Journalist Heather Tomlinson highlights a number of people whose lives were transformed following a near-death experience  

Howard Storm

When Howard Storm closed his eyes during an excruciating deadly illness, he fully expected his life to end. A committed atheist, he treated people who were religious with contempt. “I thought they believed in fairy tales because they couldn’t cope with the harsh reality of life,” he explained in his book My Descent into Death.  

Instead, what followed was shocking and deeply traumatising. He experienced consciousness outside of his body, but his new being was led away by shadowy figures into a dark, empty void. He was brutally attacked and violated by people he described as “the worst imaginable person stripped of every impulse… (Register to read the rest of the aricle)