I was in my bedroom. I was laying in bed thinking through my book about aging. At that time, I fell out of bed. That was probably the moment when I first stroked, when I got stroked. What's extraordinary is that I didn't have a spiritual thought, a "I'm dying, I'm going tere [sic]."  No, none of those. All I remember is looking at the pipes on the ceiling. But here I am, Mr. Spiritual, and in my own death, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, well, I didn't orient towards the spirit. It shows me I have some work to do. It shows me because that's the, that's the test. That's the test. So I flunked the test."

-- Ram Dass: Fierce Grace