In the United States, a man was clinically dead for 107 minutes and claims to have glimpsed the afterlife. This story was reported by the Daily Mirror.
Weightlifter Vinny Tolman and a friend jointly consumed a banned bodybuilding supplement, after which both began to feel unwell. They entered a restaurant, where Tolman collapsed on the restroom floor, struck his head, and stopped breathing. Following this, he says he felt himself floating above his own body. He observed that his neck had swollen and his cheeks had turned purple. Paramedics soon arrived: two seasoned emergency responders tried unsuccessfully to revive him, then placed the body in a bag and instructed a young trainee in the ambulance to “keep an eye on” him.
At that moment, Tolman claims he suddenly gained the ability to read minds—the trainee, he says, was mentally berating himself for not insisting on a more thorough check of vital signs. Ultimately, the trainee began performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Tolman and then grabbed a defibrillator. Three shocks brought the patient back to life.
Tolman remained in a coma for another three days. During this period, he asserts, the most extraordinary thing happened: he found himself in a world bathed in light and love, where he encountered a being in white that resembled God. Yet this entity allegedly called itself a “guide” and showed him a different reality, where even the grass seemed alive—to Tolman, it felt like an old friend.
Upon waking, the American wrote a book titled “The Light After Death,” in which he identified the core lesson as understanding the need to live authentically. Tolman insists that his experience forever changed his perspective on life and death.
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