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was frightened I felt as if I were transfixed then I began to talk to myself nonverbally.
“You can handle this, you are strong, you will be okay” continued to repeat this & pray to God. This is just like Preaksa meditation theory of Jainism by jain acharya Mahapragyaji.
I felt near death then suddenly overcome by a feeling of complete peace my feeling were that I was safe beautiful weightless. I loved it. I felt joy ultimate peace of mind & body. My body was there but where was I?
2nd type of distressing experience involve paradoxical sensation of ceasing to exist entirely or of being condemned to a featureless void for eternity unlike 1st this contain fewer features of prototypical peaceful NDE & don't appear to convert to peaceful e.g. delivery of child at age 28, labor had begun 3 weeks early, 3 pitocin drip started, she was fearful depressed & panicky finally given nitrous oxide. She was unconscious, her blood pressure dropped she reported I was aware moving rapidly upward into darkness, hospital & world were receding below me very fast. I was rocketing through space like an astronaut without capsule with immense speed & great distance small group of black & white circles made clicking sound as they snapped black to white & white to black. They are jeering & tormenting - not evil but more mocking & mechanistic message in clicking was your life never existed world, your family never existed, you were allowed to imagine it & to make it up. It was never there. There is nothing here, there was nothing there. It was all joke. There was laughter malicious. I argue on my part trying to prove world & I existed. It was dark but I could see them events had no sense of life review but trying to prove existence.
2nd ex. A Nurse reported two experience at age 24 & 26 on 1st delivery labor were induced by three pitocin & she was given ether, she reported, "I passed through different stages of torment voices were laughing at her telling her all the life was a dream, there was no, heaven hell or earth all experience in life was hallucination". She passed through type of terrible thirst & voices kept laughing & telling you think this is bad? Wait till the next stage she found herself hurling towards finali torment. She was suspended in a total vacuum with nothing to see or.. do for eternity thing brought her around words you have a girl & she thought tormenting stages were giving another stage teasing you don't have to stay in vaccum. .
On 2nd delivery of child she had a retained placenta & inverted uterus_ she was given ether, & same horrible dream stages of torment
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