Near Death Experiences
Topaz Owl

Sun May 10 20:15:21 1998
I am musing on something, and was wondering if ya'll would like to discuss it here... *p*I find that a very many people, when they have had a close brush with Death, become very spiritual. My own close encounter many years ago brought back psychic abilities and a deep spirituality (or perhaps I should say an *understanding*) that I thought I had lost in the transition from child to adult. I realize that experiences like this are often a trigger for "the Sight" even in people who have never had the tendency before. *p*My brother is showing signs of being very spiritual as well after his rapid recovery from his severe head injury. He consciously remembers very little of that trauma, and yet somehow it has changed the way he looks at the world, and God, and his life this time around. Observing him, most people who really know him can tell that he's happier, more patient, and more thankful for the "little things" that he might have taken for granted before. *p*He is at peace within himself, and he has grown very wise. *p*Some of us remember where we went, and some of us don't, but we all end up changed somehow. The journey into the All of Being, the Everything of Spirit, is a profound and meaningful thing. Maybe sometimes it takes that intense reconnection with spirit to bring about needed change, redirection, in a soul who has lost the way. A real death of sorts, and a re-birth, and yet no change of physical form. Something left for that soul to do here as that particular person, I suppose. *p*Perhaps we are reminded of who and what we are and why we came here in the first place. Perhaps our own re-birth helps someone close to us as well, to see the miracles that occur all around us every day, and to help us see that life doesn't just "happen," that there is Deity in some form or another or even in many forms. *p*Be that as it may, without the barriers of flesh and the limits of physical existence, some of us are gifted with a sort of "mini death experience" even while we live, and we can connect again to spirit in a way that re-affirms life beyond death, even if we choose not to leave this place this time. We are given the chance to remember what it feels like to be us, our pure Selves, and part of the Spirit of All, without having to lose this life and this person we are now in order to do it. *p*In the remembering, we can then go back to that place of Spirit if we choose, without dying to do so...because we remember also how to come back. *p*::: sigh ::: What am I trying to say? I am trying to talk about something that isn't easily put into words, and I am going in circles trying to find the right words for the Truth I wish to express. But it is quite possible that this is another one of those things that no one has made words for. *p*Leigh