A Woman Unforgettable Near Death Experience: Hearing from God Clearly Despite Being Clinically Dead"
What Researchers Found
The Story
Barbara Bartolome, a 31-year-old woman from Santa Barbara, California, had a near-death experience during a myelogram procedure. The test checked her lower back before surgery, but an X-ray technician pushed the wrong button on the machine. This sent iodine dye from her neck into her brain, causing her heart to stop. She floated above her body and watched the medical team in panic. They called a code blue, did CPR, attached oxygen, and connected a heart monitor that flatlined. She felt a loving presence she called God and wanted to return to protect her young children from an abusive husband. God showed quick flashes of the abuse and her failed attempts to change him. She promised to leave the marriage. Right after she spoke, doctors gave a second hard thump to her chest, and she returned to her body. After the NDE, Barbara left her abusive husband to keep her promise. She started a support group for near-death experiencers in Santa Barbara as part of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. Now retired, she attends conferences, helps others share their stories, and promotes beliefs in multiple lives, soul growth, and living with love and kindness.
“next to me of what I felt with God and I but I was a spiritual person and I think”
Exceptional evidential strength due to clinical death with flatline and CPR, highly specific observations from an OBE vantage point immediately recounted to shocked medical staff confirming accuracy through their reactions, though limited slightly by same-room perception without remote access.
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
Exceptional evidential strength due to clinical death with flatline and CPR, highly specific observations from an OBE vantage point immediately recounted to shocked medical staff confirming accuracy through their reactions, though limited slightly by same-room perception without remote access.
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.