David Schwartz: Waking Up To Love
What Researchers Found
The Story
David Schwartz, a financial services professional, suffered from Wegener's Granulomatosis, a severe vasculitis that caused multi-organ failure, coma, and life support in 2005. Scarlett Heinberg, a PhD student and Reiki master, met David's mother at an AA meeting and offered to visit him in the hospital. While holding David's hand during a Reiki session on the fifth day, Scarlett experienced the NDE. She left her body and entered a realm of pinpoint light dots, feeling liquid love that permeated everything. She sensed she still held David's hand, and David was there with her. They recognized each other on a soul level, knew they had always loved one another, and understood their life challenges as part of a divine plan. They communicated telepathically in timeless love. David felt peace during his coma and instantly loved Scarlett upon waking. After the NDE, David fully recovered with healthy kidneys and no ongoing treatment. They married, found purpose in shared love, and Scarlett wrote a book about their experience.
“my soul knew him i knew him and i knew that i'd always known him and i'd always”
This account details a profound shared spiritual experience of unconditional love during David's severe coma, but lacks any veridical perceptions of physical events, conversations, or details inaccessible by normal senses. David's extreme medical crisis provides some context, but the primary limiting factor is the complete absence of specific, verifiable observations from an impossible perceptual vantage. Childhood OBE anecdote adds minor veridical element but is not part of the core NDE.
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 account details a profound shared spiritual experience of unconditional love during David's severe coma, but lacks any veridical perceptions of physical events, conversations, or details inaccessible by normal senses. David's extreme medical crisis provides some context, but the primary limiting factor is the complete absence of specific, verifiable observations from an impossible perceptual vantage. Childhood OBE anecdote adds minor veridical element but is not part of the core NDE.
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.