[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, the research surveyed 167 people who had near-death experiences"

Translation: "167 people who lived to chatter on about their "lived" experience."

Since the study is under the auspices of the American Psychological Association -- "meh."

For those Freepers who actually go to the study -- who DOES that? -- one reads its a bunch of anecdotes "interpreted" by those "researchers." More "meh."

It is assured that the "Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia School of Medicine" will happily accept more government funding to churn out this stuff.

[Aria]

https://www.tiktok.com/@alignbestself/video/7543330127598325023

[Celtic Conservative]

The APA is notoriously run by idiots. Keep in mind this is the group that legitimized all this transgender crap.

CC

[Williams]

I agree with you the evidence of a near-death experience being a real experience in terms of seeing the afterlife, is limited and unlikely.
But the study is about the effect on people who believe they have had a near-death experience. So that’s different.

[Vermont Lt]

Who reads anecdotes and tries to analyze them? I did for years. I used to develop service strategies for telecom companies and banks. I would spend days reviewing interviews and then assigning a “value” to them; then re-checking them through a statistically accurate process.

I havent read this study. But, you asked the question. I would be happy to go into it more deeply if you are interested.

[tired&retired]

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