Paula Lenz’s Brother Crossed The Veil To Show Her He Still Exists
What Researchers Found
The Story
Paula Lens, a 30-year-old woman in 1983, had an out-of-body experience three days after her brother Donnie died in a car accident. While driving his truck to her grandparents' house, grief triggered the event. She gained 360-degree vision and felt Donnie's hand on her shoulder. She saw him as points of light and heard him telepathically say he was happy on another plane. Paula left her body and entered the middle of the universe. She became one with peace, love, and all knowledge, feeling total oneness. Donnie pushed her back, saying it was not her time. She returned to her body while still driving. After the experience, Paula lost fear of death and gained psychic abilities like hearing thoughts, seeing auras, and precognitive dreams. She received guiding voices, pursued spiritual reading, and wrote a book about it after retiring in 2016. She created a meditation technique and felt connected to something greater.
“love I I knew that love is the universe and this is what I had become”
This account describes a grief-induced out-of-body experience with spiritual insights and contact with the deceased brother, but contains no veridical perceptions of physical events or details impossible to access via normal senses. No specific verifiable claims from the experience were made or confirmed, limiting evidential strength.
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 grief-induced out-of-body experience with spiritual insights and contact with the deceased brother, but contains no veridical perceptions of physical events or details impossible to access via normal senses. No specific verifiable claims from the experience were made or confirmed, limiting evidential strength.
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.