patrick jane forums

There is a Netflix docuseries called 'Surviving Death.'  I just watched the first episode and it told the story of a spine doc by the name of Dr Mary Neal who had one of these out of body, or near death experiences.  I don't particularly like the term "near death" because in reality that is how all of us live every moment.  For me, my experience was so similar to the story of this doctor in many ways that I was taken aback when she started telling of it.  I too, drowned in a river on a kayak course, pinned beneath a waterfall for a prolonged period of time that may have been up to ten minutes, but no one recalls exactly. 

These stories, along with what I experienced myself, give a different perspective when reading Paul's account on the road, as well as when he recounts the story of a man who saw certain things 'whether in the body or not- I don't know' -- to me, it makes sense.  So too that story of Enoch- who was taken up.

I can never fully tell the things I saw when I died in the river that day... which is another reason I don't really like the term 'near death,'  No- I died.  And then I returned.

Here is part of Dr Neal's story, but it is more fully told in the Netflix series I mentioned.