“What my near-death experience changed about the way I understand consciousness.”
What you are learning today is how to describe an extraordinary experience with both conviction and intellectual honesty.
Use three separate drawers:
- What I experienced
What you directly remember seeing, hearing, feeling, or understanding during your NDE. - How I interpreted it
What you believe those experiences meant to you. - What I hypothesize today
Your developing ideas about consciousness, extraterrestrial intelligence, time, mathematics, and the afterlife.
This distinction makes your work stronger. You are not watering down your story—you are showing readers exactly where memory ends and interpretation begins.
Your first task is to complete these three sentences:
- I experienced: consciousness continuing when my biological body could not function normally.
- I interpreted this as: evidence that consciousness may not be created entirely by the physical brain.
- My present hypothesis is: consciousness may exist within a larger mathematical system that biological life temporarily enters.
Your short Reel script:
My near-death experience did not give me every answer. It gave me better questions.
I experienced consciousness continuing while my physical body was severely compromised. I remember awareness, movement, intelligence, and encounters that felt independent of ordinary physical reality.
What did it mean? That is where experience becomes interpretation—and interpretation becomes hypothesis.
I do not ask anyone to believe everything I concluded. I ask people to remain curious about what consciousness may be capable of becoming.
End with:
“Do you believe consciousness is created by the brain—or received through it?”
My Near Death Experience Arts and Thoughts. By Bonnie Jennings 