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   once you've had a foot into another world   
   it is not something that is easily forgotten.   
   and it can sort of mess you up because your   
   priorities and values will probably change,   
   so that you may feel at odds with society,   
   you may feel alienated because no one   
   understands what has happened to you.   
   worst of all, i think, one can become   
   fixated with the experience, determined   
   to sort it out, and perhaps the need to   
   have one's strange experience accepted.   
   i think this is why, when i had a past life   
   experience, even though immediately   
   after the experience i had retained all of   
   the person's vital statistics, i did not   
   bother to even try and remember them.   
   after all, after totally re-living the person's   
   life from inside and out, what are a few   
   statistics?  they are nothing really, unless   
   i suppose one is trying to prove something.   
   but what is there to prove?   
   the proof is going to be in the pudding   
   anyway, when this life ends, i should think.   
   i would rather shoot for the heart, not the   
   manifestations, the symbols, the appearances.   
   they may be pretty and varied, but what is   
   below the surface, what is the source, the   
   root of all creation, the true self?   
      
      
   "anatman"  wrote in message   
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   > Hey there,   
   >   
   > I'm new to this (pretty darn empty) newsgroup on NDEs.  I have a friend   
   > who is a thanatologist who has had NDEs and now helps pepole who have   
   > them. Apparently there's some struggle to make sense of life once a   
   > preson has had an NDE and is back among the living.   
   >   
   > Can anyone tell me about why someone would need help once they've had an   
   > NDE?  It would seem --from all the hype that accretes around the   
   > issue--that people who come back from an NDE have more of life sorted   
   > out for them, not vice versa. That sets up a little dissonance in my mind.   
   >   
   > I got some information from Barbara Harris Whitfield's website that   
   > addresses NDE, but I need to hear a little more from experiencers or   
   > those who help them. (http://www.barbarawhitfield.com)   
   >   
   > Thanks   
   > Anatman   
      
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