Overview

• Brianna Lafferty, 33, was declared clinically dead for eight minutes after her body succumbed to a severe episode of myoclonus dystonia before doctors revived her.
• During her near-death experience, she said she floated above her lifeless body and entered a realm where time did not exist and she felt profound peace and clarity.
• Lafferty reported encountering a higher intelligence that guided her with unconditional love and witnessed her thoughts instantly materialize in that realm.
• She believes death is an illusion and that consciousness endures beyond physical demise, with thoughts actively shaping reality in the afterlife.
• Recent scientific work—from a 2022 study on life-event recaps at death to University of Calgary research on a post-mortem “ghostly glow”—is intensifying efforts to understand NDEs and the persistence of consciousness.