Elizabeth Taylor, the queen of Hollywood, was an English-American actress who won three Oscars and was the first person to earn a million-dollar salary for her role as Cleopatra. She was also an activist in the fight against AIDS, and her personal life was constantly scrutinized by the press. On the anniversary of her death, Best Life recalled the story of her near-death experience.
The actress herself said that she had been declared dead four times in her life, which allowed her to read her own obituaries, and they were the best reviews she ever received. In one case of clinical death, as Taylor told Oprah Winfrey on her show in 1992, she first saw doctors swirling around her but couldn’t talk to them or move. Then she floated into a tunnel, where she was met by other figures and felt warm and weightless.
She then saw her third husband, Mike Todd. By that time he had been dead for three years, and Taylor had remarried, but she was still mourning him. She wanted to stay with him, but he said, “No, baby, you can’t. It’s not your time. You can’t come over. You have to fight to go back.”
Upon waking up in the hospital, Taylor told the doctors about her experience because she felt she had to share it with someone. However, she later decided it all sounded too crazy and kept quiet about the story for many years.
It should be noted that a near-death experience is one of the phase states that also include lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, out-of-body experiences, and false awakenings. In one experiment, the Phase Research Center had twenty volunteers reproduce the classic near-death experience scenario with a flight through a tunnel in a lucid dream. In life-threatening situations, a person intuitively expects to have the experience they have internalized from popular culture: going through a tunnel, having an out-of-body experience, being visited by angels, or meeting deceased relatives.
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