Abuse
Lorraine – Integrating the Horrific
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The case below is from Lorraine Irwin in England. At the age of six she was abducted, raped, and suffocated by two men. It is a horrific story that left deep, emotional scars. It’s taken Lorraine several decades of intense counseling to reach the point where she can at last begin to integrate all that happened, plus the aftereffects that continue to occur from the near-death experience she had. Lorraine’s case is all too familiar. If you’ve read my book The New Children and Near-Death Experiences, you know of the broad range of what happens to kids and what can come after. You’ll hear more of this when I finish the research project I am currently working on – NDEs with the very young, between womb and the age of five (just missed Lorraine with this). I’m focusing on the tiny ones because of how they change – unlike children who are older. I really do not think any researcher, including me, went after a more wholistic view of near-death experiences as a “lived experience” with the young. Soon enough I shall be able to amend that. ~PMH
