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What’s Beyond the Bright Light of Near Death Experience?
The sight of her unconscious body on the operating table being subject to furious efforts by medical staff to save her life was Vicki Umipeg’s first experience of vision, as ...
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Prominent Surgeon: Evidence Soul May Leave Body in Near-Death Experience
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November 25, 2022
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3 Cases of Out-Of-Body Experiences Where People Saw Impossible Sights Later Verified by the Living
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October 26, 2022
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A Physicist’s Explanation of Why the Soul May Exist
A theoretical physicist who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, Henry Stapp says the ...
May 4, 2022
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How Common Are Near-Death Experiences? NDEs by the Numbers
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by an estimated 200,000 Americans a year, and studies around the world suggest ...
May 3, 2022
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The Neuroscience of Near-Death Experiences
When people report having profound out-of-body experiences during close brushes with death, skeptics often attribute it to physiological ...
April 29, 2022
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The Profound Near-Death Experience of a Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor
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February 18, 2016
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Out-of-Body Experiences: Studies, Theories, Reflections
A free e-book published this month, "Consciousness Beyond the Body: Evidence and Reflections," gathers current scientific knowledge related ...
February 18, 2016
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Interview: Bruce Greyson on Researching Near-Death Experiences at the University of Virginia
At the University of Virginia, a space is given to the scientific investigation of strange phenomena that challenge ...
May 25, 2015
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Study Said to Show Out-of-Body Experiences Created in Brain: Critics Respond
Some elements of out-of-body experiences can be traced to the brain, but not all, say researchers.
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How Psychologists Officially Handle Spiritual Matters: Are Believers Delusional?
Whether someone is crazy or not can be officially determined by a manual widely used to diagnose mental ...
October 2, 2014
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3 Out-of-Body Experiences With Some Objective Verification
In some cases, what out-of-body experiencers have seen can be verified; researchers then try to determine whether the ...
September 26, 2014
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11 Powerful, Thought-Provoking Quotes From a Near-Death Experiences Conference
The International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS) 2014 Conference in Newport Beach, California, brought together people who report ...
September 12, 2014
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Pinning Down a Mystical Experience With Hard Science
You can't easily produce a near-death experience in a laboratory—or at least not without some serious ethical issues. ...
September 7, 2014
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Profound Dreams That May Be More Than Dreams—and Their Unexpected Uses
Dr. Jim Kwako is interested in dreams that are "not dreams in the usual sense," he said. People ...
September 6, 2014
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Some people have described in detail what they saw after they seemed to leave the physical body. Details ...
September 5, 2014
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Do Alzheimer’s, Dementia Prove the Soul Doesn’t Exist?
Often, just before death, people with Alzheimer's disease or dementia who've been completely incoherent for many years will ...
September 2, 2014
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Talking About Near-Death Experiences Could Help Soldiers Heal, Says Retired Colonel
Soldiers don't want to seem crazy by talking about having visited the afterlife, but openly discussing their near-death ...
August 31, 2014
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Next Steps in Near-Death Experiences Research: Scientists Discuss
Leading near-death experience researchers discuss the next steps for investigating this phenomenon, including legitimizing the study in the ...
August 30, 2014
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Near-Death Experiencers Shouldn’t Be Treated as Crazy: Healthcare Workers Discuss
Erica McKenzie is a registered nurse who has not only seen many patients come back from the brink ...
August 29, 2014
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When a Prominent Medical Journal Published a Reincarnation Article Matter-of-Factly
Dr. Ian Stevenson didn’t finish his reincarnation studies without some success in reaching the mainstream science community.
August 22, 2014
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Out-of-Body Experiences: 3 Scientific Studies, Next Steps
New research is underway at Nottingham Trent University in the UK to further understand out-of-body experiences (OBEs). It ...
August 15, 2014
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