A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
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Somewhere in the 1960s while I worked on the railroad, I was poisoned under rather strange circumstances. An ambulance was called and I was taken to a nearby hospital, where I was was given intra-venous feeding and left overnight. Next day I was put in a wheel chair and taken to a line of other patients to wait for x-rays. But sitting up made me feel so much worse I called out: "I'm going to faint! I'm going...going..." and clunk! I slumped over in the wheel chair unconscious. Annoyed but dutifully responsive, the nurses trundled me onto a gurney and rolled me to the emergency room to wait for a doctor. I know this because even though unconscious, "I" was floating over my head watching the nurses load my body onto the gurney, where, returned to a prone position, my heart started beating again and I woke up next to a young man in a lot worse shape than I was. As long as I was lying down I could survive. In a couple of days my physical body expelled the poison and I recovered. I forgot about this event, until a few years later in N.Y.C. I began having out-of-body dream trips, so vivid I recall them today as actual happenings. I thought I might be going insane, so as the years passed, I found books on the subject by Dr. Raymond Moody, Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and many others. I learned that thousands, perhaps millions of people around the World have had and are having such experiences. Then I remembered my own poisoning and, together with the dream trips, a profound realization came over this long time atheist/agnostic. It is, as the late Robert Monroe said: "We are more than our physical bodies." |
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