After three weeks in the clinic where I had been undergoing spiritual healing and counsel, something happened to me that is so distinct to me that I will remember it always.
It was one o'clock in the morning, I was in bed, wide awake. For some reason I had made a mental note that the time was exactly one o'clock and I remember at the time being sure to make a mental note of the time, it has significance but to this day I don not know why.
After reading the digital clock in my room, in which there was three of us staying. I was lifted up out of my body and turned what seemed to be exactly ninety degrees to my left. It is important to understand that this was not my physical body, which remained below me as I was consciously aware, not far below maybe half a metre. I was terrified and started to close my eyes (although they weren't really my eyes, I had no physical sensation - it was very surreal.) I felt immense electrical surging up and down my body, incredibly powerful and painless. It was extremely powerful, through what appeared to be my chakras (although at the time I didn't even know what a chakra was). It was definite energy pulsating through me- almost like an electrical wave of energy. Unreal.
After this I started talking, I don't know if it was aloud but I was saying thank you and expressing gratitude.
I have to say here that this was not really a nice experience at all, I sensed darkness and blackness, no light or love at this point. I do know that I do, as a person, tend to lean towards the more dark side of life in terms of my thoughts and moods but I felt, at this time, a conflict between healing and complete blackness - could it have been my negative ego fighting off the healing I was being given.
The point is that this experience definitely included a presence that was not me or my higher self.
When I realised this, I was then so scared that I fell back into my body. I then cowered under the duvet just like I did when I was frightened as a child.
Luckily a nurse was supposed to check us every hour in our dorms, when she came in I was still under the covers. I heard a voice and saw a light. I was too afraid to look at the source of the light and instead looked at the reflection that it made on the wall by my bed. It was a pure golden light, waving like ripples on the water, I was awestruck but still too afraid to turn round. When I did turn around some seconds later to respond to the voice, all I said "I am too scared, go away." As I turned I saw that it was just the nurse shining her torch.
It was no mistake what I saw, whatever was there simply understood my fear and turned the situation around for me. That nurse had never seen someone in such a state before she shone the torch in my face. Strangely enough, I made another mental note to check the clock and found that only eight minutes had passed. I still don't why I checked the clock.
My sincerity about the experience, when I related it later to my counselors meant that no-one negated or disbelieved what I told them. On the contrary, I was encouraged to talk of it with my friends at the clinic and it changed my life forever.
Since then I have had a few minor experiences, mostly just feelings and sensations of energies. My point about this all is that it is not always the search for the proof of an experience that is important but rather the outcome and the change it makes to someone's life, to their purpose.
I will never forget my experience because it made me feel special and cared for in some different kind of way, with a little energy balancing thrown into the bargain! I hope I am not the only one to have experienced this and I am sure I am not!
skeptika's note:
This sounds a little like a spontaneous out of body experience. Usually such experiences are associated with either a near death situation or some other extreme stress. I have never heard of it happening to someone lying peacefully in bed.
Has anyone else heard of, or experienced, anything like it?