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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With whom?
Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body.
I am in an environment with many thousands of top Dr’s and researchers. When I demonstrate, it freaks them out.
I’ve had them start shaking as seeing my demonstrations undermined the knowledge upon which they formed their ego identity. They really freak out.
One famous University consciousness researcher (Runs the consciousness research lab at a major university) could not remember attending my lecture demonstration six months earlier. He sat in the front row and jumped from his chair to catch the woman who was falling as I used her for a demonstration to show how and where traumatic memories are stored in a person’s soul.
He had created amnesia of the whole experience as it did not fit with the knowledge processed by his ego. I just smile and let it go as I have no need to prove what I am demonstrating. I offer, but do not impose. My identity is based upon my relationship with God.
Pim von Lommel, the cardiologist who performed the research study published in the Lancet.
I’ve done that. I wouldn’t call it a near death experience, but I did find it fascinating.
I had to laugh at “There are way too many people in here”.
“Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body.”
Actually. the experience of pain in the physical body is what causes a soul to let go and leave the body.
I have worked with hospice patients for many years. I teach them how to raise above the experience of pain through prayer, rather than taking all the opioids to block the pain.
Had one woman ask the Dr to get me right away. I came into her room and both her arms were outstretched toward me as she asked me to take hold of her hands and pull her soul out of her body.
I just started laughing and explained that’s not how dying is done.
I advised her to close her eyes and say a prayer. The prayer lifted her soul from her physical body.
Raymond Moody, who coined the term NDE, also coined the term “Shared Death Experience.” I’ve had many of these as I am able to go into the Light and guide people through the darkness toward Heaven as they die. I experience the Love and Bliss of Heaven every time.
“Would you care to be specific, and name your friend? Perhaps there are other articles / research?”
I put the link to the Lancet Journal article in the post.
His name is Pim van Lommel.
most would disagree stating you only die once.
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1.4 billion Hindus would disagree.
Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience Paperback – August 9, 2011
God gives people the chance to see some thing wonderful and many cannot handle coming back to life on earth to implement things God likely tried to convey to them to help people see a need for HIM, instead of just their own self pleasures.
Indeed. When an assertion is made without a source by which to verify said assertion, President Reagan's old advice comes to mind. "Trust, but verify."
Looking to an author's work is not an attack, and therefore not the use of an ad hominem device. One looks to what comments assert, and then sometimes what upholds said assertion.
'It was asserted, as an example, "When a soul's operating frequency of consciousness raises above 100 Hz, a person can perceive directly from their consciousness without a physical body." That is an assertion. As a concept, it might be borne out by various mystical websites, but no rigorous science research will likely reflect it.
This particular topic seems to fire many passions. But by definition "near death" is not "death." All the sociological papers end up with anecdotes parsed into various categories, including the "study" which seems to have fired this thread. it is a statistical analysis of 167 individuals, as sample size.
From the study: "Sixty-four percent of participants reported seeking help in processing the NDE and 78% found the support received to be helpful. Greater NDE intensity and a history of psychological difficulties significantly increase the likelihood that experiencers will seek support."
Thanks for that. It’s a Marine slogan. Lots of weakness left my body on Parris Island.
What I like about Pim, Jim Tucker, Bruce Greyson, Mary Neal, and a few others is that they have MD’s and are very intelligent. Thus, they approach their research from the perspective of “Evidence Based Medicine.”
There are a few MD’s however, that fabricated their experience, and wrote books about it.
I can tell when I am near them as a real NDE stores an experience in their soul that has profound Love attached to it. When I stimulate the memory, often they will start crying as the feeling of Love is so strong.
“When a soul’s operating frequency of consciousness raises above 100 Hz, a person can perceive directly from their consciousness without a physical body.” That is an assertion.
That is what I demonstrate. I have not published it on purpose as I don’t want all the tire kickers knocking at my door to experience it.
Many Dr’s refer their idiopathic cases to me as I can use this ability to find the source of their symptoms. It’s tough though as sometimes it’s better for them not to know and just die rather than dealing with the underlying issue. I’ve worked with too many with terminal cancer and other auto immune disease patients to get caught up in people’s personal problems.
I had many years of formal education.
Some of it was very valuable—but a significant portion of it was just plain wrong.
It would be a mistake for any professional to “buy into” everything taught to them in schools—without going back and doing their own research at a time and place convenient for them.
It is a bigger mistake—of course—to get one’s ego involved in defending “official” doctrine based only on the word of others who are deemed “experts”.
I agree with you on the quote you cited—it falls into the “taking apart the radio to see who is talking inside” fallacy I discussed upthread.
Another analogy—using science to study consciousness is like using a hammer to study a horse—weird (and often unpleasant) results are inevitable.
Lol.
Howdy!
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” Go through his pockets, and look for losse change.
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