A woman who ‘died’ after falling 60ft off a cliff has revealed exactly what happened.
Erica Tait, a psychotherapist from New Jersey, was on a hike on The Palisades, along the Hudson River, when she fell.
Erica, who was 22 at the time, came across a dried up waterfall during her hike, which she decided to try and climb down.
However, the decision turned into tragedy when she became stuck. While trying to find a route down, she ended up slipping on a rock and fell 60 ft onto large rocks.
She broke her ribs, pelvis, spinal cord, arms and punctured her lungs before becoming unconscious.
Erica had been hiking when the accident occurred (Getty Stock Photo)
Revealing that she was a ‘huge atheist’ before the accident, Erica explained she also had a ‘white light experience’.
“It taught me about how it is everything, it was the most incredible, unspeakable amount of love and peace I have ever experienced,” she said.
“… The wisdom that came from being in that energy was tremendous as well… every single cell, every atom in matter is created by this one energy and we’re actually all just one thing, we are all fully connected and because we are all one there is no separation, no death.”
Erica was at the bottom of the cliff for seven hours before she was rescued by an off-duty firefighter who had an instinct that he knew where she was.
“I made a decision and was told at the same time to come back into my body and I did that quite peacefully, there was no real resistance,” she added.
Erica spent around a month in the hospital, before being in a wheelchair for six months. She has since described the experience as a ‘gift’.