This next happening actually ties in with research sited in [amazon asin=0553576348&text=Hello From Heaven] by Bill and Judy Guggenheim. Research has been done on the frequency and types of ADC experiences people have. A common theme is seeing your loved one on the other side of a body of water. I was very surprised when I read this. Mine has a little twist because being a longtime veteran of lucid dreaming; I decided to cross the water. I gather from “Hello From Heaven” that most people do not attempt this – they either “know” that they cannot cross it or are afraid to cross it.
At this point we’d been cleaning out my parents’ house for several months. It took forever and was extremely unpleasant. In addition to the usual who-gets-what conflicts there is the strain of finding some place to take all of the stuff. The primary source of misery for me was the early childhood memories getting stirred up. One trait we seem to pass down is the ability to remember things from early infancy. So here I am cleaning out drawers, and on the bottoms of the drawers are little foil stars that I stuck there when I was about 2 years old. And not only can I remember that I did this, I remember why and lots of other things that were going on at the time – this is TMI when you are trying to clean out a house and cope with a recent death. The only analogy I could come up with to describe what this was like is having to dig up your own corpse and decide which parts of it should be sent to the Goodwill.
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