Bri Lafferty Shares Her NDE With Us
What Researchers Found
The Story
Bri Lafferty experienced a near-death event in 2017 due to severe illness from her rare chronic neurological disorder, myoclonus dystonia. She had moved to Texas, tried a new treatment, and became extremely sick, unable to eat for weeks. At 2 a.m. on April 27, she surrendered in prayer to an unknown God. She felt peace, heard a booming voice ask, 'Are you ready?', and after saying yes, experienced three chest thumps and left her body. In velvety darkness filled with love, she saw the Creator as energy and grinning monks who implied no death exists. She entered a brilliant blue tunnel at high speed, downloaded with binary code. In a room, she threw numbers into the air with joy, realizing the universe is math-created, guided by a master teacher. In a playground realm, she joined beings where thoughts instantly shaped reality: trees changed from snow to moss, she danced in unity, flew poorly as a robot with a regrowing arm of code, melted as a snowman and reformed, and took forms like a nesting doll and grocery clerk. She spoke with a bearded elder but forgot the words. She saw a barbed wire fence she could not cross. In a small room with seven wise beings, a golden script scroll appeared, but her ego interrupted, rolling it up and sending her back. Her heart restarted after eight minutes, though it felt like months. After the NDE, her condition remitted but returned when she clung to her old identity. She gained medical intuition but initially suppressed it. Through meditation, she accessed NDE code to heal permanently. She left her corporate marketing career, volunteered in hospice, became a death and spiritual doula, wrote the book White Flame, and now helps people with end-of-life transitions, healing, and living authentically.
“to a god I didn't even know what God because I'd cried out to God so many”
This NDE contains no veridical perception claims of real-world events, conversations, or objects during the experience; it is entirely a subjective spiritual journey involving tunnels, beings, binary code, and a playground realm with no ties to verifiable physical reality. The only potential strength is moderate medical compromise from severe illness and possible cardiac event, but lack of any external corroboration limits evidential value.
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, conversations, or objects during the experience; it is entirely a subjective spiritual journey involving tunnels, beings, binary code, and a playground realm with no ties to verifiable physical reality. The only potential strength is moderate medical compromise from severe illness and possible cardiac event, but lack of any external corroboration limits evidential value.
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.