Near-death experiences 101: Who is Betty Malz?

June 19, 5:30 PMNear Death Experiences ExaminerAlan Hippleheuser

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by Frabuleuse

She was pronounced dead. Her grieving father pulled a sheet over her 27-year-old body and face. She lay in a Terre Haute hospital in July, 1959. A few moments later, Betty Malz pushed the sheet away from her face, to the surprise of her father and hospital personnel, having just experienced a vivid and colorful vision. This vision was to help change her from a proud, controlling, materialistic woman to one who had to die to learn how to live.

Betty Malz described this "vision" in her book, "My Glimpse of Eternity": Betty Malz’s Near Death Experience." (get the book here...) Her experience included a feeling of her body being completely healed, though her physical body had three surgical incisions, and of being visited by a hooded figure, angels and a glowing figure she called Christ.

At that point, she recalled descending into the city of Terre Haute, above the hospital and then floating to her room, seeing her body with the sheet pulled over her face. And then she again was alive and in her body.

This sort of experience is called a "Near Death Experience" or NDE. What is an NDE?  “Near Death Experiences” or NDEs were defined in the 1970's by Dr Raymond A. Moody (to read more about Dr. Moody, click here) as an experience that fits one of the following criteria:

1.The experiences of a person who was resuscitated after having been thought, adjudged, or pronounced clinically dead by their doctors.  Read More....

 One organization dedicated to enlightening the public "through information about and research into the NDE" is NDE Light (www.ndelight.org). NDE Light defines an NDE as "a profound psychological and spiritual experience that normally occurs during intense situations such as clinical death or trauma." In the case of Betty Malz, she was driven to inspire by writing a book.

And Betty Malz’s experience is not unique: NDE Light estimates that between 8-15 million Americans have had NDEs. How many people have near-death experiences?  Read the answer here...
Even ABC anchor Bob Woodruff claims to have had an NDE after a roadside blast in Iraq left him in a 36-day coma.

For more info: http://www.bibleprobe.com/my_glimpse.htm