What This Professor Saw While Dead Will Change How You See Life (NDE)
What Researchers Found
The Story
David Delgado was a 14-year-old boy when he had his near-death experience. It occurred during a church lock-in in the early 1980s. He participated in self-hyperventilation, passed out, hit the floor hard, and stopped breathing for about three minutes while friends panicked. During the experience, sounds diminished to complete blackness. He floated in darkness and sensed other beings and angels gathered to watch. A grand, massive figure emerged ahead of him. He felt immersed in unifying love, like returning to a cosmic source or God. He was told it was time to go back and felt crushed with sadness as a force pushed him away. After the NDE, David felt deeply shaken and discussed it all night. The event remained unmatched in his life. It deepened his lifelong interest in spiritual phenomena, leading him to become a UCLA professor studying the paranormal, director of a healing sayings archive, and a Reiki practitioner.
“this life which hadn't been a great life up at the time I had a really”
This NDE lacks any veridical perception claims, featuring only subjective spiritual elements like sensing beings and encountering a grand figure in blackness, with no descriptions of observing physical events or details impossible to perceive normally. Despite a period of apparent unconsciousness for 1.5-3 minutes, no corroborated observations of the scene or rescuers are reported.
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
This NDE lacks any veridical perception claims, featuring only subjective spiritual elements like sensing beings and encountering a grand figure in blackness, with no descriptions of observing physical events or details impossible to perceive normally. Despite a period of apparent unconsciousness for 1.5-3 minutes, no corroborated observations of the scene or rescuers are reported.
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.