Becoming a Writer
By Nancy Rorke
If it weren’t for my second mystical or near-death experience (NDE) on
February 23, 1996, I don’t imagine I would have started writing again.
Creativity hadn’t been a part of my life for over thirty years. While lying
unconscious on the floor of St. Timothy’s Church with severe abdominal pain for
over twenty-five minutes, I visited Heaven.
I had an encounter with beings that I call the Holy Ones. They told me they
would heal me, but, I had to return to my life on Earth because I hadn’t
completed my mission.
Ever since my first
NDE when I was three, I always wanted to return to Heaven. This time, I agreed
with them that my mission was important enough for me to stay on Earth. Immediately,
there was a gentle force that put me back in my body, and my eyes opened
against my will. I saw Joe, my husband, wearing a coat. I was confused that I was
in church. I thought I was in my bed and had been dreaming of Heaven again.
Afterwards, I
couldn’t remember what I had promised to do. I became obsessive about dying and
living. I thought I had been sent back only to say good-bye to loved ones. Three
months later, in a book store, I asked the Holy Ones for help in picking out a
book. I was shocked by the answer.
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I taught myself
to read when I was two years old. When I was ten, I told my little sister that I
read so much because I needed to learn how to write. Ever since I could
remember, I always wanted to become an author. I believe that most children
know their mission or calling but sometimes lose their memory before they are
teenagers.
In school, I excelled in English lit, creative
writing, and history. At the beginning of grade ten, I asked my English
teacher, Mrs. Palmer, to look at the short story I had written over the summer
holidays. Two days later, she told me that the head of the English department
wanted me to join the grade thirteen writing club. After a few meetings, I was
intimidated because I was four years younger, and I left. I stopped writing
when I graduated from high school.
Since my first
NDE, I have conversed with my great-grandmother, Isabella. When I was
thirty-eight, she contacted me through another psychic. She said that my
parents were wrong. I was supposed to go to university and become an author and
write numerous books. At the time, I hadn’t written anything in twenty or more
years. I still didn`t write.
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Now three months
after my second NDE, while in the book store, I asked the Holy Ones for help in
selecting a book. They led me to purchase Julia Cameron’s book, The Artist’s Way. I was shocked because I wasn’t an artist. But, thank God,
I took their advice. At home, I realized that it was for writers too.
Cameron believes
that creative dreams are sometimes stolen by the negative comments we hear
about our art or artistic personalities. Her major steps are writing three sheets
of daily morning pages, having an artist date once a week, and writing
affirmations such as I am willing to
create.
Without Cameron’s book, I never would have
started writing again, and I certainly would not have been published.
Presently, I am editing my non-fiction book about my NDEs.
I wish I had never stopped writing. When I
write, I am happy beyond measure. I feel joy in every pore of my body. Just for
a short while, it feels like I have returned home.
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Posted on behalf of Nancy Rorke
