"When We Die, There is Always Someone There to Pick Us Up" | Irene Wisler's Near-Death Experience
What Researchers Found
The Story
Ms. Wisler experienced a near-death event over 20 years ago due to Stevens-Johnson syndrome, an autoimmune disease triggered by an infection from petting calves during a hike. She grew weak and feverish, refused hospital care, and one afternoon while painting in her office, she fell unconscious from pain and weakness. During the NDE, she left her body and faced a tunnel. Afraid, she called her grandmother, who appeared and guided her into a warm room with deceased relatives, including her great-grandmother. Her grandmother said she arrived too early. Ms. Wisler asked to see everything. A brilliant light like a thousand suns opened, giving her 360-degree awareness. She sped through space, passing galaxies, with all questions answered instantly. She entered a dark nothing containing all existence, then felt immense love and acceptance. She sensed her self yet oneness with the universe. She saw ladders showing her family's death order, including her own. A life review showed she did her best without judgment. Asked to stay or return, she chose to go back to ease people's fear of death. A bang like the big bang sent her back into her body. After the NDE, Ms. Wisler felt horror returning to her tight, painful body but was filled with joy. She drew pictures and wrote a poem. Her sensitivity increased, leading to nightly out-of-body experiences for years. She lived in the present with deep compassion for people, animals, and nature. She struggles with the world's brutality but aims to share that death brings love and peace, urging others to find inner silence.
“And because I felt such a compassion, such a love, and that you don't have to be afraid and everything was so beautiful, I said, I have to go back to the people. I want to tell the people that they do not have to be afraid of death, of dying.”
This NDE features no veridical perceptions of physical events or medical procedures, relying on a single vaguely verified precognitive claim about family death order that lacks timing details or witnesses. The experience is rich in spiritual elements but offers minimal evidential weight for paranormal perception due to absence of impossible access, detailed verification, or precedent.
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 no veridical perceptions of physical events or medical procedures, relying on a single vaguely verified precognitive claim about family death order that lacks timing details or witnesses. The experience is rich in spiritual elements but offers minimal evidential weight for paranormal perception due to absence of impossible access, detailed verification, or precedent.
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.