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experience (NDE) refers to a broad range of experiences associated with impending death. These can encompass multiple possible sensations including: detachment from the body; feelings of levitation, extreme fear, total serenity, security, warmth or absolute dissolution; and the presence of light. These phenomena are usually reported after an individual has been pronounced clinically dead and then comes back to life. These experiences suggest the existence of life after death. Since psyThe term near-death chologist Raymond members who came to receive them. He also investigates coincidences involving deceased people who contacted someone just to tell them that he/she has died. In addition, he studies family members who saw shadows around the bed of the ceased and observed that the room became a lot of brighter at the time of the person’s death. These occurrences happen in a very high percentage of cases, he concludes. Dr. Fenwick also insists that the soul is different from the brain. Dr Peter Fenwick 53 Moody, Jr., MD, wrote his book Life After Life (1975) and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, MD (the now-deceased eminent researcher who received a score of honorary doctorates from universities 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.