Once in a while I
come across a few lines in my reading that just resonate throughout
my being, and I record them in my note book, and find them inside me
ever after, with warmth and joy and light.
It happened this
last week while I was reading a
scholarly article about whether or not people who are blind from
birth have vision during out-of-body experiences. (They do!)
The article itself
is memorable but what struck me most inside it was the testimony of a
blind-from-birth lady of what she saw while she was out of her body.
The authors of the article interview her and write, p. 111:
“... she then "rolled out" to find herself lying on
grass. She was surrounded by trees and flowers and a vast number of people. She was in a place of tremendous light, and the light,
Vicki said, was something you could feel as well as see. What the light conveyed was love. Even the people she saw were bright and
reflected the light of this love. "Everybody there was made of light.
And I was made of light. There was love everywhere. It was like love came
from the grass, love came from the birds, love came from the trees." Vicki then became aware of five specific persons she knew in life who were welcoming her to this place. Debby and Diane were Vicki's blind schoolmates, who had died years before, at ages 11 and 6,
respectively. In life, they had both been profoundly retarded as
well as blind, but here they appeared bright and beautiful, healthy and
vitally alive, and no longer children, but, as Vicki phrased it, "in
their prime."
Now, every syllable
of that rings with me and the thought of sharing it with even one
other person feels like heaven, too. And even beyond that, comes the
vision that my friend Colleen is there. Now.
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| Colleen Large and Me, Victoria, BC, Summer, 2018. |
