Near-Death experiences, the meaning of life, life after death etc…
Near-Death Experiences: What Really Happens?
I stumbled upon this link the other day. It’s about one of the most exciting experiments I’ve ever seen in my life. Scientists will try to study what really happens with near-death experiences.
Many reports of near-death experiences sound the same: a welcoming white light and a replay of memories. But now scientists aim to study what really happens to the brain and consciousness when someone is on the verge of dying.
In a new study called AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), doctors will examine patients in hospitals in Europe and North America who reach a state called cardiac arrest.
Surely death is a matter that concerns us all. Since the dawn of time man has created any kind of crazy theory about what goes on after death. Is there an after-life? Is there heaven and hell? Is there a purgatory? Reincarnation maybe? Mediums and parapsychological experiments, while very popular in the 19th century, didn’t manage to prove anything. Most self-claimed psychics just proved to be charlatans and parapsychology hasn’t come to any conclusive study about any death-related phenomenon.
It’s good to see that death starts once again to be a matter of hard science. Of course, talking to the dead isn’t science. However, observing procedures and collecting data is. Maybe death is an illusive subject that the human mind is not meant to comprehend it. However, there is a slight hole through which we can take a glimpse at what happens at that critical moment when life seems to cease.
A possible vision of the underworld?!?!?!??
Science has long struggled to define death, and to determine when the precise moment of death occurs. Now though, most doctors consider death more of a process than an event. A person is thought to have died when he stops breathing, his heart stops beating, and his brain activity ceases.
"During a cardiac arrest, all three criteria of death are present," Parnia said. "There then follows a period of time, which may last from a few seconds to an hour or more, in which emergency medical efforts may succeed in restarting the heart and reversing the dying process. What people experience during this period of cardiac arrest provides a unique window of understanding into what we are all likely to experience during the dying process."
Ascent Into the Empyrean by Hieronymus Bosch
Of course, near-death experiences and light tunnels are not necessarily a doorway to another realm. They could simply be the product of firing neurons
Previous research suggests about 10 to 20 percent of people who live through cardiac arrest report lucid, well-structured thought processes, reasoning, memories and sometimes detailed recall of events during their encounter with death.
One study found that people who reported peaceful feelings, bright light and out-of-body experiences during a brush with death are more likely to have had difficulty separating sleep from wakefulness in their everyday lives. Both before and after their near-death experiences, these people often have symptoms of the rapid-eye movement (REM) state of sleep while awake.
Whatever the case might be, I find this to be a truly exciting study. I think it is a real scientific progress, since scientists decide to take on a full scale research on subjects that usually have to do with new-agers and occult lovers. I can’t wait to see the conclusion of this research, which I hope it will be proven to be something unexplainable. And that, not because I’m a new age freak, but because an unexplainable phenomenon at the edge of life, could provide a lot of thought concerning the nature of consciousness and our theories about mind and brain, the neurological paradigm and even physics. Surely psychology can’t get any more interesting than that!
April 8th, 2010 at 3:44 am
i want to know what happens to a person or soul as soon as it leave the body , how & where it goes , when it take rebirth ?
August 9th, 2010 at 1:18 pm
Cardiologist Pim van Lommel author of Consciousness Beyond Life, The Science of the Near-Death Experience was on Coast to Coast http://www.coasttocoastam.com this morning (Aug 9th.) One particular story was discussed about a women that underwent a major operation for an aneurism in which her body was chilled and the blood was drained from her brain. Headphones played a loud click every couple of seconds while her brain was continuously monitored for activity. Her eyes were moistened and taped shut so they didn’t dry out and the top part of her skull was removed. She had had a near-death experience which included visiting deceased relatives, viewing her own body, etc. Upon awakening after the surgery she was able give a detailed description of of everything that transpired which was verified by the surgeons.
“The NDE is an authentic experience which cannot be attributed to imagination, psychosis or oxygen deprivation. After such an profound experience, patient’s personalities underwent a permanent change” http://www.pimvanlommel.nl
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:40 pm
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September 25th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
I was burned to death back in 2000 and found myself floating about the A@E where a consultant was arguing with a junior doctor that it was a waste of time to start me breathing again.
I watched this PC screen waiting for the ping pong ball to do something till I realised it was my heart blimp. My body was that blackened mess below someplace.
Then I realised I was dead and when that happened a loud voice came to take me away.
I refused to go and argued I had kids to stop going into a home. This power went and got a bigger power who I argued with too.
Next I woke up in a morphine filled hell and knew I was back in my body. My kids didn’t go into a home as one day I got out of hospital.
October 5th, 2010 at 4:49 pm
hello,thank you very much for over reseach,on the basis of my expriences the fondation of these stories are related to our religion,means that our believes,but all of them have a common content:turn back to the lord,and i think most of them could be our lord because we can,t depart ourself fro him,in our holey koran our lord tells us when a person is going to die you think you are near to him/her,but no i,m nearest to that person but you couldn,t know it,we can get conclude this period(death)is a step for reach our creator but because we have a lots of desires we have to reject it,this is an automatic reaction that,s related to our organism.
October 7th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
hello sir thank you about attendant to my view,absolutely your informations could be useful but i think if you will present the core of your view about these items are better because i will get the content of your theory after th at i could have a chat for improve in my views about these things,you know i,ve a lots of intresting contact with our lords and i should say about these expriences to the people like them and to strenth their believes about our lord and his appearances in everythings that we have attend them and to tuch touch them and finally to get the pretiest image of our lord and save him in every action,thank you about your respect,babak.
November 5th, 2010 at 11:56 am
I have been searching for content like this for my school project I’m working on. Many thanks very much.
November 28th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Interesting article! You might want to examine the work of Michael Newton, who has the same psychological and evidence-based approach to this subject.
April 16th, 2011 at 7:30 am
NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE (NDE).
Hi Friend,
To my understanding, the NDEs presents people of all races insights into knowing that there exists real experiences of a life after death. Many who have not returned (after death physically) to tell us a story are either happy in heaven or tormented in hell. What a previlage we have in hearing the NDEs of precious souls who have returned back from their death.
I would rather be a beliver and live right in this life to enter the bliss of heaven, rather then be a non-beliver and enter the doom of hell.
Well the question is what shall we believe in? Answer, believe in the one who historically resurrected from the death, ascended into heaven and says he is the resurrection and the life. That person is one whom the world must believe in. His is none other than the LORD JESUS CHRIST of the four Gospels of the Bible.
For to place one’s believe in medical and same psychological illusions as explaination to NDEs is a grave mistake. Such a mistaken soul will regret when he or she eventuallu also dies. So be the wise man or woman and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ for only a fool says there is no God and will soon when time finally catches up will find his/her soul place amongst the doomed of hell.
To be in heaven, accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour of your soul so you too can see Jesus my Saviour and Lord some sweet day when death finally sets in or when Jesus returns for his Church soon.
Well then, this is my understanding whilst alive in this physical body. How about you my dear friend?
Best Regards.
PAUL KAMAKANDE
Papua New Guinea
April 30th, 2011 at 10:24 am
I want to experience the NDE before death.
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July 1st, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Nice article. I believe that the near death experience comes from the brain, and that there are probably levels of consciousness science can’t measure at this time that will explain these phenonema. fMRI has shown that some people we believe are in a vegatative state and have no consciousness respond to a suggestion to imagine doing something as though they are doing it. Science will explain it all without resorting to religious or spiritual ideas.