A Shakespearean actor who died for seven minutes painted what he saw when he was unconscious.
Shiv Grewal, from Peckham, London, suffered a massive cardiac arrest after going out for lunch with his wife five years ago - and now depicts what he believes is the afterlife in his art.
The 60-year-old, who just finished an RSC production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, had to be revived by paramedics.
He had been previously healthy and fit, but on the way home from the restaurant he began to feel unwell, before his eyes rolled back into his head.

He said: "I knew, somehow, that I was dead.”
“I was aware my brain was dying and crying out for help. But, at the same time, I felt things completely separate from my body. It was like I was in a void but could feel emotions and sensations.
“Despite knowing I was dead, I also knew that there was a chance of coming home.
“I also understood that I’d be reincarnated, but I didn’t want that just yet. I wanted to return to life, to the material world and to my wife. I demanded that I was coming back and I got my wish.”
Arriving within minutes, paramedics were able to restart his heart, but, in the seven minutes when the actor said it stopped, he went on a strange “cosmic journey,” during which he had the power to choose between life and death.

Shiv said: “I felt there was a whole set of possibilities, various lives and reincarnations that were being offered to me. But I didn’t want them. I made it very clear that I wanted to return to my body, to my time, to my wife and to go on living.
He was rushed into surgery at Kings College Hospital for an operation to put a stent into his fully clogged main artery, Shiv went into an induced coma for a month, because of cerebral hypoxia – oxygen starvation in the brain – which has left him with epilepsy.
The actor and artist is unable to return to the stage and has speech and mobility problems.
He continued: “I needed to be proactive. I said I was coming back. I said it as a demand not a request.”
As part of his recovery he has found painting what he saw a good form of therapy.
He said: “I remembered everything that happened when my heart stopped and have tried to translate it into art.
“My works act as a map to rediscovery and to understanding my experience.”
His art will be at an exhibition called Reboot at The Sanctum Hotel in London’s Soho, from August 15 to September 24.


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good for you!

Now please could someone give us an explanation as to what's encrypted in that work of art or rather what every bit of it is all about?


Hope that isn't what or how judgement day is gonno look like?

hey like wtf ! is that d teeth of a greatwhite shark at d top left corner of the paint work?

hell no!

He died for seven minutes

Seven minutes kolo

Scaryyy!!!
Father Lawd 4give me of my sins, the one i knw and d one i know not

dynicks:
good for you!

Now please could someone give us an explanation as to what's encrypted in that work of art or rather what every bit of it is all about?


Hope that isn't what or how judgement day is gonno look like?

hey like wtf ! is that d teeth of a greatwhite shark at d top left corner of the paint work?

hell no!

Lol

Fweshspice:
Scaryyy!!!
Father Lawd 4give me of my sins, the one i knw and d one i know not

See them

First guy who died and came back alive without seeing Michael Jackson and co in hell

Lol

Tampa6246:
First guy who died and came back alive without seeing Michael Jackson and co in hell

Are u very certain that hell exists

Naah... I dont believe dis.
I dont think afterlife can be illustrated to an art piece. Anything afterlife is super-surreal & unimaginable.

U sure sey hin no wan just sell art piece ni!!

He saw space and meteorites , other people saw Jesus and Michael Jackson... This shows that the after life might not be the same for everyone... humans are unique and thus may have unique experiences on the other side.

He saw space and meteorites , other people saw Jesus and Michael Jackson... This shows that the after life might not be the same for everyone... humans are unique and thus may have unique experiences on the other side.

He saw space and meteorites , other people saw Jesus and Michael Jackson... This shows that the after life might not be the same for everyone... humans are unique and thus may have unique experiences on the other side.

I believe it exist according to the Holy book...tho I don't know who you believe in

Rolly83:


Are u very certain that hell exists

Scientists would call this NDE...Near Death Experience.

From this write, I can see one common discovery to cases I've read on quora....Separated from the body, having consciousness of void and free from worries.

this I believe.

not some I saw Jesus waving at me or some Pope screaming for help bullshit

one time I had sleep paralysis and it was a lil bit scary, I was conscious of what was happening to me but all I could see was white with me trying to break out of that state so bad but I just couldn't open my eyes or move my arm.

I was terrified but I knew what was happening so I didn't panic, I just relaxed and continued to fight for the control of my body.

I can remember being in that state and struggling to gain control of my body for over 20-30 seconds before my eyes opened and i was back to the real world lol

MrRichmond:
He saw space and meteorites , other people saw Jesus and Michael Jackson...
This shows that the after life might not be the same for everyone...
humans are unique and thus may have unique experiences on the other side.

You've a point

lols...Dis one die for 7minutes...Come make boko Haram blow ur head...U go know say 7minutes die na play....#1000yrs to come...U no go no where u dey...

Rolly83:


Are u very certain that hell exists

it does

Disneyland dreams. Lol

Hehe

Yeligray:
it does

if it does then why do most people reincarnate?

Rolly83:


Are u very certain that hell exists

Nigeria is hell

Wow! what amazed me most is that for seven(7) good minutes he showed no sign of life, but they kept trying to revive him. In my country naija you would have been declared dead long time ago.

Xoxoxigan:
if it does then why do most people reincarnate?

are you sure that reincarnation is real and not just some people's weird imagination?

He did not die for seven minutes he ran mad .