Near death experiences

It was early 1965, I had just turned 4 years old, I remember laying on the couch in the family room unable to move with out a great deal of pain, I was very hot and my mother kept putting blankets on me, but I felt to awful to kick them off.

When my Mother realized that my temperature had reached about 105 degrees, she became very alarmed and called my Father in. My parents went into the dining room to talk, my Father did not feel that my temperature could be that high, he felt that I was still upset with him for getting my mouth washed out with soap the day before (I had sassed back, again). but I did not hear this conversation from the couch, I heard it from a corner of the dining room near the ceiling. From this view, I watched as the doctor arrived and examined me.

I remember the Doctor turning to talk to my parents as a wonderfully bright light began illuminating from the living room. Being a curious child, I went to find out what this was. Three wonderful beings and a large tree in a park like setting appeared with 3 beings standing near a tree. One of these beings......Then the beings asked if I would like to play with the animals.

The next several hours or days I am not sure how long, I not only played with the animals but was allowed to see the world from their view, I watched as the doctor arrived and examined me.orld through their eyes. First animals around our farm that I was familiar with, then birds, fish, dolphins, and finally to what I believe was a Great Blue Whale.

After returning to my body, I remember trying to tell my parents of the experience, did not go well, being only 4, it was difficult to find and express the words. Being from a small rural farming community in Iowa, they had never heard of a near death experience, so they did not know what to think of my stories of "when I was a snake" or "when I was a fish".

Then again at the age of six, I had another ruptured hernia. The memories of the pain or any thing else that happened here are very vague, I recall being greeted by the same three beings, it felt very much like a going home after a long journey. I was told once again that I would be not be able to go into the light, that they were still not ready for me. This upset me very much and I cried for what seem like a long time. I was held and rocked and the love that I felt was unlike anything I have ever experienced. I knew that nothing else mattered that nothing else really existed except the love. As the tears subsided I started to ask questions about what I had was being taught in sunday school and what little I understood of the world. I was told that inside everything and every person was a little piece of the Creator (God), pretending to be a tree, a bird, a dolphin, and people. That all that really mattered was to love that little piece of God in all things and all people. Even if they did not understand this.

I ask about Jesus, Christmas and Easter, I was told that there were men who wanted to be able to make the people do what they wanted them to do and that they were sharing only part of the truth. But some day these men would no longer be able to hide behind the lies. That they (my angels) would always be with me to help me. I continued to ask many questions, but it all came back to love and/or light being the energy of the Creator (God) and that we were only being told part of the truth.

Again I was unable to explain this to my parents and after several times of being told to "quit telling stories", "quit telling lies"; these memories were buried, not to be spoken of again. But it has lead me on a life long search for the truth, and the constant companionship of my friends the angels.