Mark Scorelle's NDE
On Easter Sunday in April 1977 I was driving out to meditation a local
center with my roommate and another passenger in the back seat. At
the rural intersetion a car on the left ran a stop sign and broadsided
us. Our driver was killed instantly, the car was totalled. I
remember my last words were O shit. As soon as the car impacted us I
entered another type or state of consciousness. I felt no pain, had
no idea where or who I was. I felt a deep peace and the most
beautiful aesthetic feeling that is hard to describe at all. There
were no images, no sounds to be heard, no sensations at all. It was
as if I had been knocked out but retained some type of awareness.
Then I came to briefly and we were lying in a field. I could see my
foot and the drivers foot. He had a blanket over him. Then I was off
again. During this time I saw a vision of a spiritulal teacher whose
books I was reading. I was to meet him a couple of months later. Then
I saw some lines converging on a center, kind of like an astrological
wheel. I thought to myself or intuitively knew that if I projected
myself through the center I would die. The I came to again in the
ambulance. All I remember is alot of moaning. I told the attendant I
was a vegetarian and also not to give me a blood transfusion. Then I
was off again and came back in the emergency room. It was between 10
and 11 o'clock. I mentioned to the nurse that Saturn had gone direct
that day. They gave me a shot of demerol in the E.R. For three days
the positive aura of the experience remained with me. I met several
people in the hospital who had some types of experience around death.
As far as I know I didn't have life threatening injuries, broken
finger, broken ribs, cracked pelvis, cuts, etc. There weren't any
books around at the time on NDE's although Moody's book was out in '75
I didn't find it for a while after. It was years later I read Raymond
Moody, et al. I still had doubts it was an NDE because so many
elements were missing. But after reading books on the subject that
have come out since, it seems genuine. I felt a deep peace, there was
no pain, I lost any fear of death, there was a post NDE depression
because I had to come back, I met coincidentlly others in the hospital
who had or knew of similar experiences, etc. -Mark Scorelle
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