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Flowers that stretched as far as the eye could see. Light, ethereal and embracing. Peacefulness unlike anything imaginable.<\/p>\n

Decades later, the survivors remember every detail. Memories so vivid, their day-to-day lives seem muted. Less real than what they saw when, as children, they were transported somewhere beyond our world. A place where time and space don\u2019t exist. For Ingrid Honkala, it happened when she was nearly three and drowned in a water tank. For Alma Blazquez, it was at age four, suffocated at the hands of an abusive family member. And for Teresa McLean, it was at age three, after accidentally overdosing on aspirin.<\/p>\n

They all died and came back. But not before seeing heaven.<\/p>\n

The International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) estimates that nearly 85 percent of children who undergo cardiac arrest have a near-death experience (NDE)<\/a>. A rate more than twice as high as that for adults\u2014thousands every year. The experiences are not limited by age. There are even reports of infant NDEs, recounted once the child is old enough to articulate their experience. With medical advances, more children on the edge of death are being saved. And stories of their experiences are becoming more common and accepted.<\/p>\n

Psychiatrist Dr. Raymond Moody first coined the term near-death experience in his 1975 landmark best seller Life After Life<\/em>. Dr. Moody, a self-described skeptic, interviewed hundreds of people while researching his book. \u201cThe stories are mind-boggling,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s not a medical explanation that holds water.\u201d And yet he gives extra credibility to the accounts of people who experienced NDEs as children. Without preconceptions of the afterlife, their glimpse is as true of a glimpse as you can get.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you talk to these children, they have a maturity way beyond their age,\u201d Dr. Moody says. \u201cIt\u2019s astonishing what they come back feeling and knowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Children such as Ingrid Honkala, who grew up in the mountains of Colombia. The country was war-torn in the early 1970s. Her young, working parents struggled to get by. Ingrid was small, sickly. One morning, as she and her older sister were playing catch over a large water tank, Ingrid reached for the ball and plunged headfirst into the tank. The water inside was freezing cold from the morning air, and she sank to the bottom. She struggled but soon found herself surrounded by flowers<\/a> of breathtaking beauty that went on forever. They seemed to lift her upward. Her aching, sickly body was freed of pain. From her vantage point above, she could see the maid in charge blissfully listening to the radio inside the house. She could see her mother walking to work.<\/p>\n

Ingrid felt separate from any sort of body. Her spirit was now one with an all-consuming radiance that felt like her one true home. A kind of spiritual womb. She never wanted to leave it. \u201cI went from a place of absolute horror to absolute joy,\u201d Ingrid says. The feeling of joy has never left her.<\/p>\n

Alma Blazquez also encountered an otherworldly light at age four in her Chicago home. A relative in a drunken rampage had suffocated her. Suddenly, Alma felt no more pain, only peace. As she reentered her body, she sensed another presence with her. A tall, muscular, all-powerful being who assured her that he was there to protect her. That he would never leave her.<\/p>\n

For three-year-old Teresa McLean, there was no soothing presence or light. She left her body inside a German hospital. Her frantic mother had taken her there after Teresa had accidentally eaten two bottles of chewable baby aspirin. In her NDE, Teresa saw two scenes before her, as if on a split screen. On one, doctors and nurses worked tirelessly to revive her. On the other, her mother sat in the waiting room, sobbing. Teresa felt her mother\u2019s emotions\u2014her pain and fear\u2014as if they were her own. It was terrifying.<\/p>\n

Then the scene changed. She saw her mother many years into the future. It wasn\u2019t a vision or a dream. No, these images were more real than real. In the future, her parents had divorced. Her mother was overcome with grief<\/a>, struggling to survive without her daughter. Teresa knew she had to come back. She couldn\u2019t leave her mother. In the next instant, she returned to her body.<\/p>\n

Returning to a world that seems diminished is inevitably jarring and disorienting to children. They barely have words to describe what they\u2019re feeling. And trying to make sense of it all can be isolating.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot everyone wants to be back,\u201d says Jeffrey Long, M.D., a radiation oncologist and one of the leading researchers of NDEs. \u201cThey feel as if they\u2019ve been where they most belong.\u201d Dr. Long is the founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation and author of God and the Afterlife<\/em>. His organization has recorded more than 4,000 detailed accounts of people who\u2019ve experienced NDEs, both as children and adults.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe intensity of what the children are experiencing is much greater than what would be normal at their age,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the experience generally grows in importance as they get older\u2014whereas it would be natural to expect childhood memories to fade over time. Ninety-five percent of NDE children say the experience was definitely real, meaning not a dream or hallucination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compared to those of adults, child NDEs \u201ctend to be more concrete and less complex,\u201d according to IANDS; there may not be features we typically associate with a NDE, such as a life review. Children are, however, more likely to see deceased loved ones and pets\u2014even relatives they\u2019ve never met. Talking about a NDE, though, can be traumatic. \u201cMany children tend to withdraw,\u201d Dr. Long says. \u201cThey find they literally can\u2019t share what happened with anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Such was the case with Ingrid, Alma and Teresa. Their parents took them to doctors and psychiatrists, desperate to find out what was wrong with them. At an age when most children are content to play outside, Ingrid felt as if she could no longer relate to her family. She stopped eating. She didn\u2019t want to live. \u201cDon\u2019t call me Ingrid,\u201d she told her mother. \u201cI don\u2019t have a name. I don\u2019t need a name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alma stopped talking. She refused to utter a word until age five, when she started school. \u201cMy mother told me I was crazy,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n

They couldn\u2019t relate to other children. Things that interested other kids, like playing with dolls, seemed babyish. \u201cI was much more interested in adult conversation,\u201d Ingrid says. \u201cEven as a young girl, I suddenly understood everything they were saying.\u201d<\/p>\n

All three excelled in school. Ingrid remembers doing difficult math problems and solving complex puzzles easily. Books on philosophy and religion fascinated her. But most of all, the three girls returned with great compassion and love. For people. For animals. For the earth. And for their families. They sensed other people\u2019s suffering and hurts intuitively, as if they were their own struggles. Their experience didn\u2019t always feel like a gift. Alma and Teresa have had frequent premonitions, warning them of tragedies for family and friends. Their otherworldly journey was anything but a once-in-a-lifetime experience; it seemed to open a door to the metaphysical.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s as if they take a piece of heaven with them,\u201d Dr. Long says. \u201cWhere the people around them have doubts about God and heaven, they feel a direct connection that grows stronger as they grow older.\u201d<\/p>\n

At five, Alma was visited by the same strong, tall man who had comforted her in her NDE. A man she now knew, from church, to be Jesus. \u201cI am with you,\u201d Jesus told her. \u201cI have always been with you and will always be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ingrid was visited often by beings of light. They spoke to her and comforted her and made her want to go on living. \u201cWhy does no one understand the things about love and life after death<\/a> that I try to tell them?\u201d she asked them once.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause you are special,\u201d the beings told her. \u201cEveryone is special. In time, they will know it too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Like many children who experience NDEs<\/a>, Ingrid, Alma and Teresa all found meaningful careers. Ingrid, who drowned in a water tank, visited the ocean as a girl and felt instantly drawn to it. \u201cI\u2019m going to be an oceanographer,\u201d she told her parents. For a poor girl from Colombia, the very idea was absurd. Especially from someone going on about dreams and fantasies all the time. When Ingrid was older, she had a vision of two large buildings in a campus setting. Buildings she recognized years later when she became an oceanographer at the John Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, studying the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n

Teresa, meanwhile, came back for her mother and then devoted her life to helping others struggling with otherworldly experiences. She tells them her story. It\u2019s given her meaning and purpose. In 2012, her mother was dying of esophageal cancer. Teresa sat at her bedside. Her mother, weak, turned to her and said, \u201cI\u2019m staying here because you chose to stay with me.\u201d Her mother, against all odds, lived another three years.<\/p>\n

Alma, who met Jesus during and after her NDE, earned a doctorate and worked with an international organization helping children and adults with learning disabilities. She loved running and bicycling, up to 10 miles a day. One day, her bike was struck by a car. Her spine was badly injured. Then an autoimmune disorder set in: lupus. And arthritis. For years, Alma was miserable, barely able to move. The comfort that had always been there was now gone. In 2012, she had a seizure. In the hospital, she again left her body. She was met by an orb of light, its rays powerful and healing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are here because you have come here often,\u201d a voice said. She saw hundreds of people lined up before a stone wall of breathtaking beauty. She wanted to go where they were going. Instead, she saw scene after scene of people she\u2019d helped and with whom she\u2019d shared God\u2019s love. Alma returned to her body, her pain as intense as ever. But she knew, just as she had as a kid, that she wasn\u2019t alone. Within the year, she was completely healed. Today she is able to walk and even teaches advanced yoga.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all here to love each other,\u201d Alma says. \u201cIt gives life meaning.\u201d Ingrid agrees. \u201cEverything is connected,\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re all one\u2014that\u2019s what I\u2019ve come to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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