Beyond Death

[eileenrose]

Great read. I love these NDE type experiences. They are hard to classify. But the people who experience them come back changed in a variety of ways. Keep reading...

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Beyond Death
IN THIS ISSUE JANUARY 2008

Interview with Dr Tony Cicoria
Author: Suzanne Nichols

In 1994, Dr. Tony Cicoria was talking to his mother on a pay phone when he was suddenly struck by a bolt of lightning. Abruptly, the 42-year-old orthopedic surgeon and man of science found himself out of his body, detachedly observing the efforts to save his life. Upon returning from this near-death experience, Cicoria discovered a new and insatiable desire to play the piano. Soon, he began to compose his own music, often working straight through into the early morning. Cicoria’s story is featured in Oliver Sacks’ new book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and The Brain. In honor of the book’s release, Cicoria recently performed his original composition, “Lightning Sonata,” before a live audience. SC Magazine’s Suzanne Nichols spoke with Cicoria about his perspectives on time, reality, and creativity.

SC: Is there particular insight into the nature of time and/or reality as you had known it prior that was significantly changed as a result of your experience?

DC: Sure. When I had the experience the thing that I was struck about was that time did not exist. I did not have any sense of time. I could have been gone for a week and there would not have been any appreciation of time as an entity, per se. But one of the things about the whole experience was the confusion I felt when I initially separated from my body. I knew that I had gotten struck, and I knew that I had gone flying backwards and then I was standing there, and I was confused. There was nothing that signified that I had left. It was a continuum of consciousness. There was never a microsecond where I wasn’t thinking and conscious of everything I was doing. But, the thing that was lacking was that there was no connection to this reality, whatsoever. You know, as I floated up the stairs and I went into the room where the big family gathering was, I saw my kids as I was passing through. And I had really no concern other than the fact that when I saw them, I just had the feeling that they’re going to be fine.

When I left my body and, the first thing that happened was I separated, and I was standing there and my mother-in-law came running down the stairs right toward me and she was screaming, and she ran right past me. I was kind of shocked, and I turned to follow her and that’s when I saw myself on the ground and I saw everybody around the body. And I thought, “Okay, now I understand.” The first thought that I had was, “Oh, ****. I’m dead.” And so, you know, the consciousness was going, and the consciousness was just incredibly mind-bracing.

For a brief microsecond the highs and lows of my life just kind of flashed in front of me, and it was, okay, that was that.

But I had no need to stay there. It was like, “Oh, well, so I’m obviously going someplace else.” For a brief microsecond the highs and lows of my life just kind of flashed in front of me, and it was, okay, that was that. Then when I left the building, that’s when I was surrounded in this aqua-colored, bluish-white light, for lack of something better to call it.

When I was in the light, I no longer had any connection to previous reality, but yet my consciousness was absolutely racing, and I was absorbing all of the feelings that I was having of how wonderful this was and there isn’t any negative thought, everything is positive thought and love and warmth and a great feeling. It was just incredible. Right about the time that I realized, “This is the most wonderful thing that anyone could experience,” boom, I was back! And I remember when I was suddenly back and I realized I was back, I was angry. I remember screaming, “please don’t make me go back, I don’t want to be here.”

SC: And so it was, what, maybe a month or two after that that the music, the passion to listen first began to happen?

DC: It was about that. It took me a couple of weeks to kind of get over what had happened. At that point I went back to work and I tried to get my hands on anything I could read that had to do with lightning. I was trying to understand what had happened to me. And then the music started. The first thing that came was just the desire to hear piano music. I started to listen and I didn’t question it all that much. It was shortly after that that I thought, “You know, I really want to be able to do more than that. I want to be able to play this music.”

So I just said fine, and I ordered all of this music that was on the CD. I ordered the sheet music. Right about the time that I ordered the all this music, the babysitter says, “I’m moving. [And I need a place to store my piano.]” And I thought, “Well, this works out for you and it works out for me because I’d like to have a piano to try to tinker with and you need a place to store it.” That’s one of those little god-winks . . . and so the piano shows up.

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For the rest of the article go to:
http://www.superconsciousness.com/to...h/beyond-death

[eileenrose]

FYI....the main part of this article is not about the NDE (though fascinating...as usual), but instead what occurred for this man afterwards. He developed his (unknown to him) gift for music. He just started hearing music, in his head, after the NDE and started writing it down.

The gift of music.

A blessing indeed!

Love it!!!

[Prodigal Son]

Thanks for posting this.

I used to wonder with awe how the greatest musicians came up with their stuff.

It turns out that just about all the most prolific songwriters including the classical masters were initiates of secret societies where they learned how to psychically channel the cosmic symphony. Any good mystery school can teach you how to "die" before you die.

So IMO, it is total justice that people can now download music for free. No one should be able to copyright God and get filthy rich from it. They can go out and perform live and still make a nice living. The record companies end up with most of the loot anyway, while the artist gets a mere pittance.

Someone asked Keith Richards, I believe it was in a Rolling Stone interview, how he came up with all his great tunes. His answer was that it's already "in the air", and he can basically just "tap into it".

Pythagoras "discovered" that mathematics and music make up the building blocks of the material universe. But there is a mountain of evidence that traces this knowledge back to Atlantis.

Nikola Tesla said: "All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether". Margaret Cheney wrote, in her book "Man Out Of Time", that he sensed the universe was "composed of a symphony of alternating currents with the harmonies played on a vast range of octaves....To explore the whole range of electrical vibration, he sensed, would bring him closer to an understanding of the cosmic symphony."

Everything that exists in the Universe vibrates harmonically, while nothing that is out of harmony can materialize into matter. Resonance is the key to the Cosmic Symphony.

I have mentioned before that I was raised as a "Jehovah's Witness", who are Fundamentalist Biblical Literalists. They teach that the "144,000" of Revelation chapters 4 and 7 are selected out of mankind by Jehovah to rule the world from heaven, and that world will consist of only faithful Jehovah's Witnesses who survive Armageddon. Everybody else who didn't believe their Doomsday tripe will be bird food.

Odd, isn't it?

Does it remind anyone of the Nazi-esque two-tiered salvation system with a Master Race in charge?

Anyway, it turns out that this 144,000 number has to do with OMEGA SONIC SACRED GEOMETRY.....

http://altered-states.net/index2.php...redharmony.htm

The universe is based on harmonic series such as 72, 144, 432. And 144
(a "C" tone in hertz) is a perfect harmonic of the speed of light, which is 144,000 nautical miles (144,000 minutes of arc per Earth grid second) in the vacuum of space.

Each of these harmonics are literally a mirror, or a cascade of mirrors within mirrors, that 8 hz can look into. For example 144 is 18 x 8 hz, and 72 is 9 x 8 hz.
The way that light travels in space is thus a 144 decimal harmonic (144:144,000)

[9eagle9]

Wasn't it the C note that in recent times had its Mhz toned down from a higher scale to a lower one. Like the C note that Beethoven used is not the one commonly in use today?

Or something like that, I'm sure you know what I'm referring to.