David Oakford's Comments

AUTHORS! Stop Obsessing About The Numbers ;-) by Book Candy Sandy ;-) Rea

Jun 18, 2009 | comments: 7

David Oakford Jun 19, 2009, 5:43pm EDT

I agree with the points of the post, however I must comment on Amazon rankings. I track the rankings of my two books using Books and Writers.com. When I sell a book, the ranking gets much better this tracking alone gives me a good idea of how many books I sell, and is very exact. I sell signed copies of my books on Amazon and when I do I get an email from Amazon saying who bought the book and where to ship it. After I get the email, the rank jumps (it could go from 800K up to 75K)

Another thing about selling the signed copies is that I communicate with my readers, and they comunicate with me. I have a database of all the readers who have bought signed copies from me and I answer their emails. This is the best thing about it. My readers know me and I know a little about them as well. I can email my readers at any time to let them know about new devlopments in my writing career (a 2nd edition of my first book "Soul Bared: A Metaphysical Journey" is in process) or to just touch base with them.

I just wanted to say that yes, the Amazon rankings can be used to track Amazon sales, I've tracked mine for years.

A Metaphysical Personal Experience by David Oakford

Mar 2, 2008 | comments: 6

David Oakford Mar 2, 2008, 5:44pm EST

This happened to me almost thirty years ago and for a long time I tried to forget it. In retrospect, I should have written it all down back in 1979 or in the early eighties, but that didn't happen. I do wish I remember more, and if I could do it again (albeit unlikely) I would certainly ask questions. Too bad I can't go back...

A New Near Death Experience Book by David Oakford

Sep 6, 2007 | comments: 5

David Oakford Sep 6, 2007, 9:38pm EDT

Someone posted a friend request to me, but I had a little trouble and somehow ended up denying the request. If the person reads this, please ask me again. I don't remember your name.

David

An announcement by David Oakford

Jul 27, 2007 | comments: 5

David Oakford Jul 27, 2007, 7:03pm EDT

Pankaj,

I tend to think that God is the life force in everything there is, so in that light I have experienced God. Yes, my guardian angel was who took me on the trip I took. I basically leave my guardian angel alone and let him do whatever it is he does.

I've spent the greater part of the last thirty years considering what happened and what it could have been. I tried to chalk it up to a drug trip, but it never worked for me. It wasn't until I finally became ready to attempt to deal with this event that it no longer had a negative influence on me. I explain this in my book. There is another story there I'm sure, on how I dealt with this throughout my life, but I'm not planning to write that....
Thanks for your question.

David

David Oakford's Near Death Experience by David Oakford

Jul 5, 2006 | comments: 44

David Oakford Jan 29, 2007, 10:24pm EST

Wow! Thanks for the kind comments. I'm glad to be of service.

The original version of this article is on a prominent Near Death Experience related web site and has been there for almost 10 years. It was my first attempt to fess up about the whole thing. I wrote it, I sent it to someone, then that person sent it to someone and they sent it to someone else…and then someone sent it to the webmaster of the NDE site. He posted it on his site and it has been pretty popular.

The article you see here is a recently edited version of the original. I have probably 10 years of thought in it to get it to read how it does now. I wrote a book about my experience too, it is "Soul Bared: A Metaphysical Journey." The book grew from the original version I wrote in 1997. Lots of people asked me for the whole story, so I wrote the book, and was lucky enough to get it published. The article here is based on my book and the original profile and is a hybrid of sorts. Maybe someday I might try telling the whole story, start to finish using a clean sheet of paper. Who knows?

I like finding the concepts presented to me in what others have written, it always makes me smile. I can find concepts of what I was shown in Sylvia Browne's books for instance. I believe she has a really good connection with her guide, and knows lots about the general structure of things. Another place I've found things in common are hermetic principles, universal laws, so to speak, from Hermes "the thrice great!" who was considered a god of Egypt as well as Greece.

I thank you again for all of your kind comments. It makes me glad to have shared.

David

David Oakford's Near Death Experience by David Oakford

Jul 5, 2006 | comments: 44

David Oakford Dec 5, 2006, 6:01pm EST

Hi Robin. I am familiar with Sylvia's books, though I have not read them. My wife has several books by Sylvia Browne's books and has read Life on the Other Side. She tells me she saw many parallels between my experience and what Sylvia describes.

The concepts in my experience are all around really, and I take delight in seeing them, they provide confirmation for me, which is helpful.

David Oakford's Near Death Experience by David Oakford

Jul 5, 2006 | comments: 44

David Oakford Nov 24, 2006, 10:36pm EST

I am a husband and father to four. I am an accountant and work for a small software company. Since my experience I have worked in factories, was in the Navy for five years, then went to college for my accounting degree.

I have been invited to Portugal to speak at a round-table discussion about my experience in Portugal next March. I wrote a book about my experience too, it is "Soul Bared: A Metaphysical Journey" Amazon has it, or I'll snail mail one if anyone wants one. I've been known to send free ones to people.

I just share what I've been given and let whatever happens.

Thanks for all of the compliments!

Oh no! Don't talk about life after death!!! (Repost to Group) by Martha Jette, Author/Editor

Sep 8, 2006 | comments: 10

David Oakford Sep 8, 2006, 11:27pm EDT

I met Peter Fenwick twice, both times at IANDS conferences. IANDS is the International Association of Near Death Studies. I also met PMH Atwater, another afterlife researcher. PMH has been very good to me...The conferences had many other researchers there, all pro afterlife.

As far as near death experiences and life after death go, I know for a fact (for myself) these things are certainly real because it happened to me. I can't prove it's true, but I know it is.

I think it's something that might not ever be proven to the masses, I'm not sure how or even if that can be done.

David Oakford's Near Death Experience by David Oakford

Jul 5, 2006 | comments: 44

David Oakford Aug 18, 2006, 8:04pm EDT

I did not write down anything down about the experience until 1997. I wrote the article you see back in 1997. I wrote down what I remembered for sure about it. There is more to the experience that isn't in the article, some of which I will not share with anyone.. The article was my first crack at telling the story to someone else, it isn't the whole thing.

To me, others believing what I've written is a personal choice for them, a choice I don't want to control. I certainly understand if someone doesn't want to believe me for I was one who got by with classifying the experience as a drug trip or a dream and did so for almost twenty years. It kind of worked for me until I learned of other people having the same type of experience. I saw many similarities to mine in them. I've seen too much confirmation of the concepts described in my story in my life since to believe it isn't true. I have no doubts about what happened to me, but I do understand the fact that I can't really prove it to anyone else and I have no intention of doing so.

David Oakford's Near Death Experience by David Oakford

Jul 5, 2006 | comments: 44

David Oakford Aug 16, 2006, 8:33pm EDT

I overdosed from snorting a rock of PCP that was cut with rat poison. The stuff was new to me and it was meant to be smoked, not snorted. The guy who got it for me told me to wait until he came back to use it, but I thought I knew better and used it anyway, the wrong way. Like I said, I have no excuse for what I did.

I thank the universe every day for the option to return. I'm glad I took it. I'm not even going to risk my life because I won't be as lucky to make it back next time. You know what they say about lightning striking twice in the same place..

David Oakford's Near Death Experience by David Oakford

Jul 5, 2006 | comments: 44

David Oakford Aug 16, 2006, 7:30pm EDT

Wow! Lots of positive comments. Many thanks!

I kept this story to myself for many years because I couldn't believe something like that would actually happen to me and I really didn't quite know what to do with it. I tried to repress the whole thing and keeping it all in had adverse effects on me. I never came to terms with what happened. Thus, I felt like I was swimming against the current of life instead of with it. Getting this all out in the open has been good for me, it helped me to grow my soul. That it helps others as well is the best part of the whole thing.

I originally wrote this article in 1997, when I was finally ready to deal with the experience. I had read James Redfield's "The Celestine Prophesy" and recognized concepts I knew about from my experience. This lead me to awaken enough to make major changes in my life, I began to process the experience. I felt writing it down would be the best way to do it. The article I wrote back then is the article you see here, my first attempt to relate the experience to somepne else.

There is more to this experience, a beginning and an end which the article doesn't have. Maybe someday I'll edit the article and add those.

Love to All!

David

David Oakford's Near Death Experience by David Oakford

Jul 5, 2006 | comments: 44

David Oakford Aug 15, 2006, 8:10am EDT

Michael, I'm glad my story had a positive effect on you, this makes me happy to have shared!

Love and Light to you!

David

Ooops Mercury goes Retrograde again today - but is it really THAT BAD? by Aura Galadriel Wright

Jul 4, 2006 | comments: 10

David Oakford Jul 6, 2006, 9:04pm EDT

If my birth chart has mercury at 14 degrees leo, would that maybe be born in a merc retro?

Is There Life Beyond Death? by Martha Jette, Author/Editor

Jun 9, 2006 | comments: 6

David Oakford Jun 9, 2006, 7:40pm EDT

Hi, nice article. I'm very familiar with the NDE because I had one in 1979. I wrote a book about it, it is "Soul Bared: A Metaphysical Journey."

I am new to gather and am still getting familiar with it, I'm not in any groups or anything yet, but I did publish an article here of what happened to me.

I wrote what is in my article here in 1997, after I finally decided to let someone else know about my experience. I wrote a short profile of it and it got on a big near death experience related site in 1998. I wrote my book based on the profile. This is the same article I have posted on gather.

Check out my article if you like, the story has been popular on the NDE site, maybe it will become popular at gather.

David