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I don’t know if this would qualify as a true miracle, but it was a very special experience in my life. On August 11, 2010 my Mom lay dying from cancer in the hospice ward at a local hospital. Mind you, I had begged God to take my Mom home as soon as He was willing as I knew that she had nothing, no reason to stay in the body anymore. Not only was she suffering from metastatic cancer but she had end stage Alzheimer’s disease as well.
About 3:00 am with her family around her, I got the sense that Mom had left her body, but in as much as she was still breathing (very laboriously and mechanically) I also assumed that she was in some way still connected to her mortal coil. About an hour later, it finally dawned on me that maybe she was waiting to be released, completely released from this world. So, I touched her cheek, kissed her head and told her that she had done a great job and that she had suffered enough and it was time for her to go home. Not 15 seconds later she took her last breath. Sure it could have been a coincidence, but I prefer to think it was Mom’s way of comforting me! Mom was telling me that she still existed, and just changed form as one still in the body would change clothes and to be careful – because now she could see everything that I was doing; which made me smile, chuckle, then gulp….then panic :’)………..
The idea that conscious awareness can exist after death, generally referred to as the ‘soul’, has been inherent in Eastern and Western religions for thousands of years. In addition to spiritual accounts, innumerable subjective reports of conscious awareness seemingly separated from the subject’s brain and physical body occur in conjunction with so-called near death experiences (NDEs) in patients resuscitated after cardiac arrest (1,2). Such patients describe remarkably consistent phenomenology including a white light, being in a tunnel, serenity, deceased loved ones, life review and, in some cases, floating out of the body (out-of-body experiences – OBEs). Comparable experiences have been reported in various types of meditative and altered states, traumatic psychological events, or seemingly without cause. A Gallup poll estimated some 10 million Americans have reported NDEs/OBEs…..
