versities around the world) compiled hundreds of stunning testimonies and wrote some of the most powerful books concerning NDEs, scientists have become very attracted to this phenomenon. Dr Kenneth Ring, then based at the University of Connecticut, and Sharon Cooper, then a PhD candidate from the University of New York, performed a two-year study of near-death experiences in the blind, with amazing results. These were published in their book Mindsight( 1999), which provided strong evidence from 31 blind people who describe the experience of seeing for the first time in their lives, giving details of medical procedures on the operating table, for instance. Jeffrey Long, MD, an oncologist, directs the Near Death Experience
Research Foundation( http:// www. nderf. org), which has collected more than 2,500 case studies worldwide of people who have had neardeath experiences. Because Dr. Long applies the scientific method in his research, we decided to contact him to find out more about his work. In our e-mail interview with him in August 2011, he stated:“ My area of expertise is in neardeath experiences. NDEs provide, in my opinion, the strongest scientific evidence of life after death.” In his book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences( 2010),
Dr. Long gives a summary of the nine lines of evidence that point to the reality of NDEs and their consistent message of an afterlife:
The level of consciousness andalertness during near-death experiences is usually evengreater 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 inexplicable. 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.
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versities around the world) compiled hundreds of stunning testimonies and wrote some of the most powerful books concerning NDEs, scientists have become very attracted to this phenomenon. Dr Kenneth Ring, then based at the University of Connecticut, and Sharon Cooper, then a PhD candidate from the University of New York, performed a two-year study of near-death experiences in the blind, with amazing results. These were published in their book Mindsight( 1999), which provided strong evidence from 31 blind people who describe the experience of seeing for the first time in their lives, giving details of medical procedures on the operating table, for instance. Jeffrey Long, MD, an oncologist, directs the Near Death Experience
Research Foundation( http:// www. nderf. org), which has collected more than 2,500 case studies worldwide of people who have had neardeath experiences. Because Dr. Long applies the scientific method in his research, we decided to contact him to find out more about his work. In our e-mail interview with him in August 2011, he stated:“ My area of expertise is in neardeath experiences. NDEs provide, in my opinion, the strongest scientific evidence of life after death.” In his book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences( 2010),
Dr. Long gives a summary of the nine lines of evidence that point to the reality of NDEs and their consistent message of an afterlife:
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Crystal Clear Consciousness
The level of consciousness andalertness during near-death experiences is usually evengreater 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 inexplicable. 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.