"One of the most intriguing features of a near death experience is how it seems to foment changes in one’s way of being, which then blossom gradually over a longer period of time. The flash and dazzle of the experience itself is a rough and tumble, chaotic shift in the way the world looks. Some transformation came to me immediately. But the long term transformations are much more intriguing. Critical issues arise on a moment’s notice, all requiring commitment to their invitations to jump back into magic. It sounds so vague, doesn’t it? It is vague. That is why the commitment is necessary. Without committing to these invitations, it is vagueness that predominates, and nothing more ever comes of it. But sometimes the invitation is repeated more urgently. Then sometimes the invitation is never seen at all. The action comes on so fast that it cannot be ignored. Instead of vague, it is vivid and vibrating with life energy".
It has been 24 years since the bicycle accident and subsequent visionary journey. For the first seven years I was grappling with the psychological and metaphysical issues that were born from within the vision; issues that covertly doubled as tools for transformation. Who knew?!
The opening passage of the post is a quote lifted from the book: Theater of Clouds. The book has yet to be published. This blog is a first step toward publication. When the book becomes available I will let you know.
I'd like you to read it - whoever you are.
One of the classic aspects of a near death experience (NDE) is a choice given to the spirit, to stay in the celestial realms or to return to earthly life. I was given that choice as well. The being that revealed this choice to me laughed rather heartily when she told me. After 24 years I have a fair understanding as to why the choice was so darned funny. But an adjunct to that choice created a conditional acceptance which led to this blog, and to your reading what I write here today.
I will tell you a secret about this writing. I do it as if you are reading it as it comes out, through my fingertips, through this laptop computer keyboard, and on to your nervous system. Ursula K. Leguin wrote:
"Reading is not 'interactive,' with a set of rules or options, as games are; reading is an actual collaboration with the writer's mind".
Way back in 1984 I took an inadvertent mystical journey to a celestial valley of light, sound, and unspeakable wonder. I don't know what that means to you, but I would like to give you the chance to find out.
After sixteen years I finally began writing the book I had promised to write; promised as a condition of the acceptance of life over death. Just as I was on the verge of finishing the manuscript a second NDE happened to me. Go figure!
I've come to tell you about it. Welcome to the Theater of Clouds! I've been waiting for you.
