That was a wonderful experience, Bear. Thank you for sharing it.
When I had a minor operation one time I had the feeling that I was in a white light the entire time, although I was unconscious. I remember the feeling of "drifting away" and it was familiar because I have had more than one operation in my lifetime. But AFTER that drifting away I was held in a white light. Over to the side I could see an area that appeared red in color to me. It was on my right.
This was the side of me in which the physician was working, and the side in which I began hearing the conversation between him and the others in the room as I began to come back to consciousness.
But the white light was very very bright. I just remember a feeling of being held in it. When I was being wheeled out of the room I was experiencing the "bliss" that you feel from the drugs they give you so that you feel no pain.
I remember smiling at my physician as I was wheeled out of the room. Looking right into his eyes and smiling with all my heart.
Later, on a follow-up, he asked me what I experienced during the procedure. i did not consider it very important at the time and just told him about the voices I heard for a while talking about vacation, etc. He said, oh, that was just you coming back to consciousness. We were standing around waiting for you.
Anyway, I don't know why I felt like telling that story right now. I loved this near death experience. It was described beautifully.
Thanks again, and it is what I believe and experience almost daily.
Love is at our center and is who we are. In my meditation today I was given that exact idea that she talked about....that no one is given more than they can handle at the time. it is deliberate. All of our disagreements in life come from our forgetting.
They come from our forgetting that we are all in a state of, at the very least, mild confusion much of the time. Thus, forgiveness is the best practice a person can do. And forgiveness is simply letting it go, letting it go back to Source, which holds and loves all things.
love, blink