Reader Views Gold Award Winner 2025 – Spirituality/Inspiration
International Book Awards Finalist 2024 – Spirituality
Louisa was raised to view God as nothing more than a human concept and spiritualism as a form of superstition. Then, in 1982 at a Manhattan nightclub, she suffered a cardiac arrest brought on by lidocaine poisoning, shot out of her body, and experienced an other-worldly journey to her god source – the Sun.
Returned to her body, she dismissed her experience as a hypoxic hallucination. She’d never heard of a Near-Death Experience, and even if she had, she’d have considered the idea of crossing over to be ludicrous.
But WEIRD THINGS began happening for her, inexplicable events that wouldn’t stop! She tried to shut her mind against seeing a ghost, knowing the future, and reading people’s sometimes embarrassing thoughts, until she came to understand that leaving her body had damaged whatever filter blocked out spirit energies. As a spirit voice continued to coach her in how to live wisely, Louisa accepted two facts: 1) the spirit realm is real and 2) visiting it had gifted her with new perceptions. As a full-fledged woo-woo, Louisa found community among fellow Near-Death experiencers and became willing to share her story.
