Yes, near death experiences and their underlying reality ( or fantasy!) remain one of the most profound topics of conversation for people interested in “our” line of work..:-)
The good news? There are actually, as we’ve mentioned before…..some pretty important studies going on right now on testing the “survival hypothesis” using some pretty hardcore scientific methods of verification.
If these studies prove to be authenticated ( i.e. – people really DO see numbers, or things set up to “test” what happens in a hospital setting during a near death experience) it’s going to be pretty hard for the skeptical, to explain it all away as fraud.
Check out the short article below – and the link to Victor Zammit’s highly entertaining, but highly controversial website below. ( and you can also get his totally free ebook as well – which I DO recommend if you’re interested in the subject at all…which most of you, I would imagine are..:-)
Recently, several medical doctors such as Dr. Pim van Lommel (The Netherlands), Dr. Sam Parnia (UK) and Dr. Michael B. Sabom (USA) have carried out studies to determine if patients who have officially been declared clinically dead really can get Near-Death Experiences (NDEs). All of them conclude that NDEs do indeed take place among at least some of these patients.The researchers accept that consciousness is not destroyed when our brain stops functioning. They also accept that consciousness will probably continue exist after death, as in this sense, there isn’t any relevant difference between a flat EEG and brain death.Mainstream materialist scientists generally see consciousness as a byproduct of the activity of the brain. For the question of survival, it is therefore sufficient to show that the mind does not need the brain for its very existence.Near-death experiences and materialist theories of the mindIf we can prove that consciousness is present after the brain has stopped functioning, we have shown that materialism must be wrong.There are three strategies of people who want to avoid the ‘survivalist’ conclusion of recent NDE-studies.
