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Simon Bown, Verified Near Death Experiences, Chapter 19: Three Souls I Would Know, Crystal Faith, pp. not specified, 2025
Verified Near Death Experiences, Crystal Faith, Chapter 19, 2025
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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.
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Amniotic fluid embolism causing cardiac arrest for 37 seconds initially, dead for 45 minutes total. Required 60 units blood. Coma for 6 days. Doctors predicted brain damage or death.
Accurately described waiting room never visited including specific wallpaper and furniture. Grandfather's exact movements on sofa. Sister's Doc McStuffins play. Identified deceased grandmother from photo. Pulmonologist's bald spot and thoughts.
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