Tag: near-death experiences

Materialist Doctor Witnesses Heaven, Wakes From Coma a Changed Man

Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, had been living a “predictably normal” life by his accounts when one day he woke up with his brain on fire, writhing in pain as his meningitis devoured—quite literally—his brain. He was rushed to the hospital, where he fell into a week-long coma. His disease had a 53 percent mortality rate…


Doctor Survives 5 Near-Death Experiences, Says World Is Coming to a ‘Spiritual Awakening’

On March 27, 1979, Yvonne Kason, a young medical doctor at the time finishing her residency, was on a medical air evacuation when the plane’s engines failed and sent Kason, a nurse, the patient, and the pilot down in a crash. Kason, in her split-second realization that she was going to die, thought “Oh, God! Help!”…


‘Free of Fear, Pain’: Engineer Recalls Leaving Her Body, Floating in Bliss, Learning Life’s Meaning on Returning

The following near-death-experience account by former Epoch Times journalist Dana Betlevy tells of how she discovered her life’s meaning after dying, floating to a blissful ethereal dimension, then returning to her body upon being resuscitated. She struggled to tell her story within her materialist milieu growing up in Eastern Europe. In my childhood and adolescence, I had…


Atheist Doctor Becomes a Believer After Near-Death Experiencer Encounter Leaves Him Wonderstruck

The following experience was shared by Joseph G., a police officer in Miami, Florida., on the Near Death Experience Research Foundation website: I went to the emergency room of the hospital because of a bad reaction to a tetanus shot. While in the emergency room, I was given two shots of penicillin. After the second…


Woman Nearly Dies From Cancer, Sees Scenes Outside Her Body, Returns—And is Miraculously Cured

On Feb. 2, 2006, Anita Moorjani lay in the intensive care unit of a hospital in her home city of Hong Kong. She was in a coma. Her eyes were swollen shut, and her breathing was labored. With open lesions dotting her skin, massively enlarged lymph nodes, and organs failing, her frail body had been…


Surgeons Find Evidence of a Soul After Patient Describes Operating Room After Declared Dead for 20 Minutes

Dutch near-death-experience (NDE) researchers have compiled more than 70 cases of people who’ve purportedly left their bodies and observed scenes they could not have perceived with their physical senses. The details of what they saw—for example, actions performed by people in the hospital—could be verified, providing perhaps some of the strongest evidence for the mind’s…


Depressed Woman Dies on Operating Table, Sees Heaven and Future Events, Returns to Life a New Person

Tricia Barker was depressed. She was 21 years old, in college studying English, unsure what career would follow, and generally feeling that life was hopeless and painful. She tried to take her own life by washing a handful of pills down with alcohol. She woke up 36 hours later still in her own room. She…


Studies Explore Life After Death

Perhaps science will never be capable of proving without a shadow of a doubt whether or not the afterlife exists. But science is at least capable of determining how many people have reported experiences of the afterlife. Studies also show that many of the experiencers were not previously spiritual or religious people. Though these experiences…