Angelica
Zambrano’s NDE Experience
I read Neal Lipkin’s
article here on 5 Doves last week (December 27, 2015) and
I watched the attached YouTube video. Normally I am
inclined to believe accounts of near death experiences,
especially those of children. I really find them
encouraging. However, this one raises many red flags for
me.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/dec2015/neill1227-2.htm
As I watch the
video I see Angelica Zambrano’s eyes often moving back
and forth from left to right, over and over again, as
if she is reading from a script just above the camera.
Her account of the
events does not seem like normal conversation. It sounds
very scripted. It
is the way her words flow.
I am not an expert in
body language, but her facial expressions do not seem
appropriate for what she is describing. She smiles
while describing how terrified she was of walking into
hell. She
also smiles when she tells us about watching Jesus cry
over lost souls. When she does attempt to feign a
concerned expression it just does not look real.
Something is very wrong here.
Angelica speaks in a
monotone. I realize there is an interpreter doing an
English voice-over for her, but it still does not seem
right. Angelica’s
facial expressions do not change (or else they change
very little) when she jumps from happy parts, to sad
parts, to the terrifying parts of her story.
There are several places
where she uses words that children just do not use in
normal conversation, making me think the whole thing was
scripted for her by an adult. If she were truly relating the
events in her own words she would use the vocabulary of
a young child, not an adult.
Angelica tells us that
she saw many children in hell. She also tells us some of these
children were sent there because they watched they chose
to watch the wrong cartoons on television. This sounds
like some kind of myth a parent would come up with. I am
unequivocally certain that the God I worship does not
send young children to hell for choosing to watch the
wrong cartoons.
Lastly, I have to ask
myself deep down in my spirit if this message really
feels like it truly came from God. What is my
discernment telling me?
The answer I keep coming up with is that I do not
feel comfortable at all when I listen to what she says.
Perhaps young Angelica
Zambrano did have a near death experience. If so, I
believe that her parents embellished her presentation by
coaching her on what to say. On the other hand, this could also
be an attempt to get attention. If it was
such an attempt, it is not the first time that such a
stunt was fabricated.
Either way, there is (at least) some bad
information mixed in with the encounter. For that
reason I reject her entire story.
Carl Worline