"I Visited My Deceased Daughter in the Afterlife“ | Anika Schällers After-Death-Contacts
What Researchers Found
The Story
Anika Schäller, a mother grieving the sudden death of her nearly three-year-old daughter Luna from unexplained heart muscle inflammation in March 2020, triggered her out-of-body experience through nighttime meditation on Christmas Eve that year. During the experience, she heard two men's voices discussing her methods, saw her spirit guide as a young dark-haired man who waved her to follow, flew with him over water and colorful areas to a beach, walked to an idyllic park with a playground, found Luna in a hiding place, hugged her, and spent time there. A woman then told her it was time to return, but Anika insisted on coming back, and they agreed. After this, Anika regularly induces out-of-body experiences to visit the afterlife, wrote books about her experiences, stopped grieving deeply, found joy and purpose in helping other bereaved parents through similar journeys, and became pregnant with another daughter as foretold.
“And my mother knew, she is going to a beautiful place now, where there is no suffering and no pain. Yes, in the beginning I saw them inside.”
The account features some verified perceptions of family daily activities (e.g., parents harvesting peas, mother baking cake) confirmed by direct inquiry, providing moderate evidential value. However, the experiencer was not in any medical crisis, perceptions occurred during voluntary meditation/OBE attempts with potential for normal inference or subconscious cues, and there are no claims of impossible physical-world veridical access like hidden details or remote events.
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 some verified perceptions of family daily activities (e.g., parents harvesting peas, mother baking cake) confirmed by direct inquiry, providing moderate evidential value. However, the experiencer was not in any medical crisis, perceptions occurred during voluntary meditation/OBE attempts with potential for normal inference or subconscious cues, and there are no claims of impossible physical-world veridical access like hidden details or remote events.
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.