🚨 Brianna Lafferty, a 33-year-old from Colorado, lived with a rare neurological condition called myoclonus dystonia, which causes sudden, uncontrollable muscle contractions. One day, her condition made her heart stop. In the hospital, doctors declared her clinically dead for eight minutes - no heartbeat, no breathing, no brain activity.
But according to Brianna, her awareness never actually disappeared. She says it felt like she gently stepped out of her body, like taking off a heavy coat, and entered a space beyond time. There was no pain or fear, just a sense of peace and clarity, and a feeling of being more alive than ever.
In that state, she noticed that her thoughts shaped what she experienced. Any negative thought faded before it could fully form, and peaceful ones seemed to ripple outward. While only eight minutes passed here, she says it felt like months as she explored, reflected, and met beings made of pure awareness who radiated love and wisdom.
When she came back, she had to relearn basic things and even went through brain surgery due to damage to her pituitary gland. But she says something deeper changed. She’s no longer afraid of death and lives with a stronger sense of purpose and awareness of how much our thoughts influence our reality.
Now, Brianna sees death not as an ending, but as what she calls “a change of address” - a shift in form rather than a final goodbye.
A powerful moment of Humanity!
After Detroit Lions player Maurice Norris suffered a brutal neck injury and was taken to the hospital from the field.
Both Detroit Lions and Atlanta Falcons agreed to snap the ball and let the clock run on out on the game with over 12 minutes left in the 4Q.
The game is officially suspended after the play went on for 6 minutes.
Class act by Dan Campbell and Raheem Morris.
Never seen anything like this before...
Sometimes life is bigger than football. 🙏
Patrick Stewart was once filmed dancing and singing on the bridge of the USS Enterprise-D in 1991 as a birthday surprise for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Though never intended for public release, a copy of the clip eventually surfaced as a bonus feature on a DVD
bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”
“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” https://t.co/2Ahi7zBKxU
This is good 💯
Pope Francis wrote this in the Hospital.
“The walls of hospitals have heard more honest prayers than churches...
They have witnessed far more sincere kisses than those in airports...
It is in hospitals that you see a homophobe being saved by a gay doctor.
A privileged doctor saving the life of a beggar...
In intensive care, you see a Jew taking care of a racist...
A police officer and a prisoner in the same room receiving the same care...
A wealthy patient waiting for a liver transplant, ready to receive the organ from a poor donor...
It is in these moments, when the hospital touches the wounds of people, that different worlds intersect according to a divine design. And in this communion of destinies, we realize that alone, we are nothing.
The absolute truth of people, most of the time, only reveals itself in moments of pain or in the real threat of an irreversible loss.
A hospital is a place where human beings remove their masks and show themselves as they truly are, in their purest essence.
This life will pass quickly, so do not waste it fighting with people.
Do not criticize your body too much.
Do not complain excessively.
Do not lose sleep over bills.
Make sure to hug your loved ones.
Do not worry too much about keeping the house spotless.
Material goods must be earned by each person—do not dedicate yourself to accumulating an inheritance.
You are waiting for too much: Christmas, Friday, next year, when you have money, when love arrives, when everything is perfect...
Listen, perfection does not exist.
A human being cannot attain it because we are simply not made to be fulfilled here.
Here, we are given an opportunity to learn.
So, make the most of this trial of life—and do it now.
Respect yourself, respect others. Walk your own path, and let go of the path others have chosen for you.
Respect: do not comment, do not judge, do not interfere.
Love more, forgive more, embrace more, live more intensely!
And leave the rest in the hands of the Creator.”
—Pope Francis
bell hooks: "We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.”