While In A Coma She Was Shown Heaven, Hell, And The Truth About Beliefs And Manifestations (NDE)
What Researchers Found
The Story
MK McDaniel, a 53-year-old woman, experienced a near-death event after catching a flu that led to pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Doctors put her in a drug-induced coma on a ventilator with a 38% chance of survival. During the NDE, she awoke in darkness and faced a reddish fog with shrieks and a booming voice. She ran into a destroyed city, encountered ragged people, fell into a spooky stage where a relative laughed meanly at her. A demon offered escape for cutting endless blackberry bushes with dull scissors. She walked an eternal road, was denied food by another relative, attacked by a crowd who claimed she had AIDS, marched through tundra with women to a cabin on Christmas in hell, and sang a carol before being struck. Suddenly, she felt overwhelming love and saw her deceased friend, who told her she had too much left to do and sent her back. In a meadow, women gave her gifts and a message. After waking, she recovered slowly but felt depressed and haunted. She wrote a memoir over 10 years, joined the International Association of Near-Death Studies, and changed her beliefs. She now sees God as all-loving with no condemnation, believes souls choose life lessons, feels freer, and shares her story to help others.
“believed I was dead I never felt dead nothing else I could do I asked her”
This NDE features a medically severe drug-induced coma but lacks any veridical perception claims about physical world events, such as observing medical procedures or conversations from an out-of-body perspective. The experiences are entirely visionary tours of hell and heaven with fantastical elements, none of which are reported as verified against real-world facts. Without specific, corroborated details from impossible access points, evidential strength remains low.
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 features a medically severe drug-induced coma but lacks any veridical perception claims about physical world events, such as observing medical procedures or conversations from an out-of-body perspective. The experiences are entirely visionary tours of hell and heaven with fantastical elements, none of which are reported as verified against real-world facts. Without specific, corroborated details from impossible access points, evidential strength remains low.
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.