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In 1976 I was in a near fatal car accident...
Edward S NDE Home Classification NDE 2739 Edward S NDE 5239 Experience Description I knew I was in a great deal of trouble, and that something had to be done...
I must have been recovering from the double pneumonia or perhaps was still ill; I know this because my mother was obviously watching me quite closely or she wouldn't have been alarmed when she looked at me sleeping that morning...
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I was sitting in the bathtub with my friend, it was raining outside...
I fought with all my strength to stay conscious as I suffocated, because I thought if I passed out, he wouldn't stop and I would die...
Hannah NDE Home Classification NDE 3306 Hannah NDE 6665 Experience Description I was surrounded by darkness...
It was three months into being diagnosed with Burkitt's Lymphoma...
Julian D NDE Home Classification NDE 2317 Julian D NDE 4592 Experience Description I was forlorn in my life and had wanted to die...
Valerie L NDE Home Classification NDE 466 Valerie L NDE 1039 Experience Description On April 25, 2003 I was rushed to the hospital by ambulance because I was not able to breathe...
On 4/21/1976, I made plans with the employees of my new department to celebrate my arrival from Germany after a 17-month apprenticeship of new equipment and service to be implemented at the company in Brazil...
I WANT TO START WITH 'THE FRUITS' OF MY EXPERIENCE: I and my wife organized a global meditation event that a Princeton University born Global Consciousness Research Project discovered had INCREASED COHERENCE IN GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS...
Lois T NDE Home Classification NDE 3008 Lois T NDE 6248 Experience Description We were at a lake in Washington with lots of kids there...
