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Paul Carr had a totally unexpected encounter with death.
He slipped and fell on a bottle of cooking oil
which rearranged his internal organs. He felt that his near-death experience brought
him back
on track. They were running around trying to figure out what's wrong with me and I'm
laying there on this table
and it gets worse and it gets worse and I drop farther and farther and finally it
felt just like I was just sort of folding in on myself and I just kind of
went "boop"
and went way down inside myself
and then suddenly I just wasn't there anymore and
I was spinning I don't know sideways
somehow through this tunnel and
first it was very dark and then it seemed like there was these streaks..
I don't know and
I was falling but I wasn't falling. I was traveling
that's maybe more the word
and there was
this big white light at the end of it. You know and I kind of came out
into this but I don't
recall ever seeing anything
but there was this one major presence there that
started speaking to me in a voice that I recall that I'd heard once before.
That's funny I hadn't heard this voice since I was a child and I only heard it
once before and
it was in a life-threatening situation. I fell off the side of a cliff when
I heard it. It said, "Kick the tree away that I holding onto." I did that and I landed in a
blackberry bush
about 70 feet below it and never broke a bone. Never heard that voice again and hadn't
thought about that in 17, 18 years when suddenly this voice
started talking to me but it's the same voice and I've always referred to this
entity as a "greeter".
That's the name that came to mind then and that's the only way I
have to describe it today. It doesn't sound very mystical or anything
but that's what it was it was a greeter it was my greeter
and there was other entities out there and
I could sense them but I never saw anything
I just sensed all of this and when I say speak it was
I'm sure more of a telepathic thing than it was moving the mouth
but anyway we had this chat
I reviewed my life up to that point
and it was kind of like in little bursts, scenes
and the point of it was not to be judgemental.
That wasn't it it was just a kind of a review of what had happened up to this point and it
became clear as a result of that review that a couple of things hadn't happened
that were important but that I
didn't have to have them happen at least not in this lifetime
and I can kind of go on around this series a light
bends. If I can use that term I'm not even sure myself what that means. I can see in
my mind's eye right now but
again describe it but it was like if I went around enough
of those bends I couldn't come back and that was okay
and it was really peaceful and it
was really calm and it was really serene and it
felt really warm and really comfortable and I didn't hurt and I
didn't have any problems and right at that point in my life that was a
pretty terrific
thing I mean it would be in anybody's at any time but
you know here I got the choice of being there are nice and peaceful and calm and
everything
or coming back to an existence where I'm getting divorced, getting sued, I owe all
kinds of
money. I got a couple of kids at least to raise
that and one of them has some special problems as well
and I am not walking!
It's really funny because on one hand
because a what I now feel I know and what I
feel I've learned I think it would be safe to say that I have departed
to some
respect what traditional christianity is we normally think of it
teaches. On another level I feel like I've
come to what traditional christianity really is and by traditional christianity
I think I mean what I perceive Christ was talking about
and the way that was being acted out in the first and second century
as opposed to the way that it acted out now.
I'm not so sure that I am not a more traditional Christian
then I was in the religion I grew up
which was very straight.. Well it a was Presbyterian.