Freedom

From: Cyndi (cleej0729@aol.com)
Story type: Out of Body Experience
Location: my home
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Fri Sep 14 23:28:54 2007

There was a point in my life that I was beginning to question the meaning of death and worried that if I died I would not see my daughter. I don't know why I had this awful feeling that death was the end but found out that it was done for a resons for me.

One evening I had fallen asleep on our sofa and was awoken but could not move my body. I realized that I was floating above my body and looking down on it. I tried very hard to awaken myself but I could not move any parts of my body. At first, I was really scared and then this feeling of warmth and bright lights swarmed over me and I had this surge of energy that you get when you are in a great mood but multiplied by a thousand times. I did not want to reenter my body but was forced back. After that, I realized that death was not scary and that there was somewhere else after death.

Two months later I was diagnosed with spinal and brain cancer and I was not afraid at all. I think that what I had was an out of body experience that resembled what happens after you die and it was actually God reassuring me not to be afraid of my upcoming cancer diagnosis. Oddly, during the unusual but wonderful experience, I learned that you take the memories of your loved ones with you and so you actually never leave them. They were with me and it is actually those that we leave behind that suffer. After this experience, I had this profound love for God. I realized that He really loved me to take the time to make sure I knew everything was going to be fine when I got the cancer diagnosis.

I have been cancer free now for some 11 years but without that help from God and reassuance I am sure I would have been a wreck over the cancer diagnosis.