NDE

The Story of my NDE (Near Death Experience)!

August 30, 2016 by @candesscampbell

I put my story about my Near Death Experience (NDE)

in the very back of my book Live Intuitively: Journal the Wisdom of your Soul

and want to share it with you here.

THIS IS THE beginning of it all and so I am a little surprised I would list this at the end, but I think that telling this story is important.

When I was 14 years old I was what was referred to back then as a “Jesus Freak.” If you research the movement you will get a lot of different views, but for me it was amazing. There was a coffee house in downtown Spokane called the “I AM Coffeehouse.” I hitchhiked downtown from the north side of Spokane to hang out and pass out the newspapers called “The Truth.” We shared the message, which was called Witnessing. Today if someone did this, it would annoy me, but this was the late 1960s and early 1970s and a totally different time.

On January 1, 1971 my family was visiting my aunt, uncle, and cousins who lived near Shadle Park. From their house I decided to take the bus downtown to “witness.” I walked to the bus stop at Alberta and Rowan and waited. A man pulled up in a baby blue pickup truck and asked me if I wanted a ride. I thought to myself, “Jesus will protect me,” so I got in.

I noticed he was taking me somewhere other than downtown. I began to panic and I could hardly breathe. I put my hand on the door handle, contemplating my next move. The truck turned left and I quickly opened the door and either jumped or flew out – or both.

The next thing I remember was awakening to bright lights overhead. My eyes focused and I saw my dad and my mom looking over me, their faces gray and drained. Later I realized I was at Holy Family Hospital. Apparently, I had been in a coma for two weeks.

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I was told I had a contusion and a Catholic priest (my dad’s faith) had been called and he administered last rights. What happened for me, though, was that I experienced floating upwards and going towards a light. There was a Being near the light (who now I know to be Saint Germaine) who said to me, “You are not done yet, you have to go back.”

Years later, with the help of my dear friend, the late Dr. Gilbert Milner, I was able to piece together the memories and sensations of this experience. Gil was a psychiatrist, shaman, and hypnotherapist and – through hypnotherapy – he guided me to relive the experience of the accident.

This trauma resulted in brain damage (my term) and I had to relearn to coordinate my body. During the time that my brain was healing, I could not think well and therefore accessed the intuitive part of me in order to survive. This experience catapulted my psychic abilities and somehow left an opening for me to access the world beyond the physical.

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Since I was a little girl I often reached out for the Spirit world as a safe haven. Although I adored my dad, he was alcoholic and when he was drinking I didn’t feel safe. I began to “connect upward” rather than to trust those in physical bodies. I enjoyed a sense of belonging with God and the Angels and today I work closely with and am guided by a group of Ascended Masters called the Lords of Karma.

This is a lot of self-disclosure. Please share how you can relate.

The Prostitute Archetype

July 14, 2016 by @candesscampbell

The function of prayer is not to influence God,

but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

Keeping with the 4 main Archetypes that we all share, the child, victim, prostitute and saboteur, today I will explore the Prostitute Archetype. This information comes from class notes from Caroline Myss and Norm Shealy’s workshop on Medical Intuition and Myss’s book Sacred Contracts. I also add information gained from my counseling, coaching and intuitive practice, and of course, my own life.

What I love about the Prostitute Archetype is that it is truly about Faith. When you are in survival mode, when you believe you will lose all that you have or not get what you truly believe you need in order to survive, the choice is either to compromise your integrity or have faith.

Some of you may know I have struggled a lot with loss. First was my near death experience (NDE) when I was 14 years old. The second main challenge was when I had a house fire and lost everything (material). I was at work and my two daughters were home. My daughter called me and said “Mom, the house is on fire!” I told her to get her sister and get out. I was terrified and prayed all the way home. First I saw the ambulance, then my dad and then my children. When I looked at my home burning, I saw an image of Jesus’s hand reaching down into the ashes and bringing out Life! At that time I knew all was well.

Later, there was emotional and material loss after a divorce. I became depressed and could not work for a while. Many of my belongings were destroyed in a leaking barn in the transition. Having moved and not having a job at the time, I didn’t have money to pay rent at my apartment. I prayed and told God that if it were his will that I’d be a bag lady on the street, then so be it. I would minister on the street. Although I was ready to give up everything to do God’s will, I did hold out for a request for warm socks. What happened instead was my life changed. I went into private practice and was gifted with abundance beyond what I had imagined.

Kyoto- If I can lift the rock my wish comes true!

In all of these cases, when there was loss, the answer was Faith and the way for me to Faith was and is surrender. Now, this was my response to what had happened. Today when I pray, I usually pray for others and in gratitude for all I have.

The following are pearls, especially if you are one who contemplates, meditates and journals! Enjoy!!!

Prostitute Archetype – The Guardian of Faith

The core issue is how much you are willing to sell your morals, integrity, intellect, word, body, soul for the sake of physical security

Engages lessons in integrity and the sale or negotiation of one’s integrity or Spirit due to fears of physical and financial survival for financial gain.
Activates the aspects of the unconscious that are related to seduction and control, whereby you are as capable of buying a controlling interest in another person as you are in selling your own power.
Selling your talents, ideas, and any other expression of the self or “selling out” your talents, ideas and other expressions of self.
Comes into play most clearly when our survival is threatened.
Dramatically embodies and tests the power of faith; with faith no one can buy you, you know you can take care of yourself and the Divine is looking out for you – without faith, you will eventually meet the price you cannot turn down.
Majority of prostitutes are in bad marriages or in miserable jobs; their inability to move out of toxic environments is totally tied to economics.
Who or what is trying to buy, use or contaminate you? As Jesus with Satan, every time you take a step on your path of personal empowerment, you will meet someone who will want to buy a piece of your soul, rendering you less powerful and themselves more powerful.
Shadow side is taking shortcuts such as buying or sharing power, i.e. “I am a friend of a friend of famous person.”
One stays in relationships that by name gives them power long after the relationship has gone cold.
Confronting the prostitute transforms it into the guardian that watches over your relationship to faith.
The prostitute is your ally that alerts you when you shift from the Divine to the physical.
Whenever you are in a faith crisis, list your thoughts and fears, especially the ones that are trying to talk you into compromising yourself.
Be aware of the prostitute when it appears you could order your life if you had the money, when you stay in relationships so you don’t have to be alone and when you think of doing something unethical or illegal “for the good of the company, family, etc.”
Prostitute relationships are the most painful because they involve survival and are often terrifying and humiliating.
Do you think before you say your opinion “What will this cost me in terms of popularity or gain?”
The prostitute can awaken you to “take up your bed and walk.” Once you get away from a circumstance that costs you too much money, energy, dignity or time, lasting transformation is possible.
Shadow prostitute will urge you to sell out your integrity and your vision of true independence at the first opportunity.

Join with me in delving into the Prostitute Archetype in your journal! Here is a helpful journal process using Soul Stems!

Willing to share a time when realized you prostituted your values to gain something you wanted?

When has your Faith transported you from one emotional place to another?

Near Death Experience

October 8, 2015 by @candesscampbell

It is common to not feel safe enough to be public about your gifts of intuition. So often people who don’t understand are critical and attacking. When I have taught classes in Clairvoyance, what has happened is when people come together in a class and share, they begin to remember the abilities they had as children. They share with each other and validate their intuitive ability.

Too often when you are surrounded by people who are not very sensitive, you begin to doubt your own ability and give up your intuitive awareness. If you don’t give it up in your immediate family, you may choose to stop listening because your friends taunt you. This is a form of bullying.

Reading at the Mind, Body, Spirit Festival in Spokane.

My experience is I had a head injury from a fall from a truck when I was 14 years old. I was in a coma for two weeks and the priest had performed “last rights” over me. I had a Near Death Experience (NDE) and when I met with St. Germaine in the tunnel, he told me I had to go back. He said I wasn’t done yet. It took me a long time to recover. The next year my brain injury kept me from my usual ability to think. I had to use my intuition to maneuver through my day. This is like immersion training for developing psychic ability. It took several more years before I realized that not everyone used this psychic ability. Over the years I studied meditation and learned about intuition and began to own my ability and to share about it. I found there were many like me who were aware of their intuition but afraid to share.

Think about times when you were young that you “knew” something and followed your intuition. Talk to friends about this. It is a gift that needs to be nurtured to come back alive.

Can She even Hear Herself?

September 27, 2014 by @candesscampbell

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should’ve been named ADHD poster child of the year.

Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

Have you ever listened to a friend and thought “Can she even hear herself?” We all have patterns of communication, and behavior for that matter, we don’t notice.

I remember one day my daughter said to me, “Mom, you’ve said that before, several times.” Many of you know when I was 14 years old I had an accident that resulted in a Near Death Experience (NDE) with head injuries. As a result of this I have experienced some memory problems. Another result of this trauma was I lost my sense of smell, which also influences memory. A positive from the accident is a definite increase in my intuition. When my brain was injured, my intuitive self took over and now much of how I access information is intuitively.

Unless we continually challenge our brain, we can develop memory lapses. Since my daughter’s comment, I have been working on being aware and not repeating myself. Repeating can happen for reasons other than memory problems and brain injury. When one has a history of not being heard, not being listened to by others, they can develop a pattern of repeating. Saying the same thing over and over again can also come from a lack of self-awareness. It can also be an ineffective way of trying to heal an emotional wound. You may say the same thing over and over but nothing changes. It would be more effective to change your behavior by accepting a situation or changing your relationship with the problem; forgiving, leaving, setting boundaries and such. Saying the same thing over and over can also be a sign of ADD.

Have you ever had a conversation with a friend, loved one or a co-worker who often repeated the same thing and didn’t focus. Someone with whom you tried to create a plan, but politely getting them to pay attention, listen and commit to a time was near impossible? Instead they just kept telling you all the situations that went on in their day and you were not able to set a meeting.

So, how to do you communicate with friends, loved ones and co-workers that are ADD or have ADD  symptoms?

Listed here are some of the Inattentive Symptoms of ADD; not the Hyperactive Symptoms. This may help you to identify why you’ve had some difficulty communicating with someone. It can clarify why you may have felt frustrated and hopefully will give you some helpful communication solutions for yourself.

Inattentive ADD Symptoms

Careless mistakes/lack of attention to details
Lack of sustained attention
Poor listener
Failure to follow through on tasks
Poor organization
Forgetful in daily activities
Avoiding tasks requiring sustained mental effort
Losing things
Easily distracted

Depending upon how close you are to this person, you may want to research more about ADD and continue to learn. Here are some simple ideas that may help.

Use emails as your primary form of communication to set up meetings. This way you can scan the email quickly for the details about the meeting.
Start your conversation with, “I have one minute to plan this meeting.”
When the person becomes tangential, politely bring them back to topic. “Oh, I’m sorry, I have to go, when did you say you could meet?”
Give the person 3 clear choices of times.
Be willing to set a boundary.
If the person won’t be decisive, realize the meeting may not happen and move on.
Plan your communication with the person when you have enough time to go through the process to get the meeting planned.
Have a plan B for your time so if their disorganization creates a last minute cancelation, it won’t disrupt your life.

These are some ideas that may be helpful. Again, if this is someone you live with or a supervisor, I encourage you to find more information on this topic. One book you may be interested in What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don’t?: Social Skills Help for Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder by Michele Novotni, PhD

How do you deal with ADD in your own life or with people in your life who show symptoms of inattentive ADD?

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The Prostitute Archetype

September 26, 2014 by @candesscampbell

The function of prayer is not to influence God,

but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

Keeping with the 4 main Archetypes that we all share, the 3rd of the 4 is the Prostitute Archetype. Again, this information comes from notes from classes I took from Caroline Myss and Norm Shealy on Medical Intuition and her book Sacred Contracts along with information I gained in my counseling practice and of course, my own life.

Later, there was emotional and material loss after a divorce. I became depressed and could not work for a while. Many of my belongings were stored in the barn at the home where my husband and I had lived. My former husband rented the house and the renter moved all my belongings into a room in the barn where the roof leaked. All my possessions were ruined. Having moved and not having a job at the time, I didn’t have money to pay rent at my apartment. I prayed and told God that if it were his will that I be a bag lady on the street, then so be it. I would minister on the street. Although I was ready to give up everything to do God’s will, I did hold out for a request of warm socks. What happened instead was my life changed. I went into private practice and was gifted with abundance beyond what I had imagined.

The following are pearls, especially if you are one who contemplates, meditates and journals! Enjoy!!!

Prostitute Archetype – The Guardian of Faith

The core issue is how much you are willing to sell your morals, integrity, intellect, word, body, soul for the sake of physical security

Engages lessons in integrity and the sale or negotiation of one’s integrity or Spirit due to fears of physical and financial survival for financial gain.
Activates the aspects of the unconscious that are related to seduction and control, whereby you are as capable of buying a controlling interest in another person as you are in selling your own power.
Selling your talents, ideas, and any other expression of the self or “selling out” your talents, ideas and other expressions of self.
Comes into play most clearly when our survival is threatened.
Dramatically embodies and tests the power of faith; with faith no one can buy you, you know you can take care of yourself and the Divine is looking out for you – without faith, you will eventually meet the price you cannot turn down.
Majority of prostitutes are in bad marriages or in miserable jobs; their inability to move out of toxic environments is totally tied to economics.
Who or what is trying to buy, use or contaminate you? As Jesus with Satan, every time you take a step on your path of personal empowerment, you will meet someone who will want to buy a piece of your soul, rendering you less powerful and themselves more powerful.
Shadow side is taking shortcuts such as buying or sharing power, i.e. “I am a friend of a friend of famous person.”
One stays in relationships that by name gives them power long after the relationship has gone cold.
Confronting the prostitute transforms it into the guardian that watches over your relationship to faith.
The prostitute is your ally that alerts you when you shift from the Divine to the physical.
Whenever you are in a faith crisis, list your thoughts and fears, especially the ones that are trying to talk you into compromising yourself.
Be aware of the prostitute when it appears you could order your life if you had the money, when you stay in relationships so you don’t have to be alone and when you think of doing something unethical or illegal “for the good of the company, family, etc.”
Prostitute relationships are the most painful because they involve survival and are often terrifying and humiliating.
Do you think before you say your opinion “What will this cost me in terms of popularity or gain?”
The prostitute can awaken you to “take up your bed and walk.” Once you get away from a circumstance that costs you too much money, energy, dignity or time, lasting transformation is possible.
Shadow prostitute will urge you to sell out your integrity and your vision of true independence at the first opportunity.

Join with me in delving into the Prostitute Archetype in your journal! Here is a helpful journal process.

Willing to share a time when realized you prostituted your values to gain something you wanted?

When has your Faith transported you from one emotional place to another?

The Prostitute Archetype was originally published on Energy Medicine DNA

The Prostitute Archetype

September 26, 2014 by @candesscampbell

The function of prayer is not to influence God,

but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

The following are pearls, especially if you are one who contemplates, meditates and journals! Enjoy!!!

Prostitute Archetype – The Guardian of Faith

The core issue is how much you are willing to sell your morals, integrity, intellect, word, body, soul for the sake of physical security

Engages lessons in integrity and the sale or negotiation of one’s integrity or Spirit due to fears of physical and financial survival for financial gain.
Activates the aspects of the unconscious that are related to seduction and control, whereby you are as capable of buying a controlling interest in another person as you are in selling your own power.
Selling your talents, ideas, and any other expression of the self or “selling out” your talents, ideas and other expressions of self.
Comes into play most clearly when our survival is threatened.
Dramatically embodies and tests the power of faith; with faith no one can buy you, you know you can take care of yourself and the Divine is looking out for you – without faith, you will eventually meet the price you cannot turn down.
Majority of prostitutes are in bad marriages or in miserable jobs; their inability to move out of toxic environments is totally tied to economics.
Who or what is trying to buy, use or contaminate you? As Jesus with Satan, every time you take a step on your path of personal empowerment, you will meet someone who will want to buy a piece of your soul, rendering you less powerful and themselves more powerful.
Shadow side is taking shortcuts such as buying or sharing power, i.e. “I am a friend of a friend of famous person.”
One stays in relationships that by name gives them power long after the relationship has gone cold.
Confronting the prostitute transforms it into the guardian that watches over your relationship to faith.
The prostitute is your ally that alerts you when you shift from the Divine to the physical.
Whenever you are in a faith crisis, list your thoughts and fears, especially the ones that are trying to talk you into compromising yourself.
Be aware of the prostitute when it appears you could order your life if you had the money, when you stay in relationships so you don’t have to be alone and when you think of doing something unethical or illegal “for the good of the company, family, etc.”
Prostitute relationships are the most painful because they involve survival and are often terrifying and humiliating.
Do you think before you say your opinion “What will this cost me in terms of popularity or gain?”
The prostitute can awaken you to “take up your bed and walk.” Once you get away from a circumstance that costs you too much money, energy, dignity or time, lasting transformation is possible.
Shadow prostitute will urge you to sell out your integrity and your vision of true independence at the first opportunity.

Join with me in delving into the Prostitute Archetype in your journal! Here is a helpful journal process.

Willing to share a time when realized you prostituted your values to gain something you wanted?

When has your Faith transported you from one emotional place to another?

The Prostitute Archetype was originally published on Energy Medicine DNA

The function of prayer is not to influence God,

but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should’ve been named ADHD poster child of the year.

Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

Have you ever listened to a friend and thought “Can she even hear herself?” We all have patterns of communication, and behavior for that matter, we don’t notice.

So, how to do you communicate with friends, loved ones and co-workers that are ADD or have ADD symptoms?

Inattentive ADD Symptoms

Careless mistakes/lack of attention to details

Lack of sustained attention

Poor listener

Failure to follow through on tasks

Poor organization

Forgetful in daily activities

Avoiding tasks requiring sustained mental effort

Losing things

Easily distracted

Depending upon how close you are to this person, you may want to research more about ADD and continue to learn. Here are some simple ideas that may help.

Use emails as your primary form of communication to set up meetings. This way you can scan the email quickly for the details about the meeting.

Start your conversation with, “I have one minute to plan this meeting.”

When the person becomes tangential, politely bring them back to topic. “Oh, I’m sorry, I have to go, when did you say you could meet?”

Give the person 3 clear choices of times.

Be willing to set a boundary.

If the person won’t be decisive, realize the meeting may not happen and move on.

Plan your communication with the person when you have enough time to go through the process to get the meeting planned.

Have a plan B for your time so if their disorganization creates a last minute cancelation, it won’t disrupt your life.

How do you deal with ADD in your own life or with people in your life who show symptoms of inattentive ADD?

The function of prayer is not to influence God,

but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God,

but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Søren Kierkegaard

So, how to do you communicate with friends, loved ones and co-workers that are ADD or have ADD  symptoms?

Depending upon how close you are to this person, you may want to research more about ADD and continue to learn. Here are some simple ideas that may help.

When the person becomes tangential, politely bring them back to topic. “Oh, I’m sorry, I have to go, when did you say you could meet?”

Plan your communication with the person when you have enough time to go through the process to get the meeting planned.

Have a plan B for your time so if their disorganization creates a last minute cancelation, it won’t disrupt your life.