In the Know: Anita Moorjani's 'Dying to Be Me' and a story I heard

 I was reading about Anita Moorjani's book 'Dying to Be Me' (I can't wait to read it) and her story of coming back from death and it just reminded me of the story I heard by a professor and doctor of neurology and his brush with death. He gave a talk here-I was rooted to my seat the entire time. He contracted a "Superbug" infection while traveling. In a single day, it infected his brain tissue and left him in a coma near death for two weeks. No antibiotics seemed to work on him. His best friends-other neurologists-worked desperately to save him.

But instead of blackness, he found himself enveloped in blazing hot mud-time stretched on and on and eternities came and went. But several times he found himself rising out of this mud and being hand escorted by a beautiful young woman or girl and they flew on butterfly wings through an ecstatically beautiful world and he learned many things from her and from these flights and meetings. Interesting to note that his having these incredible "dreams" was IMPOSSIBLE according to medical science because all his higher brain functions were shut down........

 His telling of the things he learned- I wish I could say it like him but it was profoundly inspiring to everyone in the audience.  He recovered "miraculously" and lived to tell the tale.

  Then he told us he was adopted very young and had no memory of his birth family but following this, he decided to search them out and found them. It was joyful and inspiring just to hear that! He was sitting with his birth parents and siblings he had never met before and they showed him an old family photo and in it was a beautiful young girl of about 17. It was HER! The girl in his experience, on butterfly wings, so full of love and compassion and concern for him! She was his sister who had died shortly after the picture was taken. By now he had started crying on stage telling us. One of his teen sons came on stage to support him. It had all happened fairly recently. I had tears pouring down my cheeks-everyone was crying-it was incredible.