An out of body experience has forced a Doctor to give up everything, reflect on life and downsize. The top doctor told of the moment he “floated to the edge of hell” during emergency surgery – after dismissing patients who claimed to have had an out-of-body experience.
Dr Rajiv Parti was a self-confessed sceptic when it came to spirituality, instead focusing on his successful career as an anaesthetist at Bakersfield Heart Hospital in California and providing a flashy and comfortable life for his family .
He had heard patients claim to have “been watching over” their surgery, telling him they had “left” their body and had even seen dead relatives while under the knife.
But Dr Parti had dismissed them, thinking it was a side effect of the drugs they had been
given – until one day experiencing the strange phenomenon himself.
At the age of 51, Dr Parti was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
He underwent an operation to remove the mass, but something went wrong and he was left with painful scar tissue in its place.
One night, after his fifth operation to correct the scarring, Dr Parti came down with a fever of 105F – 40C – and was rushed to hospital with a life-threatening infection.
As the anaesthetic took over and he began to fall asleep, the doctor said he “zoomed” out of his body and looked down over his own operation to see medical staff working on his body.
He told the Daily Mail : “Was it over? Was the surgery already over? I felt myself zooming straight up, as if in a lift. It was the same feeling you get in the pit of the stomach when you’re rocketing to the 20th floor of a skyscraper.
“Slowly, my consciousness began to return: I could see the ceiling approaching, its glossy surface slowly getting closer.
“Then I looked down and saw my own abdomen, now with several incisions. I heard the anaesthetist make an off-colour joke. I won’t repeat it, but everyone in the operating theatre laughed, including me.”
Dr Parti said he watched over the surgery as they worked to save his life, watching over as they fought to save him from the septic infection taking over.
He claims he then “travelled to New Delhi” and sat with his mother, dressed in a green sari, and his sister as they cooked dinner for the family.
Dr Parti says he even visited the “lip of hell”, describing it as “the edge of a canyon” which smelt like “burning flesh”.
There, he claims he saw past patients who he hadn’t had time for, who were still suffering but he had dismissed once they were out of his care.
Finally, he says his father, who looked 30 years younger, led him away from “hell” and back to Earth to start afresh.
Dr Parti claims this experience made him realise he had to give up his materialistic way of life and become a spiritual doctor.
He sold his expensive cars – including a Porsche and a Hummer – and downsized from a mansion to a modest house.
He even gave up his career and now practises alternative medicine, claiming to heal people through meditation and other therapies.