Metaphysics & Psychology

NASA scientist describes what she saw during 3 near-death experiences

By T.K. Randall
May 6, 2026 ·  16 comments

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) For many people, even a single near-death experience can be a life-affirming event, but for one woman, this didn't happen just once, but three separate times.

Honkala's first brush with dead happened when she fell into a tank of icy water at just two years old.

"At that moment, I no longer felt like a child in a body but like pure consciousness, a field of awareness and light," she told Jam Press.

"It felt like being immersed in a vast intelligence filled with love, clarity and peace."

Remarkably, she also recalled seeing her mother who at the time was several blocks away.

"From that moment forward, I no longer feared death," she recalled.Honkala went on to have two more such experiences - once after a motorcycle accident at 25 and again when her blood pressure dropped too low during surgery at 52.

"These experiences transformed my understanding of life itself," she said.

"Instead of seeing ourselves as isolated individuals struggling to survive, I began to understand that we may be expressions of consciousness experiencing life through a physical form."

"From that perspective, death does not feel like the end of existence, it feels more like a transition in the continuum of consciousness."

The topic of near-death experiences has long remained controversial, with many scientists arguing that chemicals released in the brain at the point of death can produce these types of sensations.

Others, meanwhile, argue that such stories are evidence that there is something more beyond death.

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