I would like to share an encounter with death, that I once had, a so called near death-experience, which actually was more of a "near life"-experience.

I had fallen down the basement-stairs with my head first at a friends house. I remember, that in the moment of falling, I lost any connection to my body, it disappeared from my awareness. But I was still myself. I felt a lot of light around me. I was very clear in my mind and aware of the love that was as well all around me, as well as within me.

I suddenly found my body at the bottom of the stairs, but I was not afraid. I was surprised to see, that I only had some scratches and a sore foot, my head was not hurt at all. I was overwhelmed with gratitude. I had come back from this experience with the discovery, that I was invulnerable, which has nothing to do with the body. I was given the certainty that no one really is a body, and that there is a whole Universe that I am forever a part of, and that all the love that I have ever been longing for, is available to me, now, not through death, but just by my asking for it. I am so grateful to discover that I am already a whole part of heaven (and so is everybody else), and that I don't have to die to get there. I can just open my arms wide right now, and be free and happy in the loving arms of God himself.

K.N.- Germany