A paramedic who died for more than 11 minutes has revealed his “calm” near-death experience.
Adam Tapp, from London, Canada, recently appeared on the YouTube channel Beyond the Veil and recalled being in “a state of absolute tranquility” while dead for 11 and a half minutes in 2018.
Tapp, a 20-year-old paramedic, was working on a woodworking project when a wood engraving device impaled his hand, brutally electrocuting him to death, for a time.
‘I was moving the electrodes one by one and it just arced in my hands. And it was just a moment of reality,” Tapp recalled.
And it was almost overwhelming. It was like this very, very intense level of absolute pain, like every cell in my body was being torn apart.’
After the “highly dangerous machine” fatally impacted him, a friend of his, Mark Wilson, quickly disconnected the tool and called Tapp’s wife, Stephanie, a cardiac nurse.
She immediately began performing CPR on her husband and Wilson called 911 while Tapp was transported to his near-death experience ride.
Despite the excruciating pain from the shock, Tapp, the host of the ‘Tapped into Psychedelics’ podcast, said that while he was dead, he felt like he was ‘seeing spherically from a single point outward.’
Adam Tapp detailed his near-death experience while lying dead for more than 11 minutes after being electrocuted in February 2018.
After the ‘highly dangerous machine’ fatally impacted him, a friend of his, Mark Wilson, quickly disconnected the tool and called Tapp’s wife, Stephanie, a cardiology registered nurse, who initiated CPR on her husband. (Pictured: Tapp and his wife)
And I wasn’t Adam. He wasn’t dead. I was nothing. “It was just perfect, like absolute satisfaction,” he said, adding that although “there was no sense of coherence with anything,” he “just existed as consciousness.”
‘And then I felt like some kind of frequency started to wash over me, and it was like these fractal patterns. And it was like gasoline in water, that rainbow effect that was iridescent to a certain extent.
“And it was just his juxtaposition of thoughts and feelings and emotions,” Tapp explained, adding that he felt like he was “being torn apart and dumped into everything.”
‘It was basically like becoming the fabric of the universe. And it was absolutely perfect. As if there was no fear and it was nothing. “This was just the natural progression of what each of us are going to do,” he added.
As his ordeal continued, Tapp said he felt like he was being electrocuted again, but this time it was his fellow paramedics who tried to bring him back to life.
“At that moment I didn’t understand what was happening. But in retrospect, I was the one being defibrillated. They defibrillated me twice. I had a ventricular fibrillation arrhythmia, which is basically heart spasms,’ he explained.
Once the electrocution sensation disappeared, Tapp said he soon realized what was happening.
Tapp, a 20-year-old ambulance worker, recalled being in ‘a state of absolute tranquility’ while she was dead that day
“And now I’m aware that I’m Adam, that I’m dead, that I’ve just been electrocuted,” he said, adding that he was then in a “void of being” for “a really long time.”
He also recalled the “smell of burnt flesh” as he showed the finger that was missing and burned in the accident, as well as his other hand, which suffered third-degree burns.
At the hospital, Tapp was in a coma for about eight hours before waking up intubated in the intensive care unit.
Without knowing how long he was admitted, Tapp said he was surprised to discover he was only there for a few hours.
“If someone had told me it had been five years or a decade, I would have been completely honest,” Tapp said.
After being released from the hospital, Tapp said he began to become “hyperaware” of himself, including his “natural pheromone smell” and “the texture of my skin.”
Over time, Tapp eventually “gained acceptance of being in my body,” but was still “left with this overwhelming feeling that this is just the stage.” It is simply an evolution of consciousness.
After being released from the hospital, Tapp said he began to become “hyperaware” of himself, including his “natural pheromone smell” and “the texture of my skin.”
“This is just transitory, where we exist now,” he continued.
After the terrifying incident, Tapp said he began to show an interest in psychedelics.
“I feel like the very nature of death experiences is so integrally related to these secular compounds and that the dimethyltryptamine in our bodies and in our brains was responsible for dreams and death,” he explained.
He added that the experience has also made him “very deeply spiritual” after coming face to face with “infinite consciousness.”
Tapp has also noted how he has changed personally, adding that he has become more attuned to enjoying every moment, “rather than applying meaning to everything.”
“And I think at the end of the day, the one thing I would tell someone if they asked me what I learned from this, or the advice associated with it, is that death is possibly the most natural thing that happens,” he said.
‘Being dead was easy. It was perfect, it was beautiful. You know, how difficult and hard it is to be alive.