Rabbi Stephen Robbins Pt1
What Researchers Found
The Story
Rabbi Steven Robbins' life reads like a testament to resilience, marked by six near-death experiences that reshaped his understanding of existence. Born in 1944, he entered the world not with a cry, but in silence—strangled by the umbilical cord during a breech birth, declared dead by the delivering doctor. That physician, haunted by war traumas from saving soldiers only to lose so many, felt a divine surge compel him to breathe life into the limp infant through what we'd now call infant CPR. As Robbins later recounted, his soul was pulled toward the source before being thrust back, eyes locking with the doctor's in a moment of ancient wisdom. This primal transit set the stage for a lifetime of transits. At 19, a ravaging hepatitis fever of 107 degrees sent him crossing over twice, only to learn his liver was 90% destroyed, yet it miraculously regrew after a year. Lung collapses in 1987, 1991, and 2005—from severe flu and infections—each pulled him from his body, into diffusion where physicality faded, revealing his soul's vastness beyond the 'shoe' of the body, as Kabbalistic texts describe. Shingles agony followed the last hospitalization, a 14-year ordeal of level-10 pain managed through meditation. The final NDE in 2018 came abruptly: heart and breath stopping, he rejected intubation, speaking from beyond, reviving on his own after 30 minutes. Each journey brought messages—progressive revelations urging soul-purpose fulfillment. Post-experiences, Robbins co-founded an alternative synagogue blending mysticism, Kabbalah, and science for healing trauma. No longer fearing death, he advocates through IANDS that sharing this freedom could unite humanity, dissolving evil rooted in mortality's dread, propelling spiritual and emotional evolution toward wholeness and joy.
“we all come back not afraid of death with much more peace with a sense of”
Exceptional evidential strength due to multiple clinical death episodes with specific, verified perceptions: birth trauma details precisely confirmed by delivering doctor decades later, and witnessed verbal response during 2018 cardiac arrest while apneic and asystolic. Primary limitation is absence of explicitly impossible sensory vantage points like out-of-body views of hidden details.
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
Exceptional evidential strength due to multiple clinical death episodes with specific, verified perceptions: birth trauma details precisely confirmed by delivering doctor decades later, and witnessed verbal response during 2018 cardiac arrest while apneic and asystolic. Primary limitation is absence of explicitly impossible sensory vantage points like out-of-body views of hidden details.
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.