Woman Dies In Crash; Shown Glimpse Of Heaven & Given Spiritual Gifts (NDE)
What Researchers Found
The Story
Leah Barnes Butler, a mother and student, had a near-death experience on August 9th due to a car accident. While driving home with her son Adam, she pulled over to avoid a collision but was hit by a large truck on her side, trapping her foot and injuring her head. She lost six pints of blood and went unconscious. During the experience, she entered a dark place like an auditorium filled with unseen people. She heard a massive choir singing 'There is no secret what God can do' and joined in, swaying and feeling deep peace, love, and joy. This continued while rescuers cut her from the car and in the hospital, where she prayed calmly for the doctors. After recovery, Leah gained the ability to sense spiritual energies and describe deceased relatives accurately. Her prayer life deepened, and she increased giving by feeding 100 homeless people daily, believing death is not the end and spirits persist.
“see nobody I felt peace I felt love I felt Joy it was like nothing that I can”
The account features a severe medical crisis with prolonged unconsciousness and massive blood loss, but contains no veridical perceptions of real-world events or rescuers during that time—instead describing a purely subjective spiritual experience with a familiar hymn. Prompt reporting to family adds minor evidential value, but the complete absence of impossible-access or verified physical details severely limits strength. Post-NDE psychic gifts include one detailed, verified spirit description, but these occur long after recovery in full consciousness, not qualifying as NDE veridical perceptions.
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 prolonged unconsciousness and massive blood loss, but contains no veridical perceptions of real-world events or rescuers during that time—instead describing a purely subjective spiritual experience with a familiar hymn. Prompt reporting to family adds minor evidential value, but the complete absence of impossible-access or verified physical details severely limits strength. Post-NDE psychic gifts include one detailed, verified spirit description, but these occur long after recovery in full consciousness, not qualifying as NDE veridical perceptions.
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.