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In 1966, at the age of six – I was diagnosed with an extremely rare cardiac condition. The condition came to the attention of my parents and ‘Doctors after my Mom discovered my lifeless body under a bed. I was not breathing and she rushed me to the ER. This was not the first time I had an ‘explosion’ inside my chest. I had been complaining about chest pains for several months prior. There was no known medical cure for my condition. For the next 11 years through my childhood – I was constantly having mild to extreme seizures that would led to a loss of vital signs. During that state, I was constantly being thrown outside my body. It was estimated that I had died over a 1000 times and had lived to tell about it. Due to the extreme pain involved – a side effect of the of the physical condition escalated to memory losses. I had to bury the memories of the painful episodes. When I turned 18, I was involved in a car crash and when I walked away – I had buried the entire history of my childhood. Recently, I started recalling the incidents in childhood. This blog is a journal as I write down the memories as they return.
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A near-death experience (NDE) is the perception reported by a person who nearly died or who was clinically dead and revived. They are somewhat common, especially since the development of cardiac resuscitation techniques, and are reported in approximately one-fifth of persons who revive from clinical death. The experience often includes an out-of-body experience. Some people refer to this phenomenon as an ‘After Death Experience’. Dr. Raymond Moody is recognized as the father of NDE research. He has chronicled and studied many of these experiences in his books The Last Laugh, Life After Life and Reflections on Life After Life. Another early pioneer is Dr. Kenneth Ring, co-founder and Past President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS). Major contributions to the field include the construction of a Weighted Core Experience Index (Ring, 1980) in order to measure the depth of the Near-Death experience, and the construction of the Near-death experience scale (Greyson, 1983) in order to differentiate between subjects that are more or less likely to have experienced a genuine NDE. These approaches include criteria for deciding what is to be considered a classical or authentic NDE. Well-known researchers in the field – who support a moderate view, or sympathize with aspects of the after-life view – are Kevin Williams, Bruce Greyson, Michael Sabom, Melvin Morse, PMH Atwater, Yvonne Kason, Sam Parnia, Peter Fenwick, Jody A. Long and Jeffrey P. Long. Much of this research is co-ordinated through the field of Near-Death Studies. Read more »Children and Near-Death
Without doubt the most interesting group of individuals to have reported a near death experience ( NDE ) are children. Some investigators and commentators have argued that adults might have imagined NDEs based upon their own personal cultural and religious views, but published studies show that chidren were often too young to have formed an opinion regarding the afterlife, or even death itself. But were children’s experiences the same as those of adults or different in some way? To date, the most research on near death experiences in children has been done by Dr Melvin Morse 1,an American pediatrician. He has looked at many critically ill children admitted to the intensive care unit and had found that some had in fact described near death experiences. These experiences had shared many of the same features as those of adults — separating from the body, watching events, feeling peaceful, seeing a bright light and beings of light — but had often been described in children’s terminology and during the course of play, sometimes over many months. The children’s interpretation of what they had seen had been based upon their own level of comprehension, but it was nevertheless clear that they had had similar experiences to adults. Significantly, although some of the children described by Morse had been around nine or ten years old, others had been very young, just three to five years old.
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