 Dr.
Michael Sabom
is a cardiologist whose book entitled
Light and Death
includes a detailed medical and scientific analysis
of an amazing near-death experience (NDE) of a woman named
Pam Reynolds (1956--2010). In 1991, at the age of
35, Reynolds underwent a rare operation to remove
a giant
basilar artery aneurysm
in her brain that threatened her life. The size and
location of the aneurysm, however, precluded its
safe removal using the standard neuro-surgical
techniques. She was referred to a neurosurgeon,
Dr. Robert F. Spetzler, of the
Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix,
Arizona, who had pioneered
a daring surgical procedure
known as
deep hypothermic cardiac
arrest. It allowed
Pam's aneurysm to be excised with a reasonable chance
of success. This operation, nicknamed "standstill"
by the doctors who perform it, required that Pam's
body temperature be lowered to 60 degrees, her heartbeat
and breathing stopped, her brain waves flattened, and
the blood drained from her head. In everyday terms,
she was put to death. After removing the aneurysm, she
was restored to life. During the time that Pam was in
standstill, she experienced an NDE. Her remarkably detailed
veridical (i.e., verified) out-of-body observations during her surgery
were later verified to be true. Her case is considered
to be one of the strongest cases of veridical evidence in NDE research because of her ability
to describe the unique surgical instruments, the surgical
procedures used on her, and her ability to describe
in detail these events while she was clinically brain
dead. Pam Reynolds Lowery ultimately
died from heart failure, on Saturday May 22,
2010, at the age 53.
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Pam Reynolds' Surgery and Near-Death Experience |
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When
all of Pam's vital signs were stopped, the doctor
turned on a surgical saw and began to cut through Pam's
skull. While this was going on, Pam reported that she
felt herself "pop" outside her body and hover
above the operating table. Then she watched the doctors
working on her lifeless body for awhile. From her out-of-body
position, she observed the doctor sawing into her skull
with what looked to her like an electric toothbrush.
Pam heard and reported later what the nurses in the
operating room had said and exactly what was happening
during the operation. At this time, every monitor attached
to Pam's body registered "no life" whatsoever.
At some point, Pam's consciousness floated out of
the operating room and traveled down a tunnel which
had a light at the end of it where her deceased relatives
and friends were waiting including her long-dead grandmother.
Pam's NDE ended when her deceased uncle led her
back to her body for her to reentered it. Pam compared
the feeling of reentering her dead body to "plunging
into a pool of ice." The following is Pam Reynolds'
account of her NDE in her own words.
Pam Reynolds' NDE
The next thing I recall was the
sound: It was a
Natural "D."
As I listened to the sound, I felt it was pulling me
out of the top of my head. The further out of my body
I got, the more clear the tone became. I had the impression
it was like a road, a frequency that you go on ... I
remember seeing several things in the operating room
when I was looking down. It was the most aware that
I think that I have ever been in my entire life ...I
was metaphorically sitting on [the doctor's] shoulder.
It was not like normal vision. It was brighter and more
focused and clearer than normal vision ... There was
so much in the operating room that I didn't recognize,
and so many people.
I thought the
way they had my head shaved was very peculiar. I expected
them to take all of the hair, but they did not...
The saw-thing
that I hated the sound of looked like an electric toothbrush
and it had a dent in it, a groove at the top where the
saw appeared to go into the handle, but it didn't
... And the saw had interchangeable blades, too, but
these blades were in what looked like a socket wrench
case ... I heard the saw crank up. I didn't
see them use it on my head, but I think I heard it being
used on something. It was humming at a relatively high
pitch and then all of a sudden it went Brrrrrrrrr! like
that.
Someone said
something about my veins and arteries being very small.
I believe it was a female voice and that it was Dr.
Murray, but I'm not sure. She was the cardiologist.
I remember thinking that I should have told her about
that ... I remember the heart-lung machine. I didn't
like the respirator ... I remember a lot of tools and
instruments that I did not readily recognize.
There was a
sensation like being pulled, but not against your will.
I was going on my own accord because I wanted to go.
I have different metaphors to try to explain this. It
was like the Wizard of Oz - being taken up in a tornado
vortex, only you're not spinning around like you've
got vertigo. You're very focused and you have a
place to go. The feeling was like going up in an elevator
real fast. And there was a sensation, but it wasn't
a bodily, physical sensation. It was like a tunnel but
it wasn't a tunnel.
At some point
very early in the tunnel vortex I became aware of my
grandmother calling me. But I didn't hear her call
me with my ears ... It was a clearer hearing than with
my ears. I trust that sense more than I trust my own
ears.
The
feeling was that she wanted me to come to her, so I
continued with no fear down the shaft. It's a dark
shaft that I went through, and at the very end there
was this very little tiny pinpoint of light that kept
getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
The light was
incredibly bright, like sitting in the middle of a light
bulb. It was so bright that I put my hands in front
of my face fully expecting to see them and I could not.
But I knew they were there. Not from a sense of touch.
Again, it's terribly hard to explain, but I knew
they were there ...
I noticed that as I began to discern
different figures in the light - and they were all covered
with light, they were
light, and had light permeating all around them - they
began to form shapes I could recognize and understand.
I could see that one of them was my grandmother.
I don't know if it was reality or a projection,
but I would know my grandmother, the sound of her, anytime,
anywhere.
Everyone I saw,
looking back on it, fit perfectly into my understanding
of what that person looked like at their best during
their lives.
I recognized
a lot of people. My uncle Gene was there. So was my
great-great-Aunt Maggie, who was really a cousin. On
Papa's side of the family, my grandfather was there
... They were specifically taking care of me, looking
after me.
They would not
permit me to go further ... It was communicated to me
- that's the best way I know how to say it, because
they didn't speak like I'm speaking - that if
I went all the way into the light something would happen
to me physically. They would be unable to put this me
back into the body me, like I had gone too far and they
couldn't reconnect. So they wouldn't let
me go anywhere or do anything.
I wanted to
go into the light, but I also wanted to come back. I
had children to be reared. It was like watching a movie
on fast-forward on your VCR: You get the general idea,
but the individual freeze-frames are not slow enough
to get detail.
Then they [deceased
relatives] were feeding me. They were not doing this
through my mouth, like with food, but they were nourishing
me with something. The only way I know how to put it
is something sparkly. Sparkles is the image that I get.
I definitely recall the sensation of being nurtured
and being fed and being made strong. I know it sounds
funny, because obviously it wasn't a physical thing,
but inside the experience I felt physically strong,
ready for whatever.
My grandmother
didn't take me back through the tunnel, or even
send me back or ask me to go. She just looked up at
me. I expected to go with her, but it was communicated
to me that she just didn't think she would do that.
My uncle said he would do it. He's the one who took
me back through the end of the tunnel. Everything was
fine. I did want to go.
But then I got
to the end of it and saw the thing, my body. I didn't
want to get into it ... It looked terrible, like a train
wreck. It looked like what it was: dead. I believe it
was covered. It scared me and I didn't want to look
at it.
It was communicated
to me that it was like jumping into a swimming pool.
No problem, just jump right into the swimming pool.
I didn't want to, but I guess I was late or something
because he [the uncle] pushed me. I felt a definite
repelling and at the same time a pulling from the body.
The body was pulling and the tunnel was pushing ...
It was like diving into a pool of ice water ... It hurt!
When I came
back, they were playing Hotel California and the line
was "You can check out anytime you like, but you can
never leave." I mentioned [later] to Dr. Brown that
that was incredibly insensitive and he told me that
I needed to sleep more. [laughter] When I regained consciousness,
I was still on the respirator.
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About the State of Pam Reynolds' Brain Death |
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For
practical purposes outside the world of academic debate,
three clinical tests commonly determine brain death.
First, a standard electroencephalogram, or EEG, measures
brain-wave activity. A "flat" EEG denotes
non-function of the cerebral cortex - the outer shell
of the cerebrum. Second, auditory evoked potentials,
similar to those [clicks] elicited by the ear speakers
in Pam's surgery, measure brain-stem viability.
Absence of these potentials indicates non-function of
the brain stem. And third, documentation of no blood
flow to the brain is a marker for a generalized absence
of brain function.
But during "standstill",
Pam's brain was found "dead" by all three
clinical tests - her electroencephalogram was silent,
her brain-stem response was absent, and no blood flowed
through her brain. Interestingly, while in this state,
she encountered the "deepest" NDE of all Atlanta
Study participants.
Some scientists theorize that NDEs
are produced by brain chemistry. But,
Dr. Peter Fenwick,
a neuropsychiatrist and the leading authority in Britain
concerning NDEs, believes that these theories fall far
short of the facts. In the documentary, "Into
the Unknown: Strange But True,"
Dr. Fenwick describes the state of the brain during
an NDE:
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"The
brain isn't functioning. It's not there.
It's destroyed. It's abnormal. But,
yet, it can produce these very clear experiences
... an unconscious state is when the brain ceases
to function. For example, if you faint, you
fall to the floor, you don't know what's
happening and the brain isn't working. The
memory systems are particularly sensitive to
unconsciousness. So, you won't remember
anything. But, yet, after one of these experiences
[an NDE], you come out with clear, lucid memories
... This is a real puzzle for science. I have
not yet seen any good scientific explanation
which can explain that fact."
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3.
The Pam Reynolds' Debate in the Journal of Near-Death
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Keith
Augustine is a philosopher and executive editor
of an organization and website promoting atheism called
"Internet Infidels" -- now renamed "The Secular Web"
(www.infidels.org).
Beginning in the summer of 2007, Augustine submitted
three skeptical papers related to the Pam Reynolds's
case to the scholarly, peer-reviewed journal on NDEs
called the
Journal of Near-Death Studies. Normally, only papers
by physicians, scientists, medical professionals and
academics are accepted; but, according to the Editor
of the Journal,
Bruce Greyson, M.D., Augustine's papers were accepted
because of the large collection of skeptical arguments
presented and the opportunity it would give to have
them peer-reviewed.
Following Augustine's papers and the peer-reviewed commentaries
on them, another skeptic's papers are presented related
to the Pam Reynolds's case which were accepted to the
Journal and peer-reviewed. Gerald Woerlee (www.neardth.com)
is a Dutch anesthesiologist and author of several books
including the anti-religious book "The
Unholy Legacy of Abraham" where he presents his
skeptical theory about phenomena such as NDEs as being
religious fantasies of the brain.
Altogether, these skeptical
papers and critical commentaries give the NDE enthusiast
with a library of information providing all sides of
the issue concerning the materialist / agnostic / survivalist
debate on NDEs.
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Links to Papers from the
Journal of Near-Death Studies on the Veridical Perception
NDE Debate |
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Keith Augustine.
"Does
Paranormal Perception Occur in NDEs?" JNDS
Vol. 25, No. 4 (Summer 2007) [PDF] |
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Keith Augustine. "NDEs
with Hallucinatory Features" JNDS Vol. 26,
No. 1 (Fall 2007) [PDF] |
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Keith Augustine. "Psychophysiological
and Cultural Correlates Undermining a Survivalist
Interpretation of NDEs" JNDS Vol. 26, No.
2 (Winter 2007) [PDF] |
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D.
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Journal of Near-Death Studies. Vol. 26, No.
3 (Spring 2008) |
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Journal of Near-Death Studies. Vol. 26, No.
4 (Summer 2008) |
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Gerald Woerlee. "Could
Pam Reynolds Hear? A New Investigation into
the Possibility of Hearing During this Famous
NDE" JNDS, Vol. 30, No 1, (Fall 2011) [PDF] |
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Journal for Near-Death Studies, Volume 30, Number
3, Spring 2012 |
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Pim van Lommel et al. "NDE
in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective
Study in the Netherlands" (Dutch Study)The
Lancet Vol. 358 (Dec. 2001) (pp. 2039-2045)
[PDF] |
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4.
More Links to Articles Related to the Veridical Perception
Debate |
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Below are some Internet links
related to the topic of the Pam Reynolds' NDE debate
and paranormal out-of-body veridical perception evidence
for the survival of consciousness after death.
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More Journal of Near-Death Studies Articles
on Evidence From Veridical OBE Perception in
NDEs |
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Other Journal Articles on Evidence From Veridical
OBE Perception in NDEs |
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Articles Refuting Keith Augustine's and Gerald
Woerlee's Arguments |
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Other Articles on Evidence From Veridical OBE
Perception in NDEs |
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5.
The Case Against Keith Augustine's "Internet Infidels" |
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a.
Against Keith Augustine's Naturalism |
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Religious faith implies the
possibility of doubt. Knowledge implies certainty due
to scientific methods. This is why knowledge will always
be greater than faith; and why scientific support for
the existence of God is always stronger than faith in
dogma.
Kurt Godel, the foremost mathematical logician of
the 20th century, offered a theorem and a proof that
atheism is not logical. If you visit Keith Augustine's
website,
Infidels.org, on the home page you will find the
following statement:
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"Naturalism
is 'the hypothesis that the natural world is
a
closed system,
which means that nothing that is not part of
the natural world affects it.' Thus, 'naturalism
implies that there are no supernatural entities'
- including God." -- Quote from
Keith Augustine's website
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However,
Kurt Godel's Incompleteness Theorem shows that no
consistent formal system can prove its own consistency.
See
this Wikipedia article for the mathematical logic.
In plain language, it proves that all closed systems
depend upon something outside the system. So according
to Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, the quote on the
Infidels website cannot be correct. If the natural world
is a closed, logical system, then it has an outside
cause. Thus, according to Godel's theorem, atheism violates
the laws of reason and logic. Godel's Incompleteness
Theorem definitively proves that current scientific
models can never fill its own gaps. We have no choice
but to look outside of current scientific models for
answers concerning illogical statements such as, "A
God does not exist in the natural world.".
The incompleteness of the universe's own consistency
regarding its existence isn't proof that
the God of any particular religion exists; but it is
proof that in order to construct a rational, scientific
model of the universe, a new scientific model that includes
an outside, all-powerful Cause is not just 100% logical
- it's necessary. Kurt Godel also developed an
Ontological Proof of God's existence which has been
proven by German computer scientists in 2013. However,
Godel's theorems and proof cannot be applied to prove
the existence of
Santa Claus, nor to prove the existence of a
Flying Spaghetti Monster flatulating the universe
into existence.
Dr. Juleon Schins, professor of Chemical Engineering
at Delft University of Technology, declared that Godel's
theorem and
Alan Turing's thesis:
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"...firmly establish
the existence of something that is unlimited
and absolute, fully rational and independent
of human mind. What would be more convincing
pointer to God?" --
Dr. Juleon Schins
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Dr. Antoine Suarez, of the
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Center for Quantum
Philosophy, in turn states that, because of Godel's
theorems, we are "scientifically" led to the conclusion
that it is reasonable to reckon with God.
Then there is the logical argument from the Christian
philosopher
C.S. Lewis whose former belief in an unjust
universe led him away from atheism to theism:
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"My
argument against God was that the universe seemed
so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this
idea of just and unjust? A man does not call
a line crooked unless he has some idea of a
straight line. What was I comparing this universe
with when I called it unjust? If the whole show
was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak,
why did I, who was supposed to be part of the
show, find myself in such violent reaction against
it? A man feels wet when he falls into water,
because man is not a water animal: a fish would
not feel wet. Of course I could have given up
my idea of justice by saying it was nothing
but a private idea of my own. But if I did that,
then my argument against God collapsed too -
for the argument depended on saying that the
world was really unjust, not simply that it
did not happen to please my fancies. Thus in
the very act of trying to prove that God did
not exist - in other words, that the whole of
reality was senseless - I found I was forced
to assume that one part of reality - namely
my idea of justice - was full of sense. Consequently
atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole
universe has no meaning, we should never have
found out that it has no meaning: just as, if
there were no light in the universe and therefore
no creatures with eyes, we should never know
it was dark. Dark would be a word without meaning."
(C.S. Lewis,
Mere Christianity, 1952)
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So Lewis
concluded that if the universe is meaningless, we would
never have discovered it to be meaningless. And because
the
burden of proof
lies with those who illogically claim the world is meaningless,
and not upon those who disprove the claim by giving
it meaning, shows the claim of a meaningless
universe is false. The same is true of a Godless
universe.
Near-death experiences
also support the
existence of God.
On Wikipedia,
other logical arguments
for the existence of God can be found..
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b.
Against Keith Augustine's "Myth of an Afterlife" |
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Keith
Augustine, along with the late Michael Martin, is the
co-author of the 675-page book, "The
Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death,"
published by Rowman & Littlefield (2015). It also
comes in a
Kindle eBook Edition. From the Amazon.com description:
the authors collected a series of contributions providing
a "casebook" of the chief arguments against an afterlife.
The authors brought together a variety of fields of
research to make their case, including (1)
philosophy of mind, (2)
philosophy of religion, (3)
moral philosophy, (4)
personal identity, (5)
psychical research, (6)
anomalistic psychology, and (7)
cognitive neuroscience. Divided into four separate
sections, the book opens with a broad overview of the
issues, as contributors consider the strongest evidence
of whether or not we survive death -- in particular
the biological basis of all mental states and their
grounding in brain activity that ceases to function
at death. Next, contributors consider a host of conceptual
and empirical difficulties that confront the various
ways of "surviving" death -- from bodiless minds to
bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival.
Then essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between
traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife
-- heaven, hell,
karmic rebirth -- and widely held ethical
principles central to the belief systems supporting
those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical
evaluations of the
main types of evidence for an afterlife.
There are a couple of great
critical book reviews on "The Myth of an Afterlife":
(1)
by Robert McLuhan, "The Myth of an Afterlife" from
The Society for Psychical Research; and, (2)
by Julio C. S. Barros, "Requiem to a Stillborn 21st-Century
Atheist-Materialist Grimoir" from the Amazon Reviews.
In
my opinion, one of the most devastating failures of
Keith Augustine's book is that it doesn't address the
latest evidence from
quantum mechanics (QM) as it relates to the survival
of
quantum consciousness. In fact, Augustine seems
to favor mostly the opinion of philosophers than scholars
of the "hard sciences." QM does not rule out the possibility
of an "afterlife" universe or "afterlife" dimension
(a
multiverse, a
multidimensional universe) or the survival of brain
function after death (quantum
immortality). Through
quantum decoherence and
quantum superposition, the idea of
parallel universes offers the possibility for the
existence of a communicating parallel universe acting
as a person's afterlife universe when death occurs.
As derived from the
Many-WORLDS interpretation of QM, and its extending
concept of
Many-MINDS interpretation of QM, it is theoretically
possible for a living person to exist in superposition
in a parallel universe (including their mental states
and electrical discharges occurring throughout their
brain and nervous system). Many-Worlds views reality
as a many-branched tree where every possible quantum
outcome is realized including the possibility of branches
to universes that doesn't lead to a living person's
death. Theoretically, this makes it possible for a living
person to continue living in a parallel universe when
the person dies in this current universe. In fact, Augustine's
book doesn't even mention the Many Worlds interpretation
of QM although one of the authors of Augustine's
book is
David Papineau, a prominent supporter of Many Worlds.
 More
support for the possibility of survival after death
comes from the current
string theory interpretation of the
holographic principle of quantum physics. This principle
defines our universe as existing as a
hologram where all the
quantum information perceived in three dimensions
is stored. First proposed by the eminent physicist
David Bohm (author of
Bohmian mechanics and co-author of the
holonomic brain theory along with
Karl Pribram), a
holographic universe can theoretically encode every
quantized moment of our existence and experiences from
the universe. Rather than a constant flow of experience,
mental states can be broken up in intervals or time-quanta
of 0.042 seconds, each of which make up one moment of
neural substrate. Each state consists of a certain
amount of quantum information which can theoretically
be stored on a hard drive for example; and there is
much progress ongoing
in this technology. This holographic model of reality
allows for phenomena considered "paranormal" such as
near-death experiences, other phenomena involving
life
after death, and
mental telepathy for example. The universe as a
single hologram also solves the mystery of
quantum entanglement which Albert Einstein called
"spooky
actions from a distance."
 Also,
the
materialist model of conventional science is based
on the old paradigm of Newtonian
classical mechanics and is fundamentally flawed.
Conventional materialist concepts of reality have been
falsified such as: (1)
locality, (2)
causality, (3)
continuity, (4)
determinism, and (5)
certainty in the last century by the modern science
of
quantum electrodynamics. At the core of materialism,
the fundamental component of existence -- the nature
of
consciousness -- is intentionally ignored even though
the pioneers of quantum mechanics demonstrated and believed
consciousness has a definite role in creating reality.
Mainstream materialist theories of consciousness use
classical mechanics in assuming consciousness emerged
and is produced from "goo". So they focus particularly
on complex computation at synapses in the brain allowing
communication between neurons. But because
quantum vibrations have been discovered in
microtubules in the brain, a theory known as
Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR), developed
by the eminent physicist
Sir Roger Penrose and
anesthesiologist
Stuart Hameroff, M.D., allows for a person's
quantum mind to exist in the multiverse, has garnered
significant support. At death, the quantum information
processed inside these microtubules doesn't disappear.
Instead, it is retained in the
fine structure of the universe and on the edge of
the
event horizon of the
singularity from which our
universe projected; thereby allowing the information
to be retrieved after death.
There is also much evidence
suggesting NDEs are actual afterlife experiences. Here
is a list of some of the best evidence:
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Some of the Best Evidence of NDEs as
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You can read the rest of the
40+ other evidence supporting NDEs and the afterlife
on this
web page.
In conclusion, there is a new scientific
paradigm emerging in quantum physics and medical technology
which is yielding new discoveries concerning consciousness
and the possibility of its survival after death. Skeptics
and materialists rely mostly on the old paradigm, Newtonian
physics to explain consciousness and the old explanation
is becoming obsolete. New medical technology is bringing
people back from death and providing research to validate
out-of-body perception in NDErs.
Will science prove conclusively
that consciousness survives death? Unless research laboratories
become open to the idea of
voluntary "flatline" experiments on a large scale
to study veridical perception and long-term survival
after clinical or brain death, I don't see it. Until
then, I consider myself to be the first to be on the
list of volunteers.
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"In the light
of the near-death experience, death is
nothing more than the illusion of
separateness and finality, and those who can
believe in this vision of death, like
near-death experiencers themselves, lose all
fear of it, for how can you fear that which
does not exist?" -
Dr. Kenneth Ring
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Recommended Books
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Light and Death: One Doctor's
Fascinating Account of NDEs
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by Michael Sabom
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Begun in 1994, The Atlanta Study
is the first comprehensive investigation
of its kind into NDEs. Now the
founder of The Atlanta Study,
Dr. Michael Sabom reveals their
impact on the people who have
experienced them. From both
medical and personal perspectives,
he shares the electrifying stories
of men and women from all walks
of life and religious persuasions.
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The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal
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This book contains over 100 reliable, often
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perceptions during NDEs that were later
verified as accurate by independent sources.
These NDErs are everyday people from all
over the world -- many of whom were clinically
dead, unable to see or hear, and yet able
to perceive new vistas of a world beyond
the senses and even beyond death. The authors
conclude that there are good reasons to
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coincide with the functioning of our brain:
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The Science of Near-Death Experiences
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by
John Hagan
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The author and the contributors to this
volume engage in evidence-based research
on NDEs and include physicians who themselves
have undergone a NDE. This book establishes
a new paradigm for NDEs and includes contributions
from such distinguished NDE researchers
as Raymond Moody, Bruce Greyson, Pim van
Lommel, Janice Holden, Jeffrey Long, Penny
Sartori, Nancy Evans Bush, Eben Alexander
III, Tony Cicoria, Dean Radin, Jean Renee
Hausbeer, and Kevin Nelson. Also available
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Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of
NDEs
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by
Jeffrey Long, Paul Perry
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"There is currently more scientific evidence
to the reality of NDEs than there is for
how to effectively treat certain forms of
cancer," states radiation oncologist Dr.
Jeffrey Long is this groundbreaking new
book. In 1998 Dr. Long and his wife, Jody,
began the Near Death Experience Research
Foundation (NDERF.org)
with the goal of creating a forum for NDErs
to share their stories. Grounded in first-hand
evidence culled from over 1,600 verified
NDE accounts, this book presents the strongest
argument yet for the underlying truth of
those who have died and returned to share
their tales. Also available in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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Wisdom of NDEs: How Understanding NDEs Can
Help Us Live More Fully
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by
Penny Sartori
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During her academic work, Dr. Sartori studied
samples of ICU patients during a five year
period. One patient in particular stands
out for Dr. Sartori. He was in bad condition
and when he was put into bed he was unconscious
and unresponsive. Later he reported an OBE
and was able to accurately tell Dr. Satori
which doctor was in the room and what he
had said while he was unconscious. He claimed
to have met his deceased father and a Jesus-like
figure. But the most extraordinary part
was that afterwards he was able to use his
hand, which had been paralyzed since birth.
There is no medical explanation for how
that healing occurred. Also available in
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Science and the NDE: How Consciousness Survives
Death
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by
Chris Carter
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Oxford scholar, Chris Carter, presents the
scientific evidence for life after death,
explains why NDEs offer evidence of an afterlife
and discredits the psychological and physiological
explanations for them, and challenges materialist
arguments against consciousness surviving
death. Using evidence from scientific studies,
quantum mechanics, and consciousness research,
Carter reveals how consciousness does not
depend on the brain and may, in fact, survive
the death of our bodies. Also available
in
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Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates
Evidence for an Afterlife
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by
Leslie Keen
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The author states, "While exploring the
evidence for an afterlife, I witnessed some
unbelievable things that are not supposed
to be possible in our material world. Yet
they were unavoidably and undeniably real.
Despite my initial doubt, I came to realize
that there are still aspects of Nature which
are neither understood or accepted, even
though their reality has profound implications
for understanding the true breadth of the
human psyche and its possible continuity
after death." Also available in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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The Handbook of NDEs: Thirty Years of Investigation
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by Jan Holden, Bruce Greyson, Debbie James
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Experts from around the world share the
history and current state of NDE knowledge.
They explore controversies in the field,
offer stories from their research, and express
their hopes for the future of investigation
into this fascinating phenomenon. Also available
in
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Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for
the 21st Century
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by E. F. Kelly, E. W. Kelly, Bruce Greyson,
et al
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Current mainstream opinion in psychology,
neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds
that all aspects of human mind and consciousness
are generated by physical processes occurring
in brains. Views of this sort have dominated
recent scholarly publication. The present
volume, however, demonstrates empirically
that this reductive materialism is not only
incomplete but false. The authors systematically
marshal evidence for a variety of psychological
phenomena that are extremely difficult,
and in some cases clearly impossible, to
account for in conventional physicalist
terms. Also available in
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Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One's
Passage From This Life to the Next
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by Raymond Moody, Paul Perry
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The startling pattern that Raymond Moody
discovered is that at the time of death,
loved ones also have inexplicable experiences.
This is the first book to describe the phenomenon
of "shared death experiences" (SDEs). Readers
will discover deathbed moments when entire
families see the light or the room changes
shape. Others tell of seeing a film like
review of a loved one's life and learning
things that they could never have known
otherwise.
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God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking
New Evidence for God and NDE
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by
Jeffrey Long, Paul Perry
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Based on the largest NDE study in history,
involving 3,000 people from diverse backgrounds
and religious traditions, including nonbelievers,
God and the Afterlife presents startling
evidence that a Supreme Being exists --
and there is amazing consistency about what
he is like. Also available in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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Mindsight: Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences
in the Blind
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by Kenneth Ring, Sharon Cooper et al
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The authors explore evidence that even those
blind from birth can "see" during near-death
experiences. Their evidence reveals a unique
type of perception. More than just "seeing",
it involves a deep awareness and profound
ability to know that the authors have called
"mindsight". This volume is a ground-breaking
work in the field of near-death studies.
It investigates the astonishing claim that
blind persons, including those blind from
birth, can actually "see" during near-death
or out-of-body episodes.
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Erasing Death: The Science That Is
Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life
and Death
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by Sam Parnia, Josh Young
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Dr. Sam Parnia, Director of the
AWARE Study (AWAreness during
REsuscitation) and one of the world’s
leading experts on the scientific study
of death and NDEs, presents cutting-edge
research from the front lines of
critical care and resuscitation medicine
on what happens to human consciousness
during and after death. Dr. Parnia
reveals how some form of "afterlife" may
be uniquely ours, as evidenced by the
continuation of the human mind and
psyche after the brain stops
functioning. Also available in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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What Happens When We Die?: A
Groundbreaking Study into the Nature of
Life and Death
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by Sam Parnia
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Through his work as a critical-care
doctor in a hospital ER, Dr. Parnia
became very interested in some of his
patients' accounts of the experiences
that they had while clinically dead. He
started to collect these stories and
read all the latest research on the
subject, and then he conducted his own
experiments. That work has culminated in
this extraordinary book, which picks up
where Raymond Moody’s "Life After Life"
left off. Written in a scientific,
balanced, and engaging style, this is
powerful and compelling reading. This
fascinating and controversial book will
change the way you look at death and
dying. Also available in
KINDLE EBOOK Edition.
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