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A NASA Scientist Says She Died 3 Times and Saw the Afterlife

Ingrid Honkala says her near-death experiences convinced her that consciousness may continue beyond the body.

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Ingrid Honkala has a PhD in Marine Science, spent years working for NASA and the US Navy, and also claims to have died three times. She’d like to talk about what she saw.

The first time happened when Honkala was two years old. She fell into an icy water tank at home while the housekeeper was in another room. Her mother, who had just left for a new job, inexplicably turned around and came back—arriving just in time to pull her daughter out and resuscitate her. Honkala says that’s not a coincidence. From wherever her consciousness had gone during those few minutes, she believes she spotted her mother walking away and somehow communicated the urgency of the situation. When she later described what she’d seen to her mother, the details matched.

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