VisionQuest Video has recently released 2 outstanding NDE documentaries on a single DVD. "The Near-Death Experience: Into The Light" and "Through The Tunnel & Beyond" is now available on Amazon. In the first documentary, Dr. Bruce Greyson features the testimony of six people who experienced a NDE. In the second documentary, Dr. Raymond Moody teaches the technique for visionary encounters (ADCs) with deceased loved ones. This is a superb documentary shot around the world at sacred sights, among them Epyhyra, Greece where Homer described as the Oracle of the Dead. People share in intimate detail what they have experienced in death. After studying the rituals performed there and throughout the ages, Moody replicated the conditions in his own studio. Purchase the DVD at VisionQuest Video.

Professor Sir Martin Rees is to suggest that �life, the universe and everything� may be no more than a giant computer simulation with humans reduced to bits of software. Rees, Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, will say that it is now possible to conceive of computers so powerful that they could build an entire virtual universe. The possibility that what we see around us may not actually exist has been raised by philosophers many times dating back to the ancient Greeks and appears repeatedly in science fiction. [Read more]

As Rempfer prepared to die, she worried about what would happen to her soul in the moments immediately after her death. Rempfer believed in an afterlife, but worried about "getting to the other side," Underwood says. Rempfer knew about the "white light" described by people who have had near-death experiences. Yet she was scared about how she would react when she saw it. She feared taking a wrong turn and getting lost in the ether of some imagined purgatory. "She believed her time on Earth was complete. She didn't want to have to come back and do it all over again," Underwood says. [Read more]

A team of physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has taken a significant step toward the development of quantum communications systems by successfully transferring quantum information from two different groups of atoms onto a single photon. The work, published in the October 22 issue of the journal Science, represents a "building block" that could lead to development of large-scale quantum networks. [Read more]

Crossing the fragile line between life and death is an irreversible process. It is a point of no return and a journey towards an entirely new experience. But we are comforted by the thought that life beyond is so much better and is in fact a perfect world, where there is neither pain nor hunger. The testimonies of those who have had near-death experiences validated this belief. They picture life beyond as heavenly, bright, calm and peaceful. Perhaps, this is one big consolation for us who mourn the death of our loved ones and a bigger inspiration for us to live our lives well, considering that there is an "other side" to the heavenly experience. [Read more]

A handful of colleagues have paved the way for this type of investigation. In the mid-1960s, psychologist Charles Tart, Ph.D., of the University of California at Davis, measured skin conductance, blood volume, heart rate, and verbal reports between two people; called a sender-receiver pair. He, as the sender, received random electrical shocks to see if remote receivers could detect those events. Tart found that while they weren't consciously aware of anything out of the ordinary, the distant receivers' physiology registered significant reactions to the shocks he experienced. [Read more]

It is important for those stuck on an unpleasant image of their loved one at or near death to replace it with images from happier times showing the valuable qualities and resourcefulness of this person. Some people do this automatically, but others have a hard time getting away from macabre images of the end. Steve Andreas has described on his website � www.steveandreas.com/grief02.html a pattern that enables one to have these happier images of the loved one as though they were still around. There are many Web sites that have accounts of near-death experiences that can bring a new light to those whose beliefs are very materialistic or down to Earth. One is: www.near-death.com. [Read more]

A man says he threw a live electrical wire into his wife's bath hoping a near-death experience would save their marriage. William Dahlby said in court he was only trying to scare his wife the evening of May 9. "At no time did I ever intend to kill or hurt my wife," he said. Still, jurors found him guilty Wednesday of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and intimidation of a victim. [Read more]

After her 22-year-old son died, Karen Mossey wanted to still be able to hear his voice. Through a ghost-hunting technique called EVP - electronic voice phenomenon - Mossey believes she has found a way to hear her son and her father, who died two years ago. About four years ago, Mossey's son Robert Browning died after having a seizure while fishing. He suffered from a seizure disorder after a car accident when he was 16. �I always believed life continues after death,� Mossey said. [Read more]

Time passes slowly when we are bored or in pain; time vanishes when we are having a good time. But there is much, much more to it, especially when the scope of phenomena is widened to include experiences such as d�j� vu, near-death experience, and the strange memory capacities of mathematical savants who can remember prodigious quantities of numbers. Douwe Draaisma, a historian of psychology based in the Netherlands, has set out to report on a medley of scientific accounts of memory and experienced time with an eye for the bizarre. [Read more]

The decision to talk to a sick child about death is never easy. Many parents struggle to do what's right, but often wonder if they've made the best choice. Though a Swedish study released in September found parents who choose to talk to their children have no regrets, it also raises another, more basic question that all families of children with cancer face: How will our family handle our child's cancer diagnosis? "Nessa and I would talk about death and she would ask me things like, `What's heaven like?' or `Can I fly up there?'" Jensema said. "I was very careful telling her no one knew for sure what heaven was like - again the honesty issue - but I told her I often pictured it as the Garden of Eden - beautiful flowers, a river flowing, sunshine always." [Read more]

An array of rat brain cells has successfully flown a virtual F-22 fighter jet. The cells could one day become a more sophisticated replacement for the computers that control uncrewed aerial vehicles or, in the nearer future, form a test-bed for drugs against brain diseases such as epilepsy. Enzymes were used to extract neurons from the motor cortex of mature rat embryos and cells were then seeded onto a grid of gold electrodes patterned on a glass Petri dish. The cells grew microscopic interconnections, turning them into a �live computation device�, explains Thomas DeMarse, a biomedical engineer at the University of Florida in Gainesville, US, who carried out the research. [Read more]

Star dust found deep beneath the Pacific Ocean has led German scientists to speculate that a supernova explosion 3 million years ago might possibly have helped bring about human evolution. Gunther Korschinek and colleagues at the Technical University of Munich in Germany reported on Wednesday they found debris from an exploding supernova that could have changed the climate on Earth around the time that humanity's ancestors first began to walk. [Read more]

Scientists have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting so rapidly that much of it could be gone by the end of the century. The results could be catastrophic for polar people and animals, while low-lying lands as far away as Florida could be inundated by rising sea levels. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment was released yesterday. It will be discussed by the Arctic Council (the governments of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden, and the U.S., as well as six indigenous-peoples organizations) at a meeting in Iceland today. [Read more]

Supporters of Oregon's law say they don't expect the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case based on federal drug rules. Oregon's one-of-a-kind law allowing doctor-assisted suicide moved toward the ultimate legal test Tuesday when the U.S. Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court decision that upheld the law. [Read more]

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