"20 years ago I was not only physically dead, I was for a time."
Thus begins
Surviving Death
, the docuserie that analyzes real personal stories and studies on near-death experiences, as well as other aspects related to the interest that the afterlife has always generated in human history.
The words are from the surgeon Mary Neal (Wyoming, USA) who, according to her, inexplicably came back to life after drowning: "On a trip to Chile in 1999, while canoeing, I fell down a giant waterfall. I was trapped and submerged by three meters deep and, although I felt how my bones were broken, I did not experience fear, pain, or panic, but tranquility and tranquility, while I could see from above the river where I was still submerged.
My spirit detached from my body and ascended to heaven
. Immediately afterwards I was received by a group of entities (spirits). They were happy to see me and led me down a path full of color and the scent of flowers until I reached a domed structure. I think I was in heaven and I had an overwhelming feeling of being at home. "This is how the doctor, one of the protagonists of the first chapter of the series, describes her experience, which she describes as inexplicable, but which at the same time radically changed her life and personality. "They did not recover my body, already swollen, purple and with open eyes, until after 30 minutes, but I could still hear my companions as they revived me. As a physician, I know that the chance of surviving 30 minutes without oxygen is zero. But I did it. I was in the hospital for a month and I had no brain damage. "
The story of Neal and that of other people who tell their near-death experiences are analyzed by researchers from a spiritual and scientific perspective, and explained by their protagonists with hair and signs, in this Netflix bet,
which also addresses other topics as complex as resurrection, reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.
At the moment of death, do we just die or does something else happen?
Does consciousness expand after death?
Was the conscience that we have in this life in a previous one?
Do ghosts exist and are there people who see them?
Are there relatives who try to speak to us from another dimension? Is there life after death?
These and other questions are tried to answer throughout six episodes that hook the viewer, believe it or not, from minute one.
The mediums section has two chapters and they take us
to the Mediums Training Center in Zenderen (Holland)
, where people who believe they have a special gift assist to enhance that ability to contact spirits.
In addition to séances, healing encounters and meetings are held in which mediums promise to speak with the deceased of some of the attendees.
The latter are recorded without cameras and only the voice of the medium is heard (chained to a chair and covered by a curtain) who communicates with the dead.
The most surprising thing is when she addresses those gathered there with a totally different voice (supposedly that of someone's relative) that has "possessed" her.
In an interview, the medium explains to the viewer how these "encounters" have a great effect on her body, leaving her physically and mentally exhausted.
See dead people
Mariah Kunau is a Manhattan hotel concierge and a paranormal investigator in her spare time. Since she was little she was curious about ghosts, which she says exist. To demonstrate this, he surrounds himself with all kinds of elements, such as digital recorders, motion or light sensors that capture the presence of spirits. Throughout an entire chapter, Kunau testifies to his contacts with people and souls who lived in the past and how he interacts with those spirits. According to some experts who take the floor in this episode five of the series, the appearance of ghosts and voices throughout history is documented, such as
The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall
, a spirit that allegedly appeared repeatedly in this Norfolk, England mansion and was captured by two
Country Life
magazine photographers
in 1936, becoming one of the country's best-known paranormal phenomena.
The last chapter of
Surviving Death
,
Reincarnation
, stars, among others, Atlas, a five-year-old boy from Indiana (USA), who, according to his mother, tells him about a past life in which, supposedly, he had another mother and was killed.
Vivid details and the boy's unwavering security make his mother think that
her son is the reincarnation of a 19-month-old baby who was killed.
nine years before the birth of Atlas. He immediately gets in touch with a child psychiatrist who has been studying reincarnation cases for 20 years with people who have memories of past lives. According to physician Jim Tucker, there are children all over the world who at the age of two or three begin to speak of a previous existence. Incredibly, Atlas, in front of his mother, the doctor and the cameras, recognizes in an image an old park, to which he has never gone with his mother but with his "other mother", whom he also points to when they show him a Photo.
The series, directed by Ricki Stern, known for other documentaries such as
Surviving Jeffrey Epstein
, is based on the eponymous book by journalist and writer Leslie Kean, famous for investigating unexplained phenomena, and has received some criticism because many of the exhibits have not been contrasted with the scientific community.
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