Celestial Travelers - Near Death Experience

Near Death Experience
The Near Death Experience (NDE) is a powerful argument for the existence of the afterlife. As medical resuscitation techniques are being improved more and more people are being brought back from the border of clinical death. A number of them recount an intense profoundly meaningful experience in which they seem to be alive and functioning outside their body. For many, a near death experience is an extremely powerful emotional and spiritual experience. Read More >>>>

Scientific Reductionism
Providing a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of near-death experience has been a difficult challenge for scientists ever since data in the form of NDE testimonials started appearing in the mid 1970s.
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Personal Near Death Experiences
One most extraordinary aspect of NDE's is that the underlying pattern seems unaffected by a person's culture or belief system, religion, race, education, or any other known variable, although the way in which the NDE is described varies according to the person's background and vocabulary. There is no evidence that the type of experience is related to whether the person is conventionally religious or not, or has lived a "good" or "bad" life according to his/her society's standards (although an NDE often strongly affects how life is lived after the experience). Personal Stores of the NDE

Science and the Near Death Experience
The fear of death has given rise to a host of speculations about an afterlife. Religions, philosophies and cults have multiplied over the millennia, all trying to answer our need for comfort about this seemingly absurd fate that awaits each of us. And now science has turned its gaze toward the matter of death. Science and the NDE

Spirit and the Near Death Experience
Almost all near-death survivors tell of stories of out of body experiences, spiritual awakening, and a movement toward the light. Whatever their religious beliefs, the occurrence for people who have had this near death experiences (NDE) is very similar. And those who have experienced a NDE come away from it totally changed-they come away with an awakened spirituality and unconditional love. Read More >>>>

Research and the Near Death Experience
Researchers, such as Bruce Greyson, Kenneth Ring, and Michael Sabom, helped to launch the field of Near-Death Studies, and introduced the study of Near-Death experiences to the academic setting. The medical community has been somewhat reluctant to address the phenomenon of NDEs, and grant money for research has been scarce. However, both Greyson and Ring developed tools that can be used in a clinical setting. Major contributions to the field include the construction of a Weighted Core Experience Index in order to measure the depth of the Near-Death experience, and the construction of the Near-death experience scale in order to differentiate between subjects that are more or less likely to have experienced an NDE. The scale is also, according to the author, clinically useful in differentiating NDEs from organic brain syndromes and nonspecific stress responses.

Children and the Near Death Experience
Near-Death Experiences could perhaps be dismissed as people's conscious imaginations. This is less readily so in the case of children's NDEs. P. M. H. Atwater, L.H.D., Ph.D. (Hon) and Dr. Melvin Morse who are pioneers in the field of childhood NDEs. Dr. Morse is a pediatrician and neuroscientist. In hundreds of interviews with children who had once been declared clinically dead, Dr. Morse found that children too young to have absorbed our adult views and ideas of death, share first-hand accounts of out-of-body travel, telepathic communication and encounters with dead friends and relatives. Children and the NDE

Books and the Near Death Experience
Mysteries and revelations of Near Death Experiences. Moving accounts, including deep insights about the mind and the nature of reality. Contributions to the research on near-death experiences have come from several academic disciplines, among these the disciplines of medicine, psychology and psychiatry. Interest in this field of study was originally spurred by the research of such pioneers as Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, George Ritchie, and Raymond Moody Jr. Moody's book " Life after Life", which was released in 1975, brought a lot of attention to the topic of NDEs. Books and the NDE

Hollywood and the Near Death Experience
Dorothy becomes unconscious, travels through a tunnel, finds herself in an enchanted wonderland, meets unusual beings, is taken to an "Emerald City" to see a powerful God-like being, and eventually returns to Earth. The Wizard of Oz, contains elements of the near death experience including, ineffability, the separation of consciousness, encounters with loved ones, the being of light, the life review, approaching the boundary, the return to physical body and the transformation of values and attitudes toward life. Many movies explore the NDE metaphorical as well as directly. Movies NDE

Documentaries and the Near Death Experience
Pare Lorentz defines a documentary film as "a factual film which is dramatic." Others further state that a documentary stands out from the other types of non-fiction films for providing an opinion, and a specific message, along with the facts it presents. Research documentaries about the afterlife from offer a scientfic point of view as well as a faithful point of view. Documentaries NDE

YouTube and the Near Death Experience
With the popularity of YouTube, many people are on line in the cyber community sharing their testimony of the near death experience. Check out some amazing Youtube confessions of Near Death Experiences. Get a glimpse of the other side, and how those visits enlighten us as to what we're supposed to be doing over here. YouTube and the NDE