74 - NDE at 8. Spiritual Cancer Healing at 33.
What Researchers Found
The Story
Cara Marleene was an 8-year-old girl living on a family ranch in Kansas. She had a near-death experience after crashing her bike while trying to jump a concrete ramp. She flew off the bike and hit the ground hard. Her awareness expanded in mid-air. She felt trapped in her body like a corpse. She saw a rectangle of light from the garage door and called for help, thinking it was her sister. She realized the darkness around her was space, and the light was life itself. She understood she was dying and felt overwhelming joy, peace, and love. She had a brief life review of her family and pets. A figure in the light communicated that everything would be okay. She agreed to go but crossed a threshold and returned to her body. She woke up hours later on the couch, swollen and injured but alive. The doctor said she should have died. From that day, Cara felt different. She was filled with love and wanted to share oneness with others, but felt lonely because the world did not accept her changes. This led her to seek communion with love in nature and alone times.
“joy and peace and love just cracked open from inside of me and I was just”
This NDE account features a severe head injury with unconsciousness but lacks any veridical perception claims, such as observations from an impossible vantage point or verifiable external details. Perceptions are limited to vague sensory impressions from the experiencer's ground-level position, with no verification attempts or confirmed accuracies.
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What Researchers Found
This NDE account features a severe head injury with unconsciousness but lacks any veridical perception claims, such as observations from an impossible vantage point or verifiable external details. Perceptions are limited to vague sensory impressions from the experiencer's ground-level position, with no verification attempts or confirmed accuracies.
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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