Experience description:

After my child and my friends child came back from what we thought was a church group, we were horrified to find out what had been some sort of cult ritual and most likely a human sacrifice as well.  She remembers screaming and being sexually molested.  I became very angry and agitated.  I went into the other room to try and calm down and not let my child see how upset I was.  Then when I thought I could not take any more stress or get any angrier, I felt like I just stepped out of my body and went about maybe 7 feet in front of myself.  I started talking to my friend who told me,  "Your lips aren't moving but I can hear you in my mind."  Then I felt this extreme feeling of peace and safeness that I could not even begin to describe.  I knew that God was with me or in me at that time and then I went back into my own body.  I then knew that God is present in our lives when we want him to be.  Evil is just as real and present in this world and that there is a conflict going on that will eventually come to a final conflict.  We all are involved in it and the result that will follow.

Any associated medications or substances with the potential to affect the experience?     No      

Was the kind of experience difficult to express in words? Yes     How do you explain stepping out of your body and communicating with someone mentally not with your mouth but your mind.  It was frightening for us both.

At the time of this experience, was there an associated life threatening event?          Yes     My daughter had been molested after having went to church with a bunch of other children and some adults.  I found out later that it was a church with a upside down cross and an alter which was used to possibly slay an infant.  My daughter came back terrified she has never been the same since. She believes that a infant was killed but is not sure and has blocked a lot of the details out because she cannot deal with it emotionally.  She will not let her child out of her site and leaves him with no one but me.

What was your level of consciousness and alertness during the experience?           Wide awake and lucid

            Was the experience dream like in any way?   no there was just a separation for a few moments and then a reconnecting of body and spirit.

Did you experience a separation of your consciousness from your body?     Yes     My soul moved out of my body briefly

What emotions did you feel during the experience?            extreme anger and stress and then total peace and inner spiritual realization that we are like butterflies that metamorphose into another being and that what we are living in here is just a vessel and not what we truly are.

Did you hear any unusual sounds or noises?           lack of sound actually other than a mental conversation with my friend

LOCATION DESCRIPTION:  Did you recognize any familiar locations or any locations from familiar religious teachings or encounter any locations inhabited by incredible or amazing creatures?    No           

Did you see a light?           Yes     there was a light around my body when I stepped out of it

Did you meet or see any other beings?           No      

Did you experiment while out of the body or in another, altered state? No      

not this time but yes later

Did you observe or hear anything regarding people or events during your experience that could be verified later?          Yes     I didn't experience this alone and after that incident I had mental conversations with my mother and my older daughter on several occasions  I now can also float on water and cannot dive down anymore.  I can stand up in a swimming pool and people think I am not in the deep end when I am.

Did you notice how your 5 senses were working, and if so, how were they different?          Yes     I felt no pain or discomfort of any kind and there were no smells that I am aware of.

Did you have any sense of altered space or time?   Yes     it was like time stood still

Did you have a sense of knowing, special knowledge, universal order and/or purpose?    Yes     I felt as if this time on this earth is brief and not as important as what happens after.

Did you reach a boundary or limiting physical structure?             No      

Did you become aware of future events?       Yes     I became aware that this is a spiritual testing ground

Were you involved in or aware of a decision regarding your return to the body?       No       Did you have any psychic, paranormal or other special gifts following the experience that you did not have prior to the experience?   Yes     floating in water and above water.  Hearing and feeling what is going on with people.  People open up to me that don't even know me most of the time.  I can feel their pain now and feel it is important for me to help them as much as I humanly can.

Did you have any changes of attitudes or beliefs following the experience?   Yes     I am not a jealous person, I do not place importance on possessions like I did before.  I realize that we only take our love for our family and friends with us when we go.

How has the experience affected your relationships? Daily life? Religious practices? Career choices?       I am more tolerant of differences and realize how frail we really are physically and spiritually.

Has your life changed specifically as a result of your experience?         Yes     I now work in a job that connects me with people who need my help and I ask God to lead me to them and he does.  There are always little clues like names and places that coincide and common places like the last lady I cared for was from my home town and knew my Dad and had worked for him when she was younger.  I had no idea of this until I got to the assignment.

Have you shared this experience with others?         Yes     confusion and disbelief

What emotions did you experience following your experience?  I now let God lead me more and think of self very little other than what is necessary to live.

What was the best and worst part of your experience?      The feelings before the experience.  Finding out how much God really is with us daily was a very reassuring experience.

Is there anything else you would like to add concerning the experience?        We are all frail beings with a divine essence that we can reconnect with unexpectedly

Following the experience, have you had any other events in your life, medications or substances which reproduced any part of the experience?         No      

Did the questions asked and information you provided accurately and comprehensively describe your experience?               Yes    

Please offer any suggestions you may have to improve this questionnaire.    I think it is pretty good but some questions are repetitive