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In fact, I have no recollection of being awake at all after praying that night. What I do remember is the most vivid, startling, phenomenal dream I have ever had in my life. It disturbed me so much that I thought I was going crazy. Now, twenty years later, I see books and workshops advertised for people who have had spiritual crises. Stanislav and Christina Grof refer to these episodes as opportunities for spiritual emergence in one's life.
3 For me, it was an extreme spiritual emergency, and for some time afterward I did not feel I could discuss it with anyone. |
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Twenty years later, in 1994, I met a physician who wrote an inspiring book about extraordinary, "spiritually transforming experiences" that radically change ordinary lives, if anyone's life can be said to be ordinary. The book A Farther Shore is written by Dr. Yvonne Kason, and it is about her amazing brush with death.4 Kason survived a small-plane crash in a blizzard in Manitoba, Canada, only to be faced with the challenge of having to swim to an island in freezing cold water, and then to survive in subzero temperatures until she was dramatically rescued. She wrote about her encounter with light, and a great loving and peaceful Presence, who guided her to safety. Reading about her experience gave me courage to write this account of my life-changing dream, and subsequent healing encounters. |
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein |
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The dream I had after praying gave me instructions about how I myself would do healing with my own hands. This information came to me from an extremely bright light that communicated with me in a dream that I did not want, and patiently debated with me when I declined to believe or accept the instructions. The voice in the light conveyed compassion when I began to sob out of fear that I was cracking up. The dream greatly frightened me, because when I tried to escape the instructions and the light by waking up, I was unable to awaken myself. |
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The details of what seemed to be an interminably long tutorial are not important. I received advance information about people I would meet, and |
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