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Simon Bown, Verified Near Death Experiences, Chapter 19: Three Souls I Would Know, Crystal Faith, pp. not specified, 2025
50
Strong Evidence
8
Low Compatibility
Pre-existence of souls, future unborn children
This experience contains some biblical elements including encounters with deceased relatives, angel-like beings with light radiating from chakra points creating wing illusions, and a light-filled heavenly space. The concept of divine beings and the afterlife presence of family members aligns with some Christian beliefs about heaven. The angel-like being's compassion and the emphasis on divine intervention reflect biblical themes. The miraculous survival after 45 minutes of death could be seen as divine intervention.
However, the experience contains highly problematic non-biblical elements. The three baby souls described as "future children" who would have existed strongly suggests pre-existence of souls, which contradicts biblical teaching that souls are created at conception. The babies being described as already wise, divine beings with their own agency before birth conflicts with Christian understanding of human creation. The reference to "chakra system" when describing the angel is explicitly New Age terminology foreign to biblical theology. The black void experience of complete ego death reflects Eastern mystical concepts rather than biblical descriptions of death or spiritual experiences. The absence of Christ, biblical judgment, or scriptural framework combined with these non-Christian elements makes this largely incompatible with orthodox Christian theology.
In 2000, 17-year-old Crystal Faith suffered an amniotic fluid embolism during emergency C-section after 20 weeks of hospitalized pre-term labor. When breaking the amniotic sac to place a head monitor, the doctor accidentally cut a vein causing the life-threatening condition. Crystal's breathing failed, baby's heart rate dropped, requiring immediate C-section. Asked if she wanted her "baby alive or dead," she agreed to proceed despite incomplete epidural. During surgery, Crystal coded on the table with heart stopped for 37 seconds. After 60 units of blood transfusion (body normally holds 20), she remained in coma for six days. Doctors said she would likely have severe brain damage. She was clinically dead for 45 minutes total before revival.
During her NDE, Crystal observed from above as alarms blared and Dr. Higgins called "It's an AFE. She's in cardiac arrest." She tried warning the medical staff she was dying. Her spirit traveled to check on newborn Jacob, saw husband Jonathan whispering "I can't live without you," and watched her father tearfully asking deceased Uncle Marvin to look after her. She encountered her deceased grandmother Ida who had passed 30 years earlier. In a light-filled space, she met beings made of pure light energy. A courtyard contained three baby souls in shimmering gowns who would have been her future children. When one firmly told her she couldn't pick it up without asking as it was its own divine being, Crystal was thrown into a black void experiencing complete ego death before encountering an angel-like being who explained her body was too damaged to return. Crystal accurately described the waiting room wallpaper (mahogany, pink, green from 2002 era) she'd never seen, her grandfather falling back on pink sofa with air escaping "pssh" from cushions, and her sister showing X-rays to grandfather against protocol. Her sister Tessie confirmed playing Doc McStuffins with blood pressure cuff exactly as Crystal observed. Six months later, Crystal identified a woman in a 1950s photo as the spirit who said she named her - her mother confirmed this grandmother had died before Crystal's birth and had indeed suggested her name while pregnant. The pulmonologist who attended without surgical cap was shocked when Crystal mentioned seeing his bald spot and knowing his thoughts about his wife's terminal cancer. After 45 minutes dead and 10 weeks in ICU, Crystal survived against all medical predictions. Multiple witnesses confirmed her impossible observations. |