A couple years before the millennium, before the darkness really came; Shawn had a life-altering car accident that nearly killed him. This car accident was so severe; it placed him in a comatose state for a month and a half. After which, he endured months of rehabilitation and discovered losses. Through his losses he found a revolution of sorts, which he called The Darkness. You see, within his comatose state, he traveled within the realities of hell and the realities of heaven. Then one day, he woke up in the present reality, after living countless other lives on his journey within the coma. Something was different in him. Something in his spirit remembered being given a second chance to find who he really is and a chance to tell about the "Darkness" within the tunnel that everyone speaks of experiencing, when having a near death experience. Becoming a different person in result of his comatose experience, he speaks.