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I have never ever told anyone this before, but 30 years ago I did once have an experience where I thought that I had died and woke up in reality, but it wasn’t exactly like others I’ve heard.
It was very quick. I had been outside in the grass and I was feeling like nobody cared about me. I was quite upset.
I had passed out for quite a few hours, I think, outside in the dark and cold. I had taken a lot of something psychedelic, as I did a lot back then, maybe mushrooms I picked myself. I was about 21.
I am not even sure it was an NDE, but it was a strange experience.
I was in a wreck as a young teenager. I was knocked out, but I had the sensation of tumbling through a wheat field that I could clearly visualize, with a bright white light pushing me from behind. It was a peaceful experience; no fear.
Prior to my suicide attempt I wrote a book as my suicide letter to my loved ones that compiled my journal entries over the past three years capturing the events that led me to that point.
On August 29, 2001, I was working my last shift at Gem Mountain Sapphire Mine in Philipsburg, Montana. I was 19 years old and about to start my freshman year of college. That day, I was assigned to the "fee dig" site on the mountain—a location where customers could dig their own dirt, concentrate it down, and search for sapphires.
I was working aboard an ocean-going research vessel. We (me and my teammates) were using deep-water side-scan sonar for mapping the seafloor and searching.
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