Jim Died And Went To The Eternal Now
What Researchers Found
The Story
Jim Bruton, an inventor and pilot, had a near-death experience after a plane crash on October 6, 2016. His engine failed during a test flight of a historical reproduction aircraft. He crashed into a pond at 70 miles per hour, breaking all his ribs, rupturing both lungs, fracturing his knee, and suffering other injuries. Rescuers airlifted him to a hospital, where doctors put him into a medically induced coma for a week. During the NDE, Jim teleported to a terrace overlooking a ruined, post-apocalyptic city under dark clouds. He saw a lattice-work egg sculpture containing gears that represented future probabilities of thoughts, words, and actions. A disembodied voice explained it as the process of becoming and the in-between eternal now. Jim touched gears, felt pain from bad choices, and removed them. The gears reconfigured into new patterns. He learned about unintended consequences, grace, faith, and the importance of relationships. He touched the egg and returned to his body. After the NDE, Jim gained heightened empathy as a superpower. He focused on relationships, ended his marriage, and moved to Mexico. There, he married a doctor, built a stem cell lab, and wrote books about his experience. He lives authentically with no fear of death.
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This NDE contains no veridical perception claims of real-world events or information inaccessible by normal senses; it is entirely a subjective, symbolic visionary experience involving gears, an egg, and a guiding voice in an otherworldly landscape. Despite a severe medically induced coma, the absence of any specific, verifiable observations during unconsciousness limits 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 NDE contains no veridical perception claims of real-world events or information inaccessible by normal senses; it is entirely a subjective, symbolic visionary experience involving gears, an egg, and a guiding voice in an otherworldly landscape. Despite a severe medically induced coma, the absence of any specific, verifiable observations during unconsciousness limits 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.