Man Dies For 1 Hour; Taken To Another Realm And Returns With A Shocking Message (NDE)
What Researchers Found
The Story
Dean Braxton was a supervisor in the juvenile probation department in Seattle. On May 5, 2006, a kidney stone caused an infection that led to septic shock. He was clinically dead for one hour and 45 minutes. During the NDE, Braxton left his body and traveled quickly through the hospital and space to heaven through a window-like light. He felt complete peace and welcome from everything, including trees and flowers. He walked through a forest to a meadow where he saw Jesus with angels and redeemed people. Braxton approached Jesus on hands and knees, thanked Him, and felt immense personal love from His body and eyes. He saw Jesus's love for his family and realized Jesus wants everyone in heaven. Jesus told him three times to return, but Braxton explored mountains, waters, animals, and saints before seeing generations of his family greeting him. His grandmother urged him to bring more people back. He returned to his body reluctantly. After the NDE, Braxton views life from an eternal perspective. He holds less attachment to material things and grieves less over losses. His relationship with his wife changed, requiring them to rebuild it as he became a different man.
“go to heaven and then come back to earth I thought once you left you just left so”
The account features a severe medical crisis with clinical death confirmed by records, but contains no specific veridical perceptions beyond a vague, unverified OBE observation of a doctor signing a death certificate. Lacks verification attempts, unpredictability, and temporal precedence for any claims. Primary limiting factors are absence of detailed, corroborated real-world perceptions during the experience.
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 a severe medical crisis with clinical death confirmed by records, but contains no specific veridical perceptions beyond a vague, unverified OBE observation of a doctor signing a death certificate. Lacks verification attempts, unpredictability, and temporal precedence for any claims. Primary limiting factors are absence of detailed, corroborated real-world perceptions during the experience.
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.