Man’s Heart Stops 4X; Given Amazing Opportunity By Spirits During Miraculous NDE
What Researchers Found
The Story
David Paris, a 45-year-old man, experienced a near-death event in 2020 due to severe COVID-19 in New York City. He collapsed at home, went to the hospital, stopped breathing, and was intubated into a medical coma. Doctors placed him on an ECMO machine for a month, and his heart stopped four times. During the NDE, he saw a mythological figure in a theater who said he was dying and pointed to the exit. He felt terror and refused to die. The figure showed him a half-moon and apologized. He then fought to survive like struggling in an open sea for months. In dreams, he felt peace in a spirit world and hesitated to return. A spirit in a library asked if he wanted to go back, and in another vision, he rejected fame that required harming others, seeing infinite worlds instead. After waking, David lost his fear of death and believed in a spirit world. He shifted from seeking acrobatic fame to valuing relationships and contribution. He wrote 18 books, focused on teaching and connecting with people, but struggled with grief and disconnection in this world.
“fear of death that it wasn't n death that was fear of because you don't know”
This NDE features a severe medical crisis with cardiac arrests and coma, but lacks any veridical perception claims about the physical world; experiences are purely visionary encounters with spirits in other realms. Hallucinations were explicitly disconfirmed, and no details were verified against reality.
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 severe medical crisis with cardiac arrests and coma, but lacks any veridical perception claims about the physical world; experiences are purely visionary encounters with spirits in other realms. Hallucinations were explicitly disconfirmed, and no details were verified against reality.
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.