Posted on 08/24/2025 4:12:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A freak allergy attack led to a surreal near-death experience for nurse Julia Evans, and she passed into an otherworldly realm where she saw long-dead friends and relatives and, briefly, 'Jesus'
Simply breathing in the pollen from a bunch of flowers led to a dramatic near-death experience for a nurse. Canadian Julia Evans recalled how, as medics scrambled to save her life, she found herself in a serene state where she encountered relatives and friends who had died years before.
Speaking to podcaster Jeff Mara, she told how the amazing experience had begun. She had just arrived at the hospital where she worked on, when she started feeling “scratchy” in her throat.
She described how she started trying to work out what was wrong, recalling: "You go through very rapidly in your head; ‘Did I come in contact with something? Did I eat something funny? Do I have a cold?’
“You kind of scan your environment…and as I quickly scan I can start feeling my throat getting tighter and tighter. It felt like sandpaper as I was swallowing And so as I scanned my environment I looked straight ahead of me and at the nursing station there was this beautiful bouquet of lilies.”
Julia explained that she knew she had an allergy to lilies, but didn’t think it was particularly severe and would just avoid them whenever she saw any.
But for some reason, on that fateful morning in 2018, Julia decided to walk towards the flowers – triggering a massive and potentially-fatal allergic reaction. “At that point, I was already starting to turn blue,” shesaid.
Julia said that, if you’re going to go into anaphylactic shock, a hospital is probably the best place to be. Her colleagues rushed into action; one raced to get some medication, one telephoned Julia's husband,
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Ability to levitate is a common dream experience. I dunk basketballs all the time from the ceiling.😀
Bridey Murphy would like to have a word...
It’s a nice feel good story. Her brain manufactured this quaint tale by oxygen deprivation.
NDE/OOBE Ping!
No 2 stories I’ve ever heard were the same. Some people see nothing. My Grandma says she went to Heaven, could have at least come back with lotto numbers. People seem to see what they want to see.
OTOH, my dad went in for a pacemaker. When he woke up, he told the nurse he dreamed he was being wheeled down the hallway towards and elevator. The nurse asked him if the elevator was on fire. He said “No, I’m a Christian.” So she’d heard that one before. Merely an interesting anecdote.
We just had some small dinner with friends and somehow discussion shifted to this topic. Turned out three of us, including myself, had similar experiences.
My former coworker had similar experience too.
With the improvements of medicine, these stories have been pretty common lately.
But, there have been documented afterlife stories for very long, even from middle ages.
Renaissance painting showing afterlife experiences painted according to some person experience. Medieval popes talking to persons revived from death.
All are very much in agreement.
This is FACT!
My wonderful cat Amdy died from Easter lillies my son, Bill, sent me..
A few years later, I woke up in he middle of the night and there was Bill at the end of my bed. He was three years old, said “I love you Mommy”
That’s how I knew he was dead. Coroner called me the next day and said he was found dead.
it’s why hospitals no longer allow flowers ...
It’s a nice feel good story. Her brain manufactured this quaint tale by oxygen deprivation.
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You don’t know that. That is speculation on your part.
I’ve had a few tactile dreams. The last one was a few days after my cat of ~17 years died. She jumped up on the bed, as she often did after coming in late, I pet her a few times, and tried to turn on the flashlight. When the light didn’t work, I knew I was dreaming.
There is an established institution the has studied and tracked the near death experiences, world wide, for decades. It’s called NDERF or something like that. I admit there are charlatans out there who exploit this to sell books. No doubt. And I take this story with a major grain of salt. But the data shows too many documented cases, over time and geography, that are remarkably similar. People who recount seeing things they couldn’t have seen and being accurate. There’s something to it.
I want to know if she saw her deceased pets. :)
When I died I was with Jesus and he was as real as if he was standing in the room. It was very peaceful.
lillies? sounds more like Heavenly Blue Morning Glory (seeds)....
We still should get together. Perhaps tomorrow.
I’m praying they will be all my four-legged friends’.
Sounds good to me.
I find it a little odd you have to be near death to visit heaven.
In the accounts in the scriptures, of people dying and coming back to life, not one case of a testimony about what they saw while dead.
Lazarus was dead for 4 days, and no testimony from him about seeing anything during that time.
Life is in the blood. When the blood is dead, you are dead.
Her description is accurate, but very biased based upon her individual perceptions.
Any being without a physical body can present itself to you as anyone you expect to see.
In my NDE, most beings did not take on human shapes. They eere just golden egg shaped balls of consciousness. You existed in them, and they in you.
Communication was through epiphanies.
There are many levels of Heaven. Most souls go to the lower level that I call the Recycling Heaven. There are higher levels for those who have achieved Transcendence.
The higher you go, the greater the Bliss, Love and Light. Beyond words of description.
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