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NDERF 2639 Janet M NDE 5092
https://nderf.org/Experiences/1janet_m_nde.html
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Janet M experienced clinical death in 1987 after receiving an unintentionally lethal drug injection from two men while helping decorate a house. She collapsed immediately in the kitchen and was confirmed lifeless with no pulse or breathing. The men moved her body to the hallway, checked vital signs, attempted resuscitation, then gave up and discussed body disposal while smoking cigarettes.
During her clinical death, Janet rose through the building's structure, seeing through floorboards and wooden framework in a different dimension where solid objects were not barriers. She moved through floors, walls, and staircases, observing the building's internal structure including wooden posts between floors she hadn't previously seen. From this dimension, she watched the men below finish their cigarettes and declare her dead. The declaration triggered an overwhelming response - the "lie of death" was unacceptable to the truth of her living consciousness. The power of this truth compelled her return to prove she was alive, not from personal desire but from truth's absolute nature. Upon reentering her body during final resuscitation attempts, Janet coughed up liquid and returned to life. She immediately recounted everything the men had said and done word-for-word, describing parts of the house she'd never seen, including specific locations of wooden posts in floors. Her detailed observations of their actions, conversations about body disposal, and architectural features she couldn't have known verified her consciousness had observed from outside her body during clinical death. The experience gave Janet absolute certainty that consciousness continues in a different dimension after bodily death, eliminating all fear of death. She developed abilities to sense approaching death in people and animals, provide comfort to the dying, and calm troubled minds, working voluntarily in a mental institution where her presence brought unusual peace. Biblical Assessment: This NDE powerfully demonstrates the biblical truth of consciousness surviving bodily death and the supremacy of spiritual reality over physical appearance. Janet's experience of existing in a dimension where physical barriers didn't apply aligns with the spiritual realm described in scripture where angels and spirits move freely through physical matter. Her overwhelming conviction that death was a "lie" resonates profoundly with Jesus' teaching that believers "will never die" (John 11:26) and Paul's declaration that death is swallowed up in victory. The compulsion of Truth itself forcing her return reflects the biblical concept of God as Truth itself, whose nature cannot tolerate falsehood. Her subsequent gift of bringing peace and comfort to troubled souls mirrors spiritual gifts of healing and discernment described in 1 Corinthians 12. However, some elements require careful theological consideration. The absence of encounters with God, Jesus, or angels during the experience lacks explicit Christian content. Her post-NDE abilities to sense approaching death and communicate with dying animals, while possibly reflecting heightened spiritual sensitivity, resembles practices associated with mediumship that scripture warns against. The description of existing as a "living entity" in another dimension, while not contradicting scripture, uses terminology more common to spiritualism than biblical Christianity. Her belief that "everyone has this happen when it's their turn" suggests universalism rather than the biblical teaching of different eternal destinations. Despite these concerns, the core experience of consciousness surviving clinical death and the truth-driven nature of her return strongly support biblical teachings about the soul's immortality.
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Clinical death from lethal injection, no pulse/breathing, resuscitation eventually successful
Word-for-word recounting of conversations, described unseen house structures, observed from other dimension
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