She died and came back to life knowing her son would die.
It was 1999.
Dr. Mary Neal, an orthopaedic spine surgeon, was kayaking in a Chilean river when her kayak capsized and pinned her underwater.
Technically speaking, Dr Neal ‘drowned’ and it was only after 24 long minutes of resuscitation that she was brought back to life.
Remarkably, Mary suffered no brain damage and what she saw during those 24 minutes changed her forever.
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Filmmaker Jonas Elrod visited her to talk about her experience.
“It was this experience that was different than here,” Mary told him. “The senses were different. I mean, the beauty was incredibly intense; there’s no other earthly experience that is equivalent.”
Others who have suffered near death experiences have described seeing as tunnel of light but Mary said she saw something else.
“But I was in a hurry to get to this big, domed structure of sorts,” she says. “There were many spirits inside, and when I arrived, they were overjoyed and welcoming me and greeting me and really joyful at my arrival.”
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Although Dr Neal says she had no intention of leaving, she was told she had to go back and that it was not her time. But she says that before she left she was forewarned of her eldest son’s death, although she wasn’t given a timeframe of when.
Dr Neal says she woke up everyday hoping the plan for her son’s life would change. Not wanting to scare her husband, Mr Neal didn’t tell him what she was told.
Tragically, ten years later, her son Willie was hit and killed by a car.
As a doctor she says she has struggled to make sense what happened to her and that she tried to find a scientific explanation.
But her conclusion was that her experience was beyond science.
You can watch her story below.
What are your thoughts on near-death experiences? Real or fake?
Top Comments
How did she know it was heaven, was there a sign?
in the heavens. The sign, that is. But you would have to be looking for it to see it. When you come to an intersection on the road and have your face plastered on the footpath trying to figure out which road to take, you're not going to find it until you look up and see the sign plastered for all to see. But then discernment comes into play in knowing which road will take you to your desired destination and which one will lead you around and around and around until you can't even tell if your even on a road or path of...scientific genius.
And you know how heaven works because...?
I love this story. What I took away from it is that the Dr's experience made it possible for her to cope with her son's death which may have been a vastly different experience but for the super-natural experience she had whilst unconscious for 24 minutes. I feel sorry for the people who don't have or are not able to have a yearning for this kind of happiness. I have to believe that there is a something more than this. More than the oppressive, inequitable, meanicle, insanely superficial world we have created (with much pride) otherwise I would fall into the greatest depression with the thought that the sum total of earthlings alleged intelligence and existence (and you can put any number here, for the non-believers it would be millions of years - even more depressing though thoroughly unscientific) has produced what we have today.
And this, https://www.youtube.com/wat... (for the science lovers). Start at 2:11 for those inclined the throw the baby out with the bath water).
And you think it's better to replace reality with an oppressive, inequitable, maniacal, insanely superficial, jealous, petty god who has produced what we have today?
To quote Richard Dawkins... "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
I never cease to be amazed what people will forgive "god" for. If someone, other than "god", was to tell you your healthy child was going to die, would that also make you feel comfortable?
Wow - that's very long. Care to summarise what you want us to draw from it and what your bathwater metaphor refers to? I must have missed something (hardly surprising as I skipped through most of it).
And - David "Lizard People" Icke - LOL.
I don't think that, do you? To believe in a god which you describe may be a greater insanity - perhaps something we agree on. However, Richard Dawkins has not been able to decipher the text and has probably accepted the dogma of most monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) that "The God of the Old Testament" is the one true God. I would ask, to which god are you referring? The word for God in Genesis 1 is different to the one which later appears when the story for creation appears to repeat. The "great" religious leaders have very conveniently conflated all of the gods in the ancient texts to create confusion and indeed misguide many. In my quest for the truth, I am not interested in what others tell me the interpretation is, I am looking for the truth. What are you looking for? Let me know the logical error in what the following link explains, if you find it. Because I don't want to be led astray either. https://www.youtube.com/wat...