The following real life story illustrates quite a number of the concepts embodied in the Lessons material.

I was very religious. I make a point of this because I did not have the
usual NDE, which is unusual when you consider my background. In 1965, I was working in a drive-in restaurant in Renton. I now had 4
children and my husband was a lineman for the power company. I had developed varicose veins which ran in my family. I was a deaconess and a Sunday school teacher in my church and my life revolved around my
family, my church and my home. I bowled twice a week. I began to have trouble bowling because after 2 lines of bowling my left leg would give out and I could not stand on it. I went to my doctor and he recommended I see a surgeon to see if I could have the veins stripped in my left leg. I went to see the surgeon and we decided to operate on my left leg and strip the veins. It was elective surgery and I would be in the hospital only 3 days. I went to the hospital and was operated on.

The next day I got up and walked around. The only thing that was unusual was that twice I found myself on the floor with no memory of how I got there. On the third day, I went home. I was feeling fine. The next day I went over to my neighbor, Pearl, for a cup of tea. We were sitting there and suddenly I felt strange. I told Pearl that I would go home and lie down for a while. She said she would walk with me. I told her no, that I was all right and that I would see her later. It was about 3:00 P.M.

I walked across the street and up a short embankment and to the middle of the carport. Suddenly I was floating above my body which was laying in the carport. I had no sense of movement and I was not afraid. I was fully conscious. I looked down and wondered why my body was laying on the ground and I was in the air. I thought it was interesting how
my body looked. I had never seen my body from this view before.
The neighbor across the street saw me fall and she came running over calling to Pearl. She and Pearl picked up my body, carried it into the house, and put it down on the bed. I floated along with them. My bed
had a bookcase headboard on it. I perched upon it and watched them try
to resuscitate my body without any success. My 4 children were standing at the end of the bed watching them. Pearl told my daughter to call 911. She went into the livingroom and called them. My body voided all wastes and they were trying to clean it up. They removed all the clothing except for a T-shirt.

The ambulance came and two attendants came in and put my body on a
stretcher and carried it out to the ambulance. They told Pearl to get in and she told them that I had just come home from the hospital the day before. Shirley,the other neighbor, said she would tell Bill, my husband, to meet us at the hospital. As they placed my body in the ambulance, I floated along with it. I was not attached to it in any way that I could determine. I just thought everything was so interesting. The driver turned on the siren and we started for the hospital. The attendant began trying to revive my body. Pearl was telling him what had happened and he was trying to find a pulse. He put an oxygen mask over my body's mouth and
applied electric shocks to the chest 3 times, each time taking a pulse.

Halfway to the hospital, he stopped and told the driver to turn off the siren. I was dead. The driver did and Pearl started crying. I turned around and was immersed in light. I was completely one with love,
unconditional love. I knew I was complete at last. Never had I felt such
safety and love before. Suddenly, I had all knowledge. Love surrounded me and accepted me completely. All that I had ever heard or known was swept away and I knew all knowledge. I knew that Christ had not died
on the cross and that there is no sin or evil. I knew that I had existed
since the moment of creation and that I shall always exist and that all
consciousness is in the act of becoming. I knew that I had lived 900 times in physical reality and I watched those expressions and observed each of them. I experienced what we mean when we say that we have free will and that we choose everything. There are no absolutes.

I watched every thought I had ever chosen to its natural end. I watched each being it touched. I knew that I was a speaker and I had always been a speaker and that I carried information between entities and
their expressions. I was in physical reality because it is time for the
physical beings to mature and accept the responsibility for their creation and to realize that they create their reality. I knew then that I must return
because my role was not finished yet. I also knew that I would die in 2010 and I would drown in my own body fluids. I would create my own death as I had chosen it.

I turned around and I was in the hospital emergency room. In the room was Bill, Pearl, 2 ambulance attendants, 2 policemen, a doctor yelling at Bill, and a nurse standing at the head of the table on which my body was laying, covered with a sheet. The doctor was telling Bill that I had died from extreme malnutrition. He was yelling that women kill themselves
trying to be thin. Bill was trying to tell him that he had just taken me home the day before and it was impossible for me to have died from extreme malnutrition. I floated over to my body and sank down into it.

I want to tell you what it felt like when I entered my body. I have never
felt such joy. I was enthralled with this wondrous body I had created. I
could feel the consciousness of each cell in my body. I could feel the joy of the blood as it rushed through the veins and the sharing of the creation of new life as each cell sang its energy. I truly knew what the phrase "I sang the body electric" meant. I was so captivated by this
wondrous creation which all of me had created and the loving cooperation that existed between all the cells that had joined together to create this marvelous body called Patsy. I joined in this song of life and thanked each of them and praised them. I could feel the energy as it traveled through my nerve paths to its destination. How alive and vital this body was. What a marvelous creation it was and how well it worked together in perfect synchronization in its exuberant celebration of life. As long as I wear this body, I will never forget what I had experienced in that moment.

My body begin to shake and the sheet fell to the floor. The nurse screamed. The doctor ran to the table and slapped her. I sat up and tried to get off the table. I wanted to dance and sing for the sheer joy of being alive. He pushed me down on the table and told her to get him a
shot. I was struggling to get up and suddenly I realized I knew what
everybody was thinking and they were all terrified. I calmed down and laid still. I told the doctor that I was all right and I didn't need a shot. He was terrified to even touch me. The nurse did not want to approach the table again. Everyone in the room was frozen in place. Their brains could not process what their eyes were observing.

I became aware that I was ravenous and I needed food. I told the doctor that I needed food. He told the nurse to send for an orderly to take me up to a room. He then told Bill to go with me. Then he went over to the desk and begin to fill out papers. I could see that he could not think about what had just happened and he was afraid of me.

The orderly came and Bill and I and him went to the elevator. I was
chattering away with the orderly and Bill was staying as far away from me as possible. I knew in some way I had to help Bill because he had to go home and tell the kids what happened. I told Bill that I was all right and I wanted him to go home and tell the kids that I would be home
tomorrow. He never said a word. He just leaned over and kissed me and took the elevator back down.

The orderly said to the floor nurse that all of them in the emergency room acted like they had just seen a ghost. She asked me if I had seen a ghost and I said no but I was starving and could she please get me something to eat and drink. She said the kitchen was closed because it was about10:00 p.m., but she would see what she could find for me. She put me in a ward with 2 other women and told me to be quiet. She left the room and I woke them up and told them we were going to have a party. I was singing and telling jokes and dancing around the room when she came back. She told me to get back in bed and eat and be quiet or she would have to strap me down. So I did.

The women went back to sleep and I laid awake all night. I read every mind in the hospital and wandered through everyone's dreams. To the ones who were dying, I helped them to leave and explained to them
where they were going. To the babies who had just entered this reality, I had long conversations and they told me why they had chosen to come and why they had chosen their parents. To those who were frightened and suffering, I helped them to see that they really chose the suffering and they had to choose not to suffer because it was not necessary.

The next morning, a neurologist came in and asked me a lot of questions. He poked me with a needle. I read his mind and told him what he wanted to hear. He left thinking he had been right, that I had just
had an emotional event that was caused by stress and he would recommend bed rest. I had planted these suggestions in his mind.

That afternoon Dr. Zeck, my surgeon came in and sat down and asked me what happened. I read his mind and knew that he knew I had died. I told him he would not believe me. He said,' "Yes, I would, I have to go before a board of my peers and tell them what happened, and why I released you to go home. I am a surgeon, and everyday I face my enemy, death, across my operating table and the more I can understand
about him, the better I am able to help my patients. I have had 500 patients experience death and live to tell about it and I'm not moving until you tell me what happened."
So I told him.
He told me that my file would be placed with the others and destroyed upon his death. I asked him what I should do and he said, "I don't know."
Your life will completely change and I don't know how to tell you to live
it."
Where are the others who experienced this?
He told me he could not tell me. He told me not to tell anyone what had
happened or they would put me away. I told him I could read his mind and he said yes that he knew that. He said that in time I would lose this ability but at first it would help me to adjust to my new awareness. He told me that I had been officially dead for 1 hour and he said he thought it was more than several hours. I went home that day. I never saw him again. He was right. My world had turned upside down.

I went to church the next Sunday and couldn't even sit through the service. I wanted to stand up and tell everyone that this was all wrong and how wonderful they were. The ability to read minds stayed with me for almost a month and then slowly faded into the background. I now use it in my role as a speaker. I began a search for others like me. I explored the psychic community and found that they, too, taught that people were victims and powerless. If you constantly seek your answers outside yourself, you will never find wisdom. You already have all the answers, so you always must look within.

In 1974, I was told by a palm reader to go to Lacey, WA to a certain house and I would find my voice. I went and when I arrived, I knocked on the door and a young man opened the door. He told me to come in and that "Gene" would be back in a few minutes. 15 Minutes later Gene
entered and I recognized him. He had been my tutor when I was in Atlantis and had used his students to gain advantage over his enemies. He said, "I have been waiting for you". He took me down to the basement to his library and gave me the book SETH SPEAKS. He told me this would give me the language I needed for my work. I went home and read it and it was exactly what I had learned in the light.

Gene died two years later from a brain tumor. For two years he helped me to prepare myself for my role as a speaker. In the years since I have lived the principles I learned in the light. Many events have happened to me and they will be in the book. You see, I have not had the usual NDE. I went to the NDE society here in Seattle and told my story and they asked me not to return because I had said that I knew Christ did not die on the cross, at least in this probability. I also did not go through a tunnel or see anyone. I was fully conscious during the whole time. In fact, I did not sleep for a week after the event.
I only sleep 4 hours a day now which is the usual for me. I have never slept more than five hours at a time. I have no fear of death or anything. I live in the moment. I am in excellent health and create what I want. I do not use drugs, alcohol or have insurance. I have never met a stranger and I don't know what the word shy means. I have never been homesick and I am at home wherever I am. My life has been a grand adventure. I stand between two worlds and I move easily between them.

Patsy Davis