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Cassol, Helena, et al. "Qualitative thematic analysis of the phenomenology of near-death experiences." PLoS ONE 13.2 (2018): e0193001. Female Subject, Age 34, Case 3
PLoS ONE Vol. 13(2) e0193001 Pages 1-14 2018
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During a cardiac arrest nineteen years ago when she was just fifteen, this woman experienced an extraordinary expansion of consciousness that defied normal human comprehension. She first heard a machine then nothing more - no sound, nothing, just absolute darkness. Then her consciousness underwent a remarkable transformation where she felt her awareness expanding until she was everywhere and everything simultaneously. She became the sky, the ground, the trees, feeling the wind blowing through what she experienced as her leaves. She was the sea and simultaneously her parents, friends, and even people she had never met but who she knew intimately because they were part of her expanded being. Everything was genuinely connected as one unified consciousness. This state of cosmic unity and interconnection represented a complete dissolution of individual boundaries. The experience of being everything at once provided her with a profound understanding of the interconnected nature of all existence. When she returned to normal consciousness, the memory of this expansive state remained vivid, fundamentally altering her understanding of reality and consciousness itself.
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Cardiac arrest at young age, no monitoring specified
Expansion of consciousness, unity experience, specific environmental details
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