Robin Richardson
What Researchers Found
The Story
Robin Richardson was a six-to-seven-month-old infant in Detroit, Michigan, when she had her near-death experience. It was caused by the 1957 Asian flu pandemic, which led to her stopping breathing and having no pulse. During the NDE, she sat in a baby carrier and saw her caregivers upset on the phone. Light emanated from her body, and a beam of love scooped her out. She rose above Earth into a vast space teeming with energy and light. Her consciousness expanded, allowing her to think many thoughts at once and connect intimately with everything. She felt divine love pulsing through infinite universes. She heard her mother arrive, pack her body in ice in a red laundry basket, and scream in anguish for her to return. This pulled Robin back into her body like lightning. Her body shivered and revived as her mother lifted her out of the ice. A black veil covered her consciousness when she opened her eyes. After remembering the NDE at age eight, Robin became a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist. She uses her experience to help clients, especially parents who lost children, connect with loved ones. It enhanced her empathy and sense of serving in her profession.
“you love you absolutely love and that is we are just about out of time but i want”
The account features strong immediate verification by the mother of highly specific details like being packed in ice in the red laundry basket during clinical death (no pulse, not breathing), triggered spontaneously at age 8 without prior knowledge. However, perceptual access is limited to same-room events with potential for infant hearing, and no remote or visually precise veridical elements beyond the core claim.
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What Researchers Found
The account features strong immediate verification by the mother of highly specific details like being packed in ice in the red laundry basket during clinical death (no pulse, not breathing), triggered spontaneously at age 8 without prior knowledge. However, perceptual access is limited to same-room events with potential for infant hearing, and no remote or visually precise veridical elements beyond the core claim.
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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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.
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