Ken Root: Ejected From Time
What Researchers Found
The Story
Ken Root, a 17-year-old American visiting Brazil, had an NDE during a car accident in Sao Paulo in 1971. He sat in the back of a Volkswagen Beetle as friends drove recklessly through a roundabout, causing the car to roll three times. Intense fear built before the crash. Time stopped as glass shattered around him. A loving guide communicated directly, assuring Ken he was protected and guided. He left his body and viewed the accident from above, seeing the car roll and land safely on its wheels. He controlled time, shifting between body and out-of-body states, observing in grayscale etheric vision. After the crash, he saw through bystanders' eyes, feeling their excitement, horror, and compassion until his memory erased. A few years later, witnessing a motorcycle crash near him triggered a similar event. Time stopped, and the guide admonished him for suppressing the first experience, urging him to pay attention and remember it for life. Ken initially denied and hid the first NDE. After the second, he began processing it. Years later, following a dark night of the soul, he experienced explosive personal growth. Now retired, he develops apps for NDE Radio and believes humanity faces a global dark night but can endure by staying present and supporting each other.
“its love and presence but the the love and the the light was so intense it was like turning on the bathroom light”
The account features an OBE with an elevated vantage point during a car crash, providing moderately specific details about the crash trajectory verified implicitly by its occurrence and friends' injuries, but lacks deep medical crisis, verification attempts for key perceptions, timely reporting, or highly unpredictable elements.
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
The account features an OBE with an elevated vantage point during a car crash, providing moderately specific details about the crash trajectory verified implicitly by its occurrence and friends' injuries, but lacks deep medical crisis, verification attempts for key perceptions, timely reporting, or highly unpredictable elements.
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.