Woman introduced again from lifeless twice breaks silence about what occurs within the afterlife
Deborah Prum has endured two near-death experiences and has opened up about what she saw when she “died” before being brought back to life, including a mystery man and a glowing yellow light
A mum who was brought back from the dead twice has revealed what she saw in the “afterlife” – and how it convinced her there is a god. Deborah Prum said she “did not want to return” to her body after being involved in a horror car crash.
She had two near death ordeals 20 years apart – the first coming after an emergency C-section in the 1980s – and has opened up about the out-of-body experiences she had during them.
Speaking of the aftermath of the car crash in the early 2000s, she said: “I felt utterly and profoundly peaceful in a way that I’d never sensed. To my core, I felt safe and at home.”
She said the crash sent her into a realm with a glowing yellow light where she existed as pure energy. And she told how she wondered if she got a glimpse of the afterlife during the accident.
She wrote in the Huff Post: “I don’t know how to describe the sensation except that I felt as if I’d been dropped in a vat of pudding, but in a good way. I didn’t feel dead. If anything, I felt blissfully alive. I experienced a comforting euphoria and sensed my essence shimmering in the middle of a life force.”
Deborah said she remembered feeling annoyed when she heard her husband Bruce’s voice calling her name “from a vast distance”. She added: “I wanted to stay put. To be honest, I don’t remember making a clear decision to go back.”
She also told how she remembered a mystery man opening the passenger door and talking to her in the crumpled car after the an SUV ploughed into her at a cross section.
She said she can picture him clearly to this day – in his 40s, curly hair with a receding hairline, button-down dress shirt with no tie – and that he told her: “I’m going to release your seat belt, but I don’t want to move you unless the engine catches fire.”
He then man knelt outside the car and held her hand until the ambulance arrived. Deborah said Bruce had no memory of the man and “never saw anyone” except the paramedics arriving.
Her first near death experience came when she went into labour with her first child. Her blood pressure spiked and doctors shouted for her to be rushed into the emergency room, where surgeons were preparing to perform an emergency C-section to save her premature baby.
She wrote: “I found myself, or the essence of myself, floating in the corner of the labour room, near the ceiling, looking down on the scene, as I was rushed to the operating room and they tried to resuscitate me and save both me and my son. Weirdly, I felt no emotion.”
Deborah, from Virginia in the US, said she was raised in a Protestant Italian-American family and was brought up to believe that after death “you fell asleep until resurrection day, when you’d wake up to either happy news based on your good behaviour or a reckoning because of your bad behaviour.”
But she said after her experience, I have deep respect for my family members and their beliefs, but over time, my spiritual journey headed in another direction.
She added: “To this day, I’m not sure about what happens after death, but am not sweating the details. These days, I’m less religious but more spiritual. I worry less about following rules and pay more attention to listening for guidance.
“I feel more connected to other people but not anxious about and responsible for convincing them to adopt one set of beliefs or another.
“I have no doubt about the existence of God but now have a more expansive, inclusive and flexible view of how God operates. I’ve let God out of the box I’d created. Paradoxically, this makes my life feel both terrifying and exciting.
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