So what are we, really? A meeting of spirit and body which sometimes feels more like a confrontation than a merger.
The experiences I’ve had out of my body are few and far between but they have probably informed my passion for this stuff more than anything else. When you fully and absolutely grasp the fact that you can and do exist with or without your body it’s nothing short of life changing.
You suddenly have an understanding the word limitless. We are limitless when we are not in these earth suits. It feels as great as it sounds. More than that, though is the paradigm shift that comes with the understanding that you are not who or what you thought you were. You are much bigger and you are infinite.
So what are we, really?
The words soul and spirit don’t even begin define what we are. Words themselves become impotent. This fact alone makes it impossible to convey exactly what we are.
I can use all kinds of words to describe my Near-Death-Like experience: Infinite, immense, free, comfortable, at-home, peaceful, connected-to-all, access-to-all, omniscient, happy, child-like. None of them come close to what it means. These are all just descriptors of the closest things we know here on earth. Take each word and spin it out to every nuance of meaning it could possibly have from every point of view it could possibly have and you still don’t get it because it’s something that is must be experienced in its totality. It’s a whole-picture, gestalt experience.
In both of my spontaneous out of body experiences, I remained on familiar ground. Although things were not exactly consistent with my known world, they were close enough. I recognized my office and my friends’ house for what they were.
My Near-Death-Like experience was very different in this respect. I was transported to somewhere else. Somewhere more familiar than my right hand or my own face while I was there but “somewhere else” to my human self.
Mine is classified as a Near-Death “Like” experience because I have no way of knowing if I was literally close to death or not. I wasn’t hooked up to an E.K.G. or any other monitors that would show heart or brain activity. My suspicion is that I literally knocked myself out of my body and onto the other side.
I suspect that if I was actually engaged in the dying process, a light would have appeared in the darkness as I’ve heard other experiencers report and then I would have had an even more complex experience.
One of the important things that I took from this experience is that for whatever reason, we are here for something important. The extreme distress and feelings of “dropping the ball” that propelled me back into my body were powerful. So powerful, that I can only conclude that we are here by design to fulfill a very meaningful purpose.