I rejected religion all my life. Then a mysterious illness left me begging to die... and I saw God's body. It completely shattered my ego

A woman who had previously rejected the traditional teachings of God has revealed how her entire view on life and faith changed when she nearly died while vacationing in South Asia.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, Colorado-based herbalist Scarlet Ravin said she contracted an illness believed to be COVID-19 during a December 2019 trip to rural Sri Lanka - and claimed she may have been among the first patients to come so close to death.

Ravin, now 43, said a sore throat at the start of her vacation quickly spiraled into a high fever, intense body pain and delirium. It left her unable to stand or breathe in a local hotel as she begged her former partner to find some medication.

She told the Daily Mail that she visited a local hospital, but the language barrier made it nearly impossible to communicate. She claimed she was prescribed medication, but believed them to be veterinary drugs. (The Daily Mail was unable to independently verify this claim.)

Upon returning to the hotel, still sick, she claimed her boyfriend abandoned her to go shopping. Then, Ravin said, she appealed to God to end the suffering she said was so bad it transported her into another realm.

'What happened mentally was this downward spiral of, "I'm gonna die here. I'm with someone who doesn't care about me, which means I'm alone." My body felt like it was dying, and then once my mind gave into the negativity, the pain became so overwhelming,' she told the Daily Mail.

'I really did pray to die. I just said, "If this is how you want me to die, I'm done. I don't think I can survive this."'

In that moment, Ravin claimed she had a near-death experience (NDE) where she left her physical body and became pure energy. She described the feeling as being engulfed by an endless field of unconditional love and light, which she identified as the presence of God.

Ravin claimed there were no other beings in this realm, no life review and no tunnel to the mythical afterlife - just a pure, overwhelming peace that dissolved every self-judgment, mistake, pain and feeling of unworthiness she had ever carried. 

When she awoke, she said, the severe fever had broken, she was able to breathe again and the pain had been reduced by half.

Along with healing her body, Ravin revealed that the experience had completely upended her entire mindset. While she once believed she was responsible for her own spiritual evolution and achievements, she came out of the illness thinking that everything she did was connected to God's presence.

'My ego was completely shattered, and who I thought I was before the trip was not who I was anymore,' Ravin told the Daily Mail.

'For the first time in my life, I felt this presence looking at me and loving me, unconditionally.'

The traditional healer and best-selling author described this realm as a field of light that seemed to spread out across an eternal plane. Despite not having a physical body, she told the Daily Mail she believed the light was the body of God.

'I was looking at God's body,' she claimed. 'It's just that God's body was this infinite, eternal light. There were layers to it.' 

She described it as the experience of standing in a field, looking across the expanse without an end in sight - just the horizon. Though, she said she didn't actually have a body to stand in.

'I remember looking down and being like, "Oh, I don't have any legs or anything."'

She claimed she then had a non-verbal, telepathic conversation with God. She said it felt like she was a child being told by a parent that all of her troubles would soon be forgotten.

Afterward, she described a feeling of restriction - as though the ball of energy she said she had become was shrinking, and her consciousness was being squeezed back into her human body.

Although Ravin couldn't tell how long the experience lasted, she claimed the journey reversed the serious effects of her illness.

Ravin told the Daily Mail it took years for her to fully process what had happened in Sri Lanka, and added that the experience motivated her to learn about the teachings of Jesus and the pursuit of enlightenment.

She decided to study popular spiritual book A Course in Miracles, which teaches people how to experience inner peace, forgive others and themselves, and feel closer to God by changing the way they think about the world and daily life.

Through her studies, Ravin said she has come to believe that all people are interconnected, existing as different frequencies of the same energy source - with God resonating at an extremely high frequency, which humans could approach through feelings of peace and love.

Moreover, she also now believes it is possible to return to God's realm of pure energy without an NDE.

'What my path is now in life is to experience that again, but in my body,' she said. 'And I know in every cell of my body that that's 100 percent possible.'

She noted that since her 2019 experience, she has had 'three to five' others where she briefly reached God's energy frequency again through deep meditation.

'It's just about transforming my consciousness now, and having God flood my consciousness with the God mind,' she told the Daily Mail. 'So it's almost like I have a target now, and I know what it feels like once I reach that target in terms of your own spiritual evolution.'

Now, six years after she got sick in Sri Lanka, Ravin is sharing her experience with the world. She said she is starting her own YouTube channel where she teaches people about the power of God's love and how to raise one's frequency to reach enlightenment.

She added that her personal experience in what she claimed was the afterlife removed her own stigmas about discussing God and faith, which had existed since childhood.

'I love the word God,' Ravin said. 'I feel like God is very real. I'm still not attracted to organized religion, but because I've removed the trigger from the word God and from the word Jesus, I'm able to take the gems and the teachings out of organized religion that help me advance and get closer to the God within.'