EQM | NDE - O sorriso que não havia como ver 2/2 | NDE - The smile that couldn't be seen 2/2
What Researchers Found
The Story
Paulo Cesar experienced a near-death experience (NDE) due to a cardiac arrest in December 2000. During this time, he felt disconnected from his body. In September 2009, he learned about a colleague named Mentinha who had a cardiac arrest during surgery. While Paulo was feverish and unconscious, Mentinha claimed she saw him and that he asked her to come back to life. After this experience, Paulo felt a connection to Mentinha's NDE, even though he did not consciously remember it. This led him to reflect on consciousness and its relationship to the physical body. After these experiences, he gained a deeper understanding of consciousness and its independence from the material world.
“I felt pain ... I felt a lot of pain. I'm not going to say that I believe this or that ...”
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The account primarily discusses the experiencer's reflections on their own and another person's NDE without providing specific veridical perceptions of the physical world. There are no claims of perceiving events or information that should have been impossible to know given their medical state.
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What Researchers Found
The account primarily discusses the experiencer's reflections on their own and another person's NDE without providing specific veridical perceptions of the physical world. There are no claims of perceiving events or information that should have been impossible to know given their medical state.
Score reflects verifiable perceptions reported. A low score indicates the experience was primarily spiritual or subjective, not that it didn't occur.
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Score reflects transformation as described. Domains scored 0 indicate the topic was not discussed, not that no change occurred.
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