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NDERF 5348 Austin W NDE 9856
https://nderf.org/Experiences/1austin_w_nde.html
2016
2024
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Austin was a militant atheist and nihilist who began using heroin at age 13. In November 2016, at age 19, he overdosed on heroin and ceased breathing, experiencing clinical death. Prior to losing consciousness, he felt his high fade and experienced a sensation like a panic attack, knowing deeply that he was dying. However, instead of fear, he felt overwhelming bliss and complete acceptance, telling his friends he needed to lie down before dying.
During his death, Austin experienced everything and nothing simultaneously - existence simply was. He lived as every living thing from birth to death in every possible iteration and variation. He experienced the reader's life and every possible version of it, with different characteristics and circumstances. All knowledge and experience coalesced into the singular principle "I am." He witnessed the birth, death, and rebirth of every universe in an infinite loop, all in an instant. From outside spacetime, he could see the entire multiverse as universes of raw potentiality stacked upon one another. He perceived each universe as a singular hypersphere, a shape beyond human comprehension, where existence was one conceptual thing. He also encountered a shadow-person with white eyes and deer antlers. The primary observation was experiencing life from a fourth-dimensional perspective outside of time, seeing all of spacetime and the multiverse from an external vantage point. He experienced every possible life and universe simultaneously, understanding everything about universal existence. He describes this as more objective than any singular subjective experience. After reliving his own life and finding it incomplete, he made a conscious decision to return. He was resuscitated at the hospital. The experience transformed him from nihilistic atheist to pantheistic Buddhist, seeing overwhelming purpose in life rather than none. He experienced severe amnesia afterward but retained vivid memory of the NDE itself, considering it more real than ordinary experience.
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Clinical death from overdose, ceased breathing, resuscitated at hospital
Fourth-dimensional perception of entire multiverse, experienced all possible lives and universes
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