Re: The tunnel experience in the NDE

"......To be one of those who shows ghosts and other wandering fragmented people to the Light--that is good to tell about in a palace, mead hall, highland pub, or the lonely cold halls of modern cyberpalaces. The roses die on the thistled vines...is good known only to God/yah? Oh, Love, who kisses and loves the thorns themselves and scatters the browned petals in the north winds, send us souls who awaken our numbed souls."

Thanks.  I've been in cyber space since it was born (started programming computers more than 40 years ago), but that was the first time I've ever mentioned a little of what I do in that area.  My family knows, and those who trained me know.  I was a total doubter until I was told more than 30 years ago that I was spirit - not my body.  I learned meditation first and soon discovered things happening that were not body experiences.  In fact, even before the self-discovery as spirit (one must experience one's self as spirit - books don't really help) I discovered people who were doing hands on "healing" (not body level or religious either) and it was working for me, but I always had to run to someone else for help.  I eventually found that I could help myself - and eventually others too.  Everyone has that ability.

I remember the Great Depression and the world before cell phones, TV, hydromatic (the first automatic transmission, for the uninformed) and many many other things.  Even remember visiting a relative in rural Kentucky who still had a telephone with a handle and an 8 party line where when you cranked the phone everyone on the party line would listen.  Anyway, not to long ago my son asked me "What would it be like if we had another depression?"  My response was along the lines of "...does that mean people would have to give up their iPod, or their second or third car?"  I see homes in my neighborhood with motor homes, boats, off road vehicles and many other leisure time perks parked in their yard - and almost none of that existed in the 1930s.  We are so focused on the material and what is the next techie thing we're going to get that it is easy to forget that there is a higher purpose for being here.