Every few weeks, an attention seeker – er, truth seeker – raves to a media outlet about what they experienced when they were ‘clinically dead’. In last week’s Daily Mail, it was the turn of Julia Poole, a 61-year-old ‘spiritualist’ from Cornwall, who suffered an overdose at the age of 21. Poole, who describes her job as ‘spiritual and personal empowerment coach, psychic, channeller, energy healer, hypnotherapist, law of attraction teacher and author’, states that she was ‘clinically dead’ for three days and was ‘taken to Higher Realms’ by angels, who told her it was not yet her time to die.
There are general features that appear common – the peace and harmony, the sensation of travelling along a tunnel towards a source of light, the flitting through of memories
If Poole had indeed been ‘clinically dead’ for three days, it would not just be her story that smelled decidedly off.
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