Clark was rejected when she shared her NDE

As I wrote yesterday, cytologist Nancy Clark died in a hospital, her body was moved into the morgue, but then she returned to her body. Twenty years later she had a similar extraordinary experience that wasn't life-threatening, but was equally transformative.

Larry Dossey writes in One Mind: "Although inspired to convey her experience to others, Nancy Clark encountered great obstacles. She lost all her friends because they thought she was crazy. Her own family did not believe her. She was mocked when she related what had happened. 'To be honest,' she says, 'I don’t think I would have believed someone who told this story, either.' But she was undeterred by critics. 'The skeptics and naysayers will one day enter that transcendent realm' she says, 'and they will find out for themselves what I tried to tell them was true after all.'

"As Clark lectured and wrote about what she’d experienced, she collected 102 reports from people who had undergone experiences similar to her podium event. These individuals were healthy and nowhere near death when they had their transformative experience. They were aged 22 to 93. Some were religious, some were spiritual but not religious, and some were agnostic or atheist. Their experiences erupted spontaneously and without warning. Among the situations that preceded them were being at rest, at work, or play; praying or meditating; driving a car; having a dream; watching television; flying in an airplane; and talking on the phone. Like Clark, they emerged from these experiences with renewed purpose and meaning in life, and with a sense of connection and unconditional love for everyone. They typically described this experience as the most important event of their life."

"Clark merits our attention," Dossey asserts. "Her experiences have spanned five decades. She underwent clinical death and a classic NDE long before the term was introduced, which rules out the possibility that suggestion and expectation colored her experience. Two decades later she had an identical experience as a well person while speaking at a memorial service. She has seen Western cultures transition from denial of these events to the recognition that millions of Americans have experienced some kind of NDE.”

Dr. Larry Dossey, One Mind How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters, 98-99.