Near-Death Experiences selected from the files of IANDS
What Researchers Found
The Story
A 25-year-old woman suffered liver failure, leading to a violent coma. She was hospitalized, placed on a liver transplant list, and doctors told her family she would not survive the night without one. During the NDE, she saw a bright light, dismissed it as medical at first, then entered a tunnel of love into space, feeling immense love like being adored by thousands. Three guide beings reviewed her past life, showing every wrong action for self-reflection without judgment, and explained humans incarnate on Earth to learn lessons since perfection equates to godhood. They showed her body-less state, joys of physical senses on Earth, her funeral, and future scenarios where her young children suffered without her in a bare room while stepsisters lived luxuriously, prompting her to choose return. She asked questions about life's hardships, God, creation, and learned animals and plants have souls, urging compassion and environmental respect, and saw her lifetime's garbage polluting the planet. After the NDE, her liver rejuvenated 100% miraculously without transplant. She has no fear of death, worked in environmental protection for 10 years, then managed a senior complex helping those near death, witnessing miracles like blocked arteries healing without surgery. She remains sensitive to medications, focuses on family, writing a book, and opening a metaphysical store.
“body in my old life it felt like someone close as I lay on the cement head”
The accounts lack any specific, verifiable veridical perceptions of physical events during unconsciousness, with only vague references to remembering unspecified 'many things' in a coma and future visions partially claimed to come true. Despite severe medical compromise in the first account, there are no details on impossible perceptual access, precise observations, or robust verifications. Evidential strength is limited by absence of concrete claims and documentation.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
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These accounts were gathered because death may not be the end. Thousands of people have experienced something beyond — and come back to tell us about it.
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What Researchers Found
The accounts lack any specific, verifiable veridical perceptions of physical events during unconsciousness, with only vague references to remembering unspecified 'many things' in a coma and future visions partially claimed to come true. Despite severe medical compromise in the first account, there are no details on impossible perceptual access, precise observations, or robust verifications. Evidential strength is limited by absence of concrete claims and documentation.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
Was this Evidence Strength score useful?
Was this Experience Depth score useful?
Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
Was this Life Impact score useful?