My wife and I live in the Pacific Northwest USA. We are retired and now focused on spiritual matters. We are Heathen Odinists. Neither of us has had an NDE, but we find the concept important. Looking forward to some great conversations!

I cultivate the liminal time between sleep and waking as a meditation and to do other inner work. At present, I am focusing on developing the early morning time with my own, self-made, brainwave entrainment meditations. If anyone is interested it would be great to start up a thread on this subject.

I have software to edit audio and produce entrainment. I use nature sounds to layer into an immersive soundscape then add an entrainment track. I do both day and night (sleep) meditations. The advantages of doing this yourself is that you know what you are putting into your mind and you can cultivat...

I also just listen to tracks of affirmations and readings as I sleep. Once you get the volume right, you can sleep peacefully while your unconscious mind absorbs the message. For this, I mostly use readings of Stoic and Samurai philosophy and other personal affirmations I write and record myself. It...

YouTube has a lot of great tracks like this. Making my own tracks, with my own affirmations, has saved my sanity. There, for a while, my PTSD issues were getting the better of me. I've made peace with my unconscious self and dialed down the storm by using these methods.

Back in 2000 I moved to Las Vegas, after a horrible 2-year fight with a nervous breakdown at my last police job in Florida. I had been in Vegas only about a month or so, when one evening I was laying on the floor of my apartment, not asleep, just on my laptop. Out of the total blue I heard my mother...