The near death experience of Dr. Mary Helen Hensley
What Researchers Found
The Story
Mary Helen Hensley, a 21-year-old college graduate, experienced her NDE on December 14, 1991, while driving to a Christmas party in Charleston, South Carolina. She turned left at a red light on Highway 17 and was hit by an oncoming car, crushing her vehicle and breaking her neck. During the NDE, time slowed as she chose to exit her body to avoid pain, hearing a low drone. She watched the crash from above, seeing her head smash through the window and her body pinned. She felt no fear and remembered her true self beyond the physical form. She entered a space of light and elation, met two elderly spirit guides who knew her soul's history, and underwent a non-linear life review, observing all life events at once. She self-reviewed with love, no external judgment. Guides communicated telepathically that she could return; she chose to, realizing her mission was unfinished. After returning, she awoke in the ER and described accident details to the policeman, shocking him. She gained abilities to see energy fields, download others' issues through touch, and communicate with spirits. Guided by her deceased grandfather, she attended chiropractic school and became a healer. She shares her story to help people overcome fear of death, emphasizing life's purpose for growth. Her father's deathbed vision confirmed everyone is welcome in the afterlife, freeing him from religious fears.
“heaven and God and he never talked about going to happen if you screwed up and so”
The account features strong veridical perceptions from an out-of-body vantage during a severe car crash, including specific details of a policeman turning off the ignition through the passenger window and a lady leaving her contact info on the seat, verified immediately by the shocked policeman upon her awakening in the ER. Multiple precise, unlikely details were confirmed via direct confrontation with the witness before she could have learned them normally, though lacking clinical death confirmation and maximal perceptual impossibility limits the score.
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 features strong veridical perceptions from an out-of-body vantage during a severe car crash, including specific details of a policeman turning off the ignition through the passenger window and a lady leaving her contact info on the seat, verified immediately by the shocked policeman upon her awakening in the ER. Multiple precise, unlikely details were confirmed via direct confrontation with the witness before she could have learned them normally, though lacking clinical death confirmation and maximal perceptual impossibility limits the score.
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.