"Lumber-men incidentally uncovered the frozen body and took it to the morgue. A local pathologist refused to do the autopsy - the body was too hard. The next day the pathologist said that the man's eye pupils did not look like dead. Furthermore, the man's nails turned pink after the doctor pressed them in his fingers. The man spent 22 days lying under a thick layer of snow, but it appeared that he was still alive. The pathologist diagnosed a deep lethargic sleep, which had been caused with a blow on the head."

"A procedure was performed in which doctors removed part of Horn's skull to allow the brain to swell. The section of skull was sewn into his abdomen until it was replaced weeks later. On the operating table, Horn told Shriver he had a near-death experience. "I saw a bank of white light, and then I saw all my beloved animals," Horn said. "For a moment I stepped out of my body."

"A very near-sighted woman was lying on an operating table with the anesthesia medicine behind her head. When she experienced the OBE, she felt detached from her body and could read the equipment identification numbers which were out of her vision. She then floated up to the top of the room and noted that the top of the light fixtures were dirty. After she recovered from her illness, she returned to the hospital and ascertained that the numbers she had seen were correct and that the light fixtures were actually dirty."

"In his allegory, "The Divine Comedy," Dante described the soul's ascent from hell's darkness to heaven's light. For the poet it was a personal pilgrimage. "Midway this way of life we're bound upon," he wrote, "I awoke to find myself in a dark wood, where the right road was wholly lost and gone."

"I took in some water, choked and just panicked," Carr recalls. "I never experienced anything like it. I just kept taking in more water, and then I remember trying to grab onto one of Don's friends. He tried to hold me up, but I was fighting him because I was panicking and scared. He started going down with me, but he had to let me go or he would have been down there with me. After he let me go, I was limp and feeling like this was the end. This was it. It was a calming feeling that I really can't even explain. I just quit fighting, and all I remember is sinking to the bottom."

"The Oscar-winning star had an encounter with the celestial being when he was a little boy. �When I was a young child I saw an angel,� he said. �It looked like my sister but then I saw wings. It was as real as you are in front of me now."

Peter Teekamp had an NDE and has experienced numerous synchronistic coincidences connecting him to the famous 19th century artist Paul Gauguin. His latest bit of synchronicity was stumbling across a sketch that may actually be an authentic Paul Gauguin sketch worth millions of dollars. Peter's NDE and past life connections to Paul Gauguin are profiled here.

An excerpt from Carol Zaleski's excellent book entitled "Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experiences in Medieval and Modern Times" is profiled.

Several new requests have been added for NDErs to participate in studies, interviews, television shows, and surveys.

"I saw a kind of slide show and there were hundreds of faces flashing past me of people I knew at school who I hadn't thought about for years. I saw images of family and friends and I realized I was coming face-to-face with my death."

"At that point I just started heading toward that light with my being -- I don't know how -- and I was surrounded by what I would describe as a tunnel. There were like rings of wind, like the funnel of a tornado, and it was moving forward. Besides the light, which was very bright, there was a prism within it and music unlike any that there is on Earth. I don't know how to explain it. The music was so welcoming and it becomes a part of you."

"I found myself lifted out of my body standing beside the bed, looking down on what I eventually realized was myself. My spirit was attached to my body by a thin wisp of cord which looked like it could break apart at any time. I was encouraged not to keep looking back but to move on towards the light."

"The very instant I came to the conclusion I wanted to be home with them, I was there in the room with them. I saw everything they did and heard everything they said. Then I tried to make myself known to them so as to assure them that I was not really "dead" but they didn't know I was even there. They were talking about me coming home for lunch, etc. They had no knowledge about me being drowned at all."

PMH Atwater will answer questions submitted to her from subscribers to this newsletter.

Coming soon to my website is a section devoted solely to book reviews of NDE and NDE-related books. My goal is to have reviews of every book on these topics that was ever published.

The following research conclusions topics are coming soon: Soul & Spirit, Told not ready, Spirit guides, Telepathy, Homecoming, Animals, Art, and Angels.