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maybe talking about near-death

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experiences today and some of the latest

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research that I've been doing involving

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near-death experience we've heard from

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several speakers already the near-death

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experiences are among the strongest

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evidence that we have a survival I

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couldn't agree more details coming right

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up here what exactly is a near-death

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experience I know most of you know a lot

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about near-death experience but just so

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that we're all on the same page at least

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for my research purposes I look for two

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things in a near-death experience your

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near-death and that is you're so

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physically compromised that you're

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unconscious or may even be clinically

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dead absent heartbeat absent spontaneous

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respiration you're unconscious at this

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point in time and so by dictionary

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definition you shouldn't have any

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experience when you're that close to

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death and yet they do they have the

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experience part of a near-death

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experience and we'll talk more about

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what the common elements are just a

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minute here I want to emphasize no two

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near-death experiences are the same but

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when you study many near-death

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experiences you can see this kind of

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spectrum of elements typically occurring

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in this order but not necessarily often

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early in the experience there's what's

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called an out-of-body experience have

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that life-threatening event

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consciousness leaves the body typically

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the body there's heightened senses they

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may have vision or hearing that super

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normal there's intense and generally

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peace and love are the two most common

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experience as part of the intensity of

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these emotions typically described as

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unearthly in their intensity they may

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the end of the tunnel is a mystical

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brilliant light and then in an unearthly

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realm they may encounter mystical beings

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or deceased relatives we'll be talking

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about that a little bit later they they

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almost always have a sense of altered

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time or space typically with near-death

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experiences almost uniformly they'll say

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everyday life they may see all or a part

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of their prior life and the life review

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counter unearthly heavenly realms if you

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will learn special knowledge often

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end of the experience they may have a

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choice to come back to their earthly

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life or stay in this unearthly beautiful

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round interestingly the great majority

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boundary and they're involved in a

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decision want to stay in that unearthly

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realm you do not want to go back to the

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earthly life even though that's been

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their existence up until then and then

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voluntarily or involuntarily well a

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little bit about hearing my first

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near-death experience again I'm dr.

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practice is radiation oncology and it

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was many decades ago that I was back in

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remember that instead of reading it

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online but I was actually looking up a

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new journal of the American Medical

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Association an article about cancer as

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part of my training and right now our

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articles topline it had the term

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near-death experience which I had never

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heard I was fascinated stopped looking

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for that article and read the article

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and was immediately fascinated folks I

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mean how can you not be interested in

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what happens when we die I was amazed

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when I read that article and thought

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after reading my very first article

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first exposure to near-death experience

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if this is for real this changes my view

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of the universe consciousness if you

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will this changed everything well many

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years later and a little bit of a

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computer geek I was able to set up a

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website the near-death experience

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Research Foundation and from the very

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inception of this website I had a very

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detailed questionnaire asking people to

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share not only a narrative of their

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experience but answer mini which is now

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up to over 140 questions about their

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experience so that we could learn about

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it and that started my indie research I

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want to emphasize it's a public service

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we really have not solicited funds for

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that and we've we're entirely

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self-funded now that was a long time ago

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ninety-eight that in derf became a live

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website and amazingly over the years

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we've now accrued over four thousand

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near-death experiences that are posted

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on the website making this obviously by

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far the largest publicly accessible

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database and near-death experiences in

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the world just been an inspiration to a

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vast number of people I want to say at

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the beginning of this talk here it's a

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basic scientific principle that what is

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real is consistently observed and I'm

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about to describe some striking

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consistencies and consistent

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observations in near-death experiences

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out of thousands that have led me to

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firmly believe that near-death

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experiences and their consistent message

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of if you will survival is the real

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thing and I have to emphasize special

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thanks to my wife Jody she's a licensed

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attorney but is so fascinated and

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interested in the work that we do really

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it's a soul calling and I think for both

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of us so even though she's a licensed

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attorney she's not practice law and

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and a half to these web near-death

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experience and research related

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activities that we do I could not do it

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without Jody yeah that's for real so big

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thanks to Jody will what who has a

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near-death experience anyway a Gallup

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poll published in 1982 suggested perhaps

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as many as five percent of the adults in

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the United States it had a near-death

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experience well the bottom line we can't

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life-threatening event who will have a

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near-death experience or what the

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content of a near-death experience will

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be near-death experiences can happen to

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children adults physicians scientists

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the clergy the religious atheists and

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even many people who have never heard of

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a near-death experience and believe no

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such thing as possible have a near-death

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experience and then later

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share with us I want to emphasize that

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the great majority of people that have

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that close brush with death do not have

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a near-death experience only about 10 to

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a near-death experience and technically

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have a near-death experience and why

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near-death experience where we may have

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an answer to that question well the

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the skeptics think we do this right here

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is the fake near-death kit and there's

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your life and there's your cut okay

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research this way I don't think anybody

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else does it either but I think the

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skeptics believe what we do so there you

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go moving on rapidly my first book I

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published was some years ago evidence of

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the afterlife the science of near-death

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experience and worked my tail off to do

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that I have a very busy medical practice

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but somehow found the time to do that

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and oops eight days later it was a New

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York Times bestseller which

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substantially changed my life and I've

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until recent events troubles we had but

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it's been a very fun and very joyful

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the New York Academy of Science and it's

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been a real adventure and I've had an

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opportunity literally to talk to tens of

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millions of people in various media

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events about near-death experiences in

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my research and we'll get into that

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hour away from Louisiana and

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religious point of view I was thrilled

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to find that there was extraordinary

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local interest people love this I talked

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evidence that was in that first book

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that I wrote that had nine lines of

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evidence the survey the largest survey

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shared near-death experiences so there's

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experiences that evident that after that

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near-death experiences are indeed

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evidence of an afterlife survival of

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ed Kelley said that there were two

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aspects of near-death experience that he

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yet by the scores we have near-death

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absent heartbeat and yet there they are

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level of consciousness and alertness

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unconscious or clinically dead that

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consciousness but paradoxically among

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those that had near-death experiences

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and responded to the survey question

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nearly 3/4 said they were actually

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during the experience having more

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consciousness and alertness than usual

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only about 20% said normal consciousness

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and alertness and even though they're

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physically unconscious look at that only

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five percent said that their experience

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involved them with less consciousness

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then again comparison to their earthly

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everyday life near-death experiences

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seemed to be a very special type of

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memory they're remembered verbatim years

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two decades later and that's been

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proven in several good prospective

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studies the second thing that I think is

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fascinating about near-death experience

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we heard about a lot of body experiences

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well that's very common in near-death

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experiences to have that separation of

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consciousness go above the physical body

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and then they can see it here ongoing

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earthly events while they're unconscious

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or clinically dead about 45 percent of

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near-death experiences describe ongoing

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earthly events as part of their in de my

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research question is very simple what

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they're seeing when their consciousness

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is apart from their body is real is it

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validated well there was a good

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prospective study by st. Bowman sarkari

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that suggested that what they were

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observing is certainly very accurate and

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there's a dr. jane holden who reviewed

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all india literature up to her

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publications some years ago and found

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92% of these out-of-body observations

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described during near-death experiences

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were without any accuracy she'd call

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them inaccurate if there was even a

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single detail that didn't jibe with

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consensus reality and for my study we

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found 287 near-death experiences that

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described these an out-of-body

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observations my researchers questioned

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very simple was that absolutely accurate

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verbatim and I found 97.6 of these

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out-of-body observations or without any

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apparent inaccuracy whatsoever and this

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includes remarkably people that have

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their consciousness separate from the

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body and then travel a considerable

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distance from the physical body far

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outside of any physical awareness we

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actually had presented on television a

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case report of this type of phenomenon

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where the person coded in the operating

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room had a near-death experience

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consciousness left the operating room

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arena and went down into the hospital

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cafeteria from that vantage point he was

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able to see and hear what his family

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members were talking about while he was

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under anesthesia while he was what

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coated in a completely different part of

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the hospital what he saw it heard

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verbatim accurate down to fine details

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that is anecdotal but that is not a rare

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phenomenon Indies at all we have scores

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and scores of near-death experiences

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with that SAF same type of phenomenon

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absolutely inexplicable by brain

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function

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as we know it today by physical brain

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function oh here we go again

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okay well alright if you are reading

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this so here's here's how we don't do

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research is for everybody a person walks

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out of a room and says why did this guy

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so we don't do this so here's an

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operating room and so you could there

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have been some interest in placing

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targets for prospective indi study and

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that's not exactly how it's done that's

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the good news

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moving on once again moving along

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rapidly well a line of evidence number

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three are near-death experiences in the

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blind I had the opportunity

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well blind is different there's

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different types of blindness you can be

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born blind or develop lioness later in

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life you can be totally blind or

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partially blind the sternest test

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obviously it would be someone born

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totally blind

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well enter Vicky who I interviewed who

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was born at 26 weeks gestation back in

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the 50s they put him in oxygen tents and

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basically fried the retina leaving them

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totally blind from early infancy we

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don't do that anymore but suffice it to

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say Vicky totally blind throughout life

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was involved in a car crash I know what

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you're thinking no she wasn't driving

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she was a singer and very talented and

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she was being driven home by an

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inebriated patron who crashed and for

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the first time she had vision unlike

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anything she'd had in her life she was

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physically over her body while I was in

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a gurney in the emergency room and you

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could just imagine her first reaction to

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that kind of vision well you probably

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can't I didn't she was horrified vision

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was so unknown and unfamiliar too or it

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scared her and it was only after a while

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that she correlated her long hair which

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she knew by sense of feel and

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interestingly her father had have given

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her her ring which she only knew again

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by sense of feel that she now was able

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to see so folks when she went through

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and had a stunningly detailed near-death

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experience her vision and it was what's

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often observed in near-death experience

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360-degree vision which is actually a

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more correct term would be spherical up

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down right left forward backward

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basically processing a spherical visual

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field all simultaneously it was

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fascinating to me to talk to Vicky and

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explain that our visual field was pie

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shaped and I'd still

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you know she ever believed me because

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for some total of seven detailed vision

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was spherical as so many near-death

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experiences report well certainly we now

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I've asked the most recent version of

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our questionnaire for near-death

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experiencers the difference between

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their earthly everyday vision and their

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vision during Indies we now have a

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series of we're developing of people

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that were either severely visually

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impaired or actually blind and had an in

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to eat but let's give an example of that

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marta marker shared her in de and this

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portion of the narrative marta was a

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five year old girl and parents don't

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ever let your kids go out in the lake if

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they're blind here's what can happen

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Marta's own words by the way I slowly

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breathed in the water and immediately

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lost consciousness a beautiful woman

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dressed in bright white light pulled me

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out and looking into my eyes asked me

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what I wanted I was completely satisfied

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and could think of nothing until it

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occurred to me to take a trip around the

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lake I did so and saw a detail I would

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have never seen in real life I could go

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anywhere even to the tops of trees by

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simply intending to do so I was legally

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blind and for the first time I saw

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leaves on trees birds feathers birds

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eyes details on telephone poles and in

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people's backyards that was far more

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acute than 20/20 vision things we take

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for granted birds feathers birds eyes

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telephone poles fascinating if you've

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never seen it before in your life as was

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true for Marta during her near-death

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experience at the age of five but a

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fourth line of evidence again and Kelley

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talked about a very powerful and

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persuasive line of evidence so what

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about near-death experiences that occur

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while you're under general anesthesia it

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helps for me to be a physician when

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reading these accounts I know darn good

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and well what kind of surgeries are done

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under general anesthesia anesthesia and

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which ones possibly surgery may

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potentially be done in her local

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anesthesia so I found 23 experiences of

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from your own near-death

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clearly under general anesthesia at the

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time they had their experience of course

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don't forget under general anesthesia

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they're very careful to monitor

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heartbeat and very few get up if you

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code during a operation while you're

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there general anesthesia it's very well

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documented in addition when you're under

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general anesthesia it should be

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absolutely impossible to have a lucid

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organized consciousness and yet they do

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I found 23 people that were solidly

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convincingly having their near-death

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experience at the time they were under

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general anesthesia they do occur and

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their typical near-death experiences and

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in fact my survey questionnaire at the

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time had 33 questions that specifically

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addressed the content if you will the

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elements of a near-death experience 32

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of the 33 elements comparing the

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anesthesia in the e group to into ease

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occurring under all other circumstances

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32 of the 33 elements occurred equally

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often interestingly the those Indy's

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under anesthesia statistically were more

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likely to have a tunnel experience I

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don't exactly know why but the critical

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question I asked about their level of

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consciousness and alertness compared to

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their earthly everyday life the same

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level of consciousness and alert there's

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no statistical difference among those

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having their India under anesthesia and

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those having Indies under all other

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circumstances I submit to you you could

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look at that very loved that single

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question right there and single handedly

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proved that you can have consciousness

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apart from the physical brain as it's

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understood because these are patient

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these are all people that had Indies

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they were coded and they were under

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general anesthesia I submit to you it is

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doubly impossible to have any kind of

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memory at that point in time and yet

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they did and that is I think

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single-handedly some of the strongest

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evidence that you can you near-death

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experiences are for real consciousness

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could exist apart from the physical

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brain functioning is

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nationally understood but there's more

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oh boy here's another one okay here we

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go here's a hey I have to reassure

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everybody I as a physician lights don't

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fall from the ceiling in operating rooms

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and on patients so don't worry about

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this happening

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ten-to-one that when he comes he'll tell

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when those stories about seeing a bright

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light at the end of the tunnel okay here

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we go

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once again addressing the skeptics

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thought about how we do India research

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anyway well we got here okay speaking of

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India skeptics it has been amazing in

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the over eighteen years that I've been

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doing this research that there have been

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well over 20 some would argue over 30

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different skeptical explanations of

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near-death experience just about any

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conceivable physiological psychological

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cultural explanation has been proposed

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by some skeptic at some time or another

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now why are there so why are there so

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many different skeptical explanations

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the answer is very simple

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the skeptics themselves as a group are

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unable to agree on any one or several

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explanations of near-death experience

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that makes sense even to the skeptics

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themselves and it goes on and on every

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year a new skeptical explanation is

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raised and I feel like raising my hand

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and saying okay your explanations right

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are you going to tell all these other 20

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people that their explanation is wrong

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00:19:57,350 --> 00:19:55,320
but we haven't had that dialogue it

554
00:19:59,990 --> 00:19:57,360
would be fascinating but suffice it to

555
00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:00,000
say skeptics can't explain any of the

556
00:20:04,250 --> 00:20:01,650
lines of evidence we're going over today

557
00:20:06,020 --> 00:20:04,260
let alone the totality of them I just

558
00:20:09,980 --> 00:20:06,030
condensed line of evidence for the

559
00:20:11,210 --> 00:20:09,990
reality of India 5 6 & 7 life review we

560
00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:11,220
found it to be so-called perfect

561
00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:13,050
playback during the life review which

562
00:20:18,050 --> 00:20:15,510
only about 15% of people having in Indy

563
00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:18,060
have they may see a part or even all of

564
00:20:22,850 --> 00:20:20,610
their prior life long forgotten memories

565
00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:22,860
may be recalled I have yet to have a

566
00:20:27,410 --> 00:20:24,810
near-death experience where they were

567
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:27,420
aware of a memory from say toddlerhood

568
00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:29,730
or early childhood they saw during their

569
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:31,110
life review and an NDE

570
00:20:35,330 --> 00:20:33,210
that they later went back and asked

571
00:20:37,310 --> 00:20:35,340
often their parents or others to see if

572
00:20:39,740 --> 00:20:37,320
it really happened I was told yes it did

573
00:20:41,630 --> 00:20:39,750
so even long forgotten memories seem to

574
00:20:43,610 --> 00:20:41,640
be remembered and seen and can be

575
00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:43,620
validated by the near-death experiencer

576
00:20:46,250 --> 00:20:44,130
after the

577
00:20:48,110 --> 00:20:46,260
recover from what nearly killed them we

578
00:20:52,190 --> 00:20:48,120
talked about countering deceased loved

579
00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:52,200
ones I did a study in my survey and I

580
00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:54,180
was curious now if all other forms of

581
00:20:58,190 --> 00:20:55,890
altered consciousness that I'm aware of

582
00:21:00,020 --> 00:20:58,200
as a physician if you encounter another

583
00:21:01,790 --> 00:21:00,030
being in that form of altered

584
00:21:04,010 --> 00:21:01,800
consciousness it's going to be like say

585
00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:04,020
the bank teller you did business with

586
00:21:07,730 --> 00:21:05,850
that day or the family member you said

587
00:21:09,710 --> 00:21:07,740
hi to before you went up to your bedroom

588
00:21:11,090 --> 00:21:09,720
and code it or something but it's going

589
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:11,100
to be somebody who's alive in the

590
00:21:15,340 --> 00:21:12,690
forefront of consciousness interestingly

591
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:15,350
in my study of near-death experiences

592
00:21:20,090 --> 00:21:17,850
only 4% of the beings that they

593
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:20,100
encounter were actually alive at the

594
00:21:25,010 --> 00:21:23,010
time of their near-death experience 96%

595
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:25,020
of the time they weren't and in fact we

596
00:21:29,630 --> 00:21:26,970
have a small series of people that had

597
00:21:31,580 --> 00:21:29,640
actually died but the near-death

598
00:21:33,410 --> 00:21:31,590
experiencer did not know they died at

599
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:33,420
the time they had they're in de and they

600
00:21:37,460 --> 00:21:35,250
only found out about it later and yet

601
00:21:38,990 --> 00:21:37,470
there they were encountering that person

602
00:21:40,460 --> 00:21:39,000
who died and they didn't even know of it

603
00:21:42,710 --> 00:21:40,470
during the indeed we have a few

604
00:21:44,660 --> 00:21:42,720
interesting anecdotal cases of

605
00:21:46,370 --> 00:21:44,670
encountering siblings who died that they

606
00:21:49,370 --> 00:21:46,380
didn't even know of until they met them

607
00:21:52,730 --> 00:21:49,380
in the end EE and the gender was always

608
00:21:54,170 --> 00:21:52,740
accurate and validate that you're not

609
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:54,180
speaking of children near-death

610
00:21:59,300 --> 00:21:56,970
experiences and children are in some way

611
00:22:00,650 --> 00:21:59,310
an ideal study group my study group was

612
00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:00,660
people that had their near-death

613
00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:03,150
experience aged 5 and younger median age

614
00:22:08,570 --> 00:22:05,370
of three and a half years old these were

615
00:22:10,610 --> 00:22:08,580
very young that young a kid they're

616
00:22:12,620 --> 00:22:10,620
practically in some significant ways

617
00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:12,630
culturally a blank slate they probably

618
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:14,130
don't know much about religion they

619
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:15,570
don't understand much about death

620
00:22:19,630 --> 00:22:17,250
they've almost certainly not heard about

621
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:19,640
a near-death experience and yet when I

622
00:22:24,380 --> 00:22:22,290
surveyed the folks that had into East

623
00:22:28,340 --> 00:22:24,390
aged five and younger versus all other

624
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:28,350
age six and older I found that we talked

625
00:22:32,540 --> 00:22:30,570
about those 33 questions pertaining to

626
00:22:34,220 --> 00:22:32,550
near-death experience elements no

627
00:22:36,470 --> 00:22:34,230
statistical difference between those two

628
00:22:38,390 --> 00:22:36,480
groups of young children and older

629
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:38,400
children adults even very very young age

630
00:22:43,160 --> 00:22:41,250
still seems to not substantially modify

631
00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:43,170
the elements that occur with the

632
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:44,460
near-death experience which is

633
00:22:48,050 --> 00:22:46,410
interesting now here's an interesting

634
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:48,060
one well what about near-death

635
00:22:53,180 --> 00:22:50,730
experiences around the world thanks

636
00:22:55,970 --> 00:22:53,190
largely to the heroics of Jody we have

637
00:22:58,160 --> 00:22:55,980
the Ender website translated into

638
00:22:59,780 --> 00:22:58,170
amazingly 30 different non-english

639
00:23:02,570 --> 00:22:59,790
languages and by the way we don't use

640
00:23:04,460 --> 00:23:02,580
Google for translation or Internet

641
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:04,470
sources all of these are hand

642
00:23:08,270 --> 00:23:06,330
translated by volunteers who've

643
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:08,280
literally had hundreds that have helped

644
00:23:12,620 --> 00:23:10,530
us translate portions of the enders

645
00:23:14,630 --> 00:23:12,630
website including the survey that we

646
00:23:16,610 --> 00:23:14,640
asked into a huge number of different

647
00:23:18,350 --> 00:23:16,620
languages so we have gotten hundreds of

648
00:23:21,140 --> 00:23:18,360
near-death experiences from all around

649
00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:21,150
the world and we really get are by the

650
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:23,310
way when you get a non-english in DVD

651
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:26,010
we'll always post it both and again they

652
00:23:30,950 --> 00:23:27,450
have to get approval to post it which

653
00:23:33,260 --> 00:23:30,960
over 95% of people do but we then have

654
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:33,270
volunteered human translators translate

655
00:23:37,310 --> 00:23:35,490
it and we post both the English

656
00:23:38,990 --> 00:23:37,320
translation as well as the original

657
00:23:42,170 --> 00:23:39,000
language version of the near-death

658
00:23:44,180 --> 00:23:42,180
experience we have 70 80 thousand unique

659
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:44,190
visitors on our website of it month and

660
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:45,930
we figure if there's any significant

661
00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:47,850
inaccuracies and translation we'll hear

662
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:50,370
about it and the translation seems to be

663
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:52,170
very very good well anyway this is by

664
00:23:56,150 --> 00:23:54,210
far the largest cross-cultural study of

665
00:23:59,120 --> 00:23:56,160
near-death experiences ever it was ever

666
00:24:01,940 --> 00:23:59,130
even possible absolutely in conclusion

667
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:01,950
the unique content is strikingly similar

668
00:24:07,580 --> 00:24:05,850
language gets in the way but even in DES

669
00:24:08,870 --> 00:24:07,590
from non-western countries appear

670
00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:08,880
strikingly similar

671
00:24:12,230 --> 00:24:10,590
and certainly the implications are

672
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:12,240
enormous all of this evidence is

673
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:13,530
converging on the thought of your

674
00:24:16,850 --> 00:24:15,450
spiritual beings having a human

675
00:24:19,250 --> 00:24:16,860
experience here

676
00:24:21,290 --> 00:24:19,260
number 9 both prospective and

677
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:21,300
retrospective studies all find huge

678
00:24:25,610 --> 00:24:23,850
changes in the lives of people after

679
00:24:27,860 --> 00:24:25,620
they have near-death experiences they're

680
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:27,870
changed often profoundly and they're

681
00:24:30,170 --> 00:24:29,730
changed over appropriate for the rest of

682
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:30,180
their life

683
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:32,370
typically the changes progress this is

684
00:24:36,020 --> 00:24:33,930
just some of a listing of the more

685
00:24:38,510 --> 00:24:36,030
common after effects that are we call

686
00:24:40,190 --> 00:24:38,520
them after Indies now here's a real

687
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:40,200
interest when getting away to my more

688
00:24:43,730 --> 00:24:42,090
recent research here's a question number

689
00:24:46,430 --> 00:24:43,740
two a sort of line of evidence number

690
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:46,440
ten this is real easy if you want to

691
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:48,330
find out if near-death experiences real

692
00:24:53,590 --> 00:24:51,210
asked our most recent survey as at the

693
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:53,600
time the crows enclosed and cruel had

694
00:24:58,460 --> 00:24:56,610
1122 people that had responded to it and

695
00:24:59,299 --> 00:24:58,470
we asked them very directly how do you

696
00:25:01,269 --> 00:24:59,309
currently

697
00:25:03,980 --> 00:25:01,279
the reality of your experience a

698
00:25:05,450 --> 00:25:03,990
whopping 95.5%

699
00:25:07,610 --> 00:25:05,460
out of the four options declared that

700
00:25:10,190 --> 00:25:07,620
their experience was definitely real a

701
00:25:12,799 --> 00:25:10,200
much smaller percentage with others of

702
00:25:14,509 --> 00:25:12,809
the other three options selected and I

703
00:25:16,879 --> 00:25:14,519
would submit to you out of respect for

704
00:25:19,009 --> 00:25:16,889
people's ability to generally understand

705
00:25:20,690 --> 00:25:19,019
reality if you skeptics want to

706
00:25:22,820 --> 00:25:20,700
represent the near-death experiences are

707
00:25:24,619 --> 00:25:22,830
not real they should present strong

708
00:25:26,539 --> 00:25:24,629
evidence that near-death experiences are

709
00:25:28,759 --> 00:25:26,549
not real and as we've discussed they

710
00:25:30,919 --> 00:25:28,769
aren't even close line of evidence

711
00:25:32,899 --> 00:25:30,929
number eleven it's what I call shared

712
00:25:35,060 --> 00:25:32,909
near-death experiences these are two or

713
00:25:38,869 --> 00:25:35,070
more people simultaneously with the

714
00:25:40,369 --> 00:25:38,879
life-threatening event and they have

715
00:25:43,519 --> 00:25:40,379
both heaven near basically a near-death

716
00:25:45,980 --> 00:25:43,529
experience and are aware of each other I

717
00:25:48,259 --> 00:25:45,990
have 15 we call shared near-death

718
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:48,269
experiences they do occur and they're

719
00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:50,490
typical into ease and I can't do better

720
00:25:54,889 --> 00:25:52,289
than to give you an example right here

721
00:25:57,109 --> 00:25:54,899
William him again his near-death

722
00:25:58,879 --> 00:25:57,119
experience I was taking my girlfriend to

723
00:26:01,159 --> 00:25:58,889
this is in Canada by the way to her

724
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:01,169
parents home in Welland I went to sleep

725
00:26:05,029 --> 00:26:03,690
while driving then I was aware that we

726
00:26:07,249 --> 00:26:05,039
were out of our bodies and quickly

727
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:07,259
flying up towards space holding hands

728
00:26:11,869 --> 00:26:09,570
we flew straight up for a minute or so

729
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:11,879
when we started to see a park or country

730
00:26:17,180 --> 00:26:14,490
one side like landscape suddenly we were

731
00:26:19,009 --> 00:26:17,190
intercepted by four creatures - flanked

732
00:26:21,289 --> 00:26:19,019
each of us and began to gently separate

733
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:21,299
us they overwhelmed at the feeling of

734
00:26:25,730 --> 00:26:23,610
highest love and compassion and was well

735
00:26:28,489 --> 00:26:25,740
beyond anything we could experience on

736
00:26:30,830 --> 00:26:28,499
earth a divine love we therefore had no

737
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:30,840
resistance to their effort I recall

738
00:26:34,820 --> 00:26:32,369
feeling sort of like a baby in the

739
00:26:37,310 --> 00:26:34,830
mother's arm but it's hard to accurately

740
00:26:39,739 --> 00:26:37,320
describe two of them moved her upward

741
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:39,749
toward the distant landscape and two

742
00:26:44,629 --> 00:26:41,970
moved me back down when I felt so much

743
00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:44,639
loved peace and comfort and apparent

744
00:26:49,180 --> 00:26:46,710
protest and say no please let me hear

745
00:26:52,580 --> 00:26:49,190
but hearing inwardly without ears or

746
00:26:54,619 --> 00:26:52,590
psychically that I could not stay next I

747
00:26:56,869 --> 00:26:54,629
could see my car in flames for maybe a

748
00:26:58,669 --> 00:26:56,879
quarter of a mile above I felt a

749
00:27:00,799 --> 00:26:58,679
sensation of following and awakened in

750
00:27:04,220 --> 00:27:00,809
the car the front of the car was on fire

751
00:27:06,529 --> 00:27:04,230
I moved her from leaning on me as she

752
00:27:07,490 --> 00:27:06,539
was when I fell asleep knowing that her

753
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:07,500
body was in the empty

754
00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:09,570
shall I have left her above with those

755
00:27:14,450 --> 00:27:12,510
beings first obvious via a fiance was

756
00:27:17,060 --> 00:27:14,460
dead and then a shared near-death

757
00:27:19,910 --> 00:27:17,070
experience so that's some pretty

758
00:27:21,860 --> 00:27:19,920
powerful evidence right there going very

759
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:21,870
quickly in the limited time I have some

760
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:24,210
of my most recent I consider a line of

761
00:27:28,250 --> 00:27:25,770
twelve for the reality of near-death

762
00:27:29,750 --> 00:27:28,260
experience if there's a now everyone in

763
00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:29,760
this room has got to be thinking Jesus

764
00:27:34,340 --> 00:27:32,160
I'm convinced their science survival our

765
00:27:37,250 --> 00:27:34,350
consciousness goes on what does that

766
00:27:40,070 --> 00:27:37,260
mean where do we go float around what's

767
00:27:42,170 --> 00:27:40,080
next well near-death experiences have

768
00:27:43,810 --> 00:27:42,180
some suggestion as to what so these

769
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:43,820
qualitative we might be going on

770
00:27:48,050 --> 00:27:46,050
certainly an important question I have

771
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:48,060
on my mind is there's an afterlife is

772
00:27:51,980 --> 00:27:50,010
there a god well I think we've seen some

773
00:27:54,170 --> 00:27:51,990
very powerful evidence that there's that

774
00:27:57,170 --> 00:27:54,180
afterlife oh here we go I think this is

775
00:27:58,550 --> 00:27:57,180
last one of these but here's a God so

776
00:28:00,710 --> 00:27:58,560
this is not again how we did the

777
00:28:04,670 --> 00:28:00,720
research here's God and just follow the

778
00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:04,680
life the lightest piece okay so I

779
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:06,510
published it in my most recent book God

780
00:28:09,890 --> 00:28:08,130
and the afterlife some evidence we'll

781
00:28:11,570 --> 00:28:09,900
get into that briefly the graphics are

782
00:28:14,210 --> 00:28:11,580
solely due to Jody because she thought

783
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:14,220
it would be cool with my wife reviewed

784
00:28:18,590 --> 00:28:16,290
all into Eastern sequentially over about

785
00:28:22,430 --> 00:28:18,600
three years and methodology first-person

786
00:28:25,220 --> 00:28:22,440
in des indes scaled as a methodology I

787
00:28:27,980 --> 00:28:25,230
reviewed all Indies that describe an

788
00:28:30,140 --> 00:28:27,990
awareness or encounter of God or G -

789
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:30,150
deed that occurred only during their

790
00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:31,650
near-death experience and not in any

791
00:28:36,770 --> 00:28:34,710
other time I found 277 near-death

792
00:28:38,270 --> 00:28:36,780
experiences describing that awareness or

793
00:28:40,370 --> 00:28:38,280
encounter during their experience

794
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:40,380
interestingly encountering God during a

795
00:28:45,110 --> 00:28:43,770
near-death experience obviously is again

796
00:28:47,420 --> 00:28:45,120
what impressed me was a striking

797
00:28:49,930 --> 00:28:47,430
consistency across all these hundreds of

798
00:28:52,850 --> 00:28:49,940
people describing God it seemed to be

799
00:28:55,669 --> 00:28:52,860
separate from prevailing conventional

800
00:28:57,140 --> 00:28:55,679
police again I said it's not in common

801
00:28:59,630 --> 00:28:57,150
there's the key question I asked in the

802
00:29:01,310 --> 00:28:59,640
most recent version of the survey during

803
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:01,320
your experience did you encounter any

804
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:03,570
specific information and awareness that

805
00:29:07,970 --> 00:29:06,090
God or a Supreme Being beings to being

806
00:29:10,580 --> 00:29:07,980
straight out of the dictionary for God

807
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:10,590
either does or does not exist I asked

808
00:29:13,970 --> 00:29:12,450
you to binary forms I knew the skeptic

809
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:13,980
would say you're only asking if they

810
00:29:16,730 --> 00:29:14,970
encounter to God

811
00:29:18,470 --> 00:29:16,740
information about God you didn't ask

812
00:29:20,690 --> 00:29:18,480
there's information that there's no God

813
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:20,700
so I asked it that way here's the

814
00:29:24,020 --> 00:29:22,170
statistics right there we had a

815
00:29:26,390 --> 00:29:24,030
narrative response after this and I can

816
00:29:28,490 --> 00:29:26,400
assure you the text box following this

817
00:29:30,950 --> 00:29:28,500
question essentially everybody answering

818
00:29:32,659 --> 00:29:30,960
yes was saying yes they actually didn't

819
00:29:34,460 --> 00:29:32,669
count information or awareness that God

820
00:29:36,110 --> 00:29:34,470
exists in other words they were not

821
00:29:38,299 --> 00:29:36,120
saying they encountered information that

822
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:38,309
God does not exist

823
00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:40,770
is the consistency observed and when God

824
00:29:42,530 --> 00:29:41,910
is encountered in a near-death

825
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:42,540
experience

826
00:29:46,820 --> 00:29:44,610
explainable by preexisting religious or

827
00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:46,830
cultural belief very good question

828
00:29:51,980 --> 00:29:48,830
I don't think so for my evidence

829
00:29:53,780 --> 00:29:51,990
atheists may encounter God and we have

830
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:53,790
about a dozen of them to describe that

831
00:29:57,740 --> 00:29:55,650
very young children may encounter gods

832
00:29:59,780 --> 00:29:57,750
or not enough thought much about God or

833
00:30:02,360 --> 00:29:59,790
don't have a preconceived notion of what

834
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:02,370
God would be very commonly God was

835
00:30:06,620 --> 00:30:04,530
described as not what they expected from

836
00:30:09,039 --> 00:30:06,630
the earthly life they often would use

837
00:30:11,210 --> 00:30:09,049
the terms unearthly for what they

838
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:11,220
religious background and I ran the

839
00:30:15,169 --> 00:30:13,410
statistics on this whether they were a

840
00:30:17,750 --> 00:30:15,179
liberal moderate or conservative

841
00:30:19,220 --> 00:30:17,760
fundamentalist had no statistical

842
00:30:21,409 --> 00:30:19,230
correlation at all whether they

843
00:30:22,789 --> 00:30:21,419
encountered God again the life changes

844
00:30:25,130 --> 00:30:22,799
they had after they encountered God

845
00:30:27,950 --> 00:30:25,140
certainly suggested that they had God

846
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:27,960
clearly I mean evidence of survival off

847
00:30:31,340 --> 00:30:29,850
the scale as far as I'm concerned we

848
00:30:34,010 --> 00:30:31,350
have powerful evidence that their

849
00:30:34,490 --> 00:30:34,020
survival the near-death experiences are

850
00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:34,500
real

851
00:30:38,289 --> 00:30:36,809
the skeptics all explanations that have

852
00:30:40,850 --> 00:30:38,299
people tried for literally decades

853
00:30:42,230 --> 00:30:40,860
cannot explain these other than what

854
00:30:44,510 --> 00:30:42,240
people that have had these near-death

855
00:30:46,909 --> 00:30:44,520
experiences personally believe and that

856
00:30:48,470 --> 00:30:46,919
I was a real visit to an unearthly realm

857
00:30:51,050 --> 00:30:48,480
of existence thank you very much

858
00:30:53,780 --> 00:30:51,060
[Applause]

859
00:30:56,990 --> 00:30:53,790
after itemizing all of the benefits do

860
00:30:58,700 --> 00:30:57,000
you recommend not trying this yeah I

861
00:31:00,020 --> 00:30:58,710
reckon me I don't try this is not

862
00:31:02,450 --> 00:31:00,030
something you try at home

863
00:31:04,430 --> 00:31:02,460
yeah near-death experiences should not

864
00:31:06,860 --> 00:31:04,440
be induced in fact I would be suspicious

865
00:31:08,870 --> 00:31:06,870
from from my research on this that if

866
00:31:11,810 --> 00:31:08,880
someone tried to induce an Indian that

867
00:31:13,670 --> 00:31:11,820
they would not be successful one of the

868
00:31:15,170 --> 00:31:13,680
near-death experiencers encountered God

869
00:31:17,330 --> 00:31:15,180
here and there near-death experience and

870
00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:17,340
was basically asking why me why did I

871
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:18,510
hit you why did I have a near-death

872
00:31:22,460 --> 00:31:20,130
experience it was so blissful and

873
00:31:24,620 --> 00:31:22,470
wonderful and God's response I think was

874
00:31:27,770 --> 00:31:24,630
revealing and said is almost exactly

875
00:31:30,380 --> 00:31:27,780
quote love falls on everyone equally

876
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:30,390
this is simply what you needed to live

877
00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:32,730
your earthly life so I think Indies are

878
00:31:36,470 --> 00:31:34,320
basically a gift I think that was the

879
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:36,480
rosetta stone of understanding why some

880
00:31:41,030 --> 00:31:38,370
have been DS and some don't why some

881
00:31:43,340 --> 00:31:41,040
have different content yes ah please

882
00:31:45,590 --> 00:31:43,350
clarify something about your survey it

883
00:31:47,630 --> 00:31:45,600
sounds like you're doing online surveys

884
00:32:00,550 --> 00:31:47,640
and how do you verify that the people

885
00:32:07,570 --> 00:32:03,020
we go we spend a lot of effort to

886
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:09,830
people spend a huge amount of time

887
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:12,210
answering over 140 different questions

888
00:32:16,610 --> 00:32:15,090
and filling out a huge narrative if we

889
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:16,620
have a few falsified near-death

890
00:32:20,540 --> 00:32:19,050
experiences if they are so uncommon as I

891
00:32:22,370 --> 00:32:20,550
believe they are less than a few percent

892
00:32:24,710 --> 00:32:22,380
for people to go through all that by the

893
00:32:26,210 --> 00:32:24,720
way they're not recognized by name when

894
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:26,220
they're posted on the NDE they gained

895
00:32:30,830 --> 00:32:28,170
absolutely nothing monetarily or in

896
00:32:33,170 --> 00:32:30,840
terms of recognition we believe the

897
00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:33,180
consistency is so overwhelmingly there

898
00:32:38,570 --> 00:32:35,310
from those that share their experiences

899
00:32:40,370 --> 00:32:38,580
honorably with integrity that we believe

900
00:32:41,990 --> 00:32:40,380
it's a real thing furthermore what we're

901
00:32:43,610 --> 00:32:42,000
observing in our very large group of

902
00:32:45,550 --> 00:32:43,620
near-death experiences seems to be

903
00:32:47,270 --> 00:32:45,560
strikingly consistent with what other

904
00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:47,280
researchers and what other organizations

905
00:32:52,070 --> 00:32:49,560
are seeing when they ask for near-death

906
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:52,080
experiences and post their accounts as

907
00:32:54,790 --> 00:32:52,490
well

908
00:32:57,340 --> 00:32:54,800
so I'm confident that this is that this

909
00:32:59,620 --> 00:32:57,350
is a real thing yeah I used to describe

910
00:33:01,480 --> 00:32:59,630
it as going into a shamanic state when

911
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:01,490
being type one diabetic my blood sure

912
00:33:05,710 --> 00:33:03,410
would go very very low it's almost like

913
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:05,720
I'd be lifted out to a cloud but my

914
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:07,850
feeling was that it was very gradual it

915
00:33:11,610 --> 00:33:09,650
wasn't in one state or not so I'm

916
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:11,620
wondering if there's some studies on

917
00:33:15,370 --> 00:33:13,850
areas of the brain that light up when

918
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:15,380
people are having near-death experiences

919
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:18,290
and if there's any work with how to

920
00:33:22,950 --> 00:33:20,090
stimulate this kind of sensory awareness

921
00:33:25,630 --> 00:33:22,960
for we've got some great great questions

922
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:25,640
there's no work work done to the best of

923
00:33:28,660 --> 00:33:27,530
my knowledge on like functional imaging

924
00:33:30,730 --> 00:33:28,670
that people have a near-death experience

925
00:33:33,430 --> 00:33:30,740
of course this is unexpected

926
00:33:34,590 --> 00:33:33,440
they're critically ill so are medically

927
00:33:38,350 --> 00:33:34,600
speaking we're all worried about

928
00:33:40,180 --> 00:33:38,360
resuscitating so it would be it would be

929
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:40,190
fascinating if somebody could actually

930
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:41,930
do that there was at least one study

931
00:33:46,450 --> 00:33:44,570
that did the EEG measurements on that

932
00:33:48,340 --> 00:33:46,460
group that had indies and did not

933
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:48,350
suggest that there might be a different

934
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:50,450
temporal lobe but I think what you're

935
00:33:54,550 --> 00:33:52,970
suggested there is a very important