YES the feeling was blissful kybunker!
I know for sure that these things happen to teach us something , or better understand something. I was definitely going through a period of depression at that time and I was on the fence about how I felt about death. I feared it terribly, and the death of those I love, and it was starting to consume my thoughts, but the experience changed my outlook.
I feel like I have now seen from a higher vantage point, like I have flown above what I used to know with new perspective, and always welcome enlightening times into my life.
