Near Death Experience Archives -

The experience of clinically dying and then being brought back to life sometimes bestows an individual with an experience of being transported to unexplainable places in other time dimensions. These experiences are labeled as Near-Death Experiences or NDEs.

The Out of Body Experience, labeled OBOs, occur following physical trauma and unconsciousness, have allowed some individuals to see themselves from out of and above their bodies, while simultaneously witnessing, in apparent real time, those very lige saving efforts that eventually bring them back to life.

Such people have gained credibility because they are able to report seeing people and experiencing events that occurred as they were being resuscitated.

Unlike those individuals experiencing NDEs, language remains intact for explaining these experiences.

Science has been documenting and quantifying both of these mysterious experiences for decades, in order to better provide some sense of understanding to the unexplainable.

Because such experiences remain mysterious, individual and beyond understanding it has been difficult for those experiencing an NDE or OBO to gain acceptance from their family, friends or society at large.9

Thankfully, this resistance to being acknowledged is changing.

Our task here at Sawayer Logistics is to offer resources that bring such mysterious experiences into the public eye as valid phenomenon

First Responder Trauma Recovery

The posts here at First Responder and Trauma Recovery will highlight the folks involved in professions that expose them to trauma at different levels.

Trauma is a concept that is fairly new, having evolved in the last 20 years and it has it’s impact on the relationships it touches go far beyond those professionals originally traumatized.

These first responder groups include, but are not limited to: Psychotherapists, Weather Forcasters, Storm Chasers, Corrections Personnel, Law Enforcment, Emergency Dispatchers, Active Military, Veterans, Emergency Room Physicians, Nurses, EMT Personnel, Firefighters, Teachers, Morticians, Medical Examiners, Social Workers, Pastoral Staff, and Hospice staff to mention just a few.

We want to explore why these particular types of jobs expose individuals to both short and long term traumas as well as give some definitions of trauma and outline of the main symptoms experienced.

We will also provide useful links to other helpful resources.

We welcome feedback and suggestions for adding additional professional groups that are trauma exposed, and any additional links to other related sites.

Coaching Services Mental Health Mind-Body Health Near Death Experience Out of Body Experience Communicating the mysterious May 11, 2023 By Sawayer 0 Comments

Sharing the Near Death and Out of Body Experiences

Here at Sawayer Logistics, we like to introduce topics that are unique.

NDEâ€™s or Near Death Experiences and OBO or Out of Body experiences represent two such topics.

NDEs and OBOs are experienced by millions of people across the world now and have been well documented in the past.

One of the major issues for those who experience a Near Death event is the use of language to directly describe the event to themselves and to others.

Unfortunately, most world languages are unable to capture what actually happens in the NDE. Adjective categories appear to offer only approximate descriptions at best.

While the NDE is difficult to describe using language, there are other ways to â€œgraspâ€ the flavor of such a mysterious experience, besides the use of spoken languages.

Here are a few methods that are sometimes useful for expressing the NDE experience.

The following methods can help you express things for which you donâ€™t have words or simply don’t care to use language because it is too inaccurate to reflect your inner experience of the NDE or the OBO.

Here We Go –

Use your voice to either make sounds that reflect your inner experience. This can be a laugh, a grunt, a scream humming sounds, singing, or playing music.

Be creative in how you use your voice to reflect your experience without using your language.

Use art in any form to draw or paint the experience to show form and color.

Keep changing the artwork as you get closer to the memory of the experience.

Add colors, size, dimensions, and the spacial relationships between things in the page.

You can draw doors, waterfalls, nature, the stars etc. or even images of floating if you had an OBE (Out of Body Experience)

Use individual or group physical activities. If you like to dance, then dance it out either alone or with a trusted partner. If you like physical contact that wrestle without words with a willing friend. If you love running or walking then walk up to and then thru the remembered experience.

Use new photography and/or existingÂ photographs that reflect what you felt or feel. Go out and take photos of things that resemble the feelings you canâ€™t put into words.

These are just a few examples of how you can express those things you experience that are presently â€œbeyond language.â€

If you have had several NDE’s or OBO’, experiment with doing these activities for each one.

These activities could provide you with insights and provide you a way to understand and end express your experience with others without tripping over their own language prejudices.

The attached video addresses the conflicts that arise within an individual who experienced an NDE and had to find a way to deal with it personally and socially. In this particular video that individual is a German Catholic Priest.Â Â https://youtu.be/TjlFrgS_53Y

Near Death Experience Out of Body Experience Retirement Trauma Traumas Healthy Relationships April 20, 2020 By Sawayer 0 Comments

What Really Is Reality?

Every experience exists in two places.

There is the place of physical reality and our brain’s interpretation of that physical reality.

That reality then gets complicated because our brain has a unique, “interpreter function”.

That interpreter is like a box of crayons we use to add color to the experiences we have in our very early lives.

So reality is like the blank page in a coloring book that presents itself just as it is, usually blank and white.

Our eyes and ears and nose and skin are like a black colored marker that draws the lines and designs on those first pages of the coloring book in our early years.

Then the interpreter function starts using the colors of life, as we get more and more information about what we believe we are experiencing.

As a result of these “interpreters”, 10 people can stand side by side looking around and all 10 will fill their coloring books with different designs and colors.

As we go thru life… the first year pages in our books have a tendency to naturally influence, or “color”, if you will pardon the pun, the next pages to come.

Eventually we become limited by our brains interpreter, which no longer allows us to experience reality directly OR very accurately… just “uniquely.

Our page designs become more limited and interestingly, so does our access to our available colors becomes limited as well.

This limiting is a protective and survival mechanism that allows us to function under the circumstances we find ourselves in at the moment.

Over time, the colors we use are filtered by the interpreter and we become less able to see the total colors of our life experiences.

This coloring book becomes something we come to define as our personality or our world view.

This explains how 10 people can be presented with the exact same experience and relate to that experience and what it means in 10 different ways. How amazing is that?

It is also why we need to share our coloring books with each other after we become clear on how we came to chose the designs and lines and colors that it contains.

This “getting clear” is how counseling helps us. We share our coloring book with our counselor, who respectfully and non-judgmentally asks about each page. We can do much of this on our own, but eventually we need another trained individual to help challenge how our perspectives are affecting our lives at work and with family or friends.

It’s not the external world around us that confuses us but rather it’s our initial and subsequent mental and emotional interpretations of that physical world that can actually change our ability to experience that world in its pristine existence.

By sharing our own individual coloring book interpretations with love and humility and without fear and/or shame, we get closer to what God’s revealed truth is. You see, I just colored this article with God!

Learning about our wonderful uniqueness as coloring artists is literally is a lifetime adventure of refining and in the end leads to appreciation of the fact that the essence of God is always ungraspable mystery.

It is that unfathomable and ungraspable MYSTERY that propels us to faith and worship and can be so comforting for many.

OK, I colored that last paragraph again. Is this not challenging?

Even counselors need counselors sometimes.