title: Paranormal experience in a medico-swimming rescue: a case study.
abstract: This study looks at the case of a 20-year-old fisherman, who was speared in the head, the spear entering at his jaw and protruding from the top of his scull, while he was swimming unaccompanied; he was rescued, admitted to the intensive care unit for an operation, remained in a coma for a few days and then had a full recovery. About 10 days before the rescue, he had visited a monk who, intuited and functioning as channel of the divine spirit, had told him that he 'should not be afraid of anything', rubbing the top of his scull and his jaw exactly at the points through which the 40-inch spear passed. After the incident, the monk prescience again the exact day on which he would recover from the coma. It is concluded that the survival of the fisherman can be attributed to a paranormal event. The monk's prescience permit the assumption that a divine spirit was pervasive throughout the universe and present in this life-threatening situation, endeavouring to assist the lifeguard, the neurosurgeons and the young fisherman.
authors.affiliation: Nektrotafeio Kouvara, P. O. Box 30015m, 19001, Kouvaras, Greece. S.Avramidis@leedsmet.ac.uk
authors.forename: Stathis
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Avramidis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003128:Coma / Q000209:etiology*; D005151:Facial Injuries / Q000209:etiology; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012886:Skull / Q000293:injuries; D013550:Swimming; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000150:complications*; D055815:Young Adult