{"id":176,"date":"2014-06-07T18:09:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdynamics.net\/articles\/?p=176"},"modified":"2014-06-07T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T22:25:45","slug":"near-death-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdynamics.net\/articles\/near-death-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My near-death experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Owen K Waters <\/span><\/p>\n

In 1963, at the ripe old age of 13, I found myself floating in the air, just below the ceiling, looking down on my body. Today, we are used to hearing about near-death or out-of-body experiences but, back then, nobody knew anything… and it was just plain terrifying! <\/span><\/p>\n

Some people report out-of-body experiences after a horrendous car wreck, a heart attack or some other life-threatening emergency. In my case, I was just being happy!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Alto<\/a>

Alto or Tenor Horn<\/p><\/div>\n

Really, I was playing music on my alto horn in a brass band. I was sitting, reading the sheet music on a stand in front of me and there was this long, low note that I had to play. In fact, it seemed extra long… like time had slowed down… and then it started to sound strange, like there was another noise in my ears. <\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly, my consciousness rose up out of the top of my head, continued on up to the ceiling and I found myself looking down on the sheet music stand. <\/span><\/p>\n

My first thought from my new position above the stand was, “Now I can’t read the next note.” Then, realization about my situation struck home with sudden horror! <\/span><\/p>\n

I sprang back into my body almost instantly and sat there, dazed and amazed. My out-of-body trip was one big wake-up call and it began my lifelong quest for answers to spiritual mysteries. <\/span><\/p>\n

Back in 1963, metaphysical topics were rarely discussed, so it was just not appropriate to stand up in a room full of two dozen band members and yell, “I have arisen… all the way out of my body!”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nurse<\/a>

Nurse Ratched in
“One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”<\/p><\/div>\n

They might have called for men in white coats to come and take me away to the tender mercies of some Nurse Ratched look-alike!
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Other spiritual experiences have followed my early out-of-body trip, but none quite as attention-getting as the distinct impression that I’d just died! <\/span><\/p>\n

That was one big wake-up call and it began my lifelong quest for answers to spiritual mysteries. <\/span><\/p>\n

Flash forward to 2014: It’s OK to talk about such things now. Even medical doctors are writing about out-of-body and afterlife experiences. The world has changed. <\/span><\/p>\n

Metaphysical understanding today is light years ahead of where it was in my early years and I am so glad to have been a part of that movement toward better spiritual understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tell a friend…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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