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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the Hospice Minister.  Someone asked about my Near Death Experience.  I was electrocuted by outdoor wiring.  My heart stopped twice.  I remember not being able to let go of the wire and knowing that this was how I was going to die.  I remember feeling myself leave my body.  I remember watching my son run into the house to get my husband.  I saw an entity that looked male, but I knew intuitively was female.  Odd, because I was raised in a very conservative christian home.  My idea of "God" was definitely male.  She was smiling and laughing.  I felt love beyond measure.  It wasn't just that this being loved me.  She was love.  And I was love.  This love was completely unconditional. Everything was warm and beautiful.  I had some thoughts about my family.  I didn't feel any guilt about leaving them and I couldn't understand why.  I just knew everything was going to be ok.  I knew I had died.  This being that I was with, I knew.  It was definitely a maternal feeling. I had always known her.  And I had always known about this place.  I remember thinking, how could I have possibly forgotten all of this?  I remember her laughing with me as I kept repeating, "how could I have forgotten". There was this music in the background.  I'm not sure what it was, but I can pick out the notes on the piano.

The being told me I needed to go back.  I begged to stay.  She said I would return but for now, there were things I still needed to do.  It felt like I was slammed back into my body.  Leaving was gentle. Returning was awful.  My chest was hurting.  My hands hurt where I was burned.  I tried to explain what I had seen, but the words wouldn't come.  I felt like I had been gone for a long time, but in reality, it was less than an hour.

It took me years to process it all.  I talked with several psychics and mediums and they all agree that I didn't see God or Jesus.  The being I saw was likely a Spirit Guide.  I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I really thought it was God. I was already a minister and my near death experience led me to Hospice work.  There is no scientific reason for what I saw.  It went against every belief I was raised with in the southern baptist church.  I wasn't on any medication.  One minute I was walking around outside and the next, I was electrocuted.  My experience closely matches what other near death survivors report all over the world.

When I hear my dying patients laugh or smile.  Or when they talk about warmth and love.  Or when they reach out their hands. Or when they say "I remember..." I feel like I know what they are seeing.  I certainly would never claim to have the answers.  But I do know there is more than just this reality.  Think about it this way - When you are in your mother's womb, you have absolutely no idea that there is an entire world outside.  Your mother loves you so much, yet you have no idea she even exists. Occasionally you might be able to hear her, but you have no way of interpreting the sounds.  I think that's the way life and death are.  Like birth, it's just another transition.   [/quote]

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