She Found The Impossible (Amazing NDE Evidence )
This is Maria’s fascinating story about a near-death experience she had while flatlining in the hospital after a heart attack. She arrived at the ER of Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, not expecting that she would come out of her body and watch the medical team try to revive her.
According to Kimberly Clark Sharp, her social worker at the time, Maria’s OBE allowed her to float outside the hospital and notice that there was a blue tennis shoe sitting on a ledge outside a third-floor window.
Sharp searched for the shoe and found it, apparently validating Maria’s story. Could this finally be a veridical NDE? Do we have proof that NDEs are real due to the fact that Maria saw a shoe during an out-of-body experience that she could not have seen otherwise?
Years later, graduate students visited the hospital and attempted to debunk Clark’s story in a paper that they published in the Skeptical Enquirer. Here, I investigate the claims of both Sharp and the students to evaluate whether Maria’s OBE could be verified.
SOURCES
Sharp’s Book: Sharp, K. C. (1995). After the light: What I discovered on the other side of life that can change your world. New York, NY: William Morrow.
Sharp’s Book Review: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/...
About Veridical NDEs: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/...
Skeptics’ Review of Sharp’s Case (Note that Kimberly Clark Sharp is referred to as “Clark”, not “Sharp”): https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wpco...
Sharp’s Response to the Skeptics: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/...
Sharps’s Interview: • The Blue Sneaker: Kimberly Clark Sharp at ...
Bruce Greyson and NDE statistics: https://nypost.com/article/five-perce...
Neuroscience:
NDEs’ and Temporal Lobe Activity: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...
NDEs and Temporo-Parietal Junction: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Interviews/Coverage with Kimberly Clark Sharp:
• The Blue Sneaker: Kimberly Clark Sharp at ...
https://seeking-i.com/1145/
• Kim Clark Finds the Tennis Shoe and Proves...
Kimberly Clark Sharp: https://www.knkx.org/other-news/2018-...
CREATIVE COMMONS:
University of Washington: Max.Pod, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Harborview Medical Center 1: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi.... Attribution: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Harborview Medical Center 2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi.... Attribution: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0
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