Near Death Experiences: Have You Ever Seen the Light?
Dutch NDE Study Attracts Worldwide Attention
by Jeffrey Long, MD & Paul Bernstein, PhD.
On December 15, 2001, the highly respected international medical journal, The Lancet, published a 13-year study of NDEs observed in 10 different Dutch hospitals. This is one of the very few NDE studies to be conducted prospectively, meaning that a large group of people experiencing cessation of their heart and/or breathing function were resuscitated during a fixed period of time, and were interviewed.
Through those interviews the doctors discovered who had experienced NDEs. The advantage of this type of study is that it gives scientists a matched comparison group of non-NDE patients against which to compare the near-death experiencers, and that in turn gives scientists much more reliable data about the possible causes and consequences of the near-death experience.
For example, in the past some scientists have asserted that the NDE must be simply a hallucination brought on by the loss of oxygen to the brain [called "anoxia"] after the heart has stopped beating. This study casts doubt on that theory, in the words of its chief investigator, cardiologist Pim van Lommel, MD, “Our results show that medical factors cannot account for the occurrence of NDE.
All patients had a cardiac arrest, and were clinically dead with unconsciousness resulting from insufficient blood supply to the brain. In those circumstances, the EEG (a measure of brain electrical activity) becomes flat, and if CPR is not started within 5-10 minutes, irreparable damage is done to the brain and the patient will die.
According to the theory that NDE is caused by anoxia, all patients in our study should have had an NDE, but only 18% reported having an NDE… There is also a theory that NDE is caused psychologically, by the fear of death. But only a very small percentage of our patients said they had been afraid seconds before their cardiac arrest-it happened too suddenly for them to realize what was occurring. More patients than the frightened ones reported NDEs.”
Finally, differences in drug treatments during resuscitation did not correlate with the likelihood of patients experiencing NDEs, nor with the depth of their NDEs.
To Read the whole Article Dutch NDE Attracts WorldWide Attention
And for one first hand account…
(to watch this video directly on youtube: Near Death Experience: This Was Paradise
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I really liked listening to this guy’s story. I don’t know what to think though. You get the feeling that although he obviously died for a short time and was brought back to life – which is miracle enough – the experience he had could easily be something that many people experience at death and stems from continueing activity in the brain and expectation. I don’t see that anything is really explained by this video.
I am reading the book of Pim, and I`m very interested. The more I read the more it becomes unbelieveble. Although i know it is true.
The bright light, the tunnel and the time-space reality is fascinating. It reminds me of the first time the study of the black hole became public knowledge.
Thanks.