Photo by Syda Productions (This is a stock photo.) 1965 (written on 4 January 2024) When I was a 4-year-old, my 8-year-old cousin accidentally slammed the door on my fingers, severing a portion of my pinky and ring fingers on my right hand. The doctors wanted to amputate, but my mother refused consent. The trauma was so severe that I have no memory of what my mortal being endured, but I still vividly recall my Out-of-Body Experience: My mortal being was in trauma, but my spirit being was still in perfect peace. The best way that I can describe my identity as a spirit being is as an adult female,…