Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: NDEs
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Here’s an interesting NDE reported in The Omega Project, a 1992 book by well-known NDE researcher Kenneth Ring. Ring introduces the story this way: In 1952, a twenty-one-year-old US soldier serving in the Korean War was wounded and flown to Japan for surgery. Now a speech pathologist living in Connecticut, Harold Jaffe still remembers the…
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I’m always interested in near-death experiences that were reported before NDEs became popularized in the media. Recently I came across one in an unexpected place — a book about reincarnation by Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick, titled Past Lives: An Investigation Into Reincarnation Memories. In Chapter 1, the famous case of Shanti Deva is sketched out.…
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In the never-ending debate over “Dentures Man” – the Dutch patient whose 1979 NDE included a startling veridical observation – there’s some new data available for English-speaking readers. Rudolf Smit informs me that Gerald Woerlee recently offered to translate the original interview with the male nurse who handled the case. The translation is now available…
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All of Robert McLuhan's new book Randi's Prize is well worth reading, but I was particularly struck by his thoughts on pages 262 through 266, in which he talks about the importance of actually listening to the subjective impressions of near-death experiencers. Here are some excerpts. [A] reluctance to listen continues to be characteristic of…
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The recent publication of Glimpses of Eternity by Raymond Moody and Paul Perry has raised awareness of what the authors call "shared death experiences." These are cases in which the visions of the dying person are shared by someone close by. As the authors point out, stories of this type have circulated for many years.…
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Chris Carter has a new Web site up to promote his book. Like the book, the site is called Science and the Near-Death Experience, and it can be found here. If you click on the menu on the left side of the screen, you'll have the opportunity to learn more about the book and to…
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I received my copy of Chris Carter's new book a few weeks ago, but personal events intervened before I could finish reading it, let alone give it a proper review. I've now read all of it, and I'm deeply impressed. Science and the Near-Death Experience is a major addition to the literature of near-death studies,…
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Apologies for the light blogging lately. I've been preoccupied with a personal matter and haven't been able to give much attention to this blog — or, unfortunately, to Chris Carter's new book, Science and the Near-Death Experience. From what I've read of it, I would say that the book is intellectually serious, comprehensive, and persuasive,…
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Here's an interesting website that links to "Forty Insightful Articles about Near-Death Experiences." There's something here for everyone, as the site does not take a position on the cause or meaning of NDEs, and includes both skeptical and paranormal material. In such a controversial area, it's nice to see a balanced approach.
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Clint Eastwood has a new movie coming out called Hereafter, which deals with the topic of life after death. Michael Tymn, blogger and author of The Articulate Dead, pointed me to an interesting review of the film by John H. Foote, who has a more personal perspective on this subject than most. Foote writes: Two…