P. M. H. Atwater, a survivor of three near-death experiences, tells the story of George Rodonaia, a vocal Soviet dissident during the Cold War who had earned his master’s degree in research psychology and was working toward his doctorate when he was assassinated by the KGB. He felt the pain of being crushed beneath car wheels as he was run over twice by the same vehicle. But what bothered him most was the feeling of an unknown darkness that came to envelop him.
“As he focused on what was occurring, he was surprised to discover the range and power of this thoughts and what he could do with them. A pinprick of light appeared, then bubbles like balls of molecules and atoms, life-making cells moving in spirals, revealing to him higher and higher levels of power with God as the highest. He found he could project himself anywhere on earth he wanted to go and experience what was there, and that he could do the same thing regarding events in history. Being extremely curious, he did just that, amusing himself by projecting invisibly into various time and places to find out what he’d see and learn. Among other things he discovered that he could get inside people’s heads and hear and see what they did.
“He returned to the morgue, saw his body, then was drawn to the newborn section of the adjacent hospital where a friend’s wife had just given birth to a daughter. The baby cried incessantly. As if possessed of x-ray vision, George scanned her body and noted that her hip had been broken shortly after birth (a nurse had dropped her). He ‘spoke’ to the infant and told her not to cry, as no one would understand her. The infant was so surprised at his presence that she stopped crying. He claims that children can see and hear spirit beings; that’s why she responded. He then had a past-life review that involved reliving not only his own life, but the death of his parents at the hands of the KGB—something he had not known as he’d been raised by relatives who had withheld the truth about what happened to his mother and father.
“George’s corpse was stored in a freezer vault in a hospital morgue for three days (he doesn’t know what the exact temperature was). He revived while the trunk of his body was being split open during autopsy. The shock of seeing this sent the physician in charge screaming from the unit. (His own uncle was one of the doctors in attendance.) All his ribs were broken, his muscles destroyed, his feet a horrible mess. It took three days before the swelling in his tongue went down enough for him to speak. His first words warned the doctors about the child with the broken hip. X-rays of the newborn were taken, and he was proved right. During the nine months he was hospitalized, he became something of a celebrity.
“For a year afterward, his wife, Nino, would not sleep in the same room with him. She had great difficulty dealing with his miraculous return and the fact that he had correctly ‘seen’ everything she had while selecting his gravesite—even quoting back to her all her thoughts when she was considering other men to marry now that she was a widow. I asked Nino about this, and she said, ‘How would you like it if you had no privacy, not even in your own mind?’"
P. M. H. Atwater with David H. Morgan. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Near-Death Experiences (Indianapolis, IN: Alpha Books, 2000), 161-62.
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