Dy-Wen

When I was six years old, my neighbor took me to Sunday school at church. I could not understand what the teacher was saying because she had a heavy accent and I did not know how to read yet. But the brightly colored learning material caught my attention. I remembered in class that when I … Read more

Sergei S.

After high school, I went to work in a coal mine in Chukotka, Russia. [Chukotka is a province in Russia that is furthest East and North, actually in the Western Hemisphere, located along the Bering Strait.] In the coal mine there was a lot of dust from the rock and a lot of heavy lifting … Read more

Halil T.

I was picking up my daughter from school. While I was walking there, I dropped to the floor. I was having a heart attack! I was walking in a pretty populous area, so there were many people around. However, no one seemed to do anything. A few younger boys walked by, and just watched as … Read more

Victoria J.

At the age of 5 I strayed away from home. Then I got caught in a thunderstorm and drenched. Soon after, I developed such a severe earache that I cried throughout a childrens’ party. I remember having to lay my head down on a table on the afflicted side for comfort. I was taken home … Read more

Diego W.

While resting on my bed, I was surprised to be looking down on myself from the upper part of the roof. I was floating above my body and at first, I didn’t recognize it. At first, I thought: ‘Who was I observing?’ Because of this my body seemed very strange. Then I heard a voice … Read more

Jeanette

I know I was half asleep, I had my eyes slightly opened but I still felt them heavy, I heard my mom’s voice, she was having a conversation, I think with my dad, I usually heard them speaking to one another in the mornings. I tried to listen to her talking, she sounded like her … Read more

Radoslava E.

All my experience started one year ago, when my dad passed away after he was diagnosed with the chest cancer. I have different experience as I was watching or feeling it from other side that as we call it death. On the day of the funeral, I could not get it into my head, why … Read more

Jennifer A.

I laid down for the evening. All during the day and even the week prior I had been missing my son to the point that my heart was hurting. Holidays have been excruciating and this is the first one without him. As I lay in bed feeling myself going into the state where you know … Read more

Sapna S.

My youngest sister Sonali was a bright and beautiful lecturer with an immense love for teaching. She was living in a small town near Goa. She was ten years younger to me and was close to me to an extent that there was hardly anything that we did not know about each other. We were … Read more

Mandy B.

I was asleep. I was in a dream state, but very aware and felt awake. In the dream, my mother (adoptive) came to me and soda….’I am dying’ she had been ill for some time with motor neuron disease and her death was not an unexpected event to come at any time. In fact almost … Read more