Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: NDEs
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NOTE: I used to have several essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material because it wasn't really relevant to my main purpose – selling books. Besides, I didn't think anybody was even reading these old pieces anymore. But since then, I've discovered…
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Though this blog is kaput, its content — appropriately enough — lives on after death! Recently I published a nonfiction book culled from years of blog posts and also containing a great deal of original work. I call it LIFE & AFTERLIFE, and it's available in a variety of editions, including Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Apple…
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For a variety of reasons, I've decided the time has come to essentially shut down this long-running blog. I've certainly enjoyed our conversations over the years, and I appreciate all the feedback – well, most of the feedback! 😊 – that I've received. But I think it's time to move on. For one thing, having…
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Matt Rouge's thought-provoking guest post has stimulated a lot of discussion, and it got me thinking, as well. Lying in bed last night around 2 AM, I couldn't help noodling on the whole question of UFOs and some related matters. The idea I kept coming back to was "bleed-throughs." According to Wiktionary, the three main definitions…
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Here's a repost of an entry from December 2007, concerning a book by geologist-turned-psi-investigator Robert Crookall. I was rereading this book last night and came across some of these passages again. Crookall's books are all highly worthwhile. His writing style is dry, sometimes excessively so, but at least he avoids any whiff of sensationalism. The…
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Let’s consider a series of items, and then look at where they may take us. Item: During a near-death experience, a man found himself being tormented by demons. Terrified, he reached back into his childhood to the only faith he had ever been taught and prayed to Jesus for salvation. Instantly he found himself lifted…
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Back in 2014 I published three blog posts on a study that showed a surge of electrical activity in the brains of dying rats. (First post, second post, third post.) The surge was suggested as a possible naturalistic explanation of the near-death experience. Some NDE researchers countered that the electrical surge was so extremely minute (too small…
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I've been reading Near Death in the ICU, by Laurin Bellg, MD, and finding a lot of fascinating material in it. But before I present some examples, I need to offer a caveat. At the beginning, the author says she has done her best to conceal the identities of the patients and family members in…
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Rudolf H. Smit tells me that The Self Does Not Die, the excellent study of near-death experiences that he co-authored with Titus Rivas and Anny Dirven, is now available in a Kindle edition. I reviewed the book here. * * * A new TV show, The Good Place, presents a quasi-spiritualist view of the afterlife.…
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I'm currently reading The Self Does Not Die: Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences, by Titus Rivas, Anny Dirven, and Rudolf H. Smit. As the title indicates, it's an in-depth study of NDEs with veridical content. The book was originally published, in a slightly different form, in a Dutch edition. When I started it, I…