A man claims that “died for eight minutes” and? came back to life after having suffered a complication derived from covid-19.
This was the story that Andrés Arévalo told in the program Between the living and the deadfrom the Citytv channel. The interview space is available on the channel’s YouTube platform and Arévalo can be seen there. explaining what happened to him.
According to the media The Time of Colombia, Arévalo in 2021 crossed a deterioration in health due to covid-19 which took him to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), where he remained in coma for several months.
In their conversation, the man explained that during his hospitalization he had awareness of what was happening around him. However, at one point, while he was hospitalized, he suffered a cardiorespiratory arrest which led the doctors to declare him dead for eight minutes, in which he claimed to have experienced different situations that he recounted on the Citytv program.
What did you see when you “died”?
Arévalo explained that, when he was suffering from unemployment, he reached a totally blank space, with doors and clouds on the floor; He described it as heaven is depicted in movies. He stated that he saw two entities at least 13 meters high, white in color, without arms or legs, that released flashes of light and had only one eye.
These entities spoke to him through direct communication to his mind. “They present a very short, very complex and very specific language. They explain everything in a very clear way,” he said.
“I calm down a little and ask them: ‘Does God exist?’” He said, and they answered him that not in the way we imagine, but that he does not have a human conscience and does not judge. The man said that he was transported to another plane and that the entities told him: “If you pass that door, there is no turning back; but we give you the chance to return. What do you want to do?”
“I was thinking about my son, who was 13 years old at the time,” he added. He thought he couldn’t miss the opportunity, so he decided to return to life. When he returned, the entities warned him that there would be a lot of suffering.
“I return, I have a period of rest and then the process of reintegration into health issues begins,” he said, adding that the decision to return was driven mainly by avoiding pain and sadness for his son and his parents. After his recovery, Andrés Arévalo affirms that the experience influenced his vision of life and death.
