Category: Near Death Experience

  • What Do You See When You Die? Consciousness-Like Activity in Dying Brains Offers Some Hints

    What Do You See When You Die? Consciousness-Like Activity in Dying Brains Offers Some Hints

    Turns out, there might really be something to the reports of people seeing their lives flash before their eyes. For the first time ever, scientists have caught a glimpse of what human brain waves look like in a dying person, bringing us one step closer to answering the perennial question: what do…

  • Scientific Proof of Reincarnation Dr. Ian Stevenson’s Life Work

    Scientific Proof of Reincarnation Dr. Ian Stevenson’s Life Work

    “Either he [Dr. Stevenson] is making a colossal mistake. Or he will be known as the Galileo of the 20th century.” Dr Harold Lief in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Probably the best known, if not most respected, collection of scientific data that appears to provide scientific proof that…

  • The Physician Who Watched Himself Die by Michael E. Tymn

    The Physician Who Watched Himself Die by Michael E. Tymn

    In his 1903 book, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death (published two years after his death in 1901), Frederic W. H. Myers, the pioneering psychical researcher, set forth a story about what is now known as a near-death experience, which took place in 1889.  It was told to him by…

  • Experiencing a Pre-Death Life Review

    Experiencing a Pre-Death Life Review

    A number of people have reported a “life review” during a near-death experience (NDE) – seeing every second of their lives flash before them in what might be called a timeless moment.  A man named Tom Sawyer had an NDE in 1978, one in which he recalled living every thought…

  • Scientists discover new ‘third state’ between life and death

    Scientists discover new ‘third state’ between life and death

    What lies between life and death ? Image Credit: Pixabay / geralt It’s not quite Frankenstein’s monster, but the find is likely to push the boundaries of life, death and medicine. Peter A Noble and Alex Pozhitkov: Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms…

  • Shared Death Experiences: A Little-Known Type of End-of-Life Phenomena Reported by Caregivers and Loved Ones

    Shared Death Experiences: A Little-Known Type of End-of-Life Phenomena Reported by Caregivers and Loved Ones

    Abstract Anecdotal evidence suggests that some loved ones and caregivers of dying patients undergo a type of end-of-life phenomena known as a shared death experience or SDE, whereby one feels that one has participated in a dying person’s transition to a post-mortem existence. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that SDEs can…

  • Shared Death Experiences: A Little-Known Type of End-of-Life Phenomena Reported by Caregivers and Loved Ones

    Shared Death Experiences: A Little-Known Type of End-of-Life Phenomena Reported by Caregivers and Loved Ones

    Abstract Anecdotal evidence suggests that some loved ones and caregivers of dying patients undergo a type of end-of-life phenomena known as a shared death experience or SDE, whereby one feels that one has participated in a dying person’s transition to a post-mortem existence. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that SDEs can…

  • Greyson NDE Scale

    Greyson NDE Scale

    Professor & Psychiatrist Bruce Greyson developed this scale to measure the depth of an individual’s near-death experience. The following is a copy of the scale as presented in an article entitled “Altered States” by Lee Graves in the Summer 2007 edition of the University of Virginia Magazine. 1. Did time seem to speed…

  • Why The Afterlife Is Beyond Science

    Why The Afterlife Is Beyond Science

    Co-founder in 1882 of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), Frederic W. H. Myers, a Cambridge scholar, is sometimes referred to as the “Father of Psychical Research.”  As Myers came to realize during his lifetime, mediumship is very complex and does not easily lend itself to human understanding or to scientific research.  After…

  • Automatic Writing Explained

    Automatic Writing Explained

    The so-called skeptics assume that the automatic writing form of mediumship is just so much bunk, baloney, and bosh, nothing more than the imagination playing tricks on the person.  Some parapsychologists believe it is all coming from the individual’s subconscious and unrelated to spirits.  But so much of what has…