An Excerpt 
What’s happening?  The dream won’t stop.  Feels like I’m floating, but that can’t be… hovering in this corner, watching them trying to save that ghost-eyed girl.  How do I get down?  She’s gonna die.  Her heart line is flat.  No bumps, no beeps.  She’s already dead.  

Wait!  What the heck?  She looks like me, just all bruised and deathly white.  But, I’m right here.  Can’t be down there at the same time.  Wherever here is.  Up here?  Just floating?  That can’t be, either.  I think I wrecked Doug’s truck, but I don’t even hurt.  I feel great!  Is she dead?  Could that be me?  No.  No way.  Can’t be!  Dead?  Am I dead?  No.  No.  Oh, no!  She is me!  What now?  I just stay up in this corner?  Forever?  How do I move?  I can’t even see myself up here, just down there.  Dead.  I should be scared.  I should be really, really scared!  

Who’s here?  Where are you?  I know somebody else is up here!  I can feel you.  Talk to me.  Who are you?  Let me see you!

Uh-oh.  We’re moving.  Where are you taking me?  Hey!  We just went through the ceiling.  Oh, wow, I feel good!  Who are you?  Are you making me feel like this?  So much joy and warmth.  So much!  Is it coming from you?  How do you do that?  

Do you see that tunnel up there?  Do you?  Are we going in it?  I don’t think we should.  Can we stop?  Please?  Closer and closer.  Will you stay with me?  Why can’t I see you?  I know you’re here.  I feel you.  Wow!  Look at that bright light!  Do you see that light?  At the end of the tunnel?

Oh, man!  Feels sooooo good!  Better and better and better!  Every second.  Are you doing this to me?  I can’t talk anymore.  It’s too much.  Just feel.  Keeps getting more.  More and more and more.  This has got to be heaven!  How could I be in heaven?  Ohhhhhhh!

Into the tunnel.  Rocketing!  Faster and faster and faster.  The tunnel whooshes by.  There are two with me.  I can’t see them, but they’re there.  They know me.  I should know them; they feel like home.  They’re guiding me.  Now, they’re talking to me – without words – reassuring me.  I know what they’re saying: everything will be okay.  They know what I’m thinking.  It’s like we’re living inside each other.  Faster still.  My ecstasy grows ever more intense.  Bursting!  Peace and love and joy!  Coming from the light?  We’re getting closer and closer to the light.  So bright!  So pure!  Impossibly light.  Now there are more with me.  Millions!  I’m in them, and they’re in me.  Nothing but peace and love and joy and oneness – complete belonging.  I’m part of everyone and everything: the universe, every molecule, God.  All things are one.  All in me.  Infinite ecstasy!  There is nothing else.

Something’s happening.  Knowledge is gushing into me.  All at once, blossoming in me at the speed of light!  I know everything – everything that ever was and everything that ever will be.  I understand the forces of life.  It all fits perfectly.  I have no more questions.  Existence is love.  Boundless love.  Love everyone!  Love more than humanly possible.  Way more.  Nothing else matters.

We’re almost there, almost to the light.  Please, take me faster.  Please!  Now!  I want to be there now!  

Wait!  There’s my life!  My whole life – everything I ever did from the time I was born.  I see every act.  I feel every emotion.  All at once.  I see every detail and every person in each scene.  I feel all of the emotions, mine and theirs.  Everything is brilliant, much more crystalline than when it happened.  The colors, the sounds, the smells – even the emotions – all so vivid.  And I understand.  Life happens.  It’s all chaos, and it just happens.  People do what something inside them leads them to.  Nobody was evil.  Nobody is evil.  Nothing was done wrong.  It just was.  I didn’t do it wrong.  Everybody would have felt better if there had been more love.  There should have been more love.