Six Minutes Clinically Dead: A Scientist’s Encounter with the Afterlife and Divine Reality
Neuroscientist’s Near-Death Experience Transforms Her Life
(Image: Dr. Anna Stone in hospital, 2016)
Dr. Anna Stone, a neuroscientist who once called herself “a loser,” credits a life-altering near-death experience (NDE) in 2016 with reshaping her worldview. The 38-year-old mother of two briefly died during a medical emergency, enduring a six-minute clinical death that she says revealed the existence of an afterlife and a “higher self.”
Before her NDE, Stone struggled with addiction, a turbulent marriage, and mental health diagnoses like bipolar disorder. “I was bitter, selfish, and couldn’t hold a career,” she admits. A traumatic childhood had left her therapist stunned she’d survived into adulthood. But everything changed when a sudden, severe menstrual bleed led to her collapse.
An Out-of-Body Journey
As doctors fought to save her, Stone recalls floating above her body, watching medical staff give up resuscitation efforts. “I heard my heartbeat fade,” she says. She claims her consciousness then traveled 210 miles to her eldest daughter’s college classroom, where she saw Ashley taking an exam in specific clothing—details later verified. Next, she visited her toddler in the hospital waiting room, playing with Legos.
(Image: Stone with her daughters)
Stone’s out-of-body journey culminated in a luminous realm where she sensed time was non-linear and encountered a radiant version of herself. “God isn’t a person—everything exists now,” she realized. Returning to her body via a “painful” re-entry through her belly button, she awoke to a doctor confirming he’d dismissed her as a “former junkie,” a comment she’d overheard during her NDE.
A New Purpose
The six-minute episode transformed Stone. She quit alcohol, earned a PhD, and launched a podcast to help others heal from trauma. “I found purpose in service—to my kids and others,” she says. Once reliant on medication, she now lives anxiety-free, crediting her NDE with dissolving her rigid scientific skepticism. “There’s more to life than what we see,” she insists.
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Stone’s story mirrors research suggesting 15% of cardiac arrest survivors report NDEs. For her, the experience proved life’s impermanence—and the power of redemption.
