Amy C. was a 30-year-old California woman suffering since
she was 17 from worsening chronic pain that may have been fibromyalgia (thanks to nhne-pulse.org for the
find). In 2010, she reported on the
NDERF site that she had had an NDE a couple of years prior. Her NDE is of particular relevance to this
blog because it was triggered by a lethal medication reaction, and reveals one
instance of how the issue of iatrogenic medication is being framed on “the
other side.”
After 13 years of illness, Amy had reached the point where
she could only sleep 15 minutes at a time due to pain. Her doctor then experimented with a new
medication to help her sleep. His
intentions were good, but, as is too often the case, he minimized the
seriousness of the adverse effects she immediately showed.
“My doctor had an idea for a
medication that wasn't typically used for sleep, but might have the side-effect
of numbing me. I noticed that whenever
I took it, even in the tiniest amounts, my nose would swell and my breathing
became too shallow. It was scary and
uncomfortable, but the relief from pain came, so the temptation to take it was
great. I informed the doctor that I
believed I was having an allergic reaction to the medication and he chuckled
and said that my body simply needed to "get used to the med" and that
the amount I was taking was so low, it couldn't possibly do anything. He asked me to take three whole pills. I had been taking one half of a half. One night, after a week of agonizing pain
and no sleep, I considered the doctor's prescription of three whole pills and
decided to take them all and trust him.
I went to bed after taking all
three and within minutes felt myself begin to go numb. Then the inside of my nasal passages swelled
up and I couldn't breathe at all. I
couldn't even open my mouth I was struggling to get air, but could not. My entire body felt like it was
mummified. I couldn't call out for
help, and it only took a couple of minutes before, the struggle was over.
There was a strong suction
coming from the top of my head (like a vacuum) and an absolute sense of
relief. There was no longer a need to
breathe, and no feeling of being drugged on a medication. I had no sense of my own body. I've forgotten much of this next part, but
it seems I travelled very quickly.”
The next thing she remembers is being pulled through a
portal into a waiting room with many other people. She knew that they had probably just died, and that they had all
died from not taking better care of themselves in some way. For example, there were some boys who had
died from drunk driving, and a woman who had overly tanned herself in pursuit
of beauty who had died from skin cancer.
After an interval, a teacher appeared who explained to her
that everyone in this gathering had died by some form of indirect suicide, and
that they hadn’t learned vital lessons while embodied. None of them had intentionally killed
themselves, but all had shown a flagrant disregard for their own safety. They had taken unhealthy risks with their
lives in a way that was described by Amy as self-obsessed and prideful.
She then left that area and moved on through a long,
detailed NDE with her own guide. She
had a life review, an interplanetary tour, and learned a lot about how things
work. Among other things, she was shown
that Earth crops are poisoned and impure (the implication was pesticides and
GMO) and we are all adjured to return to pure, unadulterated food. There is much more to Amy C.’s NDE than I
will focus on here. It is a
particularly uplifting and complex one, very much worth reading in toto (see
Sources below).
Her guide told her she was in between life and death, “as if
in a coma,” and after all these experiences, he persuaded her to return to her body. She found herself back in her bedroom
standing out-of-body next to her body, and felt panic at not being able to
enter her body or wake it. With her
guide’s help, she managed to make a noise to wake her husband.
“My husband heard this and woke
up and asked, "Amy? What is
it? What's the matter?" I couldn't answer. I tried to scream or cry out to him, but could not. He leaned over and I saw him shake me. I felt through his hands a level of electricity
move through me. But I was unable to
connect or move. He got up and turned a
light on. My eyes were still shut, but
I witnessed the look on his face.
He suddenly went very pale and
his mouth dropped open. Beads of sweat
formed instantly around his hair line.
He was perspiring heavily. I'd
never seen such a frightened look on his face before. He grabbed me and yanked my body upward toward him, trying to
hold me up, shouting, "AMY!! AMY,
AMY!!!" Again and again. He was trying to check my pulse. My head dropped back and he pulled my
eyelids open. He was nearly screaming
my name. As he continued to shake my
body (he later described as being so heavy, it was shocking... and I was very
small/petite at the time.) I felt more and more electricity moving all around
my body. Then, I felt something like a
POP, and I was back. I sucked in a
long, deep breath and just hung there, limply, breathing in and out. Unable to speak.
After a few minutes, my husband
was asking, "What should I do?
Should I call 911?" I answered
firmly, "No. I'm fine. Don't call anyone. I just need to sit down for a minute." He helped me to the other room where I sat
on the couch and tried to tell him what had happened.”
After her NDE, Amy’s health recovered dramatically, and she
shifted to a vegetarian, organic diet.
She also left the religion she had been raised in; became less
politically conservative; more interested in her spiritual and psychological
development, and in deeper relationships with others; and less interested in
material things. She said that, prior
to the NDE, she “had lived in fear and distrust and panic for 30 consecutive
years.” Afterwards, she slowly and
successfully integrated the peace, security and trust she had experienced
during the NDE into her embodied life.
Amy continued to have visions after the NDE, saw light
around everything, and had other psi experiences. She synchronistically met the mother of one of the women she had
seen in the afterlife waiting room, and was confirmed to have veridical information
about the deceased woman.
From her post-NDE meditations and communications with her
guide she learned --
“…I had been pulled into the
specific portal with others who had brought themselves to their own demise,
because I had for so many years been taking strong medications for my health
problems that were slowly killing me.
And that I had seen myself as a helpless victim for so long….I gave up
all of the labels that doctors had given me for my health problems, and let go
of my ‘story’ of what I thought I
was. I worked toward humility and
opened myself up to learning and growth.
I took full responsibility for my own suffering and blamed no one and no
thing.”
This NDE account is unusual in that it gives us some
information about how iatrogenic medication is being seen in the part of the
universe we inhabit when not embodied.
I have some familiarity with NDE accounts and after death communications
(ADCs), and I have not come across a lot of information like this.
This is not the only path that an NDE from a medication
reaction can take. There are several
other drug reaction NDEs listed below in the Sources, and none of them has this
“portal for indirect suicide” element in common with Amy C.’s, nor do they have
much to say about iatrogenic medications.
I know of one other reference – an ADC from a young man
named Erik Medhus, who killed himself with a gun in 2009, and said, through a
professional channeler in 2010, that the drugs he took -- Lamictal and Abilify -- will be removed from
the market because they’re harmful to children and teens. He was not taking the meds at the time of
death, and he denied they had anything to do with his suicide (http://www.channelingerik.com/teen-shit/). (But, based on my experience, I have to
wonder whether he was unwittingly in withdrawal from them, and does not yet
realize that the neurological disruption caused by stopping these meds may,
indeed, have contributed to his state of mind.)
Amy C. had a severe adverse reaction to a prescribed
medication. This occurs much more frequently than is currently recognized by
mainstream Western medicine. And less
severe adverse reactions are even more common.
As an aside, consumers and physicians often refer to these
crises as an “allergic reaction,” which is almost cute-sounding and
misleading. It implies that the person
taking the medication is unusual, and has something wrong with them in how they
react to honest, hard-working medication.
In fact, adverse reactions and serious side effects are very, very
common. And the fault lies with the
medications, which are increasingly potent and shamefully under-tested. In the U.S., TV advertisements for
medications in all categories are larded with warnings and disclaimers, in an
attempt to protect the manufacturers from liability. This shows that the manufacturers know that many risks exist and
that they’re common.
The message that Amy C. got from her NDE was that she was
“taking strong medications” that were “slowly killing” her. She was also encouraged to give up the
labels her doctors had put on her health; to take responsibility and empower
herself; and to abjure unnatural food.
She was asked to look at some of her previous choices as a form of
indirect suicide, and then asked to take much better care of her safety and
well-being from here on out.
This message and the channeled one from Eric Medhus validate
what a growing number of consumers and health professionals are coming to
believe. I am keen to see what other
information we get on this topic from the other side in the coming years, and
how it will shape the discourse about medication here on Earth.
These two communications also bring up bigger questions
about how new developments on Earth are metabolized on the other side, and how
and when other beings or aspects of universal consciousness intervene with
unwholesome happenings on Earth. The
possibilities for transpersonal partnership are very intriguing.
Sources:
Other NDEs from medication reactions –
Christopher Reeve (second NDE due to meds) –
