Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: NDEs
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Chris Carter's much-anticipated new book, Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death, has now been released and is available on Amazon. Yay! The book is also sold on Amazon's UK site. Chris suggests that if readers enjoy the book, they might consider posting reviews at either (or both) of the Amazon sites, in order…
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In the comments thread of my recent post on near-death experiences, two people who have published articles on the subject offered their thoughts. Since these contributions may have gotten a bit lost in the sometimes overly spirited give-and-take of the discussion, I thought I would repost them here. The specific focus of these remarks is…
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Rudolf H. Smit has now posted a lengthy comment responding to some criticisms and questions regarding the "dentures" NDE. You can find it here. As long as I'm directing people's attention to things, I'll point out that my friend and fellow author J. Carson Black has made two more of her suspense novels available as Kindle…
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In a previous post I said that if the vaunted AWARE study doesn’t produce any “hits,” we will have to take a new, hard look at NDE evidence. I still believe this is basically true, but after thinking about it, I’d like to revise and extend my remarks, as the lying weasels in Congress say.…
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One of the better known reports of veridical perception during a near-death experience is the "dentures case." Briefly, a Dutch patient was brought to the hospital in critical condition. During the course of his resuscitation, his dentures were removed. Days later, he saw the male nurse who had taken the dentures and instantly recognized him,…
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There's a new interview with Chris Carter on the Subversive Thinking blog. Chris's book on NDEs comes out soon, and can be pre-ordered from Amazon.
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Sometime on Saturday morning I had my first lucid dream. I’d read about these things, but never experienced one. However, my reading probably came in handy, because it allowed me to recognize that I was in a dream state. In the dream, I was expecting the mailman to deliver a package to me. (In reality,…
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From the batch of files that Markus Hesse uploaded to the Web, here are two near-death experiences of interest. Unfortunately the files have now been removed from the upload site, so unless you downloaded them already, you won't be able to read them. The first NDE is recounted in an article titled "A Near-Death Experience…
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I've just read Supernatural by Graham Hancock, a highly enjoyable and thought-provoking exploration of altered states of consciousness brought about by the ingestion of psychoactive chemicals. Previously, I had read only one other book by Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods. I enjoyed it for his lively writing style and boundless speculation, but I wasn't convinced…
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More on the ever-exciting, ever-controversial topic of blood flow to the brain during cardiac arrest! We've seen that Dr. Gerald Woerlee believes that, in cases where heart massage is efficiently employed, enough blood can circulate in the brain to account for the near-death experience as a combination of hallucination and conventional sensory perception. He also…