Does Near-Death Experience (NDE) Evidence Prove an Afterlife?
Consider the Evidence, and Determine YOUR Answer!

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This web form considers near-death experience (NDE) evidence that suggests an afterlife, and calculates how strongly you believe this evidence proves the existence of an afterlife. Afterlife means conscious existence after permanent earthly bodily death.

Instructions: In each table below, select the percent probability that the evidence from the single concept alone, without consideration of any other evidence, proves the existence of an afterlife. Please consider all evidence both for and against the single concept.

Example: If you believe the evidence from a single concept proves the existence of an afterlife with a 90% certainty, select 90%. If you believe the evidence from a single concept proves the existence of an afterlife with a 10% certainty, select 10%. If you believe the evidence from a single concept offers no proof of the afterlife whatsoever, select 0%.

Please fill out all nine fields, as a value is required in all fields to perform the calculation.

The top nine NDE concepts that are generally considered to be most evidential are presented below. A percentage must be selected from each table.

After you select a percentage, you may change your response by clicking a different percentage. Only one percentage per table may be selected.

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How It Works

NDE Evidence and the Afterlife Calculator Explained

There are multiple lines of NDE evidence suggesting the existence of an afterlife. Many people find it difficult to assess the totality of these multiple lines of evidence in determining the strength of the totality of overall NDE evidence in proving the existence of an afterlife.

An example of this is as follows. Suppose there were only two independent lines of NDE evidence suggesting an afterlife. Further, assume that each one of these lines of evidence individually had a 50% probability that it proved the existence of an afterlife. Many people would consider that the two lines of NDE evidence, each with a 50% probability of proving the afterlife, would mean that the combination of the two lines of evidence suggests a 50% probability of the NDE evidence proving an afterlife. However, this is not true. This may be illustrated as follows. The two hypothetical lines of evidence may be called Evidence1 and Evidence2. The four possible outcomes are:

 Afterlife ProvenAfterlife Not Proven
Evidence1YesNo
Evidence2YesNo

For both lines of NDE evidence, another way of listing the four possible combinations are:

Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: Yes AND Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: Yes
Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: Yes AND Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: No
Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: No AND Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: Yes
Evidence1, Afterlife Proven: No AND Evidence2, Afterlife Proven: No

Of the above four possibilities, the afterlife would be considered proven with the first three combinations. This is true because there is a Yes response to at least one of the two lines of evidence. Only the last combination, with a No response to both lines of evidence would suggest the afterlife is not proven. Thus, if there are two lines of NDE evidence, each with a 50% probability of proving an afterlife, the combination of the two lines of evidence gives a three out of four, or 75% probability that an afterlife is proven.

The mathematical formula that determines the percentage probability that the afterlife is considered proven by N independent lines of NDE evidence, is:

100 x {(1-N1)*(1-N2)*(1-N3)...*(NN)} %



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NDE Concepts:

1. Concept: The level of consciousness and alertness during NDEs is usually greater than they experience during their everyday life even though NDEs generally occur while unconscious or clinically dead. The elements in NDEs generally follow a consistent and logical and order.



2. Concept: What NDErs see and hear in the out of body state during their NDEs is generally realistic, and often verified later by the NDErs or others as real.



3. Concept: Normal or super-normal vision occurs in NDEs among those with significantly impaired vision or even legal blindness. Several NDErs who were blind from birth have reported highly visual NDEs.



4. Concept: Typical NDEs occur under general anesthesia at a time when conscious experience should be impossible.



5. Concept: Life reviews in NDEs include real events that took place in the NDErs lives, even if the events had been forgotten.



6. Concept: When NDErs encounter beings they knew from their earthly life, they are virtually always deceased, and usually deceased relatives.



7. Concept: The NDEs of children, including very young children, are strikingly similar to the NDEs of older children and adults.



8. Concept: NDEs appear strikingly consistent around the world. Many NDEs from non-Western countries are very similar to typical Western NDEs.



9. Concept: Changes in the lives of NDErs after their experiences, the NDE aftereffects, are common. Aftereffects are often powerful, lasting, and the changes follow a consistent pattern.



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NOTE: Only your first survey response will be statistically analyzed together with all other survey respondents. However, please feel free to complete the survey as many times as you want.

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