Rudy Giuliani says he experienced something beyond the physical world while fighting for his life in the hospital.

The 81-year-old former New York City mayor revealed that he had a “very significant spiritual experience” while in a coma caused by severe viral pneumonia earlier this month.

Giuliani shared the details shortly after returning home and resuming his online show, “America’s Mayor Live!” on May 13. He said he now feels fully recovered and grateful to be alive.

“I feel like I’ve recovered 100%,” Giuliani said during the broadcast. “I’ve been home a few days and doing really, really well.”

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He described a vivid dreamlike episode that occurred while he was unconscious, which he compared to approaching a trial before St. Peter.

“I would equate it to a dream of being on line headed for — I can’t say headed for heaven — headed for a trial with St. Peter,” he explained.

During the experience, Giuliani said there was “a very, very significant intervention” by his lifelong friend, Peter J. Powers, who died in 2016 from lung cancer. Powers once served as Giuliani’s campaign manager and first deputy mayor.

He added that in the dream, Powers said words so profound that Giuliani wrote them down immediately after regaining consciousness to ensure he would not forget them.

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“As soon as I could, I wrote it out so that I wouldn’t forget it, and it’s meant a lot to me, and I’ve been reflecting on it quite a bit,” Giuliani said.

Giuliani also discussed his experience with a priest and said he intends to share more about it in the future. “I don’t want to embellish it,” he said. “I don’t want to deny what was there.”

According to his doctor, Maria Ryan, Giuliani became critically ill after returning from a trip to Paris, when his breathing rapidly deteriorated. He was hospitalized on May 3 with severe respiratory distress and placed on a ventilator.

Ryan said his condition was so grave that a priest was called to administer last rites. However, by May 6, Giuliani had improved enough for doctors to remove the ventilator.

Political strategist Ted Goodman said Giuliani’s chronic respiratory condition, linked to his exposure to the September 11 attacks, contributed to his vulnerability to lung illness.

Although neither Giuliani nor his medical team described his experience as a near-death experience, his account shares similarities with those reported by patients recovering from critical illness.

A review published in 2023 in the journal *Frontiers in Psychology* analyzed more than four decades of near-death reports from hundreds of individuals.

Researchers identified recurring features in these experiences, such as out-of-body sensations, encounters with bright light or religious figures, and moments of life review.

The authors concluded that the heightened senses and awareness described by participants suggest “these experiences are neither dreams nor sleep, nor the disorders caused,” calling them “medically inexplicable.”

Giuliani has not elaborated further on the meaning of his vision but said it has given him renewed perspective and reflection.

His story emerges at a time when public interest in near-death experiences continues to grow, with others like author Gabe Poirot recently recounting their own spiritual encounters during coma states.

For Giuliani, the memory of his late friend’s words and the sense of calm he described appear to have left a lasting mark.