He was a medical student and caring for a child who, despite all his efforts,
was dying. He went to bed one evening feeling helpless regarding his ability to
help his young patient - and trying to understand why the child had to die. Not
long after falling asleep, a light so bright that it felt as though the sun ere
shining into his room awakened Oski. As he opened his eyes, a beautiful winged
young woman stood before him . . . "The angel . . . said that life is an endless
cycle of improvements and that humans are not perfect yet. she said that most
people have this secret revealed to them when they die, but that handicapped
children often know this and endure their problems without complaining because
they know that their burdens will pass. Some of these children, she said, have
even been given the challenge of teaching the rest of us how to love. (p. 83)
A presence can take many forms - physical and nonphysical. According to Larry
Dossey, M.D., in Reinventing medicine: "Presences seem to precipitate
from another dimension. They may be sensed as a person with a particular
identity, as an ethereal 'being of light,' an angel, or as an 'immaterial
something' that is impossible to describe . . . The presence may serve as an
indication that perhaps the soul has survived, may be immortal and therefore
continues to live…we may be reunited with a loved one at some point in the
future. (p. 27)
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