What Nancy Rynes has said about Near-death experience

Rynes believes her childhood fall from scaffolding at age four likely produced an earlier NDE.

“it's very likely that that was an NDE. I just don't remember a lot of the details”

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Rynes says a woman calling herself Ann, a trauma nurse, held her still until paramedics arrived, then disappeared and refused to identify herself to police.

“She refused to give him her name. She wouldn't give him any details about who she was or where she could be reached”

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Rynes says that during surgery she found herself in a sunless, silvery landscape underlain by pulsating lines of energy.

“It looked like tendrils of energy flowing everywhere. That's the only way I could describe it. Underneath of everything that I saw was these pulsating lines of energy”

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