Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: NDEs
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I just finished Jeffrey Long's Evidence of the Afterlife, a new book that looks at a large database of NDEs compiled by the Web site NDERF, which Long founded. It's an interesting read and has proved extremely popular, becoming a New York Times bestseller. I enjoyed it and learned a few things, though Long's treatment…
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I've now had a chance to read the two Skeptiko interviews with Gerald Woerlee and Jeffrey Long regarding near-death experiences. One of Dr. Woerlee's main points is that people undergoing cardiac arrest are often given heart massage, which restores some flow of blood to the brain and thus might allow some degree of consciousness. As…
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I just noticed that Skeptiko has put up two new interviews – one with Gerald Woerlee, who thinks natural explanations can be found for NDEs, and another with Jeffrey Long, responding to Woerlee. I haven't had a chance to do more than skim the transcripts, but both interviews look interesting. Plus, they give me an…
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My earlier post "The desert and the sea" attracted a lot of comments. I admit that I was basically thinking aloud when I wrote that post, and in retrospect I shouldn't have said that desert and ocean environments never show up in NDEs and channeled accounts of the afterlife. Several readers provided examples of seascapes…
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A couple of people emailed me links to Gerald Woerlee's review of Jeffrey Long's new book about near-death experiences, Evidence of the Afterlife. I haven't read Long's book, but the review itself makes interesting reading. It shows clearly how the prison of a particular paradigm can box in a person's thoughts, rendering even the most…
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A hodgepodge of items, in no particular order … —— I just read two Skeptiko interviews with Dr. Jeffrey Long and Dr. Kevin Nelson. Interesting to see how two experts can look at the same data and arrive at totally different conclusions. Dr. Long is convinced that NDEs provide "proof" of life after death and…
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In my last post I reviewed the new book by Roy Abraham Varghese, There Is Life After Death: Compelling Reports from Those Who Have Glimpsed the After-Life. As I mentioned in that post, the book features a Foreword and Afterword by Raymond Moody, famed author of the 1975 classic Life After Life, which first popularized…
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Boy, was I wrong about Avatar's box office performance. I never thought a CG epic about big blue aliens would garner such huge grosses. The film is now on track to be at least the #2 commercial hit of all time (although if the numbers were adjusted for inflation, it would rank much lower). I still haven't…
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Here's a news story I came upon today in a free newspaper, one of those circulars distributed through the mail. The headline, "Heaven Can Wait," naturally got my attention. The story concerns Noelle McNeil, a 24-year-old senior at Monmouth University in New Jersey who, in 2005, suffered grievous brain injuries in a horseriding accident. "Unconscious…
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Carol Zaleski's 1996 book The Life of the World to Come discusses near-death experiences in the light of Catholic traditions and doctrine. Originally delivered as three lectures, the book is a brief but interesting meditation, though I felt Zaleski was too quick to discount other types of evidence for life after death, such as mediumship…