One day I was Googling it again to check the date of the event, when Google's suggested search strings came up with something that caught my eye: Fire the Grid scam. Scam? Seriously? Maybe they're talking about something else called Fire the Grid. What the heck. It's my moral duty to see what the other guys are saying.
Starfire Tor took the time to investigate Shelly Yates, the woman responsible for Fire the Grid. It turns out Shelly is full of it. (Mind you, I find some of Starfire's conclusions to be hasty and poorly-thought-out, but there's still plenty of clear evidence against Shelly's current claims.)
In '02, Shelly lost control of her car and fell into a frigid lake, where she claims she and her son drowned and died. Now, anyone with any medical sense knows that in cases like this, you're not dead until you're warm and dead. Shelly and her son were never warm and dead. As cold as the water was, they would have gone into a hypothermic torpor, which would have kept them alive longer.
Shelly claimed that while she was submerged, she was visited by 'beings of light,' one of which essentially told her not to fight the water, to sit still, etc. These beings would later come to tell her to do certain stuff to get the FtG movement going.
But here's the real kicker. After the accident, Shelly wrote out her story, which was published by newspapers. In her '02 story, Shelly explicitly wrote that the doctors said her son was not brain-dead.
Shelly Yates in 2002
The doctors held out little hope. They said he was almost brain-dead. "Almost," I said. "Well, almost is not definitely."
But her story on the FtG website completely contradicts what she wrote in '02.
Shelly Yates in 2007
The team of emergency doctors and neurologists were waiting for me. They assured me that my sweet little boy was indeed brain dead, and in addition to this, his internal organs were full of blood.
Her original story leaves out any mention of an NDE, but I will concede that this alone is not sufficient evidence that the NDE never occurred. It is strange, though.
There are other oddities between Shelly's '07 telling and the newspaper reports from '02:
Canadian Press newspaper in 2002
Evan Grace's condition has been upgraded to fair from critical, a spokesman for the IWK Health Centre in Halifax said yesterday.
That means he is conscious and his prognosis is favourable, but such patients "may be uncomfortable or have minor complications," said the spokesman, who would give no further details.
That means he is conscious and his prognosis is favourable, but such patients "may be uncomfortable or have minor complications," said the spokesman, who would give no further details.
Shelly Yates in 2007
...after 72 hours of constant vigil, my boy opened his little eyes and recognized me. He was back!!!
The doctors were baffled. They continued to tell me that he would never walk or talk or be a normal child again.
The doctors were baffled. They continued to tell me that he would never walk or talk or be a normal child again.
Huh? Then why did they tell the papers that there might be minor complications and call his condition 'favourable?'
We know she's lying on at least one point, and it strongly appears she is at least grossly exaggerating on another.
Ask yourself: Why has Shelly skewed the facts the propagate her "truth"? And why is she really doing this? Knowing that the woman is using deception to recruit, would you feel comfortable "firing the grid" anyway?
