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DEATH AND DYING «+ 225 attention. The larger beings were there to sustain and support me. That was their realm. A sort of good and evil thing: the gremlins versus the tall be- ings. The tall beings were loving, smiling and serene. Something rushed through me, out ofme. [remember thinking at some point, "Here comes the separation." I felt my body only when I swallowed or breathed, and that really wasn't a physicalfeeling as much as a way of setting ripples through the experience. [felt strongly, "This is dying and this is okay." Thad heard of the bright light tunnel, but I didn't expect it to be the way it was here today. I thought it would be primarily infront ofme, but this took turns on both sides and then joined in front. Nor was it as bright as I thought it might be. I'm amazed DMT is in the body. It's therefor a reason. It's therefor dying today. I had a sense of dying, letting go and separating, after the beings in the tunnel helped me along. "How do you feel about returning, being back in your body?" It's okayfor now. She sounded wistful. The other side is very, very different. There are no words, body, orsounds there to limit things. I first saw deep space, white with stars. Then there was this multidimensional experience starting. It was alive. It was the aliveness that I heard. My body was trying to say, "Remember the body" as I was going into that place. It wasn't a desperate cry, but an attempt to keep it real, make the experience real from the point of view of the senses. The body wanted me back. I thought I could see light down below, the world's light. It was like a little flap was lifted, like a simultaneous alternate reality. A few months later, Willow reexperienced another high dose of DMT in the menstrual phase study. As she stirred, she began speaking: It's like a cosmicjoke. Ifwe all knew what was waitingfor us, we'd all kill ourselves. That's why we stay in this form for so long, to figure that out. That's also why it's so hard to remember the immediacy ofit. I've been reading books about the near-death experience: Saved by the Light and Embraced by the Light. They really do a goodjob describing