My Experience (c) Genevieve (pen name)
An unusual NDE occurred during my routine visit to a dentist some years ago. I was at that time a young married woman with school age children. The health professional in question used drugs and hypnosis unethically as a means to induce bizarre traumatic hypnotic scenarios which preceded a `clinical death' and subsequent experience of being deliberately sent to `hell' in an afterlife. This terrible `too real' aspect of the NDE ceased when I invoked the name of God as an appeal for help. The classic NDE experience of rushing through a tunnel and moving towards a bright light surrounding an approaching `being' who urged me to return to my life and family since it was not my time to die, seemed to follow my deliverance from `hell.' A conversation with the being of light was soothing, and enlightening, then forgotten. Though prolonged amesia blotted out the NDE and entire hypnotic experience for months, horrific memories returned along with temporarily increased psychic sensitivity. Also recurring mediumistic phenomena, experience of strange energies, dream interference, and a new tendency to allergies all combined to plague me for several years. All told, the aftermath of the NDE and hypnosis proved disturbing to my peace of mind, seriously disrupting family life and relationships with others over the long term. To help integrate my experience I turned to education, earning a B.A. and M.A. in a field of study which acknowledges spirituality: Consciousness Studies and Transpersonal Psychology/Writing. I have a book in progress. (c)