PMH Atwater Created A City With Thoughts During Her Near Death Experience
What Researchers Found
The Story
P.M.H. Atwater, a near-death experience researcher, had three NDEs in 1977. They were caused by complications from a rape that led to pregnancy and miscarriage. In the first NDE, she floated above her body during the miscarriage, approached the bathroom light, asked questions, and returned to clean up. In the second, severe pain from a doctor's injection caused her to leave her body. She checked her lifeless body, discovered thoughts as tangible forms, created a house, tree, and city. Deceased relatives, including a grandfather, and Jesus appeared. She hugged Jesus like an elder brother. A life review showed her negative actions and thoughts affecting others. She forgave herself amid sparkles and returned. In the third, she entered a lip of light and saw the Eternal Now. After these, Atwater quit her bank job, started researching NDEs, wrote 21 books, and built a career sharing findings on spiritual transformations.
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The account features out-of-body perceptions of the experiencer's own body during unconsciousness from severe bleeding and pain, but lacks any specific, verifiable details about external events, verification attempts, or independent corroboration. Claims are limited to self-observable body state with no medical confirmation or witness reports, and other elements like thought-creation are internal and non-veridical.
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 out-of-body perceptions of the experiencer's own body during unconsciousness from severe bleeding and pain, but lacks any specific, verifiable details about external events, verification attempts, or independent corroboration. Claims are limited to self-observable body state with no medical confirmation or witness reports, and other elements like thought-creation are internal and non-veridical.
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.