Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: NDEs
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In my last post I discussed a couple of issues raised by Michael Sudduth and Bernardo Kastrup in regard to Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander's bestselling book about his NDE. Dr. Sudduth was good enough to respond via email, and to give me permission to post his response, which follows. ~~~~ Michael: Thanks for commenting…
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So here's the thing. Neurosurgeon Eben Alexander wrote a best-selling book called Proof of Heaven, which made the cover of Newsweek. In the book he said that he had a profound NDE while comatose, and that the NDE constitutes empirical evidence of life after death. Sam Harris, an atheist philosopher who is open-minded on issues of psi and postmortem…
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I originally intended to post this piece as a palate cleanser after the "Charlie Charlie" viral Twitter phenomenon was exposed as an ad campaign for a movie. However, I'm no longer completely sure that the tweets were a hoax. Snopes.com offers an interesting analysis that's worth reading in full. Here's an excerpt: The UK’s Independent…
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Matt Rouge is back with his second guest post. Take it away, Matt! — In my first post here, I wrote: [In the Mist, t]here is no one to confirm that, yes, one is just so right about everything. Indeed, the contradictions and issues one perceives impugn one’s ability to sort them all out, to…
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Thanks for agreeing to this interview, Alan Joshua. Can you describe your new book, The SHIVA Syndrome? First, the title can be misleading. Although the Hindu god Shiva is on the cover, it is symbolic and only mentioned in the book. SHIVA is an acronym for a special mind research project. The novel is cross-genre,…
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In Kurt Leland's 2002 book The Unanswered Question, there is an account of a Hopi Indian's near-death experience which considerably predates the publication of Raymond Moody's Life after Life in 1975. It was Life after Life that brought the NDE to public attention and made it part of pop-culture awareness. NDEs reported before that time…
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Though I'd never heard of it, a book called The Boy who Came Back from Heaven has apparently been a popular title in Christian circles since 2010. It recounts the near-death experience of Alex Malarkey, who suffered a crippling accident when he was six years old. Here's part of the book description found on the Amazon…
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The Map of Heaven, by Eben Alexander and Ptolemy Tompkins, is a follow-up to their previous bestseller Proof of Heaven, which recounted Alexander's elaborate and unconventional near-death experience while in a coma. In the new book, the authors try to place Alexander's experience in the larger context of NDEs in general, mystical visions, and…
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Back in 2005 I wrote a post about NDEr Dannion Brinkley, who reported having an apocalyptic vision of the world's fate during his near-death experience. I found that many of the predictions had not come to pass. Recently I took a new look at that post. What I found is that some of the…
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Matt Rouge's guest post inspired another longtime reader to offer his thoughts. Cyrus Kirkpatrick, who's already put out an impressive number of books (see his Amazon author page) offers an excerpt from a forthcoming book with the working title Life After Death For Skeptics. He calls this story "my personal validation of the topics commonly discussed…