Prior to her near-death and other spiritual experiences, Sandy had been heavily involved with church and children's activities. She was a Sunday School teacher, Youth Leader and director of Christmas and Easter Pageants. She worked for the school system as a payroll clerk, SIMS manager and substitute teacher. She is married with two grown children and one grandchild. Sandy has had several spiritually transformative experiences, the first of which was a near-death or near-death-like experience following a fervent prayer asking God to please take her home. "I was taken out of my physical body and taken to the Light in the presence of God. There are no words to convey how intense that experience was. I didn't realize that I was out of my physical body until I returned to my body. It was then that I understood that we have a spiritual body which lives on without the physical body." Fifteen years later, while she was reading Plato: The Last Days of Socrates, Sandy suddenly received a spiritual awakening. "As I read near the end of the book, my mind suddenly opened up into a vision/memory of a heightened consciousness into a new dimension. I received revelation of Socrates' continued concept which wasn't completed in the book. I knew that if people understood this missing information, they could rise above the human barriers which confine spiritual growth and they could understand why people exist on Earth. This was also the first time that I had an awakening and restored some pre-birth or pre-mortal memories. I felt as someone recovering from amnesia! I remembered that I lived in that dimension prior to my Earth life and that I volunteered to come to Earth with a mission."