Rene Jorgensen's Near-Death-Like Experience
What Researchers Found
The Story
The person was a 27-year-old man who had lost his father a year earlier. He traveled to India and took LSD on a beach with a Japanese woman during an intense discussion about his closed heart, which triggered an ego death experience. During the NDE, he left his body and floated ten yards above, seeing his body and the woman below. He felt overwhelming love and realized it was the truth of the universe, like God. Feeling guilty for not knowing this, he entered a life review where he relived hurting others: yelling at his mother, cheating on an ex-girlfriend, and teasing a girl in third grade, feeling her pain and its lifelong ripple effects on her and her family. The review expanded to global suffering from war and famine, overwhelming him. He vowed to stop the pain and saw a path to the light by helping others as his mission. He returned to his body in a split second from the woman's view but felt like a lifetime. After the NDE, he started a spiritual path, worked for nonprofits for over a decade, and conducts research to help others, fulfilling his promise.
“life but her parents life and you know her whole family and such also her you”
This drug-induced experience lacks any verifiable veridical perceptions, with only a vague OBE view of one's own body on a beach that could be imagined or inferred under LSD influence. No attempts at verification, no specific details, and no medical crisis undermine 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 drug-induced experience lacks any verifiable veridical perceptions, with only a vague OBE view of one's own body on a beach that could be imagined or inferred under LSD influence. No attempts at verification, no specific details, and no medical crisis undermine 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.