I learned from a near-death experience was this: All life in the universe is energy. ALL ENERGY IS RELATED and equal. There is NO energy in the universe that wants or even needs to be worshiped. Finally, the possibilities of energy are without limit. Whatever life can imagine it can and will achieve. Have a nice forever."

52) "Through certain type of Indian meditations you can be made to leave your body. The presence of the soul only is felt. You don't even know that you have a body and this soul goes in search of God in the infinite people form. The Brama Kumari for example does this."

53) "Death is only a step for another dimension!"

54) "About 2 years ago I was at my friend's dorm. We were expanding our mental horizons, while listening to sitar music. I started to feel my body feel flat, kind of like deflation. Next I saw the dorms below me, then Dallas, then America, then the earth, then like a shot I 'flew' by moons, planets, complete solar systems. I then realized that there were others here as well. We seemed to communicate, but not by vocal means. Our conversations were so unearthly that I can't even say what they were talking about. I guess subjects that only exist in that dimension. Then I was in a red and black checked room. The room was about 12 square feet and there was no floor. In awe, I thought about where I was, then one of the square check tiles fell off the wall through the invisible floor. After that every thought made these squares fall down. There was a bit of time between when I was traveling in this void. The tunnels were in one row about 2 'blocks' apart. They were red and black checkered. From this viewpoint they looked like big tubes that joined this dimension with a central one. My mind seem to pick one of these tunnels to go down. While traveling down this tunnel it reminded me of an intense water slide. Far at the end of this tunnel there was this light. Then I would say that I collided with this light. From this collision I learned vast knowledge of stars, planets, the beginning, the cycle of universe and time and thought. All of this knowledge came to me all at once as if awakened in my mind. Then the fall back to earth. It was if the magical void was the real world and earth was the strange land. When I became ego-bound again it took me at least 30 minutes to remember who I was, where I was, who my friends were. Ever since this happened to me I have more love of life, more love for humanity and nature and everything. Not a day goes by that I don't think of the bright light. It is the most enlightening experience that I have ever had."

55) "I have been, like, nearly hit by several cars because of my stupidity of not looking both ways. I also sometimes wish I could just die, but well, it turns out that life is still pretty good, so don't go trying to kill yourself. Even if it sounds cool to be in heaven and all that dumb stuff!"

56) "Once when I was going swimming I went underwater and there were these other kids riding on a floating bed and they sailed over me so that I couldn't breathe. I swam around looking for a way out from under there and then when I was almost out of air I saw a way out. I swam toward the way out then I came up and took a deep breath and let it out slowly. I was so glad I didn't die. I was so happy for the rest of the day because I didn't die. That would have been horrible if I had died."

57) "When I was 12 years old (16 years ago) my appendix burst. I was rushed to the hospital, by then I was grey in color. Our family doctor and the emergency medical staff rushed me into the operating room to do an exploratory surgery. As I lay on the table a priest was ushered in to give me my last rites. I was scared. Then they put me under to work on me, I felt cold. It was dark, but suddenly I felt warm. I heard a voice from somewhere talking to me. It was like I jumped into the middle of a conversation. The voice said, "It's not time for you yet... I have big plans for you." My mind flooded with ideas, plans, concepts. Then the voice said, "Time to go back.... Tell them be good to each other... Help them." Then I felt a huge push, back down to where I was laying on the table. I woke up on the operating table in the middle of my surgery. The emergency staff scrambled to get me back to sleep. I was told that the emergency staff had had to DEFIB me back to life, but weren't expecting me to wake up. I am now a college professor at a local university and have been an inventor in the medical field. I hope I am helping."

58) "I was walking down my hallway getting ready to go to sleep. Inside my door I felt a presence - I wish I could say it felt good, but it didn't! I closed my door in fear and literally jumped in bed! It was like one of those (Freddy) movies the way I fell asleep, I mean I closed my eyes and poof! I was sleeping within a blink, not even realizing it and I got up. I couldn't see straight, I was so dizzy! I felt I was hearing noises in the front room and I wanted to go see if someone was trying to rob us, but I didn't want to wake my mother so I lay back down. When I got up (still in this 'dream'), my room was wrecked! I thought to myself that I'd better alert my mom. When going out the door I took a look back and gazed at a mirror with the image of my room in perfect shape! And when I turned to where the room was wrecked it was perfect as in the mirror. I awoke sweaty, hopping straight outta my bed! I had been asleep for 23 minutes, it felt like hours! I felt as though my mind had been played with, by whatever was in that hallway...."

59) "Sometimes when I'm almost asleep, but not quite, I feel like I'm floating, then I just crash to the ground. It's as if I've hit a brick wall, but I don't feel any pain. It's a really neat feeling."

60) "Hello, I am the second oldest of 15 children. Many of my brothers and sisters have had out-of-body experiences. They generally happen at night during sleep. I've had at least a half a dozen or so. They have happened less as I've gotten older. This seems to be the case with some of my siblings also. The last time that this happened to me was when my children were young. I was the parent that got up when they needed things at night. After I saw my wife go though two deliveries, I felt that I would make raising the kids a little easier. I always slept with one ear open. Whenever I heard the slightest noise I would wake up and decide if they needed me or to go back to sleep. One night I thought that I heard my one of my daughters crying and I got up to check on her and I stopped in the hallway. I looked in their room and saw both of them sleeping soundly. I then looked down and saw that I was floating. I had not had an OBE in a long time, so I was excited that it had happened again. When I was younger, I was afraid to leave the bedroom when this happened. Now that I was an adult, I was waiting for it to happen. I thought immediately to float up and to go outside. But as soon as I hit the ceiling, I returned instantly to my body. I was awake and unable to return to that state of being. That was about 6 or 7 years ago, which is now the longest time I've gone without having a OBE, or real close to it."

61) "I don't know if this counts but I will submit it anyway. A friend of mine died about 3 weeks ago. He had been diagnosed HIV positive at an advanced stage and was not going to live all that long, as we were to discover. We tried to help him out as much as possible in terms of keeping his spirit up because he was going through a tough time. He was only 32. When he died I was in the room with him and at the point of death saw his soul/spirit, call it what you like, leave his body and float upwards. Later on I had strong messages from him saying he was OK and that he had work to do where he was and that he was comfortable and safe. I thought I would share this with you. Life and death is an illusion. I am convinced of this."

62) "I was at home when all of a sudden the roof fell in on me. The beams were old and rotten. Anyway, my skull was crushed and both my arms were broken. I was considered dead. The doctors had just finished working on me and all of the sudden I woke up. All I can remember was seeing this bright white light. My great aunt Martha was calling to me. She kept saying over and over again, "It's not your time yet, Dwain." Then the next thing I knew I was waking up on an emergency room table. The doctors later told me I was dead for a few minutes. That was the weirdest experience of my life."

63) "I was living in FL with a Lazarus-loving friend of mine and he showed me the ways of truth and to help me believe. I found myself awake for two days straight one weekend. Finally on Sunday afternoon I fell asleep on the floor in my bedroom with the door shut, slipped out of alignment and was suddenly (standing, floating, hovering) in front of the fridge. I looked at my friend and he was sittin' on the couch eating a ham sandwich so I grabbed the fridge door to make one myself and my hand went right through - scared the crap out of me - I shot back to my body that was waiting in the other room, my right eye flew open but my left eye was locked shut and all I could see with my open eye was a purple room! I realized suddenly what was happening and I consciously told myself to close my eye and align myself...boom it was over. I jumped up and ran out into the living room and Charlie was eating a ham sandwich. Note: I couldn't have smelled it 'cause I always had incense burning in my room because his cat had a problem with his bladder and that covered it up well!"

64) "I, along with my mother and father, was in a car accident 6 years ago and both my parents passed away. The car rolled on its top and I remember waking up and seeing my parents getting out of the car. I struggled to get out and when I did I started to run towards them. My mother turned around and said to me, "Go back, God is not ready for you. But always remember we are there for you and love you." I started to run towards them again and just when I reached them they disappeared. I went back to the car and my parents were lying in the car. Both were dead."

65) "It was Easter Sunday, and I was about 9 or 10 years old. My family was getting ready for church, and I stood at the top of the stairs in my house and for some reason passed out. That was when all of a sudden I WATCHED myself fall down the flight of stairs. It was as if I were watching from the wall. I saw my body lying at the bottom of the stairs and I saw myself scream. Then there was a sensation of flying back in my body and I woke up screaming. I remember telling my parents about it. I had no idea until a few years ago that I had experienced an Out-Of-Body experience. Sometimes I wonder if maybe someone or something had pulled me out of my body to save me from dying or getting hurt. I was not injured from the fall at all, even though I had fallen straight on my neck."

66) "I was lying in my bed at about 11pm last night, having had a really exhausting day trying to find a new job after being sacked from my last one a week ago. I was about to go to sleep, I was sort of on the border line between conscious and unconscious and I had my eyes shut. I suddenly became aware of a sort of floaty sensation, except it wasn't really like flying, more like an airy version of floating in water on your back. I opened my eyes in alarm, well, I think I did anyway, and saw me in my bed asleep! It was really weird, but I felt so utterly relaxed - it was so strange. I stayed up in the air for about 2 whole minutes, and then I suddenly found myself back in my bed as normal. I didn't actually have control over myself in the air, but I just felt so relaxed - it was incredible, I want everyone to know about it! I would love it to happen again."

67) "I was in Pittsburgh and I was raped. I found out that I was pregnant. The guy that raped me was a convicted killer and people condemned me for carrying his child. I got murder threats and sexual phone calls from men AND women!! I was attacked on the streets and got beat up. I went home and decided to slice my wrists. I did and I saw a bright white light. I couldn't help but follow the light. When I reached the end I saw a figure in the distance. I heard it say to go home. It said that my parents would die if I didn't go back. That they would die from a broken heart. I looked down and saw my body. I was bleeding everywhere. I ran back to the entrance and fell into my body. I lost the baby and the guy got life in jail."

68) "In 1995 in the month of February, I believe that's when I remember this incident occurring, I was having a very vivid dream in which I was flying. About one year before I had been in a serious auto accident and had a severe head injury that caused some very vivid dreams and visions. In this particular dream I was flying. I remember being careful not to fly into power lines. The area I was flying in reminded me of central to northern California. At the time of this dream I lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. In the last part of the dream I remember seeing a large electrical power substation. Since I was vary aware I was only in a dream, I was very curious to find out what would happen if I flew into the power lines, so I did. I flew into the lines in the substation. Everything went white. I woke up startled and then remembered I had only been dreaming. I was lying in bed listening to my radio that morning when I heard a report on the news about a large power blackout in northern California that had occurred in the last 45 minutes (the same time as I was having my dream). They believe the phenomena that caused it was at a substation in Fresno. Weird, huh!"

69) "I was watching tv up in my room with my friends and it was about 11:30pm.We heard a banging noise in the living room down stairs. My friends and I thought it was my big brother pounding on the walls trying to scare us, so we went down to the living room to find a ghost. It was just standing there staring at us with these big red eyes. It started moving toward us saying something in a low voice. We all huddled together as the ghost moved closer. It was finally in arm's reach and grabbed one of my friends, and since we were huddled together we all vanished with the ghost. We were transported down a long narrow hallway into a small black room. We could not escape from this room. We were trapped in this small black room, cold and hungry, when the same ghost we saw earlier came into view. Again we huddled together and again the ghost came closer. We were again transported down the same long narrow hallway and at the end of the hallway was my room. We looked at the clock: it read 11:30pm. My mom heard us yelling in my room and she came running to my room asking us, "Where in the hell have you been ?!" You see it was 11:30 pm, but two days later. We still have no idea where we all went, but ever since that night we have not seen the ghost that took us to the small black room."

70) "I have dreams that happen all the time. They, in themselves, are not really significant. I will dream about an ordinary day, all its events and conversations, and a day to a month later, those days will happen. The strange thing is that they ALWAYS foreshadow an important event in my life. Also, they usually give a clue to that event, and sometimes, I have been able to predict what would happen. Also, I have actually seen angels and have spoken with demons. I am not a satanist or any kind of witch, just an everyday guy."

71) "In Dec.of 1996 I tried to commit suicide. My husband found me and took me to the hospital. The last thing I remember is lying on the bed to go to "sleep." The next thing I remember is being AWARE of being in total darkness, alone. I was not afraid, but I was not there very long. I heard the nurse (I suppose she was the nurse) call my name, Barbara. I believe if some otherworldly entity called me it would call me by Bobbie Jo, my nick name. I have heard people speak of a light, has anyone else experienced being AWARE of only darkness? When I finally got the courage to tell my daughter, she told me of a friend of hers who had the same experience. That is the only other one I have heard of."

72) "I was 9 years old. I was very ill having pneumonia, asthma and I was dehydrated. I was taken to the doctors and then rushed to the hospital, where this experience occurred. Before that time I was a very depressed child, believing that the world would end soon with a nuclear explosion. (After my stay in the hospital, I no longer felt that way.) But, back to the hospital. I was in and out of consciousness, and felt awful. I didn't care about anything since I was so sick. One night, I remember, I seemed to be sitting on the light over my bed near the ceiling. I could see my body and my father staring out into the dark Denver sky. I felt really at peace and have never achieved that peace since. I wasn't scared or happy, just at total peace. I saw my father walk across the room, but he didn't concern me. I seemed to be moving up slightly then. My stay at the hospital continued until a few weeks later I was released. I never told anyone about this for quite a few years until one day my family was discussing how I seemed so calm and relaxed and basically could look straight into the heart of any situation and present, if not a solution, an understanding. I told my family about the time I was in the hospital. I was describing what had happened and my father's eyes went slightly wide. He said that one night while he was with me (this was relevant since my parents were separated and took different shifts so the tension wouldn't be so great) I was in bed and he'd been by the window. He had been wearing exactly what I described and had walked over to check on me only to find that I'd stopped breathing. He then ran to the nurses' station, demanded they get someone in there to help me. Evidently, the staff wasn't so hot there. Anyway, he got a respiration tech (or something to that effect) and I started breathing again. I don't remember seeing any of that, but then I was so at peace I really didn't care what was happening around me. I was content to just sit, seemingly on my light, and look into the night and FEEL that peace........When someone asks me what the most important moment of my life was...I always say when I died. It's changed me in a way only someone who's experienced it can know. As for the question of life after death, it's not the unknown to me.......it's fact, and of that I will be eternally grateful!"

73) "I feel that if I really try I can move my soul by shutting my eyes and thinking really hard of my soul leaving my body and floating freely among us and afterwards I feel exhausted or relaxed, I can't really tell. Also, I have a heck of a lot of deja vu."

74) "I had a dream once that I had died. The cause of my death was I tried to save my friend's life from someone, but instead of stabbing them I stabbed myself. I went to school the next day as if nothing had happened, but everyone kept saying it smells like rotting flesh in here. I started walking down a long hall with my friend, Amanda, and her mom. Her mom kept telling me Amanda was already dead. When we reached the end of the hall there was a door to the left. We walked in and to the right there I lay in a coffin. I saw people crying. Then I woke up and I was sleeping like the way they put you in a coffin."

75) "I am a hemophiliac. When I was about five years of age I was quite seriously cut underneath the upper lip when I was running, tripped, and fell into a coffee table. Nobody at the time knew that I was a hemophiliac, so when I was brought to the emergency room, the doctor didn't hospitalize me, he merely prescribed some liquid that was to be rubbed on the cut that was supposed to stop the bleeding. After two weeks it still hadn't stopped bleeding, in fact, it was bleeding harder than ever, every time it would clot up, the clot would come loose and I would swallow it, so, finally, after I started to complain of feeling very light-headed and weak, my parents brought me back to the emergency room, where I sat in a chair while my mother was doing the paper work. Nobody was really panicking at this time. And then, I lost consciousness. All I saw was blackness and had a feeling of being pulled some where. Then I saw a swirling mass of gray clouds, and I could hear something breathing my name, and at the same time I felt as if something were beckoning to me, and then I remember being pulled backwards, and being conscious again. It turns out that I had lost more blood than anyone had thought, my heart had actually stopped beating for a number of minutes."

76) "I was raped and mugged one night and left for dead. I was taken to hospital by these little people in silver suits. I don't want to sound like a fruit cake, but somehow I really trusted them. When I had recovered, I asked the doctors who the people were who brought me here. They said that I was found at the emergency door of the hospital. They didn't know how I got there, because I was in such a state I couldn't walk. WEIRD!"

77) "This is a true story. In 1992, Dallas, Texas, I was hospitalized with mono and hepatitis. It was the 4th day of lying there in a bed moaning with a very high fever of 104.5. I wasn't sure what I had been diagnosed with yet because this was before the doctors knew. It took them 4 days to finally find out what was wrong with me! They suspected spinal meningitis which can be fatal. Knowing this, I panicked and prayed to my grandfather who had passed on when I was twelve. I wanted him to be there for me if I passed on. The drapes were drawn and it was about 4:00pm. on a bright sunny day. All of a sudden, this woman was sitting next to me, but she was transparent. She had a yellowish glow all around her. She said nothing to me, but I knew I was going to be all right. I felt a peace come over me, a sensation of knowing that I was going to be fine. Then I turned away for one moment to move myself over to sit up and she was gone. 10 minutes later my mother came in and I told her what had happened. Later that day we found out my diagnosis. I will never forget that peaceful feeling; it was wonderful. I do believe we have Guardian Angels, and more than that, God is within us always."

78) "The body is simply a physical vehicle for the Spirit, the same way that a car is for the body. You can leave it at will. While you are incarnate (living a life), your body acts as a "home page" that you can get get back to easily at any time. You can also send out sensory travelling parts, visual, auditory, tactile, or all three much more easily than sending out your entire Spirit. While in the Spirit World, you and everything around you feels just as physical as when you are in your body in the Physical World except that you are working with Metaphysical Laws instead of Physical Laws so that your surroundings' form and function are malleable and subject to your will or the will of the most powerful spirit in the vicinity. Prior Life memories are easy to access because your spirit never forgets any of it's prior lessons/lives. I have been doing this all of this life and can remember bits and pieces of thousands of lives, large chunks of approximately 100 lives, and about 10 complete lives. That is why the WEB is so interesting. It is an entirely new experience, with no data in prior life memories even similar. It's not boring! I am constantly seeking out new experiences that are not in memory. Meditation helps to get free of your body and to access prior life memories. I have been doing it for 23 years. If you think that the WEB is fun, try the Spirit World out some time."

79) "For a short time I lived at Job Corps. This is where I had the most frightening of my several near-death/out-of-body experiences. I was sitting in the front of the recreation center smoking a cigarette, when my current love crush came to me and asked if I would like to smoke a marijuana blunt with him. I took him up on his offer. So Tre, his Orientation Training brother, Will, and I headed to the back of the building to smoke the blunt. They did not tell me that this particular blunt was laced with cocaine. I would not have smoked with them and they knew this. Well, we got finished smoking and started walking towards the back parking lot. Tre asked me if I wanted Visine for my red eyes; I said no. Not two seconds later, when he turned to ask me why not, I fell out (passed out). I could hear everything that was going on around me, but for a few seconds I couldn't see. When they did finally raise me into a standing position, not only did I get to open my eyes, but I also was confronted with a booming voice that didn't seem to come from my head, but from the sky. The voice said to me, " I know your body feels numb and you can't stop staring at your friend because your eyes are popping out your head. But that's that coke working on you. I told you in a dream the other night that you can only smoke what they burned on the grave of Solomon. You defied me. It wasn't all your fault though. For now I will not take you with me, but only under certain circumstances. I will not take you if you don't purposefully touch the coke again. This is your choice. If you make the wrong choice, I will slowly and sufferingly take your life. I will take everything that you worked for and make your life a true living hell. If you pick the right choice, I will make sure that you reach the main goals you strive for in your life with success and be abundant in wealth, happiness, and love, to your personal measure. Would god be so vengeful? Would the devil be so fulfilling of one's needs? Who was talking to me????"

80) "I think I've got psychic abilities. I'm only 11 years old, but I have weird dreams about my friends and playing tag or something an' then I'll be playing with my friends and realize that I've done that before."

81) "A few years ago (I'm 16 now, so I guess I was about 13 or 14) I was sleeping peacefully in my bed. Suddenly I woke up with this very uncomfortable feeling like I just wanted to cry for some reason unknown to me. So, I walked across the hall to my parents' bedroom. I can't remember whether or not their bedroom door was open already, but I found myself standing in their doorway. As I looked around the room, it looked as though everything was ransacked and both of my parents were lying in their bed, dead. It wouldn't have scared me so badly, but they were really bloody and I could see a large, dark form in the corner of the room. I realized that I couldn't talk, and after I blinked once, my mom woke up and the room was fine. She looked up at me and asked, "Tiffany, what's wrong?" I had tears rolling down my face and I felt very choked. I just turned around very quietly and went back to my room. I sat down on the bed and bawled my eyes out. My mom came in and rocked me back to sleep. It wasn't until the next afternoon that I told them what had happened. I still don't know what the heck was wrong with me, but every time I retell the story, every little detail and emotion comes back to me. I try to tell as many people as I can, because it makes me feel better...sort of. My whole family on my Dad's side has had weird experiences with ghosts and out-of-body experiences. I don't know what mine was, exactly, but I've had a few more and have at least 2 deja vous per week!!"

82) "I was staying in a hotel some time ago. While in my room resting I had the urge to go to the bathroom. So naturally I got up from my bed and headed toward the bathroom to relieve myself. Halfway to the bathroom this itch of a curiosity was nagging me to turn around and look back at my bed. When I did I saw myself, actually it seemed my physical body still lying on the bed. So, as soon as I became aware of my reality I was drawn back like a sling shot back to my physical body lying on the bed. I then woke up."

83) "I found myself lying in the living room of the home of my birth in Massapequa, N.Y. Everything felt so real and it was in color. I went to the refrigerator and drank some coke. I heard the voices of some Japanese men outside (members of the U.C.). I felt that at this time I should really be in Beijing, China with my wife and my daughter, but being that I was here in Long Island I decided to walk around the house a bit while I was there. However, I sensed there was one of the Japanese men coming into the house. I knew that the only way to leave was by going to sleep again and then I would find myself back in Beijing. I went into the room that was my parents' bedroom. I laid down on the bed and tried to fall asleep. One of the Japanese men came in and saw me. He was surprised and ran out to tell the others. I quickly went underneath the bed and tried to sleep there. The man came in with the others and with surprise he found I was gone. While I was under the bed my body rubbed up against the bedsprings. The bed springs were very sensitive so at my slightest move they moved back and forth. Then the man who saw me looked at the bed as it was jerking back and forth and said, "See, its moving; he must still be here." One of the others that came in then said, "No, see this is a vibrating bed" and at that he jumped onto the bed laying flat on his back while I was still there (I didn't get hurt). Then I fell asleep underneath the bed and woke up. A split second before I woke up I was wondering whether or not I had made it back to Beijing. I woke up and verified where I was and felt relieved. I also felt an odd tingling sensation about me. I wondered what had happened. Did I actually go there within the physical realm? I felt that my spirit did in fact leave my body much more than it usually does when I sleep. It was as if I had an extended and extracurricular leave of my body and journey of my spirit because of what I felt as a sensation when I woke up. I wonder since I have been trying to understand how I could understand myself better; is journeying back to my home, in my mind going to be helpful in stimulating my memory of what happened while I was growing up? Is my home some kind of vortex for me, a psychological portal for me to access more effectively my past memories?"

84) "I got really really angry with a "friend" of mine who still acts ever so pleasant to my face, but really loathes me. Anyway, I'd skipped year eight (year 7 to 9) and I'm now in year 10 in a small country town in Australia. The high school is small and of course everyone knows everyone else. About June of this year, I'd become very stressed at school with constant teasing and worse. There was a lot of stuff leading up to it....very stressful finding out a "friend" had lead you on for nearly two years pretending to like you. One day I attacked her in the classroom. It was a big shock to everyone because I am a very quiet and friendly person, gentle and quiet, having never done anything remotely like this before. I'd gotten up that morning with a strange sense of purpose, as if it had to be done. Maybe I'm sorry for doing it now...I don't know. She didn't sustain any injuries or anything serious but it was quite shocking for everyone. Anyway, when I actually did it I had this sensation that what I was doing wasn't really me. As if I'd been pushed into the background, and my body was on automatic pilot, not an out of body experience exactly, but probably almost that. As if I was watching from somewhere else. Afterwards people said my eyes changed color and I remember pushing aside someone in her chair to get at this person, quite gently I remember, but she had bruises all along her back where I'd pushed her. It was frightening to think there was something in me that could do that to a person."

85) "My friend gave me a drug called Ketamine, which in high doses is an anaesthetic, but in lower doses temporarily shuts down signals from peripheral sensory receptors to the brain. I had the distinct impression that I had died for two hours, but I remember much of it. The world seemed to collapse down; three dimensions became two and then one, and I felt myself traveling along this one dimension as if following a wire. My life seemed as if it had been a play, with me as an actor in it, and I was stepping off behind the stage. I didn't see it "flash before my eyes," but I did feel as though I was viewing the whole of it as a detached spectacle. As the drug was wearing off, I experienced temporary confusion about which life I should come back to and briefly considered returning as someone else. Afterward, I felt a great peace, feeling that I knew what it was like to die, and that it wouldn't be so bad when the real time came. I've never felt any need to try that drug again."

86) "OK. Well, here it is. I used to be Catholic and believed that when you died you went right to Heaven. I now know that the Bible says you sleep and everyone goes at the same time on the final judgement day. So my grandfather isn't up there with Abraham Lincoln at a John Lennon concert. And I died in an ambulance on October 15, 1975 and was brought back with electric paddles and I saw nothing. No bright lights, no one beckoning me to come or go back. Nothing. It was as though I was asleep -- which makes sense if we all go up together in the end. But . . . when I was five months old I had a severe kidney infection and was hemhorraging internally. The doctors did all they could, but they were sure I would be dead by morning. My parents were only 24 years old at the time and were understandably grief stricken. My mother's Aunt Mary called my grandmother and told her to tell my mother I would be fine. She would pray to the "Blessed Mother" and I would pull through. Sister Mary Gemma at the hospital also told my mother it wasn't my time. I had much to do. At five months old -- I had no clue. But the next morning the doctors checked in on me expecting the worst. I was fine. Bleeding stopped, fever gone, infection reversed and my color was back in my cheeks. That morning they found my Aunt Mary dead from a brain aneurism. Did she make a deal with God? I don't know. But I'm now 40 years old, a software QC Engineer, and father of a 4 year old daughter. I move into my first home this week. And I hope to have the chance to thank Aunt Mary someday."

87) "My aunt and her husband had been having some pretty hard times doing their marriage. He wasn't a very nice companion to want to spend the rest of your life with. There was always the chance of them getting a divorce, but who knew!! During a horrible miscarriage of her fourth child (she went into what the doctors said was pre-delivery) she fell to the ground but was scorned by her demonic husband for her stupidity of bleeding on the carpet that was just cleaned. Through all the pain one late night she sat rocking in the rocking chair crying and asking, God what kind of husband do I have (reminiscing on previous occasions of abuse)... please, Lord, reveal to me what kind of man is he!! Me and my cousins had always jokingly said he had demons in him, but never did we expect what there was to come. Finishing her prayer, watching her husband sleep, there out of his body rose an ugly demon that turned around, looked at her, grinned, and went back inside of the vessel it was living in with pleasure. My auntie just cried, for she knew she had to get away from him..........There is a spiritual war going on!!"

88) "Things aren't always what they seem....One day you could be walking down the street, admiring the view of whatever interests you, and suddenly, you become that object, or in my case, that person that you are gazing at. Time lost all definition; I was wrapped up in what can only be described as disgust. Why this happened to me I don't know. Lights flashed in my eyes and, as if I was high, colors had sounds and shapes. Everything was a mix of every feeling I've ever had in my life and there was no limit to the pain that came over me. What was that whole episode??? I lasted in this for nearly 15 minutes and when I came around I found myself pressed up against a wall with tears rolling down my cheeks. I can't recall if I was afraid, but I am sure that from now on I will have more respect of others and an assurance that things that we know nothing of still really do exist."

89) "Instead of having my own out of body experience, I come from a different side of the life/death experiences. I have dreams...death dreams, and the friends, relatives I have dreamed about, die. One dream in particular was of a friend in the summer of 1994. I do not know what would cause his death, but I awoke from my sleep, uneasy, and while I was getting dressed for work, I told my wife that our friend would die. I could remember nothing of the dream except that his death was sure. Several months went by and on Sept. 18, 1994, I was involved in a two vehicle head-on wreck. Luckily, I survived, but while I was recovering at home on the morning of Oct. 1, 1994, I received a phone call that our friend had been killed in an oil field accident. I wondered since then if I could have done anything/something to prevent his death. Other death dreams that I have had are the deaths of my Mother, Father, Grandmother, and another close friend. These deaths usually happen within 6 months of a dream. My family thinks that I have some kind of precognition."

90) "One night when I was asleep, I was awakened by my body struggling, struggling to breathe. When I came to my senses I smelled a horrible smell that I cannot really describe. I do recall sitting bolt upright. I looked around and there was no one in my room with me. That odor lingered in my nostrils for quite some time. I am not sure if that qualifies as phenomena, but it was and still is an unexplained incident that happened and every person I have shared it with can't identify it. It could have been my soul awakening to the fact that there are other things unseen trying to extinguish my life force. It still is a mystery to me."

91) "This was really weird. I was asleep, then all of a sudden, I wasn't in my body anymore, and I know it wasn't a dream. I was out camping with some people I didn't recognize, but I seemed to know their names. Suddenly, we found one of our group members dead in the brush -- bludgeoned to death!! It was so gory, and I could hear, smell, and feel everything. And so police came, police left, and we went to our site again. The bushes moved then. There was only me and a girl named Stephanie. Suddenly, some psycho jumped out of the bushes and started clubbing Stephanie with a baseball bat. I ran and hid, but I couldn't do anything for her. I felt a jolt and I was back in my own body. It had to have been the scariest moment of my life."

92) "A cold December evening. 1978 was the year & 4 was the age. My father and I were together watching TV in the living room. More accurately, we were watching The Incredible Hulk. It was a typical episode where Dr. David Banner was becoming upset about something and when the chemical imbalance initiated the mutating effect, the thunderstorm that was currently bombarding our town sent a highly dense static pulse, lightning, hurtling towards my home. At the final stage of Banner's metamorphosis, you know, when he goes. "..rRAAAAAAaaagghhh!!!!" and lightning starts crashing around him, Mother Nature decides to join in the fun. Kra-BOOOOOM is the only way I can describe God's cannon letting loose in my living room. Immediate darkness followed. I thought I was dead. A four second audio survey told me that I was fine, no, the world had not been blown to bits by the Hulk, and yes, I was screaming pretty loud. I knew dead people didn't make noise, so hearing myself only further encouraged the yowling. My father calmed me down & we proceeded to tour the house, mainly to inspect for fire damage. As we made our way to MY room, my curiosity peaked. The air felt different - alive almost. We entered my room & discovered why it felt strange - there was a 6 foot tall, 5 foot wide, gaping hole in my wall where the lightning decided that it had better be going. The section that wall HAD contained now rested on my bed, completely crushing it, frame and all. Needless to say, I have been a huge fan of the Hulk."

93) "My 14 year old son died in July of last summer. I was at McDonald's eating a Happy Meal and was very ill. I said that I wished I had not eaten. Then I got to the ball park for this tournament and a policeman came up with a note saying my son was in critical condition. He'd been on his bicycle, which he rarely ever rode, but a friend came by and asked him to go with him to take a movie home and he ended up in front of a fully loaded Mack sand truck. The truck dragged him under and ran over him. The truck kept him under for 83ft and didn't stop for 350 ft. My biggest concern is did he feel the pain or had he already left his body? He died 2hrs later. Was he worried that we would be mad or that he'd hurt us? Are you sad when you notice you're not with your family any more? We were such a strong family foursome; we did our last group hugs in the hospital. Of course he was already dead by the time I got to the hospital. When I got to the hospital I somehow remembered all the stories about the light, so my 16 year old daughter and I told him to go to the light and that we loved him. When my husband came at 8pm that evening we told him again about the light. Do you think he heard us? We allowed him to be a donor and cremated. I hope that was all right. I only want him to be happy. I can't figure out where were his angels were that day. Do you think he got the choice of coming back as a possible invalid or to live eternal life? I've read all of your stories. They are beautiful and I'm glad that you are with us."

94) "When I was 8 years old I was terrified of death. One night I dreamed that an angel came to me and told me that I should never be afraid of death because I would be able to choose the time of my own death. That I would know moments before it happened and I would be able to accept it or reject it. That "opportunity" hasn't come up yet, but ever since that dream, I've never been afraid of dying."

95) "I personally have had multiple experiences. One occurred when I was hemorrhaging and in critical condition following childbirth. I found myself near the ceiling of the bedroom looking down at my own body. This separation came and went during the ride to hospital and through transfusions. I have never experienced that specific occurrence again. The second type is that dear friends come to me during the night as in a dream, but not really a dream, to say goodbye. I would find out days later that they were dead. In all cases very near the exact time I perceived them. (It always awakened me.) I had no prior knowledge that they were ill, let alone dead."

96) "My Mother's Story: While in an ambulance on the way to a hospital my mother described the tunnel with light at the end exactly as many other people do now. Thirty years ago no one spoke about it. Also she remembered being surprised that she wasn't allowed to continue toward that light as she very much wanted to go and could see deceased relatives in the distance."

97) "3 years ago I suffered 2 heart attacks. While I was being treated in the emergency room I died, the paddles were used on me. I remember watching this from above the room, however there was no tunnel with a light at the end of it, only the warmest and safest feeling imaginable within me. There are no words that I know of that can come close to explaining the feeling I had. It was as if finally I was home and nothing could ever hurt me again. I do remember being told no it was not time and that I had to go back. I did not even want to return to my body. This happened to me twice that night and try as I may the wondrous feeling of well being will not come to me again. However, since that occurrence I now no longer fear the cessation of life here as we know it and people are more than amazed at my change of attitude toward all earthly evils. I fear very little now thanks to my experience with the unknown. I envy those that go before me for I know of the peace and love they now have. I know that there is a reason I have to stay here and one day that reason will be obvious."

98) "My out of body experience happened about a year ago. I got into a major car accident and I wasn't wearing a seat belt. I was rushed to North Arundel Hospital, where they took me into surgery immediately. My heart stopped beating for 1 min. and they tried to bring me back, but it didn't work. I drifted off into a place that I never want to go back to again: I was small Jewish boy about the age of 8 and I was being chased by Nazi soldiers. I didn't want them to catch me so I ran into an alley and I hid in a sewer pipe. Unfortunately the Nazi soldiers saw where I went and captured me and executed me on the spot. Two mins. later I saw a bright light and it turned out to be the light in the hospital room."

99) "I was only 15 months old and I had a very serious illness. I had floated away for 9 minutes and I came back. In this, I was dead. Around this time I could see things not yet to happen. I had seen many things yet to begin. But nevertheless they told me I had died for around 7-10 minutes and somehow came back. Often I have dreamt of this going on over and over like a broken record. Things piled on to this accidental death that they call "a stroke of luck" so that I became living once again. Meanwhile I still have dreams of the future and past. And sometimes I dream of past lives as if I am living them now."

100) "I had my first experience with ghosts when I was about nine years old. I am constantly dealing with ghosts on a daily basis, like it or not now. The thing I find by doing this is that people are for the most part afraid to say anything to anyone, even their closest friends. If people knew how easy it is to talk to the other side everyone could and would be doing this. By this I don't mean charging a lot of money for something that was meant to be done for free. Sometimes taking money in certain situations has to be done to cover expenses. These people getting rich off their gift, so to speak, is not right and will not last long!"

101) "One night while sleeping I feel I had a NDE. What I experienced was more than just a dream. I visioned my spirit going through like a level of darkness. At the end of the darkness I saw a lot of greenery including green pastures and trees. A small brook or stream flowed through this pasture and some being (it seemed like) was walking by my side leading me across it. I could not see this being but I could feel its presence. After crossing the stream some people dressed all in white came sort of running towards me. They appeared to move so easily. Everyone had smiles on their faces and were glad to see me. They let me know without really telling me that they would be seeing me sometime later and that this was not my time to be there. I then woke up. It was not a dream. This was the most unusual thing I have ever experienced in my life and I just know that I wasn't dreaming."

102) "I have not had any practical OOB or near-death experiences; however a strange occurrence that happened 15 years ago has confirmed my belief in life after death. On a December day I returned home from college to find my grand-aunt dead in her wheelchair. She had left the front entry door open (as was her habit to do) and I looked through the storm door window and saw her in her wheelchair: I instantly knew that she had passed. The next day, I, my sister and my grand-uncle left the house to make arrangements at a funeral home. When we returned the front entry door was open! Of course I figured that the last person out (my grand-uncle) had forgotten to close the door behind him, though he denied leaving it open. The following week, my grand-uncle was away from home, and my sister and I were upstairs watching TV when suddenly we heard a loud BANG come from downstairs...we quickly ran down to find out what caused such a disturbing sound, and what we saw horrified both of us: the front entry door was standing open but with the chainlock still attached and the storm door locked! Apparently, the door was opened with some force and hit against the chain on the chainlock: this is what caused the banging sound. It became obvious to both me and my sister that our grand-aunt was still in the house and that she was opening the front door out of habit! These two instances never occurred before nor since and I've lived in this house for 32 years. There were other strange occurrences within the weeks following her death, but the opening door will alway be fresh in my mind."

103) "About 3 months ago I was pretty drunk with my friend. For some reason I decided to run across the road. A car hit me at about 60mph head on. I remember flying into the air and landing behind the car. I then jumped up and ran off leaving the driver very confused. My friend met me later and told me he'd seen a faint image of me lying on the road and saw the real me running off. My jeans were ripped to shreds but I didn't have a scratch."

104) "I am a Christian, so obviously this story will come from a Christian perspective. I am a recovering alcoholic. But in 1989 I was drinking heavily. I was out drinking with a friend and stupidly tried to drive home while I was too drunk. I had an accident. I hit the rear of a tow truck. My car exploded on impact and I was luckily thrown through the windshield. I never actually quit breathing nor did my heart stop. In the ambulance I looked at my hands and they were so, so bloody. At that time I knew I was going to die. I didn't think about my loved ones. I was not at all frightened. I felt absolutely no pain even though my face was crushed and my skull was fractured and I had been scalped. I was very ready to die. Ever since then, I don't fear death. It is a peaceful thing, I believe. When you think you're going to die, and no pun intended, there is a certain fatalistic feeling. And when you know there is nothing for you to do about it, it's very peaceful, oddly enough. Thanks for letting me share my story."

105) "When I was about 5 years old, I was down in the basement of my parents house. I was playing as most 5 year olds do when I remembered an incident from a few weeks prior where my visual point of perception shifted to one "outside" of my body. I can't say for sure if I actually was "outside" of my body but I can say that I did want to experience it again. I remember being very curious as to if I could do it again intentionally. So I got up and stood in the corner of the room facing out onto the floor. I decided that I wanted to "shift my visual perception" to the opposite corner so that I was facing myself. I had no idea how to make it happen so got to thinking that maybe I had to force it out. I crouched down assuming that it would help me to focus my will to force my perception to shift. I stood like that for about a minute and started feeling faint. The last thing I saw was the floor coming up at my face. It didn't feel like I was falling, but I tried to catch myself. When I stood up I actually was standing in the corner on the opposite side of the room looking back at myself. I was kind of in shock for a while, afraid to move. I thought if I did, I would loose my focus and be forced back. I thought it would be like releasing a rubber band that was stretched too far, that I would go flying back across the room slamming into myself and getting a really big headache. Being 5, I didn't like headaches. To me they always felt like my head was going to rupture spilling my brains all over the floor, but after the initial shock wore off I did try to move. I managed to look down at my hands and feet. Then I tried to walk over to myself to get a closer look. From where I thought I was, it looked like the me I started from was frozen in time. The blank look on my face and the open eyes really freaked me out. Everything faded out after a few seconds of staring at myself staring blankly back at me. When the "lights came back on" I was myself again standing in the initial crouched stance trying to understand what was happening. I realized I had succeeded in intentionally shifting not only my visual perception but all of my sensory perceptions (no, there weren't any extra sensory perceptions) were in working order while I was across the room. I got overjoyed at my experience and went to tell my father about it. I didn't know then but he was in another room of the basement getting stoned with some friends of his and when I told him about it he just looked at me like I was crazy and said, "Yeah, that's nice, did you tell your mother, why don't you go find her for me." And as I was walking up the stairs to go find my mother I heard my father telling his friends what a weird little shit I was, always saying weird shit like that. I got so pissed off at him that I left the house without telling any one where I was going and hid for a few hours until I was sufficiently cooled off enough to look at my father without trying to kill him. But that was my experience. I have experienced these shifts a few times since then but I lost interest in forcing it for a long time. Now I only wish I could do it again, but every time I try I end up a complete failure. I hope you enjoyed reading this and thanks for the opportunity to tell about it."

106) "When I was about eleven years old I was taken to the hospital for a routine tonsilectomy. As far as I was concerned I had nothing to worry about and I wasn't expecting any problems. This is what happened....I was near death and never knew it. I can remember a nurse putting a mask over my face and telling me it was ether. She said to take deep breaths and count backward from 10. The next thing I remember I was in a large swirling whirlpool like things and there was a loud buzzing. The buzzing sounded kind of like brrrrrr brrrrr brrrr, over and over. It was as if I was not within myself but a spectator and I was watching my body being pulled deeper and deeper into this swirling void. I can remember asking myself over and over, "Why does this have to happen to me?" The next thing I knew I could see a kind of light at one side of this whirling void and in it was the face of one of my dead aunts. My aunt told me to go back and the next thing I knew I awoke in my room and the surgery was over. It wasn't until 30 years later that I read in a book about near death experiences and realized that was what I had. I must have nearly died on the table and was sent back by my dead aunt. I knew after reading of similar experiences that it could not be made up. It was just too close to what had happened to the others in the book to be unreal."

107) "Two years ago I had what most people would just describe as a simple and straightforward UFO abduction experience but what I sincerely believe was a Near-Death out-of-body experience. I was walking back one night from a party in a village near Loch Ness in Scotland (where I was born incidentally), a region notorious for strange goings on as most people will know. I was going down this very quiet country lane when I saw something moving on the surface of the water near to the shore of the Loch, about 200 yards away. I ran down towards the water, with visions of seeing Nessie running through my head, when suddenly I was stunned as an intense beam of white multi-coloured light hit me in the face. A whirling chrome coloured disc appeared above me and I think at that point I must have blacked out. The next thing I knew I was floating inside a pulsating, pink coloured room, very much like a womb. Three strange beings were floating beside me, they had luminous tentacles and large white eyes, but made strange gestures towards me which seemed to be greetings of some sort, and they sung in high, ethereal voices. I felt very happy, but I looked down through a glass dome which was in the floor of the room and saw my body lying on the road, with blood coming out of my head. I screamed at this point and found myself back in my body lying on the road, with the spaceship gone and the Loch quiet again. People have told me I must have eaten some funny mushrooms or taken LSD but I know what I saw and felt."

108) "I have found out that I have lived this same exact life about 136 times (give or take a few). I keep having flashes when I realize what happened in one of my previous lives and if I act fast enough I can change the event."

109) "Once when I was five I stuck a stick in my mouth and started choking. I saw a flash of red and blue and figures dancing about and then all of them turned towards me and said, "Go, it is not your time yet" and then I came back with another flash of red and blue and I am in the garden seconds before I put the stick in my mouth, but I stop myself and remember what they said."

110) "This took place at my grandparents' house in May 1998. I was visiting for the weekend. That Saturday night I had a dream that my boyfriend and my best friend slept with each other. The dream was like no other. I saw everything that went on that night at my best friend's house and when the dream was over I woke up and I couldn't move or I would have wrote it down, but I glanced at the time and it was a little after 2am and when I went to sleep it was about 12:30am. I have never had a dream like that in my whole life. Then I got back home and on Monday I told them both about my dream. They acted like, "oh what a weird dream", but then I found out that everything that I saw in my dream actually did happen that night a little after I went to sleep. It ended at the same time I woke up, my boyfriend and best friend said. This wasn't a fun experience for me."

111) "Throughout the years I have experienced several outer body experiences. These usually happen sporadically and unexpectedly, mainly while sleeping. At first there is this high pitched humming sound ringing in my ears as my whole body starts to tingle (very similar to the feeling I get when my legs "fall asleep".) Soon thereafter my body becomes extremely heavy and numb as I feel a detachment from my body and then I rise up above the bed in a slow motion spinning fashion. By then I am able to see myself sleeping on the bed. A few times I have seen my body full of cuts but usually when this happens there has been a distinctive foul smell accompanying the experience. The first few times I felt this outer body experience I would feel extreme fear and anguish, however as I have become more familiar with the feeling, I have been able to go with it, even control it and walk around the room. However whenever I walk too far I do get an uneasy feeling. The most vivid memory I have was when my father passed away and after the funeral my mother, sister, and I went back home and went all to sleep in the same room. They took the bed and I took the couch. As I drifted off I started going through the usual sensation of numbness and heaviness along with the high pitch sound. My body anchors down heavily onto the bed and I exit....except that time the phone was ringing off the hook. I clearly remember walking towards it as I saw my mother and sister and myself sound asleep. I picked up the phone and through the loud static it produced I could hear my father´s voice trying to tell me something I could not understand. It all sounded like a crackling radio voice. I hung up and went back in after a while. It has been a while since I have felt the body detachment. It seems like the older I get the further apart these incidents happen."

112) "I was in a plane crash and "died" of shock on the way down. Suspended and floating upwards, I saw my plane crash and my body flying out of the wreckage. Suddenly, my best friend started floating up as I floated down. I called her name and she smiled at me. I never saw her again. It is strange that no one else has seen somebody else floating beside them."

113) "I remember my last life. It's hard to remember clearly, but it's slowly getting better. All I can remember are vivid moments in my last hour. I was MURDERED. I believe it was a quick death 'cause I don't remember any pain. I also believe it was a while ago (centuries before my birth this lifetime) because the murder weapon was only a knife instead of a gun or poisons. I can't recall the blade's handle, but the razor-sharp edge is quite clear. He chased me through white-washed hallways. I found myself cornered in a medium/large room. I can't help thinking, "what if I had a few more minutes, would I have been rescued?" or more perplexing, "WHY DID HE KILL ME?"

114) "I was listening to a tape called higher self exploration. It was like a self hypnosis tape. I soon found myself further away than I felt comfortable with. I could no longer feel my physical form. It was pretty uncomfortable for me, since I wasn't expecting it to happen. I saw many colors and received answers to a few things I needed to know. I got scared and came right back to my physical body. It's been four years since this happened and I haven't tried the tape again. Some day when I'm ready I will. It's not as fun to be away from the comfort of your soul's temporary home as one might think!"

115) "I am a born-again Christian (born-again not meaning "re-incarnated") and have had a type of near-death experience. When I was a little girl (I don't recall what age) one night as I was laying in my bed, I thought to myself that I would really like to know what Heaven was like. I decided that I would pray to God very hard and maybe He would show me. I prayed very hard for quite some time, until gradually there came a buzzing sound in my ears. The sound got louder and louder until it was all I could hear, and then suddenly everything became very quiet. I couldn't even hear the sounds you usually hear when everything is "silent". I was in a velvety blackness, but it was not like being in a dark room (I sensed there were no walls or floor or ceiling) and it was not like being in outer space (there were no stars and no light at all). Even though I didn't know what was going on and it was dark, I felt perfectly safe and "stood" there wondering what was going on. Then I saw a pin prick of light far ahead of me. I tried to look at it more closely and see what it was and as I looked it got bigger and bigger. As it grew I felt better and better. I felt totally known, but totally accepted and loved. It was THE coolest feeling; words can't even come close to describing how nice it felt. I was relaxed and very happy. Then I was inside the light, which was I guess what being inside a cloud would look like. I felt SO loved! I loved it right back and also I felt that just beyond the light, which I sensed acted like a veil or curtain in this case, I was being observed by people who knew me or knew of me and were smiling. I wanted to see them, whoever they were. The light knew what I was thinking and so did the people, and I was aware of this and didn't mind. Then I thought that I could "get used to" how wonderful it felt to be there (or something was thought to that extent) and then I felt myself being pulled away, getting heavier and heavier. I didn't like it but I had no choice and in seconds I felt very heavy and most all of the wonderful feelings were dissipating. I was upset because I didn't like feeling so clunky and heavy. I wanted to feel as light as the air and free again, for lack of better way to put it. I wanted to feel the great way I had felt before. I was not afraid of dying before but now that God has shown me what Heaven is like, I actually know what I'm looking forward to: an experience like this and much more awaits me! I would not want to live again on earth or any other world if it were possible and meant being away from God for eons or forever. God's Word, the Bible, says that it is appointed to man once to die, and then the Judgement, and that is just fine with me! :)"

116) "I overdosed on cocaine. I remember the feeling of just "going out" quickly and suddenly...not scary or painful, just like sudden darkness or like being swept away into blackness. My boyfriend was with me and he says I had seizures and he saw the exact moment when my face went white and he could see the life leave my eyes. Apparently I had no heartbeat for about 5 minutes or so but he gave me mouth-to-mouth and CPR and sprayed cold water straight into my eyes and at one point I remember a feeling of being like in a dream and hearing him asking me if I could feel anything in my leg (he was pinching me). I couldn't see him and didn't know where I was, but I do remember hearing him and a weird feeling that I guess could be described as "floating above" my body. The next thing I remember is waking up in bed feeling perfectly fine, like I had just woken up from a very nice nap. I had no memory at all of anything that had happened. My boyfriend was leaning over me and wouldn't let me move at all. He had this horrible look on his face that I will never forget and he started telling me what had happened after he realized that I really had no idea that I had even gone out. I honestly didn't believe him at first. To this day I still don't remember any of it from the time I went out (except for that brief period where I heard him yelling at me). I know this is horrible to say, but I have absolutely no fear of death anymore and while I am not ready to go (again) yet, I, almost in a sick way, look forward to it when it happens again. It was just so peaceful. Weird, huh?"

117) "Hi, I really haven't any NDE's or OOBE's to share, but I do have a question. Has anyone out there who has had these experiences ever had a bad one? Most of the stories I've heard have been that they are at peace where ever they go. I was just wondering if anyone has had an experience where they were not at peace."

118) "I was in bed one night and decided to pray for once. I prayed for forgiveness for my sins. I had been reading various books such as the necronomicon, the necromantic ritual book, and books about black magic. I fell asleep and I awoke half way, sitting up with my eyes open. It took a minute to see and my face hurt and a grey cloudy figure came from my face hurting me. I could feel 100% evil and my dog started scratching at the door and whimpering. I still don't know if I was half way asleep, but it scared the sh_t out of me."

119) "For a number of years I have done research into NDEs, ancient and modern. I have noted how every culture around the world has stories about descents into the underworld, hell, hades, limbo, etc. and ascensions into higher realms of existences. I have also collected numerous art works that show these other-realm pilgrimages. Some works show angelic guides clasping the hands or wrists of those who ascend into paradise. Others show Christ guiding souls he has rescued out of hell, into paradise. With these different ancient NDEs came later ritualistic types, symbols, rites, liturgical dramas, mysteries, and plays which enacted the whole journey of the soul through different realms of existences. If anyone is interested in seeing some of these research papers that I have written on this subject, or has similar type of research, e-mail me, or write to DaRell D. Thorpe, Religious, Historical & Polemical Studies, P.O. Box 522434, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84152-2434. E-mail address: dathorpe@hotmail.com. Thank you."