I'm in no way religious in any Western or Eastern way anymore, but I have had several bona fide near death experiences (NDE is the pretentious acronym for it) that involved either sickness or physical trauma where I ceased to live for short periods of time, and had the full out-of-body-floating-up-above-myself-looking-down-in-puzzlement-at-my-dead-body before getting "sucked" back into my body as I'm resuscitated and stabilized. And parts of my life also flashed by like I was there, things I had never thought about since they happened so long ago, just bits of inane conversation with a stranger, or random moments, flashing foward and back, sometimes linked events, sometimes not.
The whole hollywood production.
Not sure if it is because of my immersion into cinema and popculture and fairly extensive religious background all combining to color the thoughts of a fading brain, or if it was really happening.
At that point it doesn't really matter, because what will happen will happen, and I've even surrendered myself to it on a few occasions when I felt enough was enough, but the sucking back into the body keeps happening, so here I am annoying you all with my rambling dime store philosophies.
I said it in another thread, not to be mentioned.
It's always so obvious, but never hurts to have it repeated:
Life is so short and tenuous. Learn to love yourself, your family, your friends, and find some joy in the things you are able to do, alone and with others, no matter how small it may seem. Enjoy your hand full of circuits around the sun as much as you can without hurting someone in the process
Peace, and my condolences, bc.
I don't know what it is, but there is more to the universe than this mortal body we inhabit, and he will always be out there somewhere.
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It helps me slow the fuck down, and think about the task at hand, and think about it, and think about it, and.........
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