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NDEs have produced visions of the future which later became true.
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people were given visions of the future during their near-death experience.
Generally, these visions foretell a future of catastrophic natural
disasters and social upheaval followed by a new era of peace and have
actually already come to pass. Some of them did not happen as foretold.
Many of these apocalyptic visions are to happen within the next few
decades. Examples of events which have been foretold by the NDE visions of
the future by Edgar Cayce
include World War I & II, the 1929 Stock Market Crash, the fall of the
Soviet Union and communism, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the
Desert Storm war against Iraq in 1990, and the 9/11 terrorist attack.
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Groups of dying people can share the same NDE.
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rare type of NDE called the "group
near-death experience" is a phenomenon where a
whole group of people have a NDE at the same time and location. They see
each other outside of their bodies and have a shared or similar experience.
In 1996, NDE researcher Arvin Gibson
interviewed a fire-fighter named Jake who had a most unusual NDE while
working with other fire-fighters in a forest. What makes it unique is that
it happened at the same time as several co-workers were also having a NDE.
During their NDEs, they actually met each other and saw each other above
their lifeless bodies. All survived and they verified with each other
afterwards that the experience actually happened. Jake's near-death
experience was so interesting that Gibson's local chapter of IANDS invited
him to tell his story at one of their meetings. Another example of a group
NDE is described in the IANDS publication Vital Signs (Volume XIX, No. 3,
2000) and is described in a greater way in Dr. Stephen Hoyer and May
Eulitt's book entitled "Fireweaver: The Story of a Life, a Near-Death, and
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People having NDEs are convinced they saw an afterlife.
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a brilliant young professor of psychology at the University of Connecticut
who read Dr. Raymond Moody's
book, Life After Life, and
was inspired by it. However, he felt that a more scientifically structured
study would strengthen Moody's findings. He sought out 102 near-death
survivors for his research. He concluded:
"Regardless of their prior attitudes - whether
skeptical or deeply religious - and regardless of the many variations in
religious beliefs and degrees of skepticism from tolerant disbelief to
outspoken atheism - most of these people were convinced that they had been
in the presence of some supreme and loving power and had a glimpse of a
life yet to come." (Dr. Kenneth
Ring)
For the multitude of near-death experiencers who know
they have left their bodies and received a glimpse of life after death,
there is no amount of clinical explanation that will ever convince them
otherwise.
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Childhood NDEs are remarkably similar to adult NDEs.
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Atwater has pointed out the
fascinating anomaly that an amazing number of people important to the
evolution of humankind may well have had such an episode during their
childhood. She discusses this at length in both of her books, Future Memory and Children
of the New Millennium. Some of the notable child
NDEs she came across were Abraham Lincoln, Mozart, Albert Einstein, Queen
Elizabeth I, Edward de Vere/the 17th Earl of Oxford (who most likely is the
real Shakespeare), Winston Churchill, Black Elk, Walter Russell, plus
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NDEs change people unlike hallucinations and dreams.
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the nature of the NDE, it alters lives. Alcoholics find themselves unable
to imbibe. Hardened criminals opt for a life of helping others. Atheists embrace the existence of a deity, while dogmatic members of a particular religion report
"feeling welcome in any church or temple or mosque."
Nancy Evans Bush,
president emeritus of the International Association for Near-Death Studies,
says the experience is revelatory. "Most near-death survivors say they
don't think there is a God," she says. "They know." In 1975,
when Raymond Moody
published Life After Life, a
book that coined the term "near-death experience" (NDE) to
describe this hard-to-define phenomenon. Moody interviewed 150 near-death
patients who reported vivid experiences (flashing back to childhood, coming
face to face with Christ). He found that those who had undergone NDEs
became more altruistic, less materialistic, and more loving.
Bruce Greyson
and Ian Stevenson
have been instrumental in gathering evidence indicating that religious
backgrounds do not affect who is most likely to have a NDE. They have
mapped out the conversion-like effects of NDEs that can sometimes lead to
hardship. "They can see the good in all people," Greyson says of
people who have experienced the phenomenon. "They act fairly naive,
and they often allow themselves to be opened up to con men who abuse their
trust." They have gathered reports of high divorce rates and problems
in the workplace following NDEs. "The values you get from a NDE are
not the ones you need to function in everyday life," says Greyson.
Having stared eternity in the face, he observes, those who return often
lose their taste for ego-boosting achievement. Not even the diehard
skeptics doubt the powerful personal effects of NDEs. "This is a
profound emotional experience," explains Nuland. "People are
convinced that they've seen heaven."
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NDEs cannot be explained by brain chemistry alone.
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Long is a physician practicing the specialty of radiation oncology in
Houma, Louisiana. Dr. Long served on the Board of Directors of IANDS, and
is actively involved in NDE research. In his book, "Evidence of
the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences," Dr. Long
documents a study he conducted - the largest scientific study of NDEs ever.
It is based on his research of over 1,300 NDEs shared with NDERF.org. Using his treasure trove of
data, Dr. Long explains how NDEs cannot be explained by brain chemistry
alone, how medical evidence fails to explain them away and why there is
only one plausible explanation - that people have survived death and
traveled to another dimension.
Dr. Long makes his case using nine lines of
evidence and they are: (1) Crystal-Clear
Consciousness. The level of conscious alertness during NDEs
is usually greater than that experienced in everyday life - even though
NDEs generally occur when a person is unconscious or clinically dead. This
high level of consciousness while physically unconscious is medically
unexplained. Additionally, the elements in NDEs generally follow the same
consistent and logical order in all age groups and around the world, which
refutes the possibility that NDEs have any relation to dreams or
hallucinations. (2) Realistic
Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs): OBEs are one of the most
common elements of NDEs. Events witnessed and heard by NDErs while in an
out-of-body state are almost always realistic. When the NDEr or others later
seek to verify what was witnessed or heard during the NDE, their OBE
observations are almost always confirmed as completely accurate.
Even if
the OBE observations include events occurring far away from the physical
body, and far from any possible sensory awareness of the NDEr, the OBE
observations are still almost always confirmed as completely accurate. This
fact alone rules out the possibility that NDEs are related to any known
brain functioning or sensory awareness. This also refutes the possibility that
NDEs are unrealistic fragments of memory from the brain. (3)
Heightened Senses. Not only are heightened senses reported
by most who have NDEs, normal or supernormal vision has occurred in those
with significantly impaired vision, and even legal blindness. Several
people who have been totally blind since birth have reported highly visual
NDEs. This is medically unexplainable. (4) Consciousness
During Anesthesia. Many NDEs occur while the NDEr is under
general anesthesia - at a time when any conscious experience should be
impossible.
While some skeptics claim these NDEs may be the result of too
little anesthesia, this ignores the fact that some NDEs result from
anesthesia overdose. Additionally, descriptions of a NDEs differ greatly
from those people who experiences "anesthetic awareness." The
content of NDEs occurring under general anesthesia is essentially
indistinguishable from NDEs that do not occur under general anesthesia.
This is more strong evidence that NDEs occur independent from the functioning
of the material brain. (5) Perfect Playback.
Life reviews in NDEs include real events which previously occurred in the
lives of the NDEr - even if the events were forgotten or happened before
they were old enough to remember. (6) Family Reunions.
During a NDE, the experiencer may encounter people who are virtually always
deceased and are usually relatives of the NDEr. Sometimes they include
relatives who died before the NDEr was even born. If NDEs are merely the
product of memory fragments, they would almost certainly include far more
living people, including those with whom they had more recently interacted.
(7) Children’s Experiences. The NDEs of children,
including very young children who are too young to have developed concepts
of death, religion, or NDEs, are essentially identical to those of older
children and adults. This refutes the possibility that the content of NDEs
is produced by preexisting beliefs or cultural conditioning. (8)
Worldwide Consistency. NDEs appear remarkably consistent
around the world, and across many different religions and cultures. NDEs
from non-Western countries are incredibly similar to those occurring in
people in Western countries. (9) Aftereffects.
It is common for people to experience major life changes after having NDEs.
These aftereffects are often powerful, lasting, life-enhancing, and the
changes generally follow a consistent pattern. NDErs themselves are
practically universal in their belief that their experience of the
afterlife was real.
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NDEs have been occurring for thousands of years.
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of near-death experiences are not a new phenomenon. A great number of them
have been recorded over a period of thousands of years. The ancient
religious texts such as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the
Christian Bible, and
the Koran describe experiences of life
after death which remarkably resembles modern NDEs. The oldest surviving
explicit report of a NDE in Western literature comes from the famed Greek
philosopher, Plato, who describes an event in
his tenth book of his legendary book entitled Republic.
Plato discusses the
story of Er, a soldier who awoke on his funeral pyre and described his
journey into the afterlife. But this story is not just a random anecdote
for Plato. He integrated at least three elements of the NDE into his
philosophy: the departure of the soul from the cave of shadows to see the
light of truth, the flight of the soul to a vision of pure celestial being
and its subsequent recollection of the vision of light, which is the very
purpose of philosophy.
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34. The
skeptical "dying brain" theory of NDEs has major flaws.
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advanced in a book by skeptic Susan Blackmore
entitled Dying to Live and they are (1) The Afterlife Hypothesis and (2) Susan Blackmore's The Dying Brain Hypothesis. The
Afterlife Hypothesis states spirit survives body death. The NDE is the
result of spirit separating from the body. The Dying Brain Hypothesis
states the NDE is an artifact of brain chemistry. According to the dying brain
hypothesis, there is no spirit which survives body death. Skeptics who
claim the author of Dying to Live is non biased are proven wrong; skeptics
who claim she provides scientific proof are shown, by her own words, to be
in error.
Because NDEs have many common core elements, this
suggests that they are spiritual voyages outside of the body. Also, if the
dying brain creates NDE illusions, what is the purpose for doing it? If our
brains are only a high-tech computer-like lump of tissue which produces our
mind and personality, why does it bother to create illusions at the time of
death? If everything, including the mind and personality, are about to
disintegrate, why would the brain produce a last wonderful Grand Finale
vision? Even if NDE elements can be reduced to only a series of brain
reactions, this does not negate the idea that NDEs are more than a brain
thing.
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Skeptical arguments against NDEs are not valid.
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states that some scientific theories are often presented as the most
logical, factual, objective, credible, and progressive possibilities, as
opposed to the allegedly subjective, superstitious, abnormal, or
dysfunctional views of mystics. The rhetorical opinions of some NDE
theories are presented as if they were scientific (Kellehear, 1996, 120).
Many skeptical arguments against the survival theory are actually arguments
from pseudo-skeptics who often think they have no burden of proof. Such
arguments often based on scientism with assumptions that survival is
impossible even though survival has not been ruled out. Faulty conclusions
are often made such as, "Because NDEs have a brain chemical connection
then survival is impossible." Pseudo-skeptical arguments are sometimes
made that do not consider the entire body of circumstantial evidence
supporting the possibility of survival or do not consider the possibility
of new paradigms. Such pseudo-skeptical claims are often made without any
scientific evidence.
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The burden of proof has shifted to skeptics of an afterlife.
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neurological theories concluding NDEs to be only a brain anomaly, must show
how the core elements of the NDE occur subjectively because of specific
neurological events triggered by the approach of death. These core elements
include: the out-of-body state, paranormal knowledge, the tunnel, the
golden light, the voice or presence, the appearance of deceased relatives,
and beautiful vistas. Perhaps the final word should go to Nancy Evans Bush, a
NDEr with the International Association for Near-Death Studies, who said:
"There
is no human experience of any description that can't simply be reduced to a
biological process, but that in no way offsets the meaning those
experiences have for us - whether it's falling in love, or grieving, or
having a baby."
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38. NDEs support the reality of reincarnation.
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Amber Wells was a student at
the University of Connecticut and wrote a research paper based on her study
of the near-death experience for her senior honors thesis under the
direction of Dr. Ken Ring. Her
paper was published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies in the fall of
1993. In her study, 70 percent of the group of near-death
experiencers demonstrated belief in reincarnation. Claims have been
documented by other researchers of direct knowledge of reincarnation which
became available during the near-death experience itself. An example of
this type out-of-body research of knowledge can be seen in a letter
written to Dr. Ken Ring by John Robinson: "It is a matter of personal
knowledge from what the being with whom I spoke during my near-death
experience told me about my older son, that he had had 14 incarnations in
female physical bodies previous to the life he has just had."
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39. Scientific evidence of reincarnation supports an
afterlife.
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 On June 11,
1992, at Princeton University, Dr. Ian Stevenson presented a paper
entitled: "Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on
Deceased Persons" providing scientific evidence suggestive of
reincarnation which was published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
These findings support reincarnation in NDE research findings as well.
Reincarnation has been called by some to be the greatest unknown scientific
discovery today. In the last chapter of Dr. Ian Stevenson's book entitled
Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation (1967), he provides rigorous
scientific reasoning to show how reincarnation is the only viable
explanation that fits the facts of his study. He considers every possible
alternative explanation for his twenty cases of young children who were spontaneously
able to describe a previous lifetime as soon as they learned to talk. He
was able to rule out each alternative explanation using one or more aspects
of these cases.
Later research has even bolstered his case in favor of the
existence of reincarnation. His study is also completely reproducible which
means that anybody who doubts the validity of this study is perfectly
welcome to repeat it for themselves. I believe it is only a short matter of
time before his discovery of the existence of reincarnation is finally
realized by the scientific community and the world to be accepted as one of
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Xenoglossy supports reincarnation and an afterlife.
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One of the most
amazing psychic phenomena, which religionists, skeptics and atheists have
continuously and deliberately ignored is xenoglossy - the ability to speak
or write a foreign language a person never learned. After all other
explanations have been investigated - such as fraud, genetic memory,
telepathy and cryptomnesia (the remembering of a foreign language learned
earlier), xenoglossy is taken as evidence of either memories of a language
learned in a past life or of communication with a discarnate entity— a
spirit person.
There are many cases on record of adults and children
speaking and writing languages which they have never learned. Sometimes
this happens spontaneously but more often it occurs while the person is
under hypnosis or in an altered state of consciousness. In some cases it is
only a few words remembered but in other cases the person becomes totally
fluent and able to converse with native speakers sometimes in obscure
dialects which have not been in use for centuries. There are literally
thousands of xenoglossic cases, many hundreds of which have been
documented. They involve modern and ancient languages from all over the
world. Psychic investigators, such the highly credible Dr. Ian Stevenson, used scientific method to illustrate xenoglossy and
claim that there are only two possible explanations — either spirit contact
or past life memory both of which are evidence for the afterlife. |
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41. Past-life regression supports reincarnation and an
afterlife.
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Past life regression such as that practiced
by Dr. Michael Newton,
simply involves placing a person under hypnosis and asking them to go
back through their childhood to a time before they were born. In many
cases the person begins talking about his or her life or lives before the
present lifetime, about their previous death and about the time between
lives including the planning of the present lifetime. The main reason why
at least some of these claims must be considered as evidence are:
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some cases the person regressed begins to speak an unlearned foreign
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some cases the person being regressed remembers details of astonishing
accuracy which when checked out are verified by the top historians.
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emotional intensity of the experience is such that it convinces many
formerly skeptical psychiatrists who are used to dealing with fantasy
and imagined regressions.
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reflected by a birthmark in the present life..
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42. Contact with "the dead" have occurred
under scientific controls.
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the University of Arizona announced a study conducted by Dr. Gary Schwartz: "UA Researchers Look Beyond the Grave"
concerning scientific evidence supporting a theory of the existence of a
Universal Living Memory. This was achieved by testing highly qualified
psychic mediums to see if they could contact the dead. The success of this
study is important in that it supports NDE research in providing a
scientific foundation toward investigating the survival of consciousness
after death.
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43. Many people have experienced after-death
communications.
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communication (ADC) is a spiritual experience that occurs when a person is
contacted directly and spontaneously by a family member or friend who has
died. During their seven years of research, Bill and Judy Guggenheim at www.after-death.com collected more
than 3,300 firsthand reports from people who believe they have been
contacted by a deceased loved one. Their book, Hello From Heaven, documents
many such experiences. |
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44. Dream research supports NDEs and an afterlife.
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research is described in the documentary, The Secret World of Dreams. It describes the amazing story of a woman named Claire Sylvia.
She was a professional dancer with several modern dance companies. As the
years passed, Claire's health began to deteriorate. Claire Sylvia had to
undergo a heart and lung transplant. Soon after the transplant, she began
having strange and incredibly vivid dreams about a young man she didn't
recognize. Eventually, Claire realized that the young man in her dreams was
the eighteen-year-old organ donor whose heart and lungs resided in her
chest. Through her continuing dream contacts with her donor, she learned a
lot about him including his name. She then decided to do the research to
find out if this "heavenly" information was correct.
Yale
University Pediatric Cancer specialist Dr. Diane
Komp reported that many dying
children have NDEs which often occurred during dreams. One boy, for
example, told Dr. Komp that Jesus had visited him in a big yellow school
bus and told him he would die soon. The boy died as he predicted.
According
to the celebrated psychiatrist and dream analyst, Marie
Louise Von Franz, and based on her analysis of
over 10,000 dreams of the dying, the meaning being communicated is that the
light of the individual, one of the common metaphors for life that we've
heard so often, goes out at death but is miraculously renewed on the other
side. In other words, the spirit seems to live on. This dream then
illustrates perfectly a profound insight of the great psychoanalyst and
mentor of Dr. Von Franz, Carl
Jung, MD, who has said: "The
unconscious psyche believes in a life after death." According to Jung,
dream symbols which exist in the very depths of the soul behave as if the
psychic life of the individual will continue. In Dr. Von Franz' words:
"These symbols depict the end of bodily life and the explicit
continuation of psychic life after death. In other words, our last dreams
prepare us for death." |
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45. Deathbed visions support NDEs and an afterlife.
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 Dr. Carla Wills-Brandon has researched, in depth, the
universal phenomenon of the Deathbed
Vision (DBV) and has included her findings in her book, One Last Hug
Before I Go. Complete with her own personal encounters, and those of
numerous other DBV experiencers, this revolutionary work explores DBVs
throughout history, from ancient Egypt to modern-day America. Through the
visions and experiences common to all dying people, one can learn more
about the spiritual journey that begins with death. According to recent
studies, only about 10% of people are conscious shortly before their death.
Of this group, 50% to 67% have DBVs. |
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46. Remote viewing supports NDEs and an afterlife
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 On April 23,
1984, the Washington Post reported: "The Race for Inner Space"
about the CIA's remote viewing program. On August 12, 1985, the Deseret
News reported: "The United States is Still Involved in
ESP-ionage." Other media attention followed. One theory about how remote
viewing works is that gifted or trained people can tap into a
"Universal Mind." NDE research also suggests the reality of a
Universal or Collective Consciousness.
Some
of the any credible remote reviewers, such as Joseph McMoneagle,
received their remote viewing powers from a near-death experience. |
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47. Studies show prayer to be effective under
scientific controls.
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 On Oct. 25,
1999, BBC News reported: "Healing Power of Prayer Revealed" about a study at a university hospital in Kansas
City, U.S. about scientific evidence of healing through the power of
prayer. Then on June 5, 2000, BBC News reported: "Prayer Works as a Cure" about a different study conducted at the
University of Maryland providing more evidence of healing through prayer.
These findings support NDE research findings which demonstrates the reality
of a transcendent consciousness. Dr. Larry Dossey has done extensive research on the efficacy of prayer
and has written several excellent books on the subject. |
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48. The Scole Experiments supports NDEs and an
afterlife.
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 Victor Zammit
is a lawyer who has collected a large body of evidence supporting the
reality of an afterlife. Zammit has an excellent article concerning what
many regard as the greatest afterlife experiment in the world. The evidence
collected over a period of more than four years and with more than 500
sittings by the Scole Experiments and the afterlife team is absolute, definitive and
irrefutable. Scole is a village in Norfolk, England. Using it as a base,
mediums Robin and Sandra Foy and Alan and Diana Bennett and other
experimenters produced brilliant evidence of the afterlife in England, the
U.S. Ireland and in Spain. Their results are being repeated by other groups
around the world and will convince even the toughest open-minded skeptic.
The group began with two mediums delivering messages from a non-physical
group. Many of these messages contained personal information that nobody
else could know about. Soon the messages came in the form of voices which
could be heard by all in the room. Then came the actual materialization of
people and objects from the non-physical side.
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the Critics" by Montague Keen and Arthur Ellison, from The Scole - Report: Proceedings of the Society for Psychic
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49. Electronic voice phenomena supports NDEs and an
afterlife.
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For more than 50 years, experimenters all over the
world have been tape recording "paranormal voices" - voices which
cannot be heard when a tape recorder is playing but which can be heard when
the tape is played back. Many of these messages have been reported to be
from loved ones who have passed on. Such messages would include the
experimenter's name and also answers to the experimenter's questions. It is
a phenomenon known as "EVP" or "electronic
voice phenomenon" and there are thousands
of researchers around the world researching this fascinating psychic
phenomenon. This phenomenon is particularly relevant to evidence supporting
the survival hypothesis because it follows strict scientific procedures and
have been duplicated under laboratory conditions by various of researchers
in many different countries.
Friedrich Jürgenson (pictured above) is
considered to be the "The father of EVP" because he was the first
to capture EVP successfully on a recording device. One particular recording
changed his life forever. After playing back on of his recordings, he was
shocked to hear his mother’s voice say “Friedel can you hear me. It’s
mammy.” Friedrich's mother had long ago passed away and the endearment he
heard was used exclusively by her. Jürgenson was now convinced these
unusual audio transmissions were voices from the afterlife. In 1964,
Jürgenson published a book on his EVP research entitled "The Voices
From Space."
After reading Friedrich Jürgenson's book, Dr.
Konstantins Raudive (1909–1974, pictured
on the right), a Latvian psychologist who was a student of Carl
Jung, meet with Jürgenson and conducted
EVP experiments with him. As a result, in 1965, Raudive began to conduct
his own EVP research and with the help of various electronics experts,
Raudive recorded over 100,000 audiotapes, most of which were conducted
using strict laboratory conditions. Raudive would confirm the accuracy of
his recordings by inviting listeners to hear and interpret them. Over 400
people were involved in his EVP research and all heard the voices. This
culminated in his 1968 book entitled "Breakthrough: An Amazing
Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead." Raudice's
research into EVP gave experimenters various methods for recording EVP’s
including the EVP classification scale that is used by researchers today.
The popular paranormal TV series called "Ghost Adventures"
features an overwhelmingly number of convincing EVP recordings as they
occur.
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50. Atheists believe in an afterlife after having
NDEs.
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experiences just like everyone else does. The philosophy of Positivism, founded by the famous atheist named A. J. Ayer,
is the philosophy that anything not verifiable by the senses is nonsense.
Because NDEs mark the end of the senses, Positivists believe the survival
of the senses after death is nonsense. But this philosophy has been
challenged by its founder A. J. Ayer himself. Later in life, Ayer had a NDE
where he saw a red light. Ayer's NDE made him a changed man: "My
recent experiences, have slightly weakened my conviction that my genuine
death ... will be the end of me, though I continue to hope that it will be."
(Ayer, 1988 a,b) (Read more about it from an article in the National Post
and an article by Gerry Lougrhan: Can there be life after life? Ask the
atheist! (by Gerry Lougrhan, Letter From London, March 18, 2001.)
A non-NDE example comes from Antony
Flew, a champion of atheist beliefs for more than 50 years. In a news
article titled "Atheist
Discovers 'The Science of God'": "One of Britain's most
prominent atheists has decided that God might exist after all. Professor
Antony Flew now believes there is scientific evidence supporting the theory
of some sort of intelligence behind the creation the universe. Professor
Flew, 81, a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Reading,
said that this was the only explanation for the origin of life ...
"I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian
and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as
omnipotent Oriental despots - cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said in his
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51. Psychometry supports NDEs and an afterlife.
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Wikipedia.org, "psychometry"
is a psychic ability in which the user is able to relate details about the
past condition of an object or area, usually by being in close contact with
it. The user could allegedly, for example, give police precise details
about a murder or other violent crime if they were at the crime scene or
were holding the weapon used. About.com's Paranormal Phenomena website
lists information about several of the most convincing psychometrists.
Stefan Ossowiecki, a Russian-born psychic, is one of the most famous
psychometrists. Ossowiecki claimed to be able to see people's auras and to
move objects through psychokinesis. His psychic gifts enabled this chemical
engineer to locate lost objects and missing people, and he assisted in
several criminal investigations. In 1935, he participated in a test of his
psychometric powers - a test devised by a wealthy Hungarian named Dionizy
Jonky that involved a sealed package. Jonky stipulated that this test was
to be conducted eight years after his death. (Jonky and Ossowiecki did not
know each other.)
First, 14 photographs of men were placed in front of
Ossowiecki, one of which was of Jonky. Ossowiecki picked out the correct
photo. Next, Ossowiecki accurately described many details of Jonky's life
and correctly identified the man who held the package for the past eight
years. Finally, Ossowiecki was presented with the sealed package Jonky had
prepared before his death. Ossowiecki touched the package and concentrated.
"Volcanic minerals," he said. "There is something here that
pulls me to other worlds, to another planet." Oddly, he also sensed
sugar. Inside the package was a meteorite encased in a candy wrapper.
In later experiments, Ossowiecki performed
remarkable psychometric feats with archeological objects - a kind of
psychic archeology. These tests were conducted by Stanislaw Poniatowski, a
professor of enthology at the University of Warsaw who could verify the
accuracy of what Ossowiecki "saw." While holding a
10,000-year-old piece of flint, Ossowiecki was able to describe in amazing
detail the lives of the prehistoric people who made it. In other tests he
provided similar descriptions of people who lived as long ago as 300,000
years. Some of the information he provided was not even known by experts at
the time, but confirmed by discoveries years later!
Ossowiecki described his visions as being like a
motion picture that he could watch, pause, rewind and fast-forward - like a
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52.
Memories of Near-Death Experiences are More Real Than Normal Memories.
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 Researchers at the Coma
Science Group, directed by Steven Laureys, and the University of Liege's
Cognitive Psychology Research, headed by Professor
Serge Bredart and Hedwige Dehon, have demonstrated that the physiological mechanisms triggered
during NDEs lead to a more vivid perception not only of imagined events in
the history of an individual but also of real events which have taken place
in their lives. These surprising results - obtained using an original method
which now requires further investigation - were published in PLOS
ONE. The researchers looked into the memories of NDEs
with the hypothesis that if the memories of NDEs were pure products of the
imagination, their phenomenological characteristics (e.g., sensorial, self
referential, emotional, etc. details) should be closer to those of imagined
memories. Conversely, if the NDE are experienced in a way similar to that of
reality, their characteristics would be closer to the memories of real
events. Their results were surprising. From the perspective being studied,
not only were the NDEs not similar to the memories of imagined events, but the
phenomenological characteristics inherent to the memories of real events
(e.g. memories of sensorial details) are even more numerous in the memories
of NDE than in the memories of real events.
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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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Vicki
Umipeg, a forty-five year old blind woman, was 
Dr. Kenneth Ring published a scientific paper in
the Journal of Near-Death Studies (Summer,
1993) about people who had a near-death experience (NDE) of a type that
provides verified evidence supporting the existence of an afterlife. Such
people suddenly find themselves outside of their bodies and observing
detailed events happening far away - sometimes hundreds and thousands of
miles away - which were later verified by third-parties to have actually
occurred. 
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