Saturday, October 01, 2011
"Near-Death Experiences: 30 Years of Research"
This is clearly a subject to read about, rather than risk a personal experience...
Stephanie Lam recently wrote about it at theEpochTomes.com:
"The phenomenon was coined near-death experiences (NDEs) in the 1975 book 'Life After Life' by Raymond Moody, M.D. and Ph.D. in philosophy and psychology. NDEs generally include cognitive, affective, paranormal, and transcendental experiences.
Examples of NDEs include experiencing a change in one’s perception and way of thinking, feeling peace or calmness, gaining extrasensory perception (ESP), going through a review of one’s life and seeing the effects of one’s actions on others, a feeling of leaving the body, seeing deceased people and other beings such as angels, and feeling as if one has entered another dimension.
NDEs are encountered by people of all backgrounds, and most studies find the prevalence of NDEs to be 10–20 percent of people who have come close to death."