Leena Zafary - NDEs Happen Whether You Understand Them or Not
What Researchers Found
The Story
Lena Zafari was a happily married mother of two young children in California. In early 2014, she caught a cold after visiting family in Texas, returned home, and was hospitalized with H1N1 virus causing lung failure. Doctors told her family nothing more could be done. In the ICU, Lena left her body and sat on the bed's edge. She saw her transparent body like glass. A maternal voice told her to decide to return. She saw her children, filling the room with bright joy. She viewed silhouettes of praying family and friends; focusing on them turned them into candle flames. She decided to go back but remembers no re-entry. After recovery, sensitivities increased greatly. She had visions, including of a third child born a year later. She moved to Texas, had a deep float tank experience revealing chakras, lights of Muhammad, Christ, and herself. This led to divorce, self-study, discovering IANDS in 2019, and starting a Las Vegas group to support experiencers, especially children. She now balances human life with spiritual awareness and helps others.
“light and that light so it's just light so it felt like when I was in that space”
The account describes an out-of-body experience during a severe medical crisis but contains no specific, verifiable perceptions of external events, staff actions, or details beyond the experiencer's body and internal visions. Primary elements are vague spiritual imagery (transparent body, children present, praying silhouettes as flames) with no attempts at verification or corroboration.
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
The account describes an out-of-body experience during a severe medical crisis but contains no specific, verifiable perceptions of external events, staff actions, or details beyond the experiencer's body and internal visions. Primary elements are vague spiritual imagery (transparent body, children present, praying silhouettes as flames) with no attempts at verification or corroboration.
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.