I had a near-death experience after devastating car crash - here's what happens as you cross the pearly gates

A Michigan female could person suffered a tragic decease successful a terrifying car crash, but alternatively had near-death acquisition that changed her life.

Michigan autochthonal Willow Caelan, 34, was nan unfortunate of a devastating collision pinch a semi-truck that pushed her into oncoming traffic, leaving her car truthful mangled passersby assumed she was dead.

An ‘unexplainable force’ saved her, and while unconscious, she descended into a serene authorities wherever ‘nothing mattered’ and she believes she got a glimpse of nan afterlife.

She felt she was made of axenic consciousness extracurricular of her ain assemblage and connected pinch nan ‘greater universe.’

Ms Caelan was leaving a caller occupation erstwhile a semi-truck rear-ended her, launching her 40 yards into oncoming traffic.

At nan constituent of nan collision, she blacked out. Her car was truthful mangled that passersby apt assumed she must person been dormant until she came to and flagged down help.

But while she was blacked out, she said that she ‘felt for illustration I was conscionable axenic consciousness and love, not a quality pinch a body.

‘It was almost for illustration I was floating into a void to beryllium connected pinch deity aliases immoderate shape of nan greater universe. 

'I couldn’t spot aliases perceive anything, but I retrieve it being dark, comforting and warm. It was incredibly relaxing.

She added: ‘I was yet astatine bid – nary longer worried aliases questioning thing – it was for illustration heaven.’

The acquisition changed her life and really she lived it.

Her mannerisms and measurement of speaking softened. Colors were brighter. She became much purpose-driven and had a renewed zeal for life.

She said: ‘Quickly, I realized I had gained a unsocial consciousness of life…I wanted to acquisition everything. It became clear to maine that we ne'er cognize really agelong we genuinely person here.’

Ms Caelan besides switched careers, becoming a reiki maestro and belief coach to thief others ‘explore their soul.’

She added: ‘The acquisition has allowed maine to spot nan beauty of life and our beingness reality. We don’t request to beryllium successful what we’ve been done arsenic our meaning of self, arsenic we person opportunities each time to recreate who we take to be.

‘I consciousness truthful overmuch much connected to my soul.’

An estimated 5 to 10 percent of Americans person near-death experiences, including location betwixt 10 and 23 percent of cardiac apprehension survivors.

Most group picture them successful glowing terms, saying their experiences brought them person to their higher powers and gave them a caller lease connected life, a nonaccomplishment of fearfulness of death, heightened self-esteem, and accrued compassion for others.

Dr Jeffrey Long, a crab master who practices successful Kentucky, is 1 of nan preeminent researchers into near-death experiences.

He has collected much than 5,000 accounts successful complete 30 languages from group of various religions and taste backgrounds and established an online repository for group to item their ain brushes pinch mortality.

One personification of nan database named Harry said: ‘The bits of ray closest to maine were my parents, grand-parent, family who each passed earlier - and connected to them farther distant were adjacent friends, and connected to them were group who had influenced maine and whom I had influenced.’

Another named Star wrote: ‘A pure, superb ray engulfed maine and I nary longer had a beingness body. But, I still existed? I had nary eyes to spot but I looked astatine everything astir me. I was successful nan halfway of a immense nothingness, but nan nothingness was not empty. It was wholly filled pinch nan beingness of nan surviving God.'

Through his decades of research, Dr Long has concluded that astir 45 percent of near-death experiences see a consciousness of being out-of-body, successful which people’s consciousness is separated from their beingness being.

About three-quarters of those who acquisition this reported wanting to enactment successful nan afterlife because of nan immense emotion and joyousness that overtook them. More than half study seeing a ‘heavenly’ realm, and astir a 4th are enveloped successful ray aliases mist.