From: mthrbomb@yahoo.com   
      
   You know how when you close your eyes  it's like dark .especially when you're   
   going to sleep ..open eyes like day, closed eyes like night? Some times you   
   see little stars, or maybe there  brain cell's twinkling,  but mostly you see   
   darkness,  a gray and     
   murky  place, a  quiet place, a quiet space. A place where you can be still,   
   and in trying to be still, you can see your thoughts  both the mundane   
   thoughts, the encouraging spiritual thoughts, prayer,   a confessional, a   
   closet, a cave of treasures,     
   and also the valley of the the shadow of death.. where  you fear no evil for   
   God is with you ..and any that call on the name of the lord there. I believe   
   this is the place you pass before you go to your eternal abode, heaven, or   
   hell..   
   A few of my experiences with this place..   
   The negative.. I always saw, sometimes shadowy things inside of there. I   
   couldn't make them out, maybe a ghostly face would appear and fade, one time   
   when I was at an eye specialist, and they gave me eyedrops to dilate the eyes   
   to see close up, as I got    
   home I decided to take a nap, and when I closed my eyes and prayed, like I   
   usually do before I sleep, I saw very plainly a lot of ghostly figures that   
   look very unhappy... and I know this really was the shadow of death, a place   
   where most will pass    
   through..   
      
   The positive.. when I'm there in that closet, after a while, I start to see    
   swirls of color and light. I'm so glad to see it, like a real communion... a   
   private place... a few times I saw an opening at the very top,  once  a very   
   bright light, another    
   time a beautiful blue sky.. just for a moment, and a very partial opening..   
   now I'm coming to believe that  it's a kind of born again experience, like a   
   womb, you give birth at one end, but you're birthed  at the other end.. an   
   entrance into the kingdom    
   of God. This is not the only entrance of corse ..like they say, there are 12   
   gates , like there are other books  opened, and as  like having a C-section,   
   sometimes you're taken .. but it is a way.. I've prayed like this for years   
   and years, intreating    
   the lord...it took time before I saw the light, maybe with others it's sooner.   
   The Catholic religion imitates everything and the confessional is one of them.   
   When you go into their confessional, a place where you close a curtain or door   
   and the priest    
   slides open a little window where you communicate..and say bless me father for   
   I have sinned ..and he gives you penance, (voluntary atonement)   I found a   
   lot of things in the Catholic Church that they imitate, after I found it on my   
   own. They carried    
   this strange knowledge w for thousands of years, And used it the same as the   
   wicked scribes and Pharisees and it was not really understandable to most, but   
   only to a few,  like  their  Communion when they lift the round host up over   
   their heads with    
   their back to you ( which they don't do anymore because of complaints, but it   
   does mean more the first way) there are so many mysteries hidden in so many   
   places, secrets,  Jesus said pearls are not for every one and Jesus even    
   confounded some people but    
   Jesus also said he would make things plain one day. Which is a blessing,   
   especially when it's the end of the world or the end of your life.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)