The founder of the world famous Medici string quartet, Briton Paul Robertson wrote the book "The Musician's Journey After Life and Death", in which he spoke of the visions he experienced after lying in a coma for three weeks. According to the violinist, he managed to visit heaven and hell, according to the Daily Mail.
Robertson's work will go on sale on September 1, he experienced clinical death in 2008 after undergoing surgery for a ruptured aorta. During the procedure, the Briton's heart stopped for 34 minutes, as a result of which he was sent to intensive care, where he lay for three weeks.
The author writes that all this time he was "attacked" by different visions.
“I bathed in the aura of an Asian goddess, after which a group of laughing angels who smelled of cologne blocked my way to heaven,” writes Robertson.
According to the Briton, he saw himself in the form of a wheezing dog in the snowy tundra and lying at the bottom of the underwater "ship of the dead." The violinist also witnessed the medieval pig killing.
Robertson claims to have experienced 17 such visions. It took the musician many months of physical therapy to recover from the effects of a coma, now he feels good again and can play his favorite instrument.
Be that as it may, the Medici Quartet member's experience is not unique. The experience he has endured is called "Near Death Experience" (NDE), a term that was coined in 1975. Scientists explain the visions seen in a coma by physical changes in the brain, poor anesthesia, or neurochemical reactions to trauma.
