5.
Perfect Playbacks
Life reviews in near-death experiences include real events that previously took place in the lives of
those having the experience, even
if the events were forgotten or happened before they were old enough
to remember.
gion or near-death experiences, are
essentially identical to those of older
children and adults.
This refutes the possibility that the
content of NDEs is produced by preexisting beliefs or cultural conditioning.
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6.
Worldwide
Consistency
Near-death experiences
appear remarkably consistent around
Family Reunions
the world and across many different
religions and cultures. NDEs from
During an NDE, the people
encountered are virtually always non-western countries are incredibly
deceased and are usually relatives similar to those that occur in people
of the person having the experience; in western countries.
sometimes they are even relatives
who died before the NDEr was born.
Were the NDE only a product of
memory fragments, it would almost
Aftereffects
certainly include far more living people, including those with whom the
It is common for people
NDEr had interacted more recently.
to experience major life
changes after having near-death
experiences.
These aftereffects are often powerChildren’s Experiences ful, lasting and lifeenhancing,
and the changes generally follow a
consistent pattern. As the NDErs
themselves almost
always believe, near-death experiThe near-death experiences
of children, including very young ences are, in a word,
children who are too young to have real.
developed concepts of death, reli-
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