 There is a guiding force throughout all of life. There is a meaning. There is a reason. And just because we're not aware of it, just because we don't see it, does not mean it is not there. But near-death experience really has proven to myself and through other encounters that I've read that truly, truly, truly validates this, is that we are not a body. We experience a body. We go on. And this is just a short trip.