Hello I'm new here and don't have alot of experiences with Out of Body Experiences thru teaching techniques. I'm now 55 and had numberous drug induced visions while in my 20's and 30's so I accepted them with a grain of salt. However for the most part they were uncontrollable states of consciencess but I would like to know should I put so much emphasis on these drug induced visions that were probably some sort of OOBE or NDE?
My concern is could I have openned up a can of worms that will alter my return to hopefully focus 27 when my physical life is terminated? Sometimes I feel like certain people have manipulated me in various ways throughout this existance and I'm not sure if it was for my spiritual progression?
I would like to give you an example of such an incident.
When in my teens I had some "bad vices" one of them I huffed glue on various occassions. One of these glue sniffing events with a friend of mine left a lasting impression. Before we began he had some aluminium foil rolled up in a ball and said he was going to place it in the bottom of his bag and show me a reflection. I didn't pay it much mind but before I threw my head into my bag I thought I heard a voice say "don't do it" but I did it anyway! Needless to say to make a long story short I felt like I went to Hell and was forever separated from the Conscienceness of God. The television set in front of me exploded and total fear,pain and complete feeling of being tortured forever was now my reality. I was chained to a throne and was being tortured. Then I don't remember thinking of God but then the face of Christ appeared as he looked on the Cross and freed me for this horrible scene.
Now fast forward app. 8 years and I was living in an apt. by myself and my dog. Not taking any drugs for app. 3 months but had a spiritual awakening that summer. Began reading Edgar Cayce, Jane Roberts (nature of personnel reality- Seth) etc. etc. Now keep in mind that a woman who I felt like I had known from perhaps past lives died from cancer. For some reason I felt compelled to drive to her parents house and tell them that their daughter was living in another reality that vibrated at a different level then here etc. etc. etc.
WELL they told me to leave and I did. I thought I was losing my mind. When I returned back to my apt. I began to pray to God asking him to help me here because I thought I was losing my mind. I felt sleepy and had a dream that I was in my old elementary school and I was the only adult with the children. We were outside the building because we were having a fire drill. I woke up completely baffled by the meaning of this dream.
Anyway I went back to sleep app. 3 hours later and at 2:05 am (I remember looking at the clock) my body was frozen on my bed as a bright whitish color light filled my bedroom and a vibrating sound entered my ears and the pitch got higher and higher. Now I assume I left my physical body because I was in what sort of looked like living room with a few exceptions. The TV set that exploded(in my glue dream) was intact but I hadn't owed it in years because it was left in the old apt. after I moved out. I thought of this woman who had passed away the previous year and a being of light entered this room. I looked at my arm and it was made of this same light substance as the entity that had just entered. I went to hug this being of light and in a telepathic way said "we don't do that here" I immediately said what's it like here and this entity said "its like watching a football game." Next thing I know I'm back in my bed and the radio is playing Me and You and a Dog named Boo by Lobo.
I wouldn't have thought anything about this encounter except when I received my edition of my local newspaper it told of a story of 4 police officers who were following a rather tall man who was wearing a white cowboy hat  down the boardwalk (atlantic city nj) and a bright light was parralling him from the ocean as he proceeded down the boardwalk. This was happening at the same time my encounter was occuring. The police officers said in a report that all at once the light went out and the tall man disappeared.  :)

Hi Marsram-
As an ex-hippie, I'd say that you have entrered the fast track to complete enlightenment via the - ummm how to express it - shall we say the colonic route? There are gentler paths. ;-)

No mater how obtained, experiences are valid, and you got what you needed to return to God. To complete the journey requires nothing more than to continue to seek God - in whatever terms this is meaningful to you personally. Eventually your body will fall off and the rest of you will continue more or less in the same manner as your emotional nature at the time of death.

Aside from that, my only suggestion would be to have faith and look forward and outward, as opposed to dwelling in the past and introspecting over previous feelings. You've handled that part, and evidently have worked your way up to something better. Enjoy!

dave

Welcome MarsRam. very intrigueing pathway and parallels many others here. sometimes I think we must experience hell as the contrast is so delightful. :)
I'd say don't say its the others who do the manipulation as thats what they are thinking you are perhaps, the manipulator of their thoughts. you have marvelous messages in your dreams and visions. you are doing fine to share with us. don't worry about u r 55 now :) I'm 59, in dec. I will be 60, the youth of old age we enter. feel like I'm 19. life is marvelous with an open mind. thanks for sharing, you adventures surely out do my own so you must be a staunch bloke which I respect. love, alysia