My near-death experience (NDE) completely shattered my spiritual beliefs. Looking back at it, I know that it had to be that way to make way for God's Reality to enter my mind. To be perfectly clear, I'm not suggesting that an NDE is needed to reach transcendental states - far from it! Making way for Reality is the key, not how we get to that state of acceptance. It seems that Our One Reality as God's Creation doesn't need me to agree with It to be What It Is but it does seem that I need to agree with It to be Who I Am.

The closest spiritual path I've found that maps out the whos, hows, and whys of our lives, and our way back Home to the peace of God NOW, is an inspired work called: A Course in Miracles (ACIM). This predominately psychologically- based spiritual path focuses on total forgiveness as the way to the peace of God.

Connecting dots between my NDE and ACIM
(Hospital room, 1977): My first experiences of waking up from a coma began with an awareness of Heavenly Light in all directions showing me nothing else. With that vision was only one thought resting in my mind: "God Is." (In that thought came the totality of God and Heaven's Spiritual Realm) Next, I was feeling an odd sensation as if I were being fitted or pinned into an enclosure of some sort (later realizing that was me re-entering / re-associating myself with my body). It seemed that years had gone by since I had a "physical" feeling of any sort even though three days in a coma was all that reflected on "this side."

Shortly after that, I started to see movement and colors. Incredibly, I saw two lizard-faced sentinels marching forward in unison flanking my peripheral vision. Each pulling the physical universe into view as if each held half of a curtain being drawn together closing me out from Heaven's Light and imprisoning me into this world. When the halves met, and sealed seamlessly together, the creatures vanished. My mind was working fast to erase any idea I ever saw walking military lizard creatures.

I KNEW that just beyond what my body's eyes see, is Our Life in Light, Our True Reality. The Light of God never stops but I couldn't find a way back to It! I couldn't "see" It. Where was the constant telepathic connection? Why can't I seem to compel myself back into God's Light?! I was imprisoned back into this life of form, knowing it's a dream, yet painfully aware I had a state of Grace within my mind I couldn't seem to find now. I was not happy and couldn't help but conclude that I was being demoted back to earth. As time ticked on, I grew to resent my attempts at explaining how crazy this place was, because it was ME who sounded like the crazy one!

Many years after sounding crazy, I was delighted and grateful to learn that the content of my NDE was already being sung through a book titled A Course in Miracles. In that work of art, I heard a undeniable Voice, the same Holy Voice, the same content I was connected to on "the other side." Here was the same all-inclusive Voice singing us Home through forgiveness! When I learned that ACIM taught that God's forgiveness unchains ALL from hellish nightmares not just some, I KNEW I could trust this path! God's Love has nothing to do with the opinions of the world. That much I was sure of!

We've literally lost our Holy mind when we operate from our body's identifications. We have forgotten Who We Are, yet suffer from constantly seeking for our True Home. Becoming aware of our pain and misery is what turns our decision for God into the most natural response to Heaven's invitation Home.

The good news is God protected ALL of us from harming What He created as eternal. The Creation of God cannot die, cannot be altered in any way. The bad news is that means that I'm not who I think I am if Who I Am cannot be altered in any way. Back to the good news: our lives are not harming any part of Truth. The funny thing is we hear the good news as bad news. Often we hear it as insulting and insane! Why? Because we have forgotten Who We Are in Truth and instead are heavily invested in our imaginary selves in an imaginary land. (See "The Story of U" animation.)

Above all else, by far the most powerful purpose, and the whole point of our journey Home comes through demonstrating God's forgiveness. God's forgiveness shines a Light so bright that it absolutely changes the game entirely. Even the GOOD stories disappear. Ultimately we know, deep down within us, that Wisdom speaks to us constantly but if we ask It, we risk losing control of the outcome. I believe we block God's Light from reaching us knowing all too well that, if that Light touches us, we will give way to it EVERY time. So we don't let It touch us, or at the very least, WE control when and how little or often. We are insane when we step in front of Love and take the command post. (See "I'm not the Center" animation.)

Learn how to get back on Love's track by forgiving what was never done to us in Truth through the teachings of A Course in Miracles.

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