Near Death

Hi all, Now the day I died, I just had to write that. When I was only a few weeks old I actual "Stopped breathing" I remember it so clearly and it has helped me throughout my life with my connection to the bigger picture and helped me understand my part in it. At the time I was laying in my cot down the hall way from the TV room, I had a problem with mucus and being in human baby form I had not learnt to control the muscles associated with clearing the throat anyway the mucus got stuck causing me to stop breathing. I then seperated from my physical body and walked down the hall way into the TV room were my parents sat watching TV. I was so excitted that I know longer had mucus problems that my first thought was to tell them, in spirit form. 6th sense kicked into my parents thought patterns and they at the same time shot out of their seats and ran down the hall to my room, I witnessed their panic and fear as they ran out of the room, past me, and out the door with me following them yelling at them that I was ok, and not understadning why they were not happy for me as I could easily breath. I remember a masculine energy close to me but I don't know what or who it was but he told me I could not go and had to return which I was devasted as being a human baby was no fun at all. The nurse wacked my back a few times dislodging the mucus and at that point I was catapolted back into my physical body. Since that day I never forgot and don't fear death as the experiences proved to me that life goes on after the physical dies, and that loved ones who pass on are fine after their death. It was my introductory to the realms around us and beleive me there are many.

Alicia Adams
I've had a number of NDE's, particularly from infancy through age 3. More recently, I nearly died from fragrance exposure in a public restroom (July 2003). Both my partner, Daniel Richards, and I are chemically sensitive -- mine has been more life-threatening. That's another subject.
What these experiences have given me is an awareness that I can shift my identy-focus to a level that includes this personality and body but is not bound by this-level identity. Since early childhood I've experienced "other life" experiences, communicated with trees (they were my guardians in early childhood), had shamanic underworld/out of body experiences, had over 30 years of communication with spiritual beings who call themselves The Teachers (who have never lived in physical bodies on earth) and finally, am in communication with beings from two of Earth's (and our) futures. (We have many "potential futures" from our "this-life" perspective). Parallel worlds, multiple past/present/future realities have been opened to me.
All this I attribute, in large measure, to my early NDE experiences. Children are open to realms we, as adults, are just beginning to think MIGHT exist. If we can/do recapture our very early childhood perceptions and experiences, we MAY recover our true selves. I say "may" because some of us are so negatively impacted, even in the womb, that our search for self-identity will need to begin at a deeper, pre-conception, level.
This is probably not exactly what you intended to explore but where does one stop? There is no death, and we are not as we have been conditioned to think we are. Anything that shakes us loose from our prison of self-limits is valuable -- including events classified as NDEs.
I'm new to this, also, though I've been reading IONS literature, off and on, for years. Due to our chemical sensitivity (from poisoning), Daniel and I are unable to go to meetings, we limit our exposure even going to town, etc. We would like to be more connected with the wonderful people who are exploring all these issues. Feel free to contact us via my email. (Daniel's is separate.)
P.S. We are preparing to sell our rural property and move to Mexico, probably the Pacific coast of (southern) Baja. This email address will only be good until we move. Any IONS people down this way?

I'd be happy to chat with you about NDE's. I had an NDE 1992. Though I didn't go through the tunnel nor see the light, I had almost all of the classical NDE related psychological and physiological after effects.
Feel free to email me at ann@kidsqualitytoys.com or post questions here.
I'm new to this site, so feel slightly clumsy getting around. If you post a question on the site, and I do not respond in a couple of days, feel free to email me. I probably just couldn't figure out how to get back here. IANDS is a great resource for NDE's. www.iands.org I think I have read everything in print on this topic!

Hello Sally,
I wrote my mother's recollection of her out of body experience the way she told it to me a few years ago before she became ill with dementia. I only had a glimpse of one when I was in a seminar years ago which I never forgot. At first the immediate world and people receded, then parents and the past until.. and then it stopped and I fell asleep. The mind could not go any further. I am new at this too.

Out of Body

The clinic was in the middle of Kaiserslautern right in the curve of Martin street. On the right corner up the street was the Soellner clothing store and down the street was a bookstore. In-between was a boring stretch of houses with nothing to look at.
And here I was in the clinic, hovering above my body, looking down as they were operating on my uterus.
The room was bright with a soothing brilliant yellow-white light. I was strangely calm as I watched them busily occupied with my body.
I did not feel like I was going to die.
I knew I was not.
I was not even astounded that I was above my body.
Everything was going the way it was supposed to.
Next I woke up in my hospital bed in intensive care, heavily medicated and in pain.
I was in my body again.
This event did not fit into my realistic existence. As I recuperated the vision of myself outside my body tried to enter my consciousness. It tried to remind me of the uniqueness of this experience.
But I wanted nothing to do with it.
I had a husband, a rebellious daughter living in America and a son making his way in life. I was a school teacher living in the town where I was born.
I could go down the street and be recognized as a person of respect.
No, I wanted nothing to do with this.
And so the experience was filed away in the deep recesses of my mind.
I never thought about it again until many years later.
My daughter used to take me to Italy on vacation. We drove there and back, over the Brenner Pass, a huge mountain that was our favorite.
We were climbing the serpentine curves dotted with yellow and white wildflowers. Brown cows were slowly grazing, their bells clanging deeply and softly.
My daughter and I had great and deep conversations about the world, intuition, people and philosophy during these long rides. Just the two of us and the wonderful landscapes of Italy and Switzerland.
And then my brain just insisted.
Slowly I shared my out of my body operation. I could not stop and did not want to. I knew that if anybody understood it would be my daughter.
She pulled over and as we were gazing across the magnificent Alps mountain ranges we experienced eternity where the souls live on and can separate from their chosen bodies.