Many have dreamed of what the afterlife looks like — a tunnel of light, a set of pearly white gates — but Dr. Mary Neal, an orthopedic spine surgeon, says she has seen it first-hand. Not only does she claim to have experienced what happens when we die, but she also asserts that while in heaven, she was forewarned of a tragedy that would occur in her life years later.
In 1999, Neal was kayaking in southern Chile with a group of friends when her kayak became pinned at the bottom of a waterfall. For 12 minutes she was trapped underwater. Another kayaker in the group, an EMT, described her as “blue, waxy, no heartbeat, no breathing, cold-to-the-touch dead.”
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“I woke up every day hoping the plan for my son’s life would change,” Neal says.
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