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Does Revelation of a Near Death Experience Always HAVE to Make You a Social Pariah, or Are There Alternatives?

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Wednesday, 12 November 2014 14:37
My Near Death Experience made me grateful for just being alive! Talk about terror! Compared to all other fears, being confronted by an absolute like NDE really got my priorities straight! Instead of recommending NDE , I wish there had been another, less extreme way to motivate me to "wake up"! I was warned to avoid even speaking about this NDE to anyone, even a psychologist. I was told that communicating such an intense experience would result in making others too uncomfortable. I can understand how sharing anything intense is scary to most people, and that is why we have films and TV, now podcasts and CDs, videos, etc., to vicariously "experience" intensity. Also I can understand how even just communicating something intensely can be taken as too provocative, because communicating about NDE may be regarded as promoting NDE. Instead of encouraging having NDE, I want to share my post NDE , because I suspect that there is a link between our addiction to fear (fear of NDE is masking the ultimate fear of actual death, mortality) and our fear of addiction (what we all DESIRE to be addicted to is happiness).

There is a social "prison" that we all enter and NDE may be a "get out of jail free" card. The problem is, if it is a problem, that is, is that when you use the get out of (social" prison, free card, you often find yourself alone, in a kind of "solitary confinement" even with others surrounding you. This is because when you are able and willing to be grateful for the smallest things, the essences of life, like just breathing, just the merest, most basic survival. You are viewed as an alien being, a negatively exotic foreigner who is ineffable, uncategorically specific, chaotically ambiguous, namely SCARY!

NDE to me was the wake up call I needed to be honest with myself. But, the (almost) absolute honesty to myself, is a "double edged sword" that cuts throug all others' deceit. I see the extreme difference now between me and most others. For instance, I'm able to sense when I am about to leave a "state of being", the immediate present where I am grateful for the smallest things, FOR a "state of having": the past or the future that "has" ME with fear and loathing, and impressions made by me and on me by others.

Maybe I need to start NDEM: Near Death Experience Movement, and start a revolution, so that all those who "qualify" ("ground rules" pending lol) can be in a place where they can communicateeither to themselves or with others, what it is like to really "be off the grid"
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