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Consciousness by Bernie Siegel, MD When I was four years old and home in bed with one of my frequent ear infections, I took a toy telephone, unscrewed the dial and put all the pieces in my mouth just as I had seen carpenters do with nails. I aspirated the pieces and went into laryngospasm. I can still feel my intercostals, muscles and diaphragm contracting forcefully, trying to get some air into my lungs, but nothing worked and I was unable to make any sounds to attract help. I had no sense of the time but suddenly realized I was not struggling anymore. I was now at the head of the bed watching myself die. I found it fascinating and a blessing to be free of my body. I never stopped to think about how I could still see, while out of my body. I was feeling sorry for my mother who was in the kitchen and would find me dead, but I thought it over and found my new state preferable and so I intellectually chose death over life. Then for no apparent reason the boy on the bed vomited and all the pieces came flying out. He began to breathe again and I was very angry as I returned to my body against my will. I can still remember yelling, "Who did that?" My thought as a four year old was that there was a God who had a schedule and I wasn’t supposed to die now. The way I would explain this experience today is that an angel apparently did a Heimlich maneuver on me. I really do believe there is a schedule that we unconsciously create. Twice I have had my car totaled by people driving through red lights. Once I fell off our roof when the top rung on my wooden ladder snapped off. In none of these incidents did any significant injury occur to my body. Someone told me it was because I had an angel and he knew his name. I asked what it was and he asked, "What did you say when the ladder broke?" I said, "Oh Shit!" He said, "That’s his name." I will also add, he always shows up when I call him in an impassioned way. My next experience was with the healer Olga Worrall. I had injured my leg training for a marathon. It was very painful and not responding to rest or therapy. At an American Holistic Medical Association conference, Olga was a guest speaker. My wife told me to ask her to heal me, but I was embarrassed to ask and quite frankly, I was a non-believer. Never the less, my wife pushed me forward and Olga sat me down in a chair and placed her two hands on my leg. The heat from her hands was incredible. I remember putting my hands on the opposite leg to compare the heat sensation. There was no sense of warmth from my hands coming through the dungarees. When Olga was done I stood up and was completely healed. The pain was gone and I could walk normally. Another time, Olga and I spoke at the funeral of a mutual friend. After the ceremony we were standing in a deserted hallway when she asked, "Are you Jewish?" "Why are you asking?" "Because there are two rabbis standing next to you." She went on to tell me their names and describe their garments, which included their prayer shawls and caps. Her description of them was exactly what I saw in my meditation and imagery sessions when I had met these figures while walking on my path. On another occasion, after I gave a lecture, which felt like someone else was giving it and I was simply verbalizing it for them, a woman came up to me and said, "Standing in front of you for the entire lecture was a man and I drew his picture for you." Again, exactly the face and features of my inner guide. I still have the picture hanging in our home. My next experience came when I was telling a friend about how busy I was and she said, "Why are you living this life?" Her intention was to get me to slow down and travel less but her question sent me into a trance and I immediately saw myself with a sword in my hand killing people. My first thought was that I had become a surgeon in this life to use a knife to heal instead of to kill. A few days later, I spontaneously went into a trance again and saw myself living the life of a knight who killed because he was fearful of the dire consequences if he didn’t carry out his lord’s commands. I killed a young woman (who in this life is my wife) and her dog and was very devastated by the experience. But at the same time, it revealed to me why my present wife’s face has always had a hypnotic effect upon me and why I am so involved in rescuing animals. Ultimately I learned to have faith in the true Lord and like Abraham, Jesus, Moses and Noah to understand that what our Lord asks of us is for the greater good and that if I had said yes I would have not been asked to kill anyone. Recently one of our cats disappeared when a door was left open. After several weeks with no sign of her, I was sure she was killed by a predator. A friend of mine, Amelia Kinkade, is an animal intuitive who lives in Los Angeles. We live in Connecticut and Amelia has never been to our home or near it. I pestered her to tell me where the cat was and one day I received an email, from Amelia saying "The cat is alive because I can see through its eyes." Without even sending her a picture of the cat, she had detailed the house, yard, other animals and people who were involved in the cat’s life. The next day, I found the cat exactly where she said it was hiding. If that doesn’t make me a believer nothing will! I totally believe that consciousness is non-local and not limited to the body. I also have experienced this through the drawings and dreams of patients for whom I have cared. Art therapy allows them to know their diagnosis and what their future holds. As Jung said, "The future is unconsciously prepared long in advance and therefore can be guessed by clairvoyants." I believe it is this unconscious awareness that we bring with us when we are born. So I do not believe we literally live many lives but that we bring with us the experiences of previous lives. Thus the wiser we get, the better the future will be for those who succeed us.
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