Floating Near the Ceiling
December 30th 2007 18:43
I met Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in the early seventies, a tiny giant of a woman at a gathering of Sufi initiates in Oregon. She chatted with the group for a couple of hours about death and dying, touching also on near death and out of body experiences.
What she shared with the group was interesting, encouraging and has stuck with me over the years.
When yours truly was about 9 years old, I was taken ill with what my mother says was rheumatic fever or its evil twin, whatever that might be. My mother tried to cool my fever ridden body down by washing me with tepid water, and I recall that there was a doctor who’d come to the house to examine me at some point in time during the incident, which seemed to go on and on forever. Helpless and dependent, I knew I was getting weaker and fading, dying if you will; fortunately I was spared for some reason.
During the battle to save me, there came a point when, much to my surprise I found myself watching the affair from a vantage point in a corner near the ceiling, where I could hear and did retain much of the conversations exchanged between the adults. I was free of the pain I had been experiencing and quite lucid. The transitions from and back into my healthy state of mind weren’t seamless by any stretch of the imagination. But, were forgotten for a time and I’m not sure why.
As an adult, I can’t recall any profound exchange of messages about my life’s work with light beings, but …, for years and years afterwards I had prophetic dreams and became deeply spiritual. After my experiences in Vietnam, those gifts drifted into the background and I nearly forgot them until I met Dr. Ross. It took time, but many or even most of those memories were reclaimed. Still, I don’t fully share them with anyone. This is about as close as I get when it comes time to share them.
My question is this: Have you experienced anything like this? How did the experience impact your life?
Raven
What she shared with the group was interesting, encouraging and has stuck with me over the years.
When yours truly was about 9 years old, I was taken ill with what my mother says was rheumatic fever or its evil twin, whatever that might be. My mother tried to cool my fever ridden body down by washing me with tepid water, and I recall that there was a doctor who’d come to the house to examine me at some point in time during the incident, which seemed to go on and on forever. Helpless and dependent, I knew I was getting weaker and fading, dying if you will; fortunately I was spared for some reason.
During the battle to save me, there came a point when, much to my surprise I found myself watching the affair from a vantage point in a corner near the ceiling, where I could hear and did retain much of the conversations exchanged between the adults. I was free of the pain I had been experiencing and quite lucid. The transitions from and back into my healthy state of mind weren’t seamless by any stretch of the imagination. But, were forgotten for a time and I’m not sure why.
As an adult, I can’t recall any profound exchange of messages about my life’s work with light beings, but …, for years and years afterwards I had prophetic dreams and became deeply spiritual. After my experiences in Vietnam, those gifts drifted into the background and I nearly forgot them until I met Dr. Ross. It took time, but many or even most of those memories were reclaimed. Still, I don’t fully share them with anyone. This is about as close as I get when it comes time to share them.
My question is this: Have you experienced anything like this? How did the experience impact your life?
Raven
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Comment by Kleonaptra
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This is a hard one to answer for me. I was born dead. It took mum five years to concieve through the sperm donor program, then difficulties throughout the pregnancy, then born with heart not beating and not breathing. They had to revive me.
Ive always felt as if I 'stole' this body. Like mums daughter is gone forever and never actually was, and Im something else that flew in and said - "SNATCH! I'll take that!" I often feel with distinct clarity the scars inside this body from that physical damage and work around them all the time.
I often frightened adults - Id talk about things that happened before I was born, Id converse on subjects children just couldnt grasp. Sometimes throughout conversation Id see the adult start, look closely at me, as theyd just realized who they were talking to.
I always felt like Ive got one foot here, in the physical realm, one foot in the earthly spiritual realm.....And a direct line of communicae - upstairs
When bad things happen, Ive been known to glower at the sky - "Haha guys, very funny. Its not going to be funny when I get home and kick your asses - SO CUT IT OUT!"
Ive had a few accidents, most noteably cracking a helmet in two when I was 13, I woke up on the ground, helmet near to my head and in two pieces like an egg, stirrup leather wrapped around my right leg. Horse gone. Dont know what happened, but I can sense the growing scar tissue behind my left eye and temple.
So, I guess, to answer your question, my event happened at birth, and thus, Ive never known any other state of being. To go spiritual I dont need special techniques - I need special techniques to stay HERE!
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