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One of the most compelling NDE accounts I have read about is that of Anita Moorjani in her book ‘Dying to be Me’. In this book she charts how she went from late stage terminal cancer (lymphoma stage 4B) to a complete recovery after an NDE. This is an extract from an account written by oncologist Dr Peter Ko from Anita’s medical notes (p.99)(Anita reports that Ko's first words to her on reading her notes were 'Lady, whichever way I look at it, you should be dead!'p.97);
‘The morning of February 2 found her unable to get out of bed; her entire face, neck, and left arm were swollen like a balloon. Her eyes were swollen shut …. all due to compromised venous damage from her head and neck, by massively enlarged and matted lymph nodes. She was gasping for breath as a result of massive pleural effusion bilaterally, despite using supplemental home oxygen. Feeling utterly helpless, her husband and mother called her family doctor for help, who urged them to get her to hospital right away. There, an oncologist was alerted, and was shocked by the shape Anita was in. Another oncologist was summoned due to the difficult decisions she presented .Several other consultants were called in to address different failing organ systems.’
From this state of multiple organ Anita fell into a coma during which she experienced her NDE. On the evening Feb 3 she woke up and declared to her family she would be ok. It seems that one of her hardest tasks was to convince her medical team that she was now cancer free and did’nt require further treatment, as they insisted on performing more biopsies before finally being convinced that she was cancer free.
‘My records confirmed that I had tumours the size of lemons throughout my body, from the base of my skull all around my neck, armpits, and chest, all the way down to my abdomen .But several days later, there was at least a 70 percent reduction in their size. He’s curious as to how it was possible for billions of cancer cells to leave my body so quickly when the organs were failing. (p.102)’
In addition to the miraculous healing there was veridical support to her NDE as well.
‘Over the following days, I was slowly able to tell my family what had happened in the other realm, and I also described a lot of things that had taken place while I was in the coma. I was able to relay to my awestruck family almost verbatim, some of the conversations that had occurred not only around me, but also outside the room, down the hall, and in the waiting areas of the hospital. I could describe many of the procedures I’d undergone, and I identified the doctors and nurses who’d performed them, to the surprise of everyone around’.
But of more profound significance to Anita was the profound change in outlook which occurred after the NDE as she came to understand the part that her previous fears had had in the genesis of her cancer and the new insights she had gained into the nature of existence and her part in it.
This account demonstrates how poorly conventional science accounts for NDEs, assuming the case is not simply ignored. The complete recovery would have to be accounted as ‘just’ a case of spontaneous remission, the veridical information would be dismissed as ‘lucky’ guesses and the profound insights and complete change of life outlook would be put down to a ‘feel good factor’ from the release of endorphins from the health crisis. It would have to do this because mainstream science has no other model to explain it with. The alternative explanation, that the healing had a non-physical basis, would be dismissed as fantastical.
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