Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: NDEs
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Several of my Facebook friends have linked to this interesting news item on an NDE study. Although the tone of the article is resolutely skeptical, the results of the study seem to provide some support for the idea that NDEs are ontologically real events. Working together, researchers at the Coma Science Group (directed by Steven…
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Update: I created a nicer chart (below). I mistakenly left out "Limbo," which is supposed to go between Earth and Summerland, but anyway, you get the general idea. Of course this chart is merely a rough illustration of a suggested way of looking at things, and it could be all wrong. —— A Facebook friend…
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I finished reading Anita Moorjani's Dying to be Me, which I really enjoyed. In a previous post I presented some excerpts from the book. This time I want to present a few more excerpts with brief commentary. Some of the comments on Penny Sartori's blog post about Moorjani's NDE raised the question of whether Anita…
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Here's something that I found interesting in relation to the topic of my last post. I've been reading Dying to be Me, by Anita Moorjani, her account of her powerful NDE and subsequent "miraculous" healing from cancer. The book, though a bit overlong and occasionally repetitious, is clearly a labor of love, and I don't…
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This is one of the more interesting things I've seen in a piece of channeled material. It comes from the same book I discussed in my last post, The Country Beyond: The Doctrine of Re-Birth, by Jane Sherwood. I was just leafing through the book when I came across a passage that took me very…
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One of the more frequently discussed topics on this blog is the famous near-death experience reported by Pam Reynolds. Gallons of ink and megabytes of pixels have been spilled arguing over the details of her experience, especially its “veridical” (or verifiable) aspects. Although Pam Reynolds passed away in 2010, the debate continues. The current issue…
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As readers of this blog know, I've been puzzled by the divergence between two sets of afterlife reports. One set essentially involves a trip to either a disturbing, hellish limbo or a beautiful paradise (known as Summerland to Spiritualists), while the other set involves an immediate awareness of a higher self that chooses various incarnations…
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Rudolf Smit, who has written extensively about the "dentures" NDE, directed me to this exceptional YouTube account of a veridical NDE in an operating room, as told by the cardiac surgeon who conducted the operation. The usual explanations of cardiac massage, partial consciousness, hallucination, etc. don't seem to apply here.
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There’s a major discrepancy in the evidence for the afterlife that’s always puzzled me. I don’t claim to have the answer, but I thought I would throw out a highly speculative suggestion. The discrepancy pertains to the always thorny issue of reincarnation. In most near-death experiences and in a great deal of channeled communications, reincarnation…
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Lately I've been reading about Joseph Campbell's theory of the "monomyth" — the basic story that lies at the heart of most mythology and folklore, and which informs the structure of novels and screenplays even today. Campbell laid out the theory in his famous book The Hero with a Thousand Faces — which I admit…