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connection with Spirit and is able to sift through suggested cures and take what works best for him.
    Dave is not afraid to die. He has done that already. In fact his near-death experience completely transformed and redirected his life many years before. While out at sea, working on a research vessel, Dave suffered an agonizing death of slowly drowning after being tossed about like a rag doll in a raging storm. He described the pain of being submersed and tossed about in dark, murky salt water with lungs near bursting and burning in need of a crucial breath of air. Just as the pain intensified to an overwhelming degree, it suddenly reverted and began to fade a little at a time until it was completely gone. Then everything went cold and dark—a cold darkness. That was how Dave described the event.
    The rest of the experience is nearly the classic near-death account—of a gradual light becoming so bright and warm and full of love that one has no desire to ever leave it. Being one with the light and its love, without a physical body and no pain, suddenly other “light beings” came toward him. Dave felt he knew them and they knew him as they were supporting and helping him to adjust.
    Then, before he was able to communicate with any of them, he experienced a “life review” where every minor and major thing he had said, done, and thought, and how it had affected the lives of those around him when he was alive, flashed before him. Supernaturally, he was able to review the feelings of others as the result of his actions—all the joy, happiness, heartache, disappointment, love, hurt, sorrow, grief —but all without the accompanying guilt or judgment. All the subtle interactions of his entire life were ineffably experienced. He knew the review was shown him not to be judged, but to learn and grow from.
    â€œIt felt like coming home,” Dave said. “I experienced a love and acceptance like I had never felt before.” Then others seemed to join the first group that had surrounded him, and Dave began to see things that were not familiar to him at all. The “others” remained supportive, but Dave felt disoriented. He thought he was looking into his future!
    The clearly audible words, “This is not your time, you must return,” interrupted with a bang. Like a cannon, shooting him back to his earthly body, then again, “This is not your time, you have a purpose!” Dave described the fact of “having to return” as a more painful contrast to the love and peace than the actual pain of drowning. All of this seemed to be a prelude to a miracle that was to occur on Christmas 2000.
    This would be the first Christmas that Cindy would not be with the rest of her family in thirty-nine years, and she was feeling the pangs of self-inflicted guilt for not making a six-hour drive to spend even a few hours with them. Exposing Dave to any cold or flu germs could be fatal, as both radiation and chemotherapy deplete the white blood cells, thereby severely compromising the immune system of the patient.
    Although she probably could have made the drive by herself, it didn’t feel right leaving Dave home alone on Christmas. Even though many of the out-of-town family would have already left, Cindy planned to make the drive alone, the day after Christmas, depending on how Dave felt. She did not yet know there was likely a “higher power” at work in the decision to stay home.
    Around 5 p.m. the phone rang. On days she wasn’t working, Cindy says she screens calls, as they would normally be clients calling to schedule appointments, but this time she picked up the phone right away. “Hi Cindy” said the unidentified voice. It took a few seconds before Cindy recognized the voice as that of a sweet massage therapist she knew that specialized in Tai massage. “Have you ever heard of Padre Pio?” she asked. Cindy acknowledged that she had visited Padre