Boating Accident Near Death Experience!
What Researchers Found
The Story
Donna, a community college professor and Reiki Master, had her near-death experience during a family vacation on a lake in Northern New York. While rafting on a towed bullet raft, she fell into the water, and the tow rope caught her leg, dragging her underwater and nearly drowning her. She left her body and passed through a thin veil into eternity. Her cells vibrated with joy, excited to meet the creator of the universe. She saw an Aurora Borealis-like energy and floated toward the creator. They communicated telepathically, and she felt overwhelming love during a hug. The creator asked if she wanted to live or die; she deferred the choice. The creator told her to return and share about choice, then she fell back to Earth and revived. After the NDE, Donna took 20 years to process it. She integrated the message by teaching about love and choices, volunteering as a chaplain, and starting a podcast. She focused on helping youth with beliefs to prevent suicide and lived with greater purpose.
“I knew this was eternity I knew I was dead and all of a sudden all the cells”
No veridical perceptions of physical events or details from an impossible vantage point; the NDE focuses on a cosmic encounter with the creator without specific, verifiable observations of the rescue scene. Limited medical crisis strength is offset by complete absence of corroborated impossible knowledge.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
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What Researchers Found
No veridical perceptions of physical events or details from an impossible vantage point; the NDE focuses on a cosmic encounter with the creator without specific, verifiable observations of the rescue scene. Limited medical crisis strength is offset by complete absence of corroborated impossible knowledge.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.