Posted on 10/07/2014 7:42:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Researchers conducting the largest ever study into near-death experiences have discovered that awareness may continue even after the brain has shut down, revealing more about what happens when we die.
Scientists at the University of Southampton studied more than 2,000 people who suffered cardiac arrests at 15 hospitals across Britain, Austria and the United States.
Around 40% of patients who survived described "awareness" during the time before their hearts were restarted, when they were clinically dead.
One 57-year-old man, a social worker from Southampton, described the noise of the machines and what the medical staff were doing during this time.
Dr Sam Parnia, who led the study, told the Daily Telegraph: "We know the brain can't function when the heart has stopped beating. But in this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn't beating, even though the brain typically shuts down within 20 to 30 seconds after the heart has stopped."
"The man described everything that had happened in the room, but importantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine that makes a noise at three minute intervals. So we could time how long the experience lasted for," he added.
"He seemed very credible and everything that he said had happened to him had actually happened."
For the study, the scientists examined 2,060 cardiac arrest patients. Of the 330 that survived, 140 said they had experienced some kind of awareness while being resuscitated.
One in five said they felt a sense of peacefulness. Some said they saw a bright light and felt time had sped up or slowed down, while others described the feeling as drowning or being submerged in deep water.
Parnia suggested more people may have similar experiences when close to death,
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A Godly wife can lead a husband to repentance by her example...it least I’ve read that in the Bible!
My condolences.
Had my code blue flat line moment last Memorial Day weekend when I went in for an angiogram. In the middle of that procedure the lights went out. Up to that point I was aware of everything that was happening on the screen. And then darkness.
Saw nothing, heard nothing. Woke up in a weird place called ICU with doctors swarming around me. Cardiologist tried a bit of humor by saying they re-booted me.
Actually they brought me back with a defibrillator. Best moment was when that cute little nurse removed the pads from my chest.
Maybe that higher power didn’t need me yet because I saw nothing at all.
Thank you.
I spent a bit of time at a hospice 2 years ago, and I asked many of the workers if they’ve seen things like this.
They all said that they’ve seen many people at the end of their lives seeing something that was not there and then becoming filled with joy or terror.
“Best moment was when that cute little nurse removed the pads from my chest”
Shame on you...I hope she pulled the lead pads hard and took some chest hairs with them...LOL!
Painful moments of joy to be alive.
My sister relayed a near death experience story from a friend of hers: He was in the hospital and died on the table and came back. During the event he described walking on a beach and when looking into the water he noticed it was filthy. A creature with horns (devil-like) came out of the water and grabbed his leg trying to pull him in. He was able to get away but his foot entered the water during the fight.
After waking up his foot was paralyzed and still is to this day.
The process of leaving the world is certainly a twilight area.
I was with my mom while she was declining and off and on she’d tell me she was talking to an old friend. I reminded her that lady was gone... Mom said....’Oh, that’s right, she’s gone.’
It’s interesting the person mentioned the sense of ‘peace’. After my mother was gone, I dreamed of her a couple weeks later.
She looked like herself only all the color around her was like an old color photo where some of the color washed out. She was absolutely regal, like a queen and composed... and she was bathed ( I don’t know how else to put it except to say ‘bathed) in a aura of peace. It was tactile and absolutely beautiful. I wanted so much to know she was OK and I didn’t need to ask. I could see she was at peace and IN peace. While we talked and she never moved.
Her hands were under the lap blanket she always had on her favorite chair. She never reached for me or touched me... and when I leaned forward to kiss her, she didn’t move or encourage me. She just gave me a steady direct look while she faded in a sort of fog.
I will NEVER forget this dream.
One of my wife’s relatives, an Assembly of God minister, had shared with his family for years that he wanted to see an angel. (I know people that have seen them and can sense them.)
When he was very old (91, IIRC) and very sick with pneumonia, one of my wife’s cousins visited him in the hospital. He was in full possession of his mental faculties. He was reading his bible, chatting and praying with my relative (his grand-daughter in law) between coughing fits, when suddenly he got wide eyed and stared intently into the upper corner of the hospital room. My cousin-in-law asked him what was wrong and he said “Dyane! Look at all the angels! They’re so beautiful...” My wife’s cousin did not see them.
He passed away peacefully two days later.
Problem is you never see anything about the terror filled expierences.
Can you imagine a book titled Hell Is For Real? Not exactly bestseller material.
Heh!
Seems to me your first patient was never really saved at all. Several atheists have come forward with NDE saying they experienced the exact same “light, tunnel, & peace”.
The devil is always about deceiving and it’s his MO to keep people lost. A near death experience like this by a luke-warm Christian or cultural Christian, would mean that the message is, “see, you’re saved—you can just keep on living like you are”.
Your neighbor’s response is beyond tragic. Nothing is further from the truth regarding sin being too “big”.
Matthew 12:31 says it—this sin it refers to is the sin the person commits by dying and not believing in Jesus. Every person in hell right now, committed this sin.
Heaven Vision by Terry James (never read it, but I’m sure it’s good).
Agreed. The control tower would still function until the oh-two (similar to a capacitor in electronics) ran out.
“I will vote democrat....I will....”
There are books and videos that deal with that but true they aren’t popular like the heavenly ones. Like the song says everybody wants to get to heaven but nobody wants to die (or go to hell).
If you don't see the tunnel and the bright light you are facing in the wrong direction!
Regards,
GtG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TYHxEa7ljE
Consciousness does not reside in the brain, the brain connects us to the akashic plane where, ahh google it the baseball game is coming on... Later
I love this Rabbi!
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