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Chinese Simplified 鄰近的死亡 經驗 研究基礎, Chinese 鄰近的死亡 經驗 研究基礎 , Danish lige ved ENDELIGT Erfaring UNDERSØGELSE Oprettelse, Dutch Bijna Dood Ervaring, Finnish lähellä oleva KUOLEMA Kokemus ETSINTÄ Perustaminen, French l’expérience de mort imminente, German Forschungs-einrichtung für Nahtoderfahrungen,  Hungarian HALÁLKÖZELI ÉLMÉNYEK KUTATÁSI ALAPÍTVÁNY, Indonesia (Bahasa) Pengalaman Mendekati Kematian, Indonesia MATI DEKAT Mengalami, Italian ESPERIENZE DI QUASI-MORTE, Japanese 死の近くで経験, Korean죽음에 이르렀던 경험의 연구 토대를 위해 Latin American Spanish las Experiencia Cercana a la Muerte, Norwegian like ved DØD Erfaring, Philippine lumapit kamatayan dumanas manaliksik pagkakatatag, Polish ORGANIZACJA BADAJĄCA PRZEŻYCIA Z POGRANICZA ŚMIERCI, Portuguese acercar MORTE Experimentar, Portuguese - Brazilian perto MORTE Experiência, Russian ОКОЛО СМЕРТЕЛЬНОГО ОПЫТА ОСНОВА(ФОНД) ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ, Spanish las Experiencia Cercana a la Muerte,  Swedish Nära-dödenupplevelsen

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NDE-Like George E's Experience  2/2/03 On the eighth day of this misery I seemed to just float right up out of my body. So I'm looking down at my body lying in the bed still as a corpse, and I said "Oh *beep*! I've died!!" I was basically unnerved by this. But in the next second, I thought to myself "Hey, if I'm dead, who is thinking these thoughts??" So then I felt calm and very good, thinking "Well this sure beats being sick as a dog, this is quite okay." So I'm floating in the room, right? And its daytime. Outside there was a church-- this was in Rio Piedras PR near the University-- and the bells started ringing. This was normal. I had a strong urge to go check it out so I floated out of the window. Outside it was blindingly bright. Whoa! It was SO BRIGHT.
An NDE with very different integration than most.

Natasha E's NDE English expanded version, 1/26/03  The room was very bright! and i wasn't scared at all.  All the pain i had while being ill had gone and i really didn't want to go back into my body  but i knew that my family loved me and i loved them, so i made a conscious decision to go back into the body. 
An 11-year old's pneumonia NDE that also had elements of a precognitive knowing because she saw her death from heart failure the next night. 

Lars Ö's NDE Swedish NDE translated by Lisa  Swedish expanded version English expanded version,  1/24/03 Although you don't have your normal feelings, you apparently have soul feelings, but I still can't talk about the emotional part, it still hurts when I think about it. When you come out of the spiral on the other side, it's dark with lots of white dots that move towards you, it feels like you're hurled outwards at a high speed, don't know how far I got out there, but it lasted for long. Then I started thinking, if I go on I'll be stuck here, and then I woke up lying on the floor.
This is a great description of a a tunnel experience.

Doineau H's NDE French NDE translated by Johanne  English expanded version, French expanded version  1/19/03   I had the feeling that I belonged to this world not as much as a being but rather as photon within the surrounding light.  I heard a melodic noise that I do not completely find in the music I listen to.   Ambient light was all around me, more luminous than dazzling, but intense though. Soothing, above all, soothing.
Amazing French child NDE that occurred at age 9 months old!

RECENT NDU RESEARCH

1.  Healing and Paranormal Gifts: Survey Results Between NDErs and non-NDErs, by Jody 12/23/02  First of all I'd like to thank everyone who participated in this HUGE study.  We had 124 NDErs and 75 non-NDErs who participated in the survey. Without your help, we would never have such startling results to report on! The healing questions pertained to the meaning of healing, whether the participant had experienced any emotional or healing gifts and whether the timing of these gifts was before or after their NDE or other paranormal experience.  They were also asked if they had healed anyone, and if so to explain or give examples.  Past studies are reviewed.  Present tension between medicine and alternative healing is explored.  The main finding of this study is that healing and evidentiality of alternative healing depends on how a person views "healing."  Most of the time the way a person views healing is part of a larger belief system rather than a compartmentalized body of knowledge about the physical body.   

  2.  Near Death Experience, Religion and Spirituality, by Jody 12/11/02  One of the last frontiers of study surrounds spirituality and NDE.  However, this is a highly sensitive issue due to the nature of religion.  What this study attempts to do is to objectively look at the data submitted by NDErs to the website and to categorize the answers.  Questions that are analyzed include pre and post NDE religious preference, and changed beliefs.  There are some surprising results that focus on universal purpose and order gained from NDE understandings.

3.  Soulmates and Consciousness, (Part 1 of Soulmate Study), by Jody 11/9/02
As a bit of background, at the IANDS annual conference in 2000, Dr. Jeff Long and I gave a presentation on our research findings regarding soulmates.  I recently started to write up the presentation.  One of the main questions I wanted to find out is if, by including the new data, the results of the study would still hold.  It turned out that we had over two times the data as when we started.  Every question analyzed had such a wealth of information contained in each sub-category that it was impossible to just write- up the Soulmate presentation.  Therefore, I have chosen to write a series of papers based upon the new data and then write a culmination paper on soulmate understandings and incorporating findings of the separate papers.

4.  The Fourth Dimension and NDEs, by Jody 11/25/02  From near death experience research, a model that fits the data is that consciousness (synonymous to soul) is a fourth dimensional construct.  This concept necessarily affects the way we view time and how we integrate consciousness with our three dimensional, earth reality.  Our science, religion, and society are all affected by how we perceive our earth reality.  This paper attempts to explain the fourth dimension by analogizing to one, two, and three dimensional concepts to what NDErs are telling us about their fourth dimensional experiences.

5.  Another Look at Beings Encountered During the Near Death Experience, (part 2 of Soulmate Study)  by Jody 11/25/02  It is a common element, unique to the NDEs experience, to report seeing deceased beings.  Frequently, those seen on the other side are religious beings or deceased relatives.  This study analyzes the beings that were seen on the other side.  The datum is broken down into the categories of familiar beings and unfamiliar beings.   Of the 302 people who responded to the survey, 29% (88) saw familiar beings and 25.8% (78) saw unfamiliar beings.  Of the 166 people who saw beings, 53% saw familiar beings, while 47% saw unfamiliar beings.  The highest percentage of familiar beings seen were blood relatives (25.9%), followed by religious figures (22.9%).  Implications are discussed against the backdrop of consciousness and the Soulmate myth of popular culture.

6.   Drömmar och NDUer Comparing NDEs and Dreams.  Jämförande studie mellan NDUer och drömmar  (eng.) 

7.  Före/Efter 1975 - NDUer som ägde rum före och efter år 1975, resultat från en webbaserad intervjustudie med nära-dödenupplevare (eng.) by Jeff Long, MD  5/18/02  The 1975 publication of Life after Life (Moody, 1975) led to wide public recognition of near death experience (NDE).  No prior study has investigated the similarities and differences of NDEs occurring before and after 1975.  Much of the earliest NDE research, in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, would have studied NDEs occurring predominantly before 1975.  If the content and aftereffects of NDEs remained constant before and after 1975, this earliest NDE research may be considered applicable to NDEs occurring more recently.  This study uses the methodology of an Internet based questionnaire survey which has not been previously reported.  A total of 218 NDErs were surveyed.  The only statistical differences between the group with NDEs before 1975 (n=48) compared with the group with NDEs during or after 1975 (n=170) were due to expected differences in NDEr age at the time of the NDE, and age currently.  No other significant difference was found between these two groups with regard to NDE demographics, experience elements, or aftereffects studied.

8.  Recension av ny schweizisk studie om UKUn, av Jody 9/25/02
Studien publicerades i den brittiska tidskriften Nature den 9/19/02. Flera andra artiklar i media som baserades på denna studie publicerades senare. I denna artikel tittar vi på: 1) studien, 2) publikationer i media, och 3) kritisk diskussion av båda ämnena, studien och mediapublikationerna. (Eng.)

Study Results Coming Soon! 

NDE, Dreams, and Reality

Soulmates

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FUNNY FACT    In the 1500's, lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake."

FUNNY FACT   England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So in the 1500's they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus,  someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."