CategoryNear-Death Experiences
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor: Does the Soul Really Exist?
He offers evidence that helps explain why modern medicine tries to understand near-death experiences, not merely explain them away
Science on Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs Explaining Away
The first rule of a scientific approach to near-death experiences should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis
Researchers Ask: What Happens After a Near-Death Experience?
The experiences themselves tend to attract attention and study. But how do they really change lives?
“Here’s My Number. Call Me When You Have Evidence.”
On Standing for Truth, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor describes the approach he takes to those who defend materialist theories about human beings
One Reason Why Near-Death Experiences Are Difficult to Study
Philosopher Bernardo Kastrup talks at Closer to Truth about the problem of trying to communicate experiences for which there are no words
Sean McDowell and Gary Habermas Discuss Near-Death Experiences
Habermas tells his host that the last few years have brought out hundreds of new documented cases
Why Don’t Near-Death Experiences Support One Belief System?
On the Truthful Hope podcast, Jacob Vazquez and Denyse O'Leary discuss the way people of different faiths see what they themselves recognize
Why Near-Death Experiences Are Taken More Seriously Now
Medical science can attest that a patient was actually dead, by clinical standards, during the time when an NDE is reported
Skepticism: Four Challenges From Near-Death Experiences
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor offers these challenges to those who would explain away NDEs as a mere malfunction of the brain
Piers Morgan Show: Michael Egnor and Michael Shermer Debate!
Near-death experiences headlined the discussion. But Dr. Egnor made clear that there is much other evidence for the reality of the human mind
A Neurosurgeon on Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for the Soul?
Michael Egnor sees striking parallels between NDEs and experiences described by mystics when ordinary thought is silenced, deeper reality breaks through
Near-Death Experiences Are Taken More Seriously Now
After reading a recent news article on NDEs, I revisited a book published in 2007 to get some sense of the change
Michael Egnor: Your Spiritual Soul Has No Off Switch
Here is Dr. Egnor’s talk at the Dallas Conference last February, where he discussed some themes from The Immortal Mind, to be published June 3
Scientists Dare To Hint That the Mind Can’t Just Be the Brain
They start with astonishing facts about the brains of caterpillars and worms and end up discussing human near-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