Welcome to Otherworld.
I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
This episode features a story that is honestly a bit hard to describe.
It comes from a man named Michael, who is currently a minister living in Washington.
But when this story takes place, he was a Tibetan Buddhist novice monk living in New York.
As you might imagine, Being a Buddhist monk involves a great deal of intense meditation.
And in meditation, people often have very profound experiences.
These are the types of things that Michael had become very familiar
with during his meditation practice and life as a monk.
But one day, during one of his meditations,
Michael experienced something far more intense and unexpected than he could have ever imagined.
Something that I'm not quite sure how to categorize.
This episode is called From Now On, and you're listening to Otherworld.
Everybody moves back into the light, even if it takes them a minute.
My name is Michael Ellick.
I currently live in Bainbridge Island, Washington.
I work in Seattle.
I am a minister, but was at the time I 'd served as a Tibetan Buddhist novice monk and attendant to a teacher for years
that sort of led up to this experience, maybe in part.
I was raised inside of an evangelical Christian context.