Modern Prophets Article 001 – Pamela Reynolds Lowery The term " modern " originates from the Latin word "modus," which means "measure" or "manner." It evolved through Late Latin "modernus" and French "moderne," meaning "of the present time." The word signifies something that is up-to- date, current, or representative of the present era. It has been used since the 16th century to describe the belief in progress and human advancement, contrasting with the past and medieval periods (Online Etymology Dictionary, n.d.-a). The word "prophet" originates from the Latin word "propheta," which comes from the Greek word "proph ē t ē s" ( π ροφηήτης ), meaning "one who speaks for a god." This term is derived from the Greek roots "pro" (before) and "phanai" (to speak). In Hebrew, the word for prophet is "Navi" ( נביא ), which means "spokesperson" or "proclaimer". The concept of a prophet has existed in various cultures throughout history, serving as an intermediary between divine beings and humanity (Online Etymology Dictionary, n.d.-b). In this document, we view and present Pamela Reynolds Lowery as a Modern Prophet, since her Afterlife Experience (AE) has been corroborated and, in it, she meets God and comes to know Special Revelations that she later relays to us on Earth. This is not to say that she is any more divine than any of us, but that she has spiritual insights that are truthful and not directly available to most of us. Therefore, her Revelations should be taken in earnest, that is, we should study what she says and follow her teachings. That is why her words are presented as verses, with a number next to each of her lines, similar to The Bible, so that we may refer back to them with precision. A variety of sources have been used to compose this document. These sources are credible as far as we’ve been able to discern. Most of the texts have been copied and pasted exactly as they appear in the source, with little if any alterations. Table of Contents Pamela Reynolds Lowery ..............................................................................................................................2 Afterlife Experience ....................................................................................................................................3 The Last Interview .....................................................................................................................................5 Criticisms ......................................................................................................................................................8 Verses .............................................................................................................................................................9 Citations .......................................................................................................................................................... 10 Endnotes ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 2 Pamela Reynolds Lowery (M AY 31, 1956 – M AY 22, 2010) One of the most thoroughly documented veridical NDEs involves a woman named Pam Reynolds. She was an American singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, USA, whose near- death experience (NDE) is one of the most frequently cited in the literature. The experience seemingly occurred during a complete shutdown of her brain and body functions that had been instigated purposely to allow delicate surgery on a brain aneurysm. It included accurate views of the operating room and equipment, hyper-awareness, visions of light, and interactions with deceased relatives. Her case is regarded by many as convincing evidence of survival, since her vital signs were monitored continuously, providing certainty that she was clinically dead at the time (Wehrstein, 2017). In 1991, she underwent a radical surgical procedure called “Operation Standstill” to remove a life-threatening aneurysm deep in her brain. The surgery required stopping her heart, draining the blood from her brain, and cooling her body temperature to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. By every medical measure, she was dead (Matthew, n.d.). During the operation, Pam’s eyes were taped shut, and molded speakers were inserted into her ears playing loud clicking sounds to monitor brain stem activity. She had no blood flow to her brain, no brain waves on the EEG monitor, and no response to the loud clicks – all indicating complete absence of brain function. Yet Pam later reported leaving her body and observing the surgery from above (Matthew, n.d.). What makes Pam’s case so compelling is the specific, accurate details she reported. She described the unusual surgical saw used to open her skull, saying it looked like an electric toothbrush with a groove and interchangeable blades that were kept in what looked like a socket wrench case. This was completely accurate, but Pam had never seen such an instrument before. The surgical team was astounded when she accurately quoted conversations that occurred while she had no brain activity (Matthew, n.d.). Dr. Robert Spetzler, the renowned neurosurgeon who performed the operation, later stated that Pam’s accurate observations couldn’t be explained by normal means. Her brain was completely non-functional during the time she reported these perceptions. As he put it, “I don’t think the observations she made were based on what she experienced as she went into the operating theater. They were just not available to her.” (Matthew, n.d.). In 1994, Michael Sabom, a cardiologist in Atlanta, launched a study on the relationship between NDEs and spiritual beliefs. He interviewed 160 people, mostly patients of his clinic, finding that 47 of them spoke of having had such an experience, according to criteria identified by NDE researcher Bruce Greyson. Pam Reynolds’s case was one of several summarized by Sabom in his book Light and Death. Reynolds has described her case in a BBC documentary (Wehrstein, 2017). Sabom first interviewed Reynolds in November 1994. Hearing that she knew details of the operating room that she could only have seen while deeply unconscious, he contacted the medical staff and took other steps to try to verify them. Having examined the operative report and interviewed Spetzler, Sabom determined that Reynolds’s experience could not have been the result of a temporal lobe seizure, as no such seizure had been recorded. The report referred to a female doctor referring to the small blood vessels, apparently confirming Reynolds’s memory of having heard the comment. Significantly, Reynolds could not have heard the comment normally, as by this time her ears had been stopped up by the molded speakers that were generating loud clicks. Sabom also learned that the comment was made at about the same time that the saw was started up (Wehrstein, 2017). Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 3 Sabom was unfamiliar with the bone saw used in the operation, and was not in a position to confirm Reynolds’s description of it resembling an electric toothbrush and its case resembling a socket-wrench case. He contacted the manufacturer, who sent him pictures of both. The resemblances were clear (Wehrstein, 2017). Afterlife Experience Entire segment extracted from Wehrstein (2017) In 1991, aged 35, Reynolds experienced symptoms of dizziness, loss of speech and difficulty moving her body. A CT scan revealed a giant aneurysm at the base of her brain. The neurologist to whom she was referred predicted little or no chance of survival; because of its size and location, regular neurosurgical techniques to excise it would not work. She was then referred to Dr Robert Spetzler in Phoenix, Arizona, who had pioneered a surgical procedure, hypothermic cardiac arrest, that would make the aneurysm operable. This involved cooling the patient’s body to sixty degrees Fahrenheit, stopping the heartbeat and breathing, and draining all blood from the brain. More than twenty doctors, nurses and technicians took part. The operation required Reynolds’s vital signs and body temperature to be very closely monitored by multiple instruments placed in various locations on and within her body. Molded speakers were placed in her ears, producing clicks at regular intervals, so that other instruments could detect her brain’s reactions to them. Reynolds was awake when she was brought into the operating room at 7:15 am. She felt a ‘loss of time’ and blanked out as the general anaesthesia took effect. Then she became aware of a musical tone that seemed to pull her out of the top of her head. “The further out of my body I got, the more clear the tone became. I had the impression 1 it was like a road, a frequency that you go on ... I remember seeing several things in the 2 operating room when I was looking down. It was the most aware that I think that I have ever 3 been in my entire life ... It was brighter and more focused and clearer than normal vision ... 4 There was so much in the operating room that I didn’t recognize, and so many people.” 5 She recalled being surprised that the team had only partially shaved her head. She also recalled seeing the bone-saw Spetzler used to excise a section of her skull: “The saw thing ... looked like an electric toothbrush and it had a dent in it, a groove at 6 the top where the saw appeared to go into the handle, but it didn’t ... And the saw had 7 interchangeable blades, too, but these blades were in what looked like a socket wrench case ... I 8 heard the saw crank up.” 9 She found this sound unpleasant. “Someone said something about my veins and arteries being very small,” Reynolds 10 recalled, adding that it was a female voic. 11 At this stage in the operation, a female cardiac surgeon, having determined that the arteries in Reynolds’s right leg were too small to handle the degree of blood flow required by the heart- lung machine, opened the left leg as well. Spetzler assessed the aneurysm and ordered hypothermic cardiac arrest to be performed. Commencing at 10:50 am, blood was removed via tubes from the femoral arteries and veins, chilled in reservoir cylinders and returned to her body. As Reynolds’s core temperature fell, her heartbeat changed to fibrillation, then stopped entirely. Her brainwaves flattened, then, as her Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 4 core temperature reached sixty, the brainstem shut down. By standard definitions she was clinically dead. At 11:25 the heart-lung machine was turned off, the operating table was tilted and blood was drained from her body. The sac of the aneurysm, now empty, was easily excised. The heart-lung machine was then reactivated and warmed blood reinfused into Reynolds’s circulatory system. The brainstem slowly began showing activity again, then her higher brain also, as the warming process continued. At noon it became apparent that her heart would not resume beating by warming alone; electrical jolts from a defibrillator were used to shock it into starting. Having been clinically dead for about an hour, Reynolds was returned to the recovery room in a stable condition at 2:10 pm. As cited by Sabom, Reynolds’s next recollections fall between the mention of her arteries being too small, and the time Spetzler’s younger assistants were closing her incisions: “There was a sensation like being pulled, but not against your will. I was going on my 12 own accord because I wanted to go. I have different metaphors to try to explain this. It was like 13 the Wizard of Oz – being taken up in a tornado vortex, only you’re not spinning around like 14 you’ve got vertigo. You’re very focused and you have a place to go. The feeling was like going 15 up in an elevator real fast. And there was a sensation, but it wasn’t a bodily, physical sensation. 16 It was like a tunnel but it wasn’t a tunnel. 17 At some point very early in the tunnel vortex I became aware of my grandmother calling 18 me. But I didn’t hear her call me with my ears ... It was a clearer hearing than with my ears. I 19 trust that sense more than I trust my own ears. The feeling was that she wanted me to come to 20 her, so I continued with no fear down the shaft. It’s a dark shaft that I went through, and at the 21 very end there was this very little tiny pinpoint of light that kept getting bigger and bigger and 22 bigger. 23 The light was incredibly bright, like sitting in the middle of a lightbulb. It was so bright 24 that I put my hands in front of my face fully expecting to see them and I could not. But I knew 25 they were there. Not from a sense of touch. Again, it’s terribly hard to explain, but I knew they 26 were there ... 27 I noticed that as I began to discern different figures in the light – and they were all 28 covered with light, they were light, and had light permeating all around them – they began to 29 form shapes I could recognize and understand. I could see that one of them was my grandmother. 30 I don’t know if it was reality or projection, but I would know my grandmother, the sound of her, 31 anytime, anywhere. 32 Everyone I saw, looking back on it, fit perfectly into my understanding of what that 33 person looked like at their best during their lives. 34 I recognized a lot of people. My uncle Gene was there. So was my great-great-Aunt 35 Maggie, who was really a cousin. On Papa’s side of the family, my grandfather was there ... 36 They were specifically taking care of me, looking after me. 37 They would not permit me to go further ... It was communicated to me – that’s the best 38 way I know how to say it, because they didn’t speak like I’m speaking – that if I went all the way 39 into the light something would happen to me physically. They would be unable to put this me 40 back into the body me, like I had gone too far and they couldn’t reconnect. So they wouldn’t let 41 me go anywhere or do anything. 42 Then they were feeding me. They were not doing this through my mouth, like with 43 food, but they were nourishing me with something. The only way I know how to put it is 44 something sparkly. Sparkles is the image that I get. I definitely recall the sensation of being 45 Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 5 nurtured and being fed and being made strong. I know it sounds funny, because obviously it 46 wasn’t a physical thing, but inside the experience I felt physically strong, ready for whatever. 47 My grandmother didn’t take me back through the tunnel, or even send me back or ask 48 me to go. She just looked up at me. I expected to go with her, but it was communicated to me 49 that she just didn’t think she would do that. My uncle said he would do it. He’s the one who took 50 me back through the end of the tunnel. Everything was fine. I did want to go. 51 But then I got to the end of it and saw the thing, my body. I didn’t want to get into it 52 ... It looked terrible, like a train wreck. It looked like what it was: dead. I believe it was covered. 53 It scared me and I didn’t want to look at it. 54 It was communicated to me that it was like jumping into a swimming pool. No problem, 55 just jump right into the swimming pool. I didn’t want to, but I guess I was late or something 56 because he [the uncle] pushed me. I felt a definite repelling and at the same time a pulling from 57 the body. The body was pulling and the tunnel was pushing ... It was like diving into a pool of 58 ice water ... It hurt!” 59 The assistants finished the operation to the sound of rock music, Reynolds recalled: “They were playing ‘Hotel California’ and the line was ‘You can check out anytime you 60 like, but you can never leave.’ I mentioned [later] to Dr Brown that that was incredibly 61 insensitive and he told me that I needed to sleep more. [laughter] When I regained 62 consciousness, I was still on the respirator.” 63 As measured by the Greyson NDE scale, Reynolds’s NDE was particularly deep. The maximum score possible is 32, the average score among Greyson’s subjects at the time of Sabom’s writing was 15, and the average among the subjects in Sabom’s study was 13.3. Reynolds scored 27. After her experience, Reynolds lost all fear of death. She said, as quoted in a MSNBC broadcast: “If death is the worst thing that happens to us, what an incredible thing! If at the end of 64 our lives, this is what’s going to happen to everyone, I don’t see the problem, I really don’t get 65 it. I fear pain, but I don’t fear death.” 66 Pam Reynolds recovered fully from the operation and lived a healthy life until 2010, when she died aged 53 of heart failure. The Last Interview Entire segment, including endnotes, extracted from Woerlee (2005) Pam Reynolds gave a last interview not long before her death of heart failure in May 2010 at the age of 53. This is an interesting interview. It is also the last interview Pam Reynolds ever gave before passing away. This interview reveals that the basic elements and aspects of her experience as published by Michael Sabom during 1998 remain unchanged. And very interestingly, this interview reveals some new information about the nature of her experience. In fact, this information confirms, once again, that this experience was one of those rare cases of unintentional anesthetic awareness combined with an OBE and an NDE. i Interviewer: You had this operation and experience a long time ago now. You remember where you were and what you thought before surgery? Pamela Reynolds: Before the operation, I had a terrible headache that no one could explain and 67 for which there was no effective treatment. They called it the "cluster headache". I had three 68 Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 6 small children who needed to be attended to and for years I continued to live as if nothing had 69 happened. 70 Then one day my husband and I went to Virginia to promote a record, and I fell very 71 ill. On my return, my mother decided to call the doctor for whom she had worked as an assistant, 72 convinced that I had a problem in my brain. We went to his office and he sent me directly to the 73 analyses. When he had the test results, he told me that I had an aneurysm and I had to prepare 74 myself for the end, see a lawyer to prepare my departure and enjoy my children while I can... 75 He was telling me that I had no chance of survival and it was very hard for him. It was a family 76 friend and I knew him since childhood. The chance that this operation would succeed was very 77 thin. But it was my only chance to stay alive. ii 78 Interviewer: Were you asleep already entering the operating room? Pamela Reynolds: I do not remember the operating room. I remember anesthesia then nothing 79 until the time I left my body through the top of the head. I know it sounds crazy but that's what 80 happened. I left my body through the top of my head and I could see my body from above. iii 81 Interviewer: How did you feel when you realized that you were outside of your body? Pamela Reynolds: I was quite happy, it was surprising. Then I saw something that made noise. 82 A sound I had heard for the first time just before leaving my body. I heard this thing making 83 noise. Then I saw the doctor, Dr. Spetzler I presume, who held the object, a kind of saw. I saw 84 the box where they were stored and different bits they kept in there, an impressive selection. 85 Then I heard: "Her arteries and veins are too small," and the voice of Dr. Spetzler 86 answer: "Use the other side." At that time, I was afraid because it was a brain surgery and I saw 87 them operate at the leg. I was afraid that they had made a mistake and were operating in the 88 wrong place. There were too many people so I couldn't see what he was doing on the leg. I just 89 knew they weren't operating in the right place and to tell you the truth, it was terrifying. iv 90 Interviewer: When you saw the tool used by Dr. Spetzler was it already in use? What did you see during this experience? Pamela Reynolds: No. The noise was just beginning. But he used it before I left (into the other 91 dimension) the operating room. I know this because the noise made by the saw became louder. 92 At first you hear a sound and the sound becomes more pronounced. Well, it was the same thing 93 and then I knew he was going to use this tool. Just after hearing that my veins and my arteries 94 were too small and after thinking they were in the wrong place for the operation, I saw a tiny 95 dot of light and I heard my grandmother called me. So I went towards it and I thought I must 96 be dying. 97 Then I told myself that I did not deserve to be there because I was not someone perfect. 98 She started to laugh. She told me - not talking to me because they have another way to 99 communicate - I was like a child who is sent to school, they were proud of me and that I deserved 100 to be in their presence. I saw many people I knew and also many others that I do not know but 101 I knew that I was related in some way. I knew I was going to return to our world. I did not want 102 to but I think I had already made the choice before I even got there in here because I had children 103 and a husband, and that it was not time for me. However, I wanted to join this light, which 104 became greater than ever. I wanted to go in, but I was not allowed to. They told me that if I 105 went too far, I could not return to the "me" that was on the operating table with surgeons and 106 nurses. 107 Then my uncle took me back and asked to return to my body. He told me it was like 108 jumping into a pool but I did not want to. I was afraid it would hurt and I did not want to return. 109 Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 7 So he told me, "Do not you want to see your children? Do you not love your husband? And my 110 sister... Your mother?" 111 At that moment, I thought my children would be okay and that my husband would take 112 care of them and my mother had always been able to cope so I had no intention of returning. 113 Then he pushed me and it felt like as if I had been pushed into a pool of ice water. It was cold, 114 uncomfortable, and my chest ached. Then I heard the defibrillator on two occasions. The first 115 time, I did hear that, but the second time I saw them. What surprised me the most that day, is 116 that they had music in the operating room. I did not know that was done. I heard the song of 117 Eagles, Hotel California, and words that say: "You can check out any time you like but you can 118 never leave." I thought it was terrible... So insensitive. I also told my doctor when I woke up. 119 He said that I needed more sleep... It was impossible for me to be awake at that time. v 120 Interviewer: Can we go back to your grandmother? Is it that who you saw first? How did it happen? Pamela Reynolds: I heard her voice. I was born with a unique inner ear and I hear great voices, 121 sounds and tones. It was also my job. And I remember very well the voice of my grandmother. 122 On hearing it, I remembered the time she called us for dinner when we were kids it was the same 123 thing. However, I was very surprised when I saw her because she was not the same. When she 124 died, she was old but there she didn't seem to be old. I did not expect to see her so well. And my 125 uncle, who had died young didn't look like he did at his death. It was them, but they were really 126 nice and seemed in good shape. vi 127 Interviewer: When you met your grandmother and your uncle, you remember where you were? Were you in a particular place? Pamela Reynolds: Oh yes! I do not think it was paradise but maybe somewhere between the 128 two, a sort of waiting room, a beautiful place... I felt an energy fed into the top of my head. This 129 energy restored my strength. Like when you consume a meal while you're exhausted and 130 hungry. I asked them if the light was God and they said no. They found that funny and said: 131 "No, no, no... The light is not God. The light is what happens when God breathes. 132 Interviewer: It is not God? You say "they"? Who were these people? Pamela Reynolds: I knew some, and not others... There were uncles, cousins, aunts... It was 133 as if everyone knew that this was so. They were clothed in light. This is what struck me the 134 most. They looked like human beings but unlike us they were clothed in light. They were beings 135 of light all of which had different tones. They don't communicate by direct voice. 136 Interviewer: In this place, you saw an aunt you did not know had died? Was she dead long ago? Pamela Reynolds: No. She died when I was in the hospital. I was very surprised to see her. 137 Interviewer: Did you discuss your experience to others other than your doctor? Pamela Reynolds: Yes, everyone. It was pretty funny also. I thought I had hallucinations and 138 when I talked with my family and my husband, we were joking. That made everyone laugh with 139 the exception of nurses, the doctor, the anesthesiologist and neurophysiologists... They did not 140 seem to find it funny and they hardly dared to look at me. In fact, they knew that I was not 141 hallucinating and that this had occurred. They had never heard of such things before. I thought 142 maybe it was my imagination and I had a dream, but they told me that this was not the case and 143 what I saw really happened. vii 144 Interviewer: This is surprising, they were convinced you were not hallucinating! In most cases where people report such things to their doctor, the doctor will think they are hallucinating... viii Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 8 Pamela Reynolds: They kept telling me that it was not a hallucination... And I sometimes still 145 do not believe them. Many people ask me “what does it mean?” They are searching for religious 146 answers to try to make sense of this experience. I have no answer to give them, and I do not 147 know what it all means. All I know is that it happened. For the meaning, it would have to go to 148 another person. Not me, I’m a musician. ix 149 Interviewer: Which other details you remember? Pamela Reynolds: I saw a heart-lung machine. I knew what it was. I saw the lights and I could 150 see the tops of heads, full of heads. More heads than I had ever seen. There were many people 151 in the room. And my hair was cut in a strange way. I expected them to have shaved all my head 152 but they did not. x 153 Interviewer: You had your eyes completely closed, headphones on your ears and your body temperature was 15.5 degrees. How do you think you could see all these things? xi Pamela Reynolds: I don't know. Dr. Spetzler also said he doesn't know. Sometimes I think he 154 knows, but he prefers not to say anything. And sometimes I think it's just like everyone else and 155 he has no idea. I think he knows how the brain works and how the mind works. I think he knows 156 that we have a soul for example. I do not see what the problem is. The brain is like a computer 157 that runs our body but the soul directs energy when we have a body. 158 I know I was dead because someone (doctor) told me that I was dead. On religious or spiritual 159 level, it has not changed me but anyway, we are talking about a personal experience. I believe 160 deep within me belongs to me. xii 161 Interviewer: I feel you're still excited when you talk about this experience?... Pamela Reynolds: I think anyone who experienced what I did would feel the same. I wish 162 everyone could experience this. So that no more questions would arise, everyone would know. I 163 think this is beyond science. Was this first published with Michael Sabom? As I have said, the 164 doctors knew from the beginning that it happened and I think they wanted to find out what it 165 was, how to use it. Dr. Sabom wrote a book about this experience, and he has spoken first. But 166 everyone present knew it from the beginning. It was not a secret. xiii 167 Interviewer: Thank you. I think your testimony has been very helpful. In our society, many people are afraid to die. And you? Pamela Reynolds: No! Are you kidding? I am more afraid to live! Dying is nothing. It's easy... 168 Living is hard. xiv 169 Criticisms Entire segment extracted from Wehrstein (2017) In 2007, the Journal of Near-Death Studies published three papers by philosopher Keith Augustine questioning the validity of NDEs with claimed veridical memories, and dismissing them as fantastical. The issue included responses by NDE scholars including Sabom, Greyson, Kenneth Ring and Raymond Moody. The debate continued into the following year, and restarted in 2011 with a critical paper in the same journal by Woerlee. He contends that Reynolds retained sufficient conscious awareness, even under anaesthesia, to hear the sound of the saw, the cardiac surgeon’s comments about blood-vessel size and the song ‘Hotel California’ Alternatively, he speculates, the sound of the saw could have reverberated through her skull, and she might have guessed the blood-vessel Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 9 comments as she was aware she had small blood vessels. Countering this, according to Sabom, the technologist who inserted the speakers pointed out that the tape and gauze used to keep them in place covered the entire ear entrance, making normal hearing of an operation room conversation impossible. Augustine argues that Reynold’s visual recall of the bone-saw is confused on one point and therefore likely incorrect. He suggests she might have guessed what it looked like from experience with dental drills. He posits that her out-of-body experience began and ended before the period of cardiac arrest commenced, and therefore she could still have been slightly conscious and able to physically perceive aspects of the operating room. He argues that her memories might have become contaminated with knowledge of such details gained during the three years that elapsed between the experience and her first interview with Sabom. Sabom counters that while Augustine is correct with regard to the moment when the out-of- body experience commenced – when the saw started up – Reynolds herself identified its conclusion as the operation being brought to a close by the assistants, during the playing of ‘Hotel California’, confirming that it was underway during the time of cardiac arrest. With regard to the point about her allegedly confused memory of the saw, parapsychologist Charles Tart counters that a minor error in recall of an unfamiliar instrument is not sufficient to dismiss her memory of having seen it as having never occurred. With respect to the three-year delay, Tart points to statistical evidence that memories of NDEs tend to remain consistent over time. The account Reynolds gave in her final interview suggests that the first verifications of her out- of-body memories were actually provided by the medical staff very soon afterward: “I thought I had hallucinations and when I talked with my family and my husband, we were joking. That made everyone laugh with the exception of nurses, the doctor, the anesthesiologist and neurophysiologists ... They did not seem to find it funny and they hardly dared to look at me. In fact, they knew that I was not hallucinating and that this had occurred. They had never heard of such things before. I thought maybe it was my imagination and I had a dream, but they told me that this was not the case and what I saw really happened ... They kept telling me that it was not a hallucination.” Spetzler confirms this as quoted on MSNBC: “What she related so quickly after surgery was remarkably precise as to some details that went on in the surgery”. Verses If death is the worst thing that happens to us, what an incredible thing! If at the end of our lives, this is what’s going to happen to everyone, I don’t see the problem, I really don’t get it. I fear pain, but I don’t fear death. P AMELA R EYNOLDS 64:66 Then I told myself that I did not deserve to be there because I was not someone perfect. She started to laugh. She told me - not talking to me because they have Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 10 another way to communicate - I was like a child who is sent to school, they were proud of me and that I deserved to be in their presence. P AMELA R EYNOLDS 98:101 I do not think it was paradise but maybe somewhere between the two, a sort of waiting room, a beautiful place... I felt an energy fed into the top of my head. This energy restored my strength. Like when you consume a meal while you're exhausted and hungry. I asked them if the light was God and they said no. They found that funny and said: "No, no, no... The light is not God. The light is what happens when God breathes.” P AMELA R EYNOLDS 128:132 Many people ask me “what does it mean?” They are searching for religious answers to try to make sense of this experience. I have no answer to give them, and I do not know what it all means. All I know is that it happened. P AMELA R EYNOLDS 146:148 Citations Matthew (n.d.). Veridical Near-Death Experiences: Biblical Evidence for the Dualistic Nature of Humanity. Retrieved 12 October 2025, from https://learntheology.com/veridical-near- death-experiences-biblical-evidence-for-the-dualistic-nature-of-humanity.html Online Etymology Dictionary. (n.d.). Modern . In Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 13 October 2025, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/modern Online Etymology Dictionary. (n.d.). Prophet . In Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 13 October 2025, from https://www.etymonline.com/word/prophet Wehrstein, KM (2017). ‘Pam Reynolds (Near-Death Experience)’. Psi Encyclopedia . London: The Society for Psychical Research. Retrieved 12 October 2025, from https://open- data.spr.ac.uk/articles/pam-reynolds-near-death-experience . Woerlee, G. M. (2005). Pam Reynolds interview Retrieved 12 October 2025, from https://neardth.com/pam-reynolds-interview.php Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 11 Endnotes Gerald M. Woerlee Commentary on The Last Interview i Part of this interview was published in a USA newspaper “The Atlanta Journal-Constitution” (click here for article N.B. GDPR regulations mean it is not available in Europe, but a VPN solves this problem.). A contributor called “Tim”, provided a snippet of her last interview as part of a long discussion on NDEs (see here for interview) in the discussion thread. To find the exact page in the discussion thread use CRTL-F to search for the term “last interview” — this will bring you to the reference of “Tim”. Unfortunately “Tim” gave no reference for his source, but I have no doubt from my conversations with him that it was a valid source. “Tim” believed this interview to be further proof of the paranormal reality of Pam Reynolds’ experience. Regardless of “Tim’s” belief, this is a revealing interview, supplementing and expanding on existing knowledge of this case, so I have provided a copy of this interview below with the persons marked for clarity. ii Robert F. Spetzler was born in Germany during 1944, and moved with his parents to the USA when 11 years old during 1955. He attended college and medical school in Illinois, and trained as a neurosurgeon at the University of California in San Francisco. Subsequently he worked as a neurosurgeon at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He started working in the Barrow Institute in Phoenix Arizona some time during 1983. Pam Reynolds was born during 1956, one year after Spetzler arrived in the USA. Pam Reynolds stated that she knew Spetzler since her childhood. So her personal childhood acquaintance with Spetzler was sometime between 1956 and about 1966 when he would have started to attend college in Ilinois, i.e. between her ages of 0 and 11 years of age. iii This differs somewhat from the Sabom account in which she remembers some details of the operating theater (see what she told Sabom here). iv Here we have the well-known hearing of the drill and saw, as well as the statement of the cardiac surgeon that her vein and artery were too small. More interesting is the statement of Pam Reynolds that she was terrified when she saw they were operating upon her leg. This statement indicates a lack of superhuman knowledge, as well as the fact she forgot details of what must have been told her during the obligatory informed consent procedure. The statement of being terrified also differs from the account in “Light & Death” by Michael Sabom in which she mentioned felling calm, and made the curious statement that she should have told the cardiothoracic surgeon about her small blood vessels before the operation (see the statement in Sabom here). Moreover, she presumed that the doctor with the saw was Spetzler, but was not sure, indicating that she did not have superhuman clear vision or knowledge during her OBE. v Pam Reynolds seems rather vague here about whether she actually saw the Midas Rex drill and saw. All she says was she knew he was going to use it. This sounds much more like a memory of something she heard while having the operation explained to her prior to giving the obligatory informed consent. Quite different to the account in “Light & Death” where she described it as appearing like an electric toothbrush: “The saw thing that I hated the sound of looked like an electric toothbrush and it had a dent in it, a groove at the top where the saw appeared to go into the handle,” (Page 186 in “Light & Death”). The NDE she described, and the personages involved are precisely what one would expect from a person raised in an environment steeped in the Christianity practiced in the USA. As regards hearing the sound of the music of “Hotel California” while her wounds were being closed - this is a typical unintentional anesthetic awareness phenomenon (click here to read the explanation). vi Here Pam Reynolds mentions the fact of her unique hearing abilities which stood her in good stead as a professional musician. This is also the explanation of why she was able to hear the sounds of speech in spite of the clicking sounds (click here for explanation, and click here to read a discussion of how Pam Reynolds could hear) Modern Prophets - Article 001 - Pamela Reynolds Lowery Published 14 October 2025 By Purpose On Earth Administrators 12 People reporting visions of deceased relatives in a transcendental world of the dead, always report them as being younger and in good condition, or in their prime. This is another one of those sociocultually determined visions. vii Initially Pam Reynolds thought she had been hallucinating. She and her family even joked about her hallucinatory experience. But this changed when she noticed the reactions of the hospital staff. The hospital staff did not find her experience funny. Furthermore they hardly dared look at her. Was this out of fear of medico-legal repercussions because of anesthetic awareness? The medical staff were the ones who assured her that her experience was definitely not hallucinatory. In fact, they did what is always advised in cases of unintentional anesthetic awareness. They explained what happened and reassured her. viii This interviewer seems to think that most doctors shove all unusual experiences aside as halluc