"I Will Live. Death No Longer Scares Me." | Johanna Maria Nientiedt's Spiritual Experiences
What Researchers Found
The Story
Johanna Nientiedt, a psychological counselor and hospice assistant, had a near-death experience in 2012 during a group meditation training session. She felt her energy drain after an intense meditation, collapsed on the floor, and could not call for help. She left her body and floated under the ceiling. She observed her body lying there with people trying to revive her by slapping her face, energizing her, and grounding her feet. She felt vastness, peace, warmth, and no fear. She smiled, thinking she would not return to her body. Suddenly, she snapped back into her body, feeling confined, cold, and heavy. She struggled to reconnect and walked barefoot through snow to feel her body again. After the experience, she did not discuss it for seven years until joining an NDE network. It strengthened her belief in the afterlife. She lost her fear of death and continued her work helping the dying and bereaved with greater purpose.
“In 2009 and 2014, your father and your mother passed away. She died in 2014, and I was at the time 700 kilometers away,”
This OBE during a meditation-induced collapse includes verified perceptions of specific actions (face-slapping, foot-pushing) and positions from an impossible ceiling vantage, confirmed later with participants. Evidential strength is moderated by mild medical crisis (fainting-like), predictable group responses, and delayed reporting without prompt documentation.
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 OBE during a meditation-induced collapse includes verified perceptions of specific actions (face-slapping, foot-pushing) and positions from an impossible ceiling vantage, confirmed later with participants. Evidential strength is moderated by mild medical crisis (fainting-like), predictable group responses, and delayed reporting without prompt documentation.
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.