Imagine dying for a while, seeing a glimpse of the afterlife and then returning back to the realm of the living. It might seem fictitious, but there have been accounts from people who have had such near-death experiences but have somehow lived to share what they witnessed during the brief moment of death. Anita Moorjani’s account is by far the most famous out of all those people who claimed to have died briefly but miraculously returned to life. This is her story.
Anita Moorjani was admitted to a hospital in her home city- Hong Kong, on February 2, 2006, where she remained in a coma in the intensive care unit. Her swollen eyes were closed, and she was having trouble breathing. Hodgkin’s lymphoma ravaged her frail body, leaving behind open sores all over her body, bloated lymph nodes, and failing organs. However, by late March of the same year, she was celebrating with champagne and dancing at a wedding, and in July 2006, she was given a clean bill of health.
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Moorjani claims that a radical change in her mind and heart facilitated her speedy recovery. Her NDE, or near-death experience, is the most well-known of all time. During her coma, she felt she had left her body like most other NDEers.
“There was no white tunnel effect in my case,” says Mrs Moorjani, an Indian-origin UK national who grew up in Hong Kong. “I was told the tunnel effect happens when you die suddenly, like in a car accident, where your soul gets sucked out. I died gradually, and so my experience was different,” she went on to explain.
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She accurately described hearing her husband and a doctor having a conversation about 40 feet from where her body lay in her book, “Dying to Be Me,” and on the website of the NDE Research Foundation. She described being in a place “where I was engulfed in a total feeling of love,” a place where she was liberated from the pain of her physical form.
She had a choice to either come back to life or die. Moorjani says: “I became aware that if I chose life, my body would heal very quickly. I would see a difference in not months or weeks, but days.” That is exactly what happened after she came out of her coma.
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She also understood that her cancer resulted from her fear and that only love could heal it. She explained, “When people have medical treatments for illnesses, it rids the illness only from their body but not from their energy, so the illness returns. I realized if I went back, it would be with a very healthy energy.”
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University of California assistant clinical professor Peter Ko, MD, heard about Moorjani’s healing and decided to look into it. He reviewed her medical records with her approval and provided a summary of the information he found.
He explained: “Her recovery was certainly remarkable. Based on my own experience and opinions of several colleagues, I am unable to attribute her dramatic recovery to her chemotherapy.”
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Houma, Louisiana, is home to oncologist Jeffrey Long, MD. He also created the NDERF website, where Moorjani first spoke about her NDE.
After hearing her story, he stated: “As a doctor that treats cancer, I am fascinated by Anita’s astounding recovery after being very near death from her malignancy. The NDE literature contains other accounts of remarkable and even apparently medically inexplicable healing following a NDE. I hope Anita’s sharing of her experience will encourage more research into this fascinating aspect of NDE.”
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Moorjani had tried other therapies before finally starting chemotherapy in the nick of time in February 2006. Her oncologist at the Hong Kong Sanatorium Hospital, T.K. Chan, said- “Hodgkin’s disease is quite curable. It can have a dramatic response to chemotherapy. … Whether the spiritual experience helped, I’m not in a position to say. … It was a remarkable recovery. But I feel it was the chemotherapy, definitely, and the emergency draining of the chest.”
Indeed, it was a miraculous comeback. Ko said, “I have difficulty with terms such as ‘miraculous cure’ and ‘spontaneous remission,’ but her recovery was remarkable. … Either her mind or body was able to send a message to the cancer cells to turn off the mutated genes. Chemotherapy does work well with Hodgkin’s, but I’ve never seen it work like this.”
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Death is something that everyone faces in the end. Many people don’t want to talk about or think about it until it comes to their door or the door of a loved one. However, death doesn’t scare Anita Moorjani as much as it used to. If anything, it is liberating. She was about to die, but she came back and was born again in more than one way. Mrs Moorjani, 50, says, “People come and ask me, how was it? What was it like? And I tell them it was wonderful.”
There are many reports of “near-death experiences,” and foundations and research institutions worldwide are studying them. People can write about it on open forums on websites and talk about what they remembered when they “died.”
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Mrs. Moorjani is now rather well-known. Her book “Dying to Be Me” quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Dr. Wayne Dyer, a best-selling self-help book and motivational speaker, heard about her story and approached Hay House Publishing to help her put her tale on paper.
As a result of posting about her “death” and subsequent recovery on the website of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, an organization in the United States that archives thousands of NDEs from all over the world and is run by Dr. Jeffrey Long, an oncologist who found her “death” and subsequent recovery remarkable, Mrs. Moorjani became an internet sensation much before the publication of her book.
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Talk shows and hospitals all across the world have invited her to speak. One of her most recent destinations was a week at the Holistic Institute in Dubai, where she met readers of her book and those going through difficult times like the loss of a loved one.
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