@BorisKitten,
BorisKitten wrote:
Yeah, well, about that God/Light bit, I'm sorry to forward my brother's report on his being dead for 15 minutes and being brought back to life (in a hospital):
He told me being dead was EXACTLY like a dreamless sleep. It was, he said, easy.
The hard part, he said, was waking up afterward, and feeling all the pain. While "dead," he saw and felt nothing at all.
He is now truly dead. At the time, however (12 yrs ago) he was in a hospital with AIDS-related pneumonia (forgot the med. term), and really did die for that amount of time.
God did not call to him, lead him anywhere, show him the light, or reveal anything to him... Not even a handy tunnel, much less Jesus Christ on Wheels.
I strongly suspect that my own death experience (may it be far in the future) will be much the same. No bells, whistles, lights, or revelations.
Just a dead, unresponsive body, being cremated or buried in a nice pine box, dreamlessly sleeping for all eternity.
David, I envy your experience. Never felt anything like it. Not even close.
It was an emotional experience; even just
remembering it is.
I had a client in the 1980s, a rather earthy, rugged construction manager,
who commented that when he was in the hospital for surgery
to his back, he saw a White Light up near the ceiling of his room
in the hospital the day before that surgery, with whom he had a
conversation. He reported being told that the next day woud be
his last on Earth, to which he responded that he did not believe
that his wife coud keep his teenage boy out of jail without his help.
He said that this argument convinced the Being of LIght
to relent and he survived the surgery.
In 2005, I had abdominal surgery. I was told that I "bottomed out"
during that surgery. I was not able to get a straight answer
qua whether that meant that I died or not; anyway,
I only remember awakening in the I.C.U. I 've heard a statistic
that 66% of people who r revived from death in hospitals only remember awakening.
Some of them have had multiple deaths and remember some of them,
but not others. I 've had a few (very short) out-of-body-experiences,
which I liked, so I feel assured of my not being limited
to the existence of my material body.
David
