CategoryNear-Death Experiences
Near-Death Stories: Has An Undiscovered Country Been Discovered?
A Catholic priest looks at ways we can understand these brushes with an unseen world
5. NDEs: The Enduring Mystery of the Pam Reynolds Case
There can be no question that Reynolds was dead when she had an NDE during a risky operation. To succeed, the procedure required her to be dead…
4. A Prominent Physicist’s Report of a Deathbed Vision
He was intrigued by the fact that the young woman, soon to die, knew that her sister had died. But no one had told her…
3. A Cardiologist Encounters a Near Death Experience
Dr. Aufderheide hardly expected the patient, who was in prolonged cardiac arrest, to tell him what he had been doing — and thinking — when he was in the patient's room
2. When information from a near-death experience is confirmed…
A seven-year-old girl who was a near-fatal drowning victim reported things that she saw during a state of clinical death that were later confirmed
A Novelist Posts on the Paranormal
Accounting for experiences of the supernatural
1. When actual experiences challenge the viewpoints of skeptics
Sean McDowell recently hosted J. Steve Miller to talk about his top five believable near-death experiences
Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Sam Parnia Faces Skeptical Questions
In discussion with Closer to Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions
Does Science Show That the Soul Persists After Death?
Gradually, medical findings about what happens to the mind around the time of death are undermining the assumption that the soul dies with the body
The Mind Is Not Annihilated at Death, Emergency Room Doctor Says
ER specialist Sam Parnia is making waves with his challenge, based on his clinical experience and research, to the claim that the human mind is annihilated at death
Heart Attack Doctor: Science Shows That Death Is Not the End
Sam Parnia began by wondering how brain cells can give rise to thoughts. He came to see that the message “from science” was not what he had been led to expect
Once Again: Near-Death Experiences as Possum Tales
In the recent Scientific American article, we learn once again that NDEs evolved as a human way of “playing dead”