After the Light — La Push, baby, La Push!

Toward the end of last semester I started reading After the Light by Kimberly Clark Sharp, the renowned expert on near-death experiences.  I had to put my reading on hold though, for the sake of finals.  She had been telling the story of how she became involved in NDE research after moving to Washington state.  I didn’t find the location important at all and was not reminded of it when i saw Twilight, the new movie about Northwest Pacific vampires.  Having seen the movie a few times (and planning to see it a few more) I also picked up After the Light to finish it and lo and behold within a page I was reading about Kimberly’s visit to “La Push”, the beach so prominently featured in the movie I had just been watching.  How really wonderful that this obscure little beach, which I had noticed only because Eric keeps repeating it in the movie (I actually only remembered it because of the actor’s delivery) should be mentioned in such a way.  I know I was led by spirit to stop reading at just that place so I could experience the synchronicity of “La Push” and also the mention of Rainier Beer — the “Vitamin R” that Bella’s father is drinking in the movie.  This book was written in the 1990’s, by the way.