prescription for living
by Bernie Siegel, MD It’s More Interesting Outside My Body
hen I was four years old, while in bed with a cold I took a toy apart and put the parts in my mouth, imitating some carpenters I had seen. I then aspirated the parts and was choking to death. I couldn’t call for help and the struggle to breathe was incredibly painful. Then I found myself out of my body looking down at the dying boy. I can tell you it was a lot more interesting out of my body than in it and I had no desire to return, though I felt bad for my mother who would come in and find me dead. After a few minutes the boy on the bed started agonal vomiting, the toy pieces were dislodged and he started breathing again. I was mad as hell when I found myself back in my body yelling, “Who did that?” What never occurred to me was how I could see after I left my body. For those who doubt this type of event read “Mind Sight” by Ken Ring. It is a book documenting the near death experiences of people born blind. Yes, they could see when they left their bod- ies and many were not thrilled to be saved or resuscitated and blind again. My belief is similar to the words of author
W
William Saroyan who wrote in a short story “The Young Man on the Flying Trapeze” about a boy who dies and becomes, “dream- less, unalive, perfect.” Many years ago a friend, while talking to me on the phone, learned how busy I was and asked, “Why are you living this life?” I went into a trance in which I saw myself with a sword in my hand killing people. The entire story is too emotional for me to share
here but after living this experience I truly felt that I had become a surgeon to help heal people with a knife and no longer kill with a sword. Now again you may all think I’m nuts
and I have no problem with that nor does my therapist or parole officer, who would both agree with you. But what I would ask you all to be open to is the possibility that con- sciousness is not limited to the body and can be passed on to future generations. So the choices we make and, therefore, our lives are affected by our most often unconscious awareness of past life experiences. I am not trying to convince anyone of anything, just sharing what I have experienced and can believe. To me the key is that if it helps me to live a better life now then it is useful and helpful. So follow your intuitions and do what feels right. It just makes me think of some kids who play the piano, paint portraits and are brilliant in certain areas when they are a few years old. Could it be a past life experience that is manifesting in them? There are cases where children have shared stories with their parents of a past life and when the parents researched it found their children were describing events that did happen. I also see this in drawings by patients of
all ages where they draw the past, present and future. I know this from the events that later happen to them in their lives which are already in a drawing done some time before the event. What is important is for all of us to raise the level of consciousness and make the future a better place for our children.
Bernie holds a support group in Simsbury
at Wisdom of the Ages the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9pm. Wisdom of the Ages, a special place to nurture your spiritual side. It's filled with items to calm the mind, heal the body & empower your spirit. They also provide massages & monthly medita- tion classes. Wisdom of the Ages is owned by Bernie's son & daughter- in-law, Keith & Jane Siegel. Located at 1408 Hopmeadow St. Simsbury. Please call for info or to register for Bernie's group. (860) 651-1172, www.wis-
domoftheages.biz,
berniesiegelmd.com. See ad on page. Bernie also runs a Woodbridge Support
Group which meets the Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings of each month at Coach- man's Square, Bradley Road, Woodbridge, CT. Contact: Lucille Ranciato at 203-288- 2839 or email her at
lranciato@yahoo.com.
NaturalNutmeg.com 9
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52