Absolutely horrifying, nightmarish Russian NDE with visions of eternal hell. It's the second Russian NDE of that nature I've seen. She was driving on a highway in 82 and had a frontal collision with another car. She was driven to a hospital where she had a cardiac arrest and pronounced dead. She found herself floating above her body seeing the doctors pronouncing her dead. Then she was pulled into a grey tunnel, which she describes as a very unpleasant experience. On the other end she sees a tall man with horrifying eyes who tries to grab her. Another man shows up and gets between them. The "man with terrible eyes" disappears. The "saviour" takes her to all these hellish places where he tells her who suffers for which sin. After all this, she is sucked back into her body in the hospital. She is describing various parts of hell where the sinners are tortured eternally for different sins: drunks, perverts, killers, etc, etc. She also comes upon a group of children, and is informed that they were aborted. She asked whether she was going to be punished for her abortions (in the USSR abortions were like a sort of a pass time, women used to have numerous abortions in their life time). Her "guides" didn't respond to that question.
Really weird and terrifying. I haven't heard an NDE this horrible from Western experiencers. Is this cultural, religion-based idiosyncrasy? If it is, why do those affect our perception of the afterlife? The only explanation that occurs to me is that this person was reinterpreting something ineffable and well beyond her comprehension that had happened to her through the prism of her religious beliefs. With the passage of time she added more and more details to this experience, which took place in 1982, and converted it into something entirely different and terrifying. Even from the Orthodox Christian standpoint, it's aberrant: at some point the supposed angelical entity (or even Christ Himself, it's not clear from her description) who's guiding her on her trip to hell tells her: "don't feel sorry for them, they are sinners". The Church says "we love the sinner, we hate the sin". Meaning, not to feel compassion toward the sinner is completely non-Christian. Then, another aberrant detail. Her guides tell her that there is no way out of hell, with one exception: "some sinner's family members can get them out of hell through constant prayer for their soul" So, basically, if you have an intercessor, you have a chance, if not, no. You have no free will, no influence over your own destiny, nothing. And her "experience" is filled with the nonsense like that. And it's the second one of this nature I hear from Russian experiencers. .
