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Reports of OBEs and NDEs are often simply anecdotal, but the hospital environment allows Sam Parnia to monitor and compare oxygen, carbon dioxide and salt levels in the patients who did and did not have either experience. His study also involves a novel method of testing if the "self" actually does leave the body during an OBE. Sam has suspended boards below the ceiling and these have images on the upper side. The idea is that if people do look down from above, they may recall the extra information. As yet, no patients have reported seeing these images. Whether these phenomena are visions of a dying brain or paranormal activity, Dr Parnia says science needs to offer an explanation of what happens when we die. "I think that NDEs hold the key to finally solving this mystery. In studying them further we will be able to discover the true nature of the relationship between the mind and the brain and answer the wider questions regarding the existence of an afterlife."  [Read more here]

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I felt a pinch in my chest and I found myself in a tunnel, what seemed to be a tunnel. I walked or floated down the tunnel until I came to ... two more tunnels. One was very bright and the other one was black. So I took the one on the right, which was light, and suddenly appeared before a picket fence, similar to the fences you'd find around the old railway stations ... I was looking out on an area which was multi-coloured. The colours were beautiful. I can't describe them. The only way I could describe them - it was a very, very beautiful garden. What seemed a few seconds, my parents appeared from the side, were standing in front of me, smiling. My mother-in-law, she joined them. They're all smiling and I had the urge to go through the fence, through a gate into the garden. And my father gave me a look which fathers give to naughty children. In other words: "Don't do that, or else." So I didn't go through the gate. Next thing I found I was back in the tunnel going the way I'd come. [Read more here]

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Watching himself die and be resuscitated -- twice -- has brought the Rev. Elkan Kemp to his own interpretation of a relationship with God ... "I remember I was in the hospital and they were trying to resuscitate me," Kemp said. "And I was off in one side of the room watching what was going on while they were trying to bring me back to life. At the time, it was not an emotional experience, but just a matter-of-fact experience of witnessing it." Then there was the pneumonia incident, when Kemp spent too long a period on his back. It caused his breathing to become impaired and he suffocated. "I saw the doctors working on my body, lifting me up. And I heard the death rattle. The doctor pulled the sheet over my body and said, 'We're done.' Then the nurse pulled it off and tried again, and I came back," Kemp said. "It was kind of like a dream or a nightmare." [Read more here]

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He floated into an "almost blinding white light," he said. "I heard dolphins clicking, and there was this really white light with a blue hue," said Patterson, now 35. "Then I saw seven angels, and they took me into a building. They were your traditional angels with wings and everything. They were 14 feet tall, and they were all females." During his time with the angels, Patterson said he learned that God and angels love people's souls unconditionally, understanding that the mind is a separate entity that can force people to make bad decisions. "You feel so peaceful and loved," he said, describing the angels' presence. He added the angels explained to him people are reincarnated until they learn to respond with love in bad situations instead of anger. When he awoke in his bed the next morning after being slammed back into his body, he didn't tell anyone about his experience, but he did change his life. "I try to spend time meditating, and it made me study religions to find the common truth among all of them," said Patterson, who earned an undergraduate degree in psychiatry. "It made me 100 percent responsible for myself." [Read more here]

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"I've always been interested in the paranormal. I had a near-death experience when I was six years old. I drowned in a river and was resuscitated by my sister. While I was drowned I saw another boy in the water. I was being dragged away from him and I realised that this other boy was me. So I knew at the age of six that there is some form of other existence and from then on I've been searching, through every job and life situation I've had, for this paranormal life ... When I published Shadowmancer I had a series of dreams that told me what was going to happen in the future and they've all come true," he explains. [Read more here]

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A soldier "died" for 40 minutes after a horrible car crash - then amazed his Sheffield family by regaining consciousness. Sgt. David Gratton was about to be deployed to Iraq when his Army Land Rover was involved in a serious motorway collision. The 22-year-old squaddie was brought back to life at a top intensive care unit ... "My son was clinically dead for 40 minutes but somehow a surgeon managed to save his life." David, who was based at Aldershot Army barracks in Surrey, was traveling in an Army Land Rover when it collided with another vehicle. Rescue teams who attended the accident on the M3 in Basingstoke in February failed to detect breathing and thought David had died. Doctors later conducted a medical test which showed he had the same level of consciousness as a dead body. [Read more here]

Take Joanie Thurston for instance. She was a 52 year old woman when she crashed her late model compact car into a light pole. The force of the impact crushed her chest and caused major internal damage. Moments later Thurston watched the paramedics pull her from her car from above. Joanie wrote a book about her near death experience called Possible Fatal with fellow writer, Wally Johnston. She candidly reveals that one of the true miracles of her near death experience is that she was changed for the better. From everyday personality shifts to eradicating deep emotional wounds, Thurston's NDE and its aftermath is a powerful biographical testament. [Read more here]

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On October 1, 2005, Mellen-Thomas Benedict spoke at the Virginia Beach IANDS and an audiocassette tape and a VHS videotape of his presentations were made. Copies are available of his first presentation (a 2-hour audio tape) and his second presentation (a 3-hour video) through the Virginia Beach IANDS. For a donation to the Virginia Beach IANDS of $10 (also add $2 for shipping & handling), you can get either the audio tape or the video tape. For a donation of $20 (also add $2 shipping & handling), you can get both which is the recommended package from the
Virginia Beach IANDS. Place your order by sending an email to Dick Dinges at RichardADinges@aol.com. Specify whether you want the 2-hour audio tape, the 3-hour video, or both (the recommended package). Make your check out to "VBIANDS" and mail it to this address: Dick Dinges, VBIANDS, 1285 Paramore Drive, Virginia Beach, VA 23454. [Read more here]

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Scientists probing the paranormal said on Wednesday they hoped to set up a major experiment in Britain trying to find out once and for all whether the mind can step outside the body at the brink of death. The proposed study would involve interviewing people who had survived cardiac arrest to see if they had had an out of body experience while on the operating table. "Over the course of a year we hope this would give us 100 people who leave their bodies," neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick told reporters at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The researchers plan to ask 25 hospitals to place special objects and pictures around their cardiac units. Each survivor who then claimed to have an out of body experience -- where they typically hover near the ceiling watching the resuscitation process -- would be asked if they had noticed any of the objects. "If they do notice them when the brain is not functioning then it makes the case for the mind being separate from the brain," he said. [Read more here]

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Near-death experience is a term used to describe a unique psychological experience in individuals who survive a life-threatening medical condition such as cardiac arrest and includes one or several of the following elements: the sensation of seeing one's body from a vantage point outside the physical body (out-of-body experience); entering a tunnel; meeting living or dead relatives; a strong positive affect; encountering "religious" aspects such as a "being of light," lights and colors, a celestial landscape or a deity; a panoramic life review; and a ... [Read more here]

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The group, Friends of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, have been meeting every fourth Saturday for about two years. In the case of the mediator, Rev. Juliet Nightingale, her life has slipped precariously from her hands not once, but three times, from bouts of colon cancer, pneumonia and meningitis. But these folks aren't concerned with the particulars of how they'd died, but rather, how to live seeing what they've seen, knowing what they know ... Nightingale mentions that she jetted around the universe in death, and while she “saw scenes that were difficult to look at,” she never felt afraid. There is no ego in death, she explains -- no attachment to people or things. What keeps spirits around, according to these folks, is the energy of the living, who refuse to let them pass. So the notion that people live on forever in our memory, while comforting to us, may not be that great a shake for those trying to get to more exciting destinations. [Read more here]

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The following are some of the many benefits that out-of-body experiencers have reported worldwide in the last three decades ... Development of a greater awareness of reality ... Personal verification of our immortality ... Accelerated personal development ... A decreased fear of death ... Increased psychic abilities ... An increased desire for answers ... Realizations concerning death ... Accelerated human evolution ... Spontaneous healing ... More expansive self-concept ... Increased spirituality ... Recognizing and experiencing past-life influences ... Accelerated psychological change ... Obtaining personal answers ... Encountering a being of light, an angel, or nonphysical resident of some kind ... An increased respect for life ... Increased self-respect, self-responsibility and inner dependence ... A reduction in hostility, violence and crime ... Increased knowledge and wisdom ... A profound sense of knowing instead of believing ... An inner calmness ... An increased zest for living ... Increased intelligence, memory recall and enhanced imagination ... A sense of adventure. [Read more here]

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At two of America's best universities, professors and doctors are studying the existence of the soul, near-death experiences and reincarnation ... The University of Virginia's Division of Perceptual Studies is another hotbed of afterlife inquiry. It's home to both near-death studies (why do people have visions on the operating table?) and a researcher who compiles reports of children who talk about their past lives. Have these researchers actually found anything to suggest the existence of a soul or afterlife? Schwartz said his research with about 20 mediums proves that some do indeed have a connection to the dead, or at least a way to glean details about them. [Read more here]

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Nancy Clark is not afraid of dying. Neither is Dennis Hale. Been there. Done that. Came back. Their deaths, they say, changed their lives, and for the better. Clark, a resident of Dublin, and Hale, who lives in the small town of Rock Creek outside of Ashtabula, have both had what they classify as near-death experiences. Clark is convinced she died during the birth of her son in 1962. Hale firmly believes he passed away in 1966 while floating on a life raft in Lake Huron following the sinking of an ore freighter on which he was a member of the crew. In addition, Clark had what she terms a "transcendent experience" while delivering a eulogy in 1979 for a close family friend who had been killed in a plane crash in Alaska. Clark had attempted to completely ignore that first experience in 1962, but not so in 1979 when, she says, once again she lifted out of her body and saw that bright light. No longer concerned with what people might think of her mental state, Clark began telling family and friends what had happened to her in that funeral home.  [Read more here]

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"For 35 minutes he was dead, the doctors said, but somehow his heart came back and it started beating again." Roberto Zanini, a cardiac specialist at the hospital, said: "You do sometimes get these sort of unusual cases in medicine. "For 25 minutes we had fought to save him with electrocardiogram and massage but there was no response. "When there was no sign of heart or brain activity he was declared dead, but under Italian law he still had to be kept attached to the monitor for two hours. Then a full 35 minutes later the machine beeped again and his heart started beating. "Further chest massage was given and he responded well this time - so much so that he was able to speak and eat a light meal. "As a matter of routine we checked the monitor and it was in perfect working order. "The patient is still in hospital but is responding well to treatment." Mr. Maestrelli is now understood to be recovering. Yesterday his wife, Anna Maria, said: "We just can't believe it. This is truly a miracle." [Read more here]

And in the last chapter, "Six Feet Over," Roach reports on the study that most excites her. At the University of Virginia Hospital, Professor Bruce Greyson has set up a computer screen facing the ceiling of a defibrillator-insertion surgery room where patients routinely have "near-death experiences." During such out-of-body wanderings, people often claim that they float somewhere near the ceiling, watching their own surgery in progress. If so, they will be able to see -- and later describe -- the image on Greyson's computer screen, which would not be viewable from elsewhere in the room. (Too bad the study is in too early a stage to have produced any reportable data.) ... Indeed, this personal journey is what the book most successfully captures: How a skeptic learned to be a believer (or a possible believer, anyway), and still keep her wit intact. [Read more here]

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The six bullets lodged in Jim Holladay's skull sometime make his ears ring when he passes through a metal detector. But he said they also gave him an opportunity to hear a joyful sound never heard on Earth. For seven minutes that "seemed like an eternity" Holladay, the victim of a 1992 robbery, said he was dead. Before doctors at Huntsville Hospital revived him, he said, he saw heaven approach, only to learn it wasn't his time to be there. "But I was there long enough to hear the heavenly choir," he said. "It was the most beautiful thing I ever heard. It was way better than any rock band." Doctors told Holladay, 39, at the time, that he seemed upset when his heart started beating again. Holladay said he was mad because he couldn't stay in heaven.  [Read more here]

In the Andersons' new release "Rainbows & Bridges: An Animal Companion Memorial Kit", they deal with all aspects of pet loss, including after-death reunions. McCluskey says in "Rainbows & Bridges" that her deceased Great Dane Keira communicated in a dream that her sister, of whom the dog had been fond, needed a breast exam immediately. McCluskey related the warning to her sister via an e-mail letter. About a week after the dream, McCluskey's sister phoned and said that indeed, she had been putting off having an exam of a lump in her right breast. She hadn't wanted to alarm McCluskey by telling her about it. After reading the letter about McCluskey's dream with Keira, the sister got a mammogram and thankfully, found that the lump was benign. [Read more here]

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An Italian man who spent two years supposedly unconscious in a deep coma and written off by doctors as nearly dead, awoke saying he had heard and understood everything happening around him during his ordeal. Salvatore Crisafulli, a father of four, is describing his case as a "miracle". His brother said Crisafulli was "an Italian Terri Schiavo case", a reference to the brain-damaged Florida woman who died in March after her feeding tube was removed. Crisafulli, 38, who had been injured in a road accident in 2003, emerged from the coma three months ago, but began speaking only recently. His first word was "Mama". [Read more here]

She said that after some of the patients died, she continued to work with their family members. "They were grieving, but they were rational," Apollon said. "They were experiencing the presence of their loved ones. They would sometimes hear them calling out their names or they would be sitting on the couch and suddenly the seat next to them would start to go down" ... She's fascinated by what patients have told her about psychic dreams. Most dreams are psychological, with issues from daily life and symbols that may help provide meaning to them. Psychic dreams are different. "A psychic dream may be one where you said to your loved one before you go to bed, 'I hope we have a visit,' " she said. "They're so real, and when you wake up it's a very different experience than a psychological dream. You know that you have had a connection with your loved one." [Read more here]

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Bill Guggenheim, co-author of "Hello from Heaven!," was invited by Nick Roy, of Greensburg, who for nearly three years has led meetings at WCCC to discuss purported contact from dead people ... Guggenheim will talk about reported after-death communication incidents that people claim helped them through the loss of loved ones ... Roy's interest in after-death communication began years ago, when he believes that his dead brother contacted him by phone. He started a discussion group at WCCC after he researched after-death communication and found others with similar experiences. More than 400 people have attended and enrollment has increased this semester ... His interest began in 1978 at a seminar by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, an expert on death and dying who said a deceased patient "came back" to her. Two years later, Guggenheim said, he had an experience that saved the life of his youngest son, Jonathan, when he was a toddler. The family had a pool with a locked safety gate, but the boy somehow got through. Inside the house, Guggenheim claimed, he heard "in his head" the voice of his dead father. "He told me to go outside and check the swimming pool," he said. He found Jonathan floating face down in the water. The boy survived. "That really grabbed my attention," Guggenheim said.  [Read more here]

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Rob Macomber and his family say they have been receiving communications via "automatic writing transmissions" from the spirit of the deceased psychic, Ruth Montgomery. The Macombers are writing a book based upon the automatic writing communications they say they began receiving after Mrs. Montgomery's June 10, 2001 death. According to the Macombers, these transmissions occur when the energy of a departed spirit enters the body and moves the pen in the hand across the paper on its own ... The book includes: A 3-part action plan that provides solutions to the planet's greatest troubles. Why 50% of the book's profits will be donated to help address the world's single most pressing problem: the plight of the Third World. Ruth's description of Heaven and the hope that she and the Spirit Guides have for humanity. In one of her communications, she told the Macombers, "It is fun doing this work from 'The Other Side.' There is so much freedom 'up here' . . . I can't wait for the day when humans on Earth will experience this kind of bliss." In another message, the Spirit Guides explained: "To give away our many secrets is such a relief . . . " [Read more here]

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Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon debuted her new radio show, "A Walk to the Otherside" on October 27th. Carla is the author of "One Last Hug Before I Go: The Mystery and Meaning of Deathbed Visions." Her radio show airs every other week Thursdays 9 pm to 10 pm CST and her topics include healthy spirituality, life after death research, healing grief and more. Call-ins are welcome. Carla's up-beat program takes the fear out of death by focusing in on research and investigation into the incredible, mystical experiences that often occur around the time of physical death, such as after death communications, the paranormal departing visions of the dying and those who love them, near death experiences and premonitions. For more information on how to tune in every other Thursday night, visit her website. [Read more here]

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To paraphrase Jane Austen, there are two truths universally known. Everybody dies and everybody dreams, whether they can remember them or not. An emerging notion is that the dreams we have before we die may be particularly significant and can be used to ease a terminal person and their families' pain and grief. The Rev. Patricia Bulkley worked as a spiritual counselor at a hospice in Marin County, Calif., for more than 10 years. What she found when speaking to patients was many of her patients had stories to tell and dreams to share ... The authors focus on three types of dreams and the symbols inherent in them. These are dreaming that one is going on a journey and all the excitement that entails, seeing dead who act as a guide, and dreams where the dreamer resolves a conflict or faces a recurrent sense of anxiety. [Read more here]

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"Our research strongly suggests that [Van Praagh] is actually receiving communication with the consciousness and energy of the person who died," says Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona. "The simplest explanation that accounts for the largest amount of information is the survival of consciousness after death." Van Praagh is on a mission to help people understand that, so they can evolve to the next life without fear. "The dead have a lot to teach us," he says. "The dead always leave gifts behind. We have to be open to receiving them. We are all connected in some cosmic way. We are all one." "Mediums: We See Dead People" also follows John Holland to a restaurant in Little Italy where he "reads" the death of mobster Joey Gallo more than 30 years ago; we visit the home of psychiatrist Raymond Moody, who is the leading investigator of what he calls "life after life" and watch Pam Coronado as she works with police to help solve crimes. [Read more here]

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a kind of Baedeker (i.e. travel guide) for the afterlife and, like the best guidebooks, its reassuring refrain is “Don't panic!” After death, it says, you will be assailed by thunderous sounds and bewildering apparitions as first the peaceful deities rise before you, then the wrathful ones, who drink blood and eat the entrails of bloated corpses. If you are very unlucky, Yama (representing the forces of impermanence and the laws of cause and effect) will chop off your head, lick out your brains and drink your blood, then eat you. The trick is not to be afraid and to remember that you don't have a body any more, so he can't hurt you ... This idea fascinated Jung, who revered The Tibetan Book of the Dead as a great psychological work. According to Highest Yoga Tantra (from which The Tibetan Book of the Dead derives), only during the process of dying can we achieve liberation from the cycle of existence. Advanced yogis can make trial runs by inducing a deathlike state, but after death the rest of us must try to remember what we've read in The Tibetan Book of the Dead and put it into practice.  [Read more here]

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Captain Snow did not believe in reincarnation when he went for a past life regression on a dare made by a fellow police officer. To his surprise, in the regression Snow had a vivid past life memory, which he states was “more real” than waking consciousness. In the memory, he saw himself as an artist painting a portrait of a hunchback woman. Snow remembered 20 specific details of this lifetime ... When Snow wandered into a small art gallery in the French Quarter, he was shocked to find the portrait of the hunchback woman, exactly as he had seen it during the past life regression. The portrait was done by the artist Carroll Beckwith. Snow found that Beckwith had a diary preserved at the New York Academy of Design and upon reading it, Captain Snow was able to validate all 20 memories from his past life regression, which led to his writing, “Looking for Carroll Beckwith.” In this book, Captain Snow states he has proven reincarnation to be true and remarks that if his reincarnation case was presented in court, he would win “without plea bargaining.” Captain Snow has the same facial features as Carroll Beckwith. [Read more here]

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It was almost like living a miracle for a Gujjar family based in south Delhi -- a four-year-old angel called Manisha walked into their arms on the shraddh of their daughter who died about five years ago. Manisha, the little girl, claimed that she was their deceased daughter Suman, who had died of typhoid at the age of 15 on December 14, 2000. The infant, who apparently has vivid memories of her last birth, took to her "past-life parents" as her own. "She ran into our arms when she saw us. She pointed to me and said voh nahi yeh mere papa hai ," says Chaudhary Kamal Singh, her father of the last birth. [Read more here]

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The anaesthetic ketamine is growing in prevalence on the UK dance scene, recent surveys have found. Best known by the street names K, Special K and Vitamin K, ketamine is a synthetic "dissociative" anaesthetic used for medical and veterinary purposes ... Ketamine is dose-specific so the amount taken determines the level of effect. At low doses the user may feel euphoric, experience waves of energy, and possibly synaesthesia - sensations such as seeing sounds or hearing colours. At higher doses the user might become paralysed, experience hallucinations and alternate realities, and a feeling of disassociation giving an "out of body" experience known as the "K-hole". Dr Susan Blackmore took ketamine in an experiment - hear her experiences by clicking the audio button above. "It is an extraordinary thing to be lying on your back, not to be able to move anything at all except your eyes ..." [Read more here]

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Spend some time on the Shadowlands Web site, and you'll hear plenty of ghost stories ... Carlson counts herself as one of those people. Now 43, she says she's dealt with ghosts ever since age 2, when she almost died while stricken with spinal meningitis. She recalls a "typical" near-death experience with a twist: moving through a dark tunnel toward a bright light, then seeing a woman who looked like her grandmother, and hearing the woman say "you have a lot of people to help and to make understand." Years later, she says, she was thumbing through a family photo album and spotted the mysterious woman. It was her great-aunt, she says, who had died years before her experience. That was the first of many encounters with ghosts, she says. Now, she spends much of her time looking for them as director of the Las Vegas Society for Supernatural Investigation. She also spends much time helping with the Shadowlands site, and takes seriously the ghost stories visitors submit. [Read more here]

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Bill Fox, 75, said he supports the law [doctor-assisted suicide] but that the safeguards -- such as requiring two doctors to ensure a patient is mentally competent and terminally ill -- are necessary. "A person in my stage now -- I have a few aches and pains -- no, I wouldn't want to do it now, and I shouldn't have the right to do it now," he said. "But if it got to the point of having a tremendous amount of pain, I'd like the choice. I won't say that I would run to my doctor and grab pills, but I would like the choice." Fox's decision to support the law is partly because he survived an auto accident that killed his wife and left him in a coma for three weeks when he was 35. "I had an out-of-body experience -- a near-death experience," he said. "I could look down at the operating table and see the doctors. There was a sense of peace and calmness and joy almost." His experience left him with no fear of death, so if someday he is in terrible pain and dying of a terminal illness, he said he wants the option of going to that peaceful place again." [Read more here]

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New research shows some levels of sleep are so deep you're practically unconscious. Researchers studied the brain activity of study participants when they were asleep and awake. They found that when participants were in the deepest levels of sleep, the brain was not sending messages to other areas of the brain like it did during wakefulness. Sleep basically cut off communication between areas of the brain ... In the study, researchers activated specific areas of the brain with magnetic stimulation, then using an EEG measured the response to the stimulation. (The "message" is sent along nerve pathways to many areas of the brain.) During the day, the stimulation was spread across the brain. During sleep, the stimulation was contained only to that region and was not passed along to other areas. According to the lead author, "the brain breaks down into little islands that can't talk to one another." [Read more here]

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In the past three decades scientific evidence has accumulated showing that the present scientific paradigm is broken. In the hard sciences: (1) DARK MATTER of an unknown form makes up most of the matter of the universe. (2) THE LAW OF GRAVITY appears to be seriously broken. (3) COLD FUSION. (4) CHARGE CLUSTERS. Under certain conditions, billions of electrons can "stick together" in close proximity, despite the law of electromagnetism that like charges repel ... (5) COSMOLOGY. (6) SPEED OF LIGHT, once thought unbreakable, has been exceeded in several recent experiments. (7) ESP. Large-scale experiments by the Princeton PEAR Lab as well as other laboratories have proven that ESP is a real, statistically verifiable scientific phenomenon. (8) PSYCHOKINESIS, or Mind Over Matter. (9) REMOTE VIEWING. (10) TIME AND PROPHECY. One unusual aspect of ESP, remote viewing and psychokinesis is that "time" doesn't seem to matter. (11) OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE. (12) GHOSTS. [Read more here]

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When tens of thousands of people can gather in a fully 3D environment to buy and sell fanciful clothing, defy gravity by flying, make friends from all over the world, build residential communities, speculate on land prices, and create and license software, what do you call it? For three years, Linden Lab, the publisher of "Second Life," has grappled with that question. "Second Life" is one of a very small number of so-called virtual worlds that eschew the traditional medieval fantasy-based role-playing game play common to such online blockbusters as "World of Warcraft," "EverQuest" and "Ultima Online." As such, Linden Lab is loathe to call "Second Life" a game, despite the accessibility of such a term.  [Read more here]

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A blind woman has baffled scientists after proving on TV that she can distinguish between colours by touch. Gabriele Simon, 48, from Wallenhorst in Germany, revealed her ability in her country's most popular TV show Wetten dass. She used her fingertips to recognise the different colours of various t-shirts and blouses while blindfolded. She said: "I took me 20 years to master this skill. It is a combination of pure learning and concentration." Ms Simon added: "This ability really gives me more independence, as I don't need to ask my mother about what to wear anymore." [Read more here]

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Imagine that a physicist detonates a nuclear bomb located beside her. In almost all parallel universes, the nuclear explosion will vaporize the physicist. However, there should be a small set of alternative universes in which the physicist somehow survives (ie. the set of universes which support a "miraculous" survival scenario). The idea behind quantum immortality is that the physicist will remain alive in, and thus able to experience, at least one of the universes in this set, even though these universes form a tiny subset of all possible universes. Over time the physicist would therefore consider herself to be living forever ... Proponents point out that while it is highly speculative, quantum immortality violates no known laws of physics. [Read more here]

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Scientists at Edinburgh University have developed a way of moving an object without touching it, in breakthrough research which could be as revolutionary as the discovery of electricity. The team of researchers has been able to move objects across flat surfaces and even up a slope with nothing more than a light beam. In the future, the technology could be developed to make molecular machines, and with research could eventually lead to the development of artificial muscles which can perform specific physical tasks. Scientists believe such machines could one day be used to control the movement of drugs around the human body, making sure they go exactly where they are needed. And they could also find their way into "smart" materials, which can change their properties in response to a stimulus such as light. [Read more here]

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Being prepared for emergencies is crucial at home, school, work and in your community. Disaster can strike quickly and without warning. It can force you to evacuate your neighborhood, workplace or school or can confine you to your home. What would you do if basic services -- water, gas, electricity or telephones -- were cut off? Local officials and relief workers will be on the scene after a disaster, but they cannot reach everyone right away. Therefore, the best way to make you and your family safer is to be prepared before disaster strikes ... Possible disasters include blackouts, chemical emergencies, drought, earthquakes, fires, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, mudslides, terrorism, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunami, volcanoes, wild fires, and winter storms. [Read more here]

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The following NDE Books are due for release on January 2006:

In 1969, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross changed the way we think about the final stage of our lives with her revolutionary book, "On Death and Dying." Now, in this landmark recording, this revered researcher speaks about her largely private revelations, observations, and conclusions on life after death. Dr. Kübler-Ross, the first scientist to embark upon a genuine inquiry on the similarities between near-death experiences of people all over the world, gathered empirical data and personal impressions from countless studies that informed her opinions on what awaits us all when we leave this life. From her family archives comes a rare published audio of this trailblazing author speaking in her own words, as she engages the oldest question of all: Is There Life After Death? [Read more here]

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Roach travels the world in search of answers: she heads to India to conduct research with a doctor who investigates cases of children whose families claim they are reincarnations of people from nearby villages and have the memories to prove it; she goes to the University of Arizona and meets with mediums currently working today; she tries her hand at telecommunication with the dead in the forests of California; and she even tries her hand at getting in touch with her own inner medium at a school in England. Roach is dogged in her approach as she examines each phenomenon through the lens of scientific fact. In the end, she usually walks away skeptical. The journey itself, however, is gripping, and Roach's witty asides liven up an already interesting and unusual read.  [Read more here]

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Every Monday night millions of Americans tune into Medium, NBC's new hit drama featuring Allison DuBois, an ordinary woman who helps police solve baffling crimes through her ability to communicate with the dead. What most don't know is that this fictional character is based on a true-life medium named Allison DuBois, who is a consultant to the show. For the past four years, DuBois has been the subject of rigorous scientific experiments conducted at the University of Arizona by Harvard-trained psychologist Gary Schwartz. The Truth about Medium chronicles many of those experiments and reveals hard laboratory evidence that psychic ability and mediumship are real. [Read more here]

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In The Dreamer's Book of the Dead, Robert Moss explains that we have entirely natural contact with the departed in our dreams, when they come visiting and we may travel into their realms. As we become active dreamers, we can heal our relationship with the departed and move beyond the fear of death. We also can develop the skills to function as soul guides for others, helping the dying to approach the last stage of life with courage and grace, opening gates for their journeys beyond death, and even escorting them to the Other Side. [Read more here]

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Afterlife Encounters is the culmination of the Afterlife Encounters Survey, Arcangel's five-year, international survival study. Arcangel presents all-new, first-hand accounts from individuals who've experienced visitations from the dead. Afterlife Encounters reveals the results of that study and, for the first-time, offers a systematic categorization of such encounters, explaining when these encounters are most likely to occur, and what type of apparition is likely to appear. Arcangel's eye-opening conclusion is that Afterlife Encounters provide lasting comfort to those who are mourning the loss of a loved one. [Read more here]

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Induced After-Death Communication is a new therapy that has helped thousands of patients permanently assuage their grief by allowing them private communication with their departed loved ones. Botkin, a clinical psychologist, created the therapy while counseling Vietnam vets in his work at a North Chicago VA hospital. Induced After-Death Communication presents the story of how Botkin initially made his discovery and includes 84 cases of patients who have experienced the therapy's profound healing effects. After more than two decades as a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Botkin founded the Center for Grief and Traumatic Loss. [Read more here]

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 Get a free copy of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Near-Death Experience when you join IANDS. P.M.H. Atwater's 480-page book has been called the "Encyclopedia of the NDE." This offer is good while supplies last. Go to IANDS's join page for more information about becoming a member.

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