Cedric Pisegna's NDE by Faith
What Researchers Found
The Story
Father Cedric Pasegna, a Passionist Catholic priest, experienced two near-death experiences at age 20. They were triggered by his growing faith during personal uncertainties, including a breakup and college doubts, not by illness or accident. In the first NDE, faith propelled him quickly through a dark cylindrical tunnel. He arrived at bright light, overwhelming glory like electric waves through his body, and intense affectionate love from God. He recognized he had been with God before and felt his true self. A judgment revealed his unworthiness due to sins like an abortion. God told him telepathically to justify his soul. Jesus placed an arm around him and promised protection. Cedric vowed to be his best. The second NDE occurred a month later and was similar. After the experiences, Cedric fully recommitted to Christianity. He entered the priesthood in 1991, wrote 25 books, and now hosts TV and radio programs to share God's love and urge soul preparation for eternity.
“I knew who that God was it was the god of Jesus and Jesus I'll tell you was”
This account describes a faith-induced spiritual experience while drifting to sleep, featuring a tunnel, divine light, glory, love, and judgment, but contains no veridical perceptions of the physical world, medical events, or verifiable details beyond the experiencer's body. Lacking any claims of impossible sensory access, specific verifiable observations, or independent verification, it offers no evidential strength for NDE veridicality.
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 account describes a faith-induced spiritual experience while drifting to sleep, featuring a tunnel, divine light, glory, love, and judgment, but contains no veridical perceptions of the physical world, medical events, or verifiable details beyond the experiencer's body. Lacking any claims of impossible sensory access, specific verifiable observations, or independent verification, it offers no evidential strength for NDE veridicality.
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.