Angie Dortch

Emerging: From Coma to Presence (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book begins with a brief introduction of where the author found herself in 2004--in a hospital, slowly returning to consciousness after 10 days in a coma. Then, jumps ahead 3 years to a numinous, yellow, bearded, double blooming iris. These two events are yoked together to tell the spiritual journey of Angie Dortch, an ordinary woman who found herself in extraordinary circumstances. The facts surrounding her accident and (in layman's terms) her subsequent medical conditions and spiritual growth consume the next five chapters. She recounts events experienced while in a comatose state. Her recollection of an existence in neither this world nor the next is unique from many life-after-death experiences. This is not life after death, it is life in between life and death; not sub-conscious but supra-conscious. Not a dream, an experience. Her coma resulted not from manmade interventions, but from God. His protection from the pain her physical body would have been experiencing, His grace in allowing this 'Mommy' to return here, and His continued embrace of her life then and now are part of what makes this story unique. First, she recalls sounds then sights while emerging from her coma, then therapies both in and out of the hospital, the impact her traumatic brain injury had on her, her numinous, mystical experience of God in this world, and the resulting art exhibit she produced and exhibited. These five chapters are anchored by her original artwork, an artistic medium she'd never tried, a medium in which her baby sister, Amy, excelled, until she met her untimely death from leukemia at age 24. The numinous Iris grows from rhizome abiding under the surface to a double-blooming, bearded flower and becomes a metaphor for her own emergence from coma to fully conscious and present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: BookBaby
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781098360597
• Artikelnr.: 61131786

Autorenporträt

After completing her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1992, Angie taught classes in the department of Arts and Sciences at University of Louisville. A stay at home Mom, she continued part-time at University of Louisville, worked in multimedia, was the movement instructor/choreographer for Music Theater of Louisville, and staged the grand re-opening of the Iroquois Amphi-theatre. Serving as the assistant creative director for the annual Boar's Head Festival at St. Paul United Methodist Church enabled Angie to hone her skills in creative writing and mid-evil culture. In 2004 a catastrophic and disabling car accident sidelined many possibilities, but her experiences in and out of the hospital formed the basis for Emerging: From Coma to Presence. She continues to write and paint, as well as maintain a website, learntoage.org, and YouTube channel, which host content for the wellness program Learning HOW to Age(TM)?, which is included in Part Two of Emerging: from Coma to Presence.