IMAGINE you're driving on a dark, deserted road and out of nowhere you are surrounded by billowy clouds and are drawn into a timeless world with no beginning and no end. Or you have a near death, out-of-body experience, and are greeted by a loving spirit guide who escorts you on a telling life review. Or you're at an important business meeting and eerily the client's face morphs into a succession of flamboyant past life characters-a swashbuckling buccaneer, a corpulent friar, a Roman Consort. Incredible as it may sound, all of these things, and many more just like it, happened to me. When I...