After a Near-Death Experience, Artist Loses Skill but Mysteriously Gains Other Abilities

Right: Peter Anthony, a celebrity image consultant and artist who had a near-death experience that changed his life. (Courtesy of Peter Anthony) Background: Jesse Krauss

Math was never Peter Anthony’s strong suit; he was an artist from a young age. He was also agnostic. So when he had a profoundly spiritual near-death experience and emerged from it strongly attuned to mathematics, his whole world changed.

It was the late ‘80s, and Anthony had tuberculosis and a ruptured intestinal tract. When his condition went untreated due to a misdiagnosis, his health rapidly deteriorated and he literally saw the bright light at the end of the tunnel.

The first thing he saw were mathematical codes.

“When I crossed over into the light, the first thing I saw were mathematical codes,” he said. “I was able to digest this information.” It wasn’t only numbers and equations, but at the same time music and color like he had never heard or seen before.