Christine Clawley
What Researchers Found
The Story
Christine Clawley contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria, in her throat and chest in February 2008. Doctors gave her a 1 to 10 percent chance of survival and placed her in a medically induced coma for a month. During the coma, she had vivid dreams that felt like lifetimes, including one where she was trapped as a sex slave on a ship and rescued by a compassionate woman who traded opium for her freedom, leading them to save others. In her NDE, she let go of intense pain and merged into an energy of pure love free from suffering. She realized there is no death and chose to return to her body. After waking, Christine could not breathe, speak, eat, or walk independently but developed a strong will to live. She gained greater intuition and frequent precognitive dreams. She pursued healing through yoga, dreamwork, counseling, and indigenous ceremonies. She earned a master's degree in depth counseling psychology in 2015 and became a licensed counselor in 2018. Her work now focuses on trauma, abuse, and mental health in shelters, hospitals, prisons, and community centers. The NDE made her more empathetic, reduced her fear of death, and shifted her values toward authenticity and gratitude for life.
“felt like they lasted an entire lifetime they were extremely vivid it felt like it felt like as i said it was an entire lifetime”
No veridical perception claims of real-world events; experiences consist of internal dreams and a subjective sense of love/energy during coma, with only vague parallels to physical reality and minimal partial verification of eye contact during temporary awakenings.
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
No veridical perception claims of real-world events; experiences consist of internal dreams and a subjective sense of love/energy during coma, with only vague parallels to physical reality and minimal partial verification of eye contact during temporary awakenings.
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.