A NDE or Something Else?

From: Chris Lowe (lowery@ahri.com.au)
Story type: NDE
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Source: Form Submission

In the early 1980 I was sharing a house with a couple of friends in Melbourne, Australia. I had gone to sleep and awoke lying flat on my back with chills running up and down my spine. I was terrified. I felt sure there was something in the room with me but could not even bring myself to tuen my head to look.

After a short time my mother's voice started coming to me. Not through my ears it seemed but through a hole in the back of my head. She said she wanted me to fly with her. I began to relax and felt my "self" lifting out of my body. I slowly rose toward the ceiling getting more and more into it.

Just when I felt ready to let go and really take off a man's voice said, "She's going for good!" With that my "self" left my astral body and I found myself having an instant life review. I was then looking in a book which told me the things I had to accomplish in life and the things left to do. I remember saying, "I can't go, there's too much to do.", and with that the experience was over.

I dreamed jumbled images for a time and was then awakened by one of my housemates arriving home after a long night. I was immediately concerned about my mother and drove to her house some 15 minutes away. As a result of persistent on the bedroom window my father awoke and let me in. I walked straight into the bedroom. My mother, a notoriously light sleeper was "dead to the world". I instinctively touched on the forehead over the third eye and she immediately awoke with a start, remembering nothing of the occurence.

I would love to get another look in that book because I don't to this day know what it said. i know it instilled in me a sense of purpose, but whenever I try to picture what was it said I see only an image of a Dingo standing on a rock overlooking a vast desert; a sentinal perhaps. This was beyond astral projection. When I jumped out of my astral body I entered a completely different state of consciousness-all knowledge was at my complete disposal. Because of the life review and the need to decide not to proceed I believe it was most like a NDE, but even then it doesn't fall into the classic mould.