Posted on 10/14/2025 7:49:54 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Sarah’s heart stopped for three minutes during surgery. When she came back, everything felt different, just not in the way anyone expected. She returned from what felt like unconditional love, only to find she could not connect with her own husband. The trivial concerns of daily life felt meaningless. Her marriage ended within two years.
Sarah isn’t alone. A new University of Virginia study finds that near-death experiences often bring deep spiritual shifts and can reduce fear of death. They can also strain the closest relationships and leave experiencers feeling isolated in a world that suddenly feels hard to relate to.
Published in Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, the research surveyed 167 people who had near-death experiences. These are episodes reported by people close to death that can include leaving the body, meeting deceased loved ones, or feeling overwhelming peace. Prior work suggests that roughly one in six critically ill patients report such experiences, so they are not rare.
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I agree with you on that, however I am afraid of the terrible pain that often accompanies death.
Been there, done that.
I have no patience for tomfoolery anymore.
I stopped caring about a lot of things.
My “give a darn” meter is broken.
A cardiologist friend of mine did an extensive study of heart patients that were revived after heart surgery. He found that approximately 18% of the patients remembered experiencing leaving their body during the surgery.
The key here is “remembered” as the drug Versed is often given to block memory recall of experiences while under anesthesia.
They use it on me recently as twice before I popped back into full awareness during two different major surgeries while my arms were still strapped to the boards and intubation was still in me.
Anyway, my friend’s research was so good it was published in the medical journal Lancet.
” Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands”
Dr Pim van Lommel, MD
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(01)07100-8/abstract
“What about after experiencing h3ll?”
Hell is experienced by those who hold onto sin as they depart from their body. They are afraid of the Love and Light of Heaven.
I’ve spent many years doing exorcisms, spirit release work, and clearing ghosts from houses as these stuck souls are physical to my perception.
I am sorry you went through that, but fascinating testimony. I can’t imagine what you thought you saw.
Would you care to be specific, and name your friend? Perhaps there are other articles / research?
“That’s why they call it a “near-death” experience.”
Dr Raymond Moody, who was on the faculty at the same university where this research was performed, coined the term NDE many years ago. I know him well and we have met many times, often presenting at the same conferences.
I have several ER Dr’s as personal friends. They call me with their unusual experiences as I help them understand them.
Your post is a classic use of the ad hominem fallacy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
The podcast stands on its own—accept or reject it on its merits.
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Fwiw the ad hominem fallacy is the most common fallacy I see in posts here every day—so you have a lot of company.
“The brain is still working during those NDE’s.”
Not always. When a soul’s operating frequency of consciousness raises above 100 Hz, a person can perceive directly from their consciousness without a physical body. This is why blind people report seeing during their NDE.
This is the real “Born Again” experience as when this happens you begin to perceive directly with your consciousness beyond your physical body. It is a curse as I feel the pain and suffering of people around me. The only way to block it is to rise above it to a higher frequency of consciousness.
Here is the individual, as best I can tell:
Oprah and Dr. Bruce Greyson on the Secret Science of Dying Well Oprah Daily, 29 April 2025
Consciousness is perpetual. It is the energy of the soul.
Consciousness manifests the physical body. Without consciousness the physical body is dead. The zygote would not form without consciousness.
Consciousness is the epigenetic influence that caused stem cell differentiation as the body is being formed.
I can see it if monitoring equipment shows the brain had flat lined.
It was your assertion. “Nobody is selling anything.”
thanks
bfl
You had to do the research to find out these folks actually earn a living instead of residing in homeless shelters.
They are not fundraising from you.
Neither am I btw.
I spent a week with him in Italy and explained his findings to him. There is a big difference between having an NDE and remembering the NDE.
In a recent surgery, the surgeon who removed my lung explained that I fought them as they were trying to take me off the ventilator. They removed the tubes and I refused to start breathing again, so they had to put me back on the ventilator.
Five hours later I came back into my body and they removed the tubes again.
I thanked the surgeon for the extra time in Heaven. I knew I was there due to what I was feeling. The residual Love and Bliss was still with me when I awakened. It was not the anesthesia.
From a legal perspective, does one need an NDA following an NDE?
I flat lined an EEG in the psych research lab during an experiment. I was in a graduate psych research class and decided to meditate/pray while having the headgear on.
Upon closer examination, the amplitude of the wave was so low, it appeared to be flat, but actually had very small fluctuations. I describe it as looking like a fine hacksaw blade.
Neither I nor the two professors understood that we were looking at very high gamma frequencies of consciousness. This is how I perceive beyond my physical body with my consciousness.
An EEG is actually measuring the action potential firing rate of the neurons in the brain which is the frequency of consciousness.
I’ve spent the last 30 years studying neuroscience, mostly in a medical school environment to understand what I experienced.
Terence McKenna had my favorite comment on this topic.
He said scientists trying to understand consciousness is like scientists taking apart a radio to try to find out where all the talking people are...
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If you ask the wrong questions you get the wrong answers.
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