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PART 4 TAKING A LEAP BEYOND The stories we tell each other are often richer than our vocabularies. That's why some stories suffer and their meanings become fuzzy because the words we have available fall short. And sometimes we fail to communicate at all because we're shy about telling our stories, fearing that we'll be laughed at or rebuked. If you've had an otherworldly experience, you can't keep it to yourself. You feel like you've had some breakthrough in life into other realms and planes of existenceother realities beyond the ordinary. In these chapters we'll look at spiritual experienceswhich include near-death experiencesand we'll stretch all definitions of what's possible and what's impossible. Language isn't always adequate to describe such things, but we'll try.