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JOURNEY THROUGH THE LIGHT AND BACK JOURNEY THROUGH LIGHT BACK AND THE This account of an extraordinary life-after-death experience gives us inspiration to live in the knowledge that we are one with the universal Source and are co-creators on our explorations through Life. and any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more of a vegetable. | was given six to eight months to live. I had been an information freak in the 1970s, and I had become increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since | did not have a spiritual basis, | began to believe that nature had made a mistake and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet. | saw no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created for ourselves and the planet. | perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what | got. That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can feed back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. | had a seriously negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts of alternative healing methods, but nothing helped. So I determined that this was really just between me and God. | had never really faced God before, or even dealt with God. | was not into any kind of spirituality at the time, but | began a journey into learning about spirituality and alternative healing. | set out to do all the reading | could and bone up on the subject, because | did not want to be surprised on the other side. So | started reading on various religions and philosophies. They were all very interesting, and gave hope that there was something on the other side. | ended up in hospice care. I remember waking up one morning at home about 4.30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So | called a few friends and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six hours, since | had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. | went back to sleep. The next thing | remember is the beginning of a typical near-death experience. Suddenly | was fully aware and | was standing up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid that | could see every room in the house, | could see the top of the house, | could see around the house, I could see under the house. There was this Light shining. I turned toward the Light. The Light was very similar to what many other people have described in their near-death experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal mother's or father's arms. As I began to move toward the Light, I knew intuitively that if | went to the Light I would be dead. So as I was moving toward the Light I said: "Please wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this; | would like to talk to you before | go." To my surprise, the entire experience halted at that point. You are in control of your life-after-death experience. You are not on a roller-coaster ride. [: 1982, | died from terminal cancer. The condition | had was inoperable, by Mellen-Thomas Benedict © 2010 Post Office Box 1898 Soquel, CA 95073, USA Email: info@mellen-thomas.com From the web page: http://www.mellenthomas.com/ stories.htm by Mellen-Thomas Benedict © 2010 Post Office Box 1898 Soquel, CA 95073, USA Email: info@mellen-thomas.com From the web page: http://www.mellenthomas.com/ stories.htm APRIL - MAY 2010 NEXUS ¢ 53 www.nexusmagazine.com