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Moody, Raymond. Life After Life. HarperOne, 2015. Chapter 2: Out of the Body. Seventeen Year Old. Pages 50-51. Copyright 1975.
Life After Life - Drowning at Seventeen - Chapter 2 - Pages 50-51 - 1975
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A seventeen-year-old working at an amusement park went swimming with other young people in a lake. When someone suggested swimming across the lake, something the teenager had done numerous times before, they began the crossing but went down almost in the middle of the lake. The individual kept bobbing up and down in the water, struggling to stay afloat in what became a life-threatening drowning incident.
During this crisis, a remarkable out-of-body experience occurred. The person suddenly felt separated from their physical body and everyone else, existing in space by themselves. From this vantage point, they observed their own body in the water approximately three or four feet away, bobbing up and down. The perspective was from behind and slightly to the right side of their physical body. Despite being outside their physical form, they retained a sense of having an entire body form and experienced an airy, feather-like feeling of weightlessness. The individual remained stable at the same level while watching their body struggle in the water below. The visual observation was clear and specific - they could see their body's movements in the water, the distance of separation, and maintained a consistent viewing angle throughout. The experience included a profound sense of being separated from the physical body while maintaining full consciousness and awareness. The feeling was described as extraordinarily light, comparing it to the weightlessness of a feather, yet with complete sensory awareness of the scene. The person was eventually rescued from the water, though the specific details of the rescue are not provided. The experience left a lasting impression, particularly the vivid memory of observing their own body from an external perspective while maintaining a sense of having a different, lighter form of embodiment during the near-drowning crisis.
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Near-drowning incident with clear life-threatening situation but no medical monitoring.
Specific observation of own body from measured distance (3-4 feet) with precise viewing angle (back and right side).
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