“Love was actually permeating my being”
Dave Bennett was chief engineer of an underwater research vessel in 1983, when one night, he was thrown into the ocean. He’d been educated on the signs of oxygen deprivation, but as he drowned, he suddenly experienced something unlike anything he’d read about. He felt like there was some omnipresence keeping him from being alone as darkness slowly faded into light, and he started to move toward it. “As I got closer, there were waves and waves of love that were just wrapping me in this warm embrace,” he said at an International Association for Near-Death Studies conference. “It was the most amazing feeling I ever had, and it felt as if this love was actually permeating my being, and it transformed me into this being of life. And as I got closer to the light, the light appeared to me like it was millions upon millions of fragments of light.” Out of that, he saw what he interpreted as his family – not the ones he’d had on Earth but a second “soul family” – who relived his life with him through different viewpoints. He was told to go back to life to fulfil his purpose, and after 18 minutes underwater, he popped back to the surface.
“I realised: That’s Jesus”
In 2015, 17-year-old Zack Clements collapsed in the middle of his Christian high school’s gym class. His heart stopped for a solid 20 minutes as doctors kept working to revive him. But while he was unconscious, Clements says he caught a glimpse of heaven. “I saw [this] line of white angels. In the middle was the prettiest of them all, and I didn’t know who it was at first until he got closer to me. And then I realised: That’s Jesus.” he said in a clip People shared. “He put his hand on my shoulder and said I’ll be alright.” Some people have claimed the teen’s story was a hoax, but there’s no denying that to be resuscitated after 20 minutes without any lasting brain damage is a medical miracle. Check out these other medical miracles that stunned doctors.
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