Near Death Experience
The near death experience was a term first coined by Dr. Raymond Moody in his publication "Life After Life" in 1977. Long before Dr. Moody was researching and studying the phenomenon with his patients, I was experiencing it first hand as a young child due to a medical condition that was diagnosed at the age of 6.
Personal Experiences
The first time I was rushed to the hospital was in first grade. That was the
beginning of a long mysterious journey through childhood. I
mystified my parents with testimony of a 'realm of light' I had traveled to the
strange 'people' I had encountered while I was without vital signs.
The Doctors gave my parents little hope I would survive the medical condition. They felt it was only a matter of time before the condition lead me to my end. Each week, month and year afterwards was a struggle for survival. One of the techniques I used was denial. I would put the pain out of my mind by pretense. This lead to a life long habit. By the age of 18, I had forgotten my entire childhood in order to suppress the painful memories of the medical condition.
I had another NDE at the age of 18 and this experience was my primary focus for several years to come leading into my adult life. It was more of a mystery to me because I had forgotten the many episodes in childhood where I had visited this 'realm of glorious light.'
In 1998, I watched a movie on television about a similar experience and this triggered recall of my own childhood experiences. It was an overwhelming process. I still have the same medical condition and I had to work though the emotions that were bottled up for the sake of my own physical survival in order to piece together the mysteries hidden away in my subconscious mind.
The one thing I can do is give testimony of an afterlife. A place and realm I visited many times through my childhood and twice during my adult life.
As a child, death was just a door my spirit would go through once it had left the physical body. After my amnesia in 1978 - everyone was telling me that my tale of the afterlife was nothing new to them. They all said I had died over a thousand times as a child - and had came back to tell about it.
I have divided the stories relating to my NDE's in three sections. The childhood experiences, the 1978 early adult experience and the last experience as an adult in 1988.