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Physicist to recreate NDEs ["near death" "experience]"in VR to help terminally ill patients
unexplained-mysteries.com ^ | February 27, 2025 | T.K. Randall

Posted on 03/01/2025 7:45:57 AM PST by BenLurkin

Glowacki is now spearheading a remarkable new project that will use virtual reality to enable those who are suffering from life-threatening illnesses to undergo their own (albeit simulated) near-death experiences. According to previous studies, there is evidence to suggest that those who do recall such experiences typically go on to enjoy a significant reduction in anxiety and stress levels.

This is perhaps because those people gain a renewed and even transcendental sense of peace and acceptance with regard to death and no longer fear what comes next when they die.

While some scientists have looked into the use of drugs to induce near-death experiences, Glowacki's research has indicated that virtual reality is the safest way to replicate the experience.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: faithandphilosophy; nde; ndes; neardeathexperience; reincarnation
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To: BenLurkin
Uhh, no thanks. Once will be quite enough.

21 posted on 03/01/2025 8:50:39 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: Bob434; Sirius Lee

Best way to avoid the real and permanent experience of Hell is to repent of your sins and be saved by The Blood of Jesus who paid the price for you on the Cross. Sirius Lee was right in his post.


22 posted on 03/01/2025 8:59:11 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: SaveFerris

Ping


23 posted on 03/01/2025 9:00:18 AM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Pres Raygun

I’ve read the same thing. That might have been Dr. Raymond Moody.


24 posted on 03/01/2025 9:01:18 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: All

Wasn’t this in Solyent Green?


25 posted on 03/01/2025 9:02:08 AM PST by Reily (a)
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To: b4me

I agree with you. Some men want to play God and many things are best left alone.


26 posted on 03/01/2025 9:03:48 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: BenLurkin

This is laughable.

The secret to easy transition is merely prayer. It directs consciousness towards God and Heaven.

I’ve had multiple NDE’s and have worked with many people with NDE’s.

Prayer is the tool I use with people who are dying in hospice.

Virtual Reality will not work as it is an external focus rather than an internal focus. Prayer is an internal focus.


27 posted on 03/01/2025 9:08:13 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Redcitizen

Problem is, 90% of the people who say that have no idea what it really means.

They know it intellectually, but not experientially.


28 posted on 03/01/2025 9:10:02 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: CaptainK

What happens to those who were born into circumstances where they are never introduced to the teachings of the Bible?

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God loves them like everyone else. We’re all His children.


29 posted on 03/01/2025 9:11:55 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: b4me

My Father’s Mansion has many rooms, or levels. Some people have an NDE and get stuck in the basement.

Only approximately 18% of those resuscitated after cardiac surgery death actually remember anything of the experience. That’s per a friend of mine who published his research on the subject in the medical journal Lancet.l, Dutch Cardiologist, Pim Van Lommel.


30 posted on 03/01/2025 9:14:54 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: null and void

This is some real mad-scientist stuff, imo. But yes, it’s just my take on it.


31 posted on 03/01/2025 9:15:45 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement What shtthoof fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Craftmore

According to Wyatt Earp from the movie Tombstone, there’s a sign.


32 posted on 03/01/2025 9:17:35 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
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To: laplata

The human soul is the same no matter a person’s religion. I work with people of all religions, and some with no religion.

Religions are just theories and philosophies about the anatomy and physiology of the human soul and how it interacts with its environment. They are for the most part correct, but incomplete.

In my experience, Jesus’s teachings and Christianity are the most accurate and complete of all of them.


33 posted on 03/01/2025 9:18:29 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah but it got his name in the papers which I suspect is the real purpose of this “breakthrough “.


34 posted on 03/01/2025 9:20:31 AM PST by Reily (a)
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To: laplata

I know Raymond Moody. We have met many times and presented at the same conferences.

Raymond got his medical degree at UVA Charlottesville where he studied under Ian Stevenson, one of the earliest NDE researchers.

Bruce Greyson headed that department (Perceptual Studies) for many years and Jim Tuckrr heads it up now. All are psychiatrists.

Raymond Moody previously got a PhD in Philosophy.


35 posted on 03/01/2025 9:24:21 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Rennes Templar; Ezekiel; metmom; SunkenCiv; .30Carbine; left that other site; ViLaLuz; cgbg; ...

VR simulation? Wny not just replay an old Billy Graham altar call?

Mr. Glow Wacky might wish to light up the end of the tunnel but he’s not the Light of the World.


36 posted on 03/01/2025 9:25:47 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: BenLurkin

There is a technique developed by a psychologist working at the Chicago VA Hospital. He is Dr. Allan Botkin.

He was using EMDR to treat PTSD and had the patients do it with their eyes closed and found it induced an NDE.

I SPOKE WITH Allan at length and read his book on the subject. His technique works for some people.

My research on Brain Stimulation Techniques using Trans Cranial Magnetic Stimulation in psychiatry at the med school helped me to understand how his Techniques work.


37 posted on 03/01/2025 9:32:20 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired
I have had a couple or three seizures a few years ago. One instant you are here. An instant later you are out of it. You essentially pass out.

38 posted on 03/01/2025 9:35:43 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: laplata
Actually, it was Maurice Rawlings, in To Hell and Back.
39 posted on 03/01/2025 9:36:02 AM PST by Pres Raygun (Repent America)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

VR works well for trauma recall, but does not guide consciousness toward an NDE.

I’ve researched it extensively in PTSD treatment. Walter Reed did some research in this, but Dr. Skip Rizzo at USC did the best VR research and found it worked fabulous when combined with psychotherapy.

I attended many of his research lectures over the years at American Psychiatric Association Conferences on PTSD treatment.


40 posted on 03/01/2025 9:39:01 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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