Medical Humanities: A Garden Next Door: How One Woman Was Struck by Lightning, Talked to God, and Came Back to Dream the Future

With Guest Speaker:  Jeffrey J. Kripal (J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, Rice University; Associate Director of the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California)

This talk will discuss my work with Elizabeth Krohn, who was stuck by lightning in the parking lot of her synagogue on September of 1988 on the Jahrzeit or first-year anniversary of her grandfather's death and came back from death to dream the future (of major plane crashes in particular), receive a phone call from the dead, and other marvels. I first met Elizabeth in the Texas Medical Center at an event on the near-death experience and modern medicine in about 2015. We co-wrote a book together on the topic called Changed in a Flash: One Woman's Near-Death Experience and How a Scholar Thinks It Empowers Us All (North Atlantic Books, 2018). It does.

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The Medical Humanities Research Workshop Series is made possible through the support of:

Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford’s Division of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, Stanford’s Department of Anthropology