The following narrative is part of my ongoing personal journal, “Healing Journey.” (That particular journaling project is still “in development”, for my wife Melanie and I have been so busy living our “healing journey” that we are still in the process of journaling it! Here is this:
“Beset with a “rare autoimmune disease” (in August of 2016), I faced a so-called a NDE (“near-death experience” — which I prefer to call an “NAE”, Near-Ascension Experience).

By way of a vivid meditative dream, I awoke to a powerful, inner “command”: “Release fear; Embrace perfect, complete Surrender, and Reveal Yourself.” As an utterly sublime sense of surrender brought me into a deep peace, I heard a question asked from ‘Above’:
“Do you wish to continue your journey on earth in your present Soul’s capacities?”
I replied to that fourteen-word query with eight words of my own — words echoed from a deep “somewhere” inside me: “My purpose on Earth is not yet complete.”
Then instantly, the “dream scene” changed. And, in a few quick seconds, I awoke in my hospital bed, peering up at my beautiful Melanie. Our eyes met in an intense re-welcoming. Melanie’s eyes blazed with an earnest intent to help me (as only she could) to do what I chose to do.
“Home” again, home Again! — with a New Day dawning and a fresh purpose calling …