Is There Life after Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA

February 22, 2017
Jim B. Tucker
Bruce Greyson
Edward F. Kelly
J. Kim Penberthy
www.uvadops.org
Does some aspect of our personality survive bodily death? Long a philosophical and theological question, in the 20th century this became the subject of scientific research. Fifty years ago, in 1967, Ian Stevenson, then chair of UVA's Department of Psychiatry, created a research unit-now named the Division of Perceptual Studies-to study what, if anything, of the human personality survives after death. Dr. Stevenson's own research investigated hundreds of accounts of young children who claimed to recall past lives.
In this Medical Center Hour, faculty from the Division of Perceptual Studies highlight the unit's work since its founding, including studies of purported past lives, near-death experiences, and mind-brain interactions in phenomena such as deep meditation, veridical out-of-body experiences, deathbed visions, apparent communication from deceased persons, altered states of consciousness, and terminal lucidity in persons with irreversible brain damage. As the division enters its second half-century, what are its research priorities and partnerships?
History of the Health Sciences Lecture
Co-presented with Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, UVA

[@ezrc9294]

all I know, is I miss my mom - and I hope she is living in love and joy with god. Amen

[@ingeborgsvensson4896]

Watching all those people walking around staring at their smart phones all day make me wonder: is there life before death?

[@rocioaguilera3613]

People from the third world DO talk about a tunnel of light. I'm a Mexican cardiologist, and many of my patients who were reanimated (we don't say resuscitate because we're not gods who can resuscitate anything) told me about those experiences . I didn't find any cultural differences. Some of them were Catholic, some Protestant, some athieists. Some were postgraduates, some had difficulty to read and write; All of them had very similar experiences. I want to congratulate the scientists who gave the lecture because of their open mind. Real scientists are open to study anything without dogmatism

[@PuganPoo]

the lights they see is just a chemical reaction of the brain

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Rocío Aguilera Why would that be any different from the similarities in cases of appendicitis? Or cases of schizophrenia or psychosis? Or simply having dreams? Open-mindedness is not embracing speculation. It is understanding the difference between what we know and what we don't. Moving ahead and assuming and imposing all kinds of religious or cultural ideas is not openminded, but usually completely close-minded to the idea that it could be wrong. Postponing judgment pending further evidence, that does not simply consist of the compounding of subjective accounts from people who have been in an altered state under tremendous physical stress, is not close-minded but reasonable and open to ACTUAL attempts at an explanation that actually has explanatory power. And in the meantime - our positive knowledge of the human body and the embodied mind suggests that reality is more in the vein of the old boxing proverb "kill the body and the mind goes".

[@iamnoone348]

I agree with you.

[@Molinfelx]

So interesting, thank you for sharing!

[@rocioaguilera7255]

very curious OK, but please explain to me what causes the activation of the occipital cortex of their brains in all cases. I think you're an experienced neurophysiologist or neurologist

[@barbarachipley357]

I never want to come back here. once is enough thanks.

[@LeonardoRicardoSanto]

I am a retired, male, U.S.A. citizen living in Guatemala. I just watched KZbin presentation given by the Davision of Perpetual Studies, University of Virginia. I remembered my own experience when watching the panel. I will be 75 years old soon. I can't remember the year exactly at the moment but I had a surgery at Cedar Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles (probably mid-80's). I went in early in the morning to have a lump removed on my left tricep. It was not to be a very serious operation but I had to wait (on a gurney and in a gown, non-premedicated) until around noon when they wheeled me in. I was very nerous and I way laying on my stomach with my left arm up cluting a guide rail connected to the gurney. I believe the surgeon used a local and it did NOT deaden the area. He proceeded to cut away and instructed the nurse to "get the blood here"...I had a terrible pain that felt searing and I was hot...the surgeon impatient. I passed out (later I found out it was code blue and I went into convultions and died)...what I felt, knew and saw was the following: Immediately I was released into a cool atmosphere with no pain and I was glad and free...it was odd, I felt very good, almost refreshed as I was going doward, free floating, into what looked like a gray freight elevator shaft (without the elevator) at some point a looming black male shadow appeared slightly above me and repeated said, strongly, not friendly, very male and I had never hear that voice before..."Leonard go back" .. repeatedly (maybe three or four times the same. I awoke and there was a special team working on me..several doctors and medical professionals and I was still in the operating room and they took me into the same room I was in before and curtained me off...they kept checking my pulse every few minutes for a couple of hours and then sent me home and to a cardiologist later and my own Doctor right away. That's my "experience" and it was not frightening, it was relief from pain and the cool feeling was something I remember liking very much. If you would like more information I will be happy to contact you directly or email...I now live in a small village at the foot of the Volcan de Fuego (it recently erupted and didn't frighten me, few things do). Leonard R. Clark, santosiempre at yahoo dot com.

[@Elkycreates]

A day after my father died I was awoken by his hand caressing my head. That’s what he used to do when I was a child.

[@donlunn792]

For what it is worth.My Wife was absolutely fine,And was ready to go and meet her friends to go to a WI Carol concert.Four minutes later she died in my arms.I said to her I’m calling 999, (This is the UK.)The last words she said was “NO” and tried to snatch the phone from my hand.The paramedics arrived and could do nothing.I honestly believe that she did not want to come back.It was her time.And she was in that place where she wanted to be.Despite the love that we had for each other.This is the first time I have shared this on the internet.but this site is absolutely right.

[@bangeru1]

I'm a medical doctor and find the subject of consciousness and death extremely relevant for life and the fundamental health of our civilisation.

[@ianp3112]

Oh... As a 'doctor' you find 'death extremely relevant for life', I hope you tell that to all your patients. Real deep, bruh! Cheers

[@jeffshanahan5969]

Omid Aghajari. im a gutter installer and I agree with you

[@liptonicetea274]

Agree with you

[@liannebenn2097]

@Topspeed350 well that depends if you are British.

[@nathinafinnify]

@Topspeed350 it's British English.. they use -se instead of -ze. So civilisation and civilization are both right :)

[@EyeOfDestiny18012000]

I was in a head on car crash 18 years ago. Hit by a car on the wrong side of the road. Scull crushed in, one eye destroyed, front of my brain left as scar tissue after a serious traumatic brain injury, collapsed lungs leading to a cardiac arrest, both lower legs crushed with left ankle cut through to free me from the car I was trapped for 40 minutes in. I was resuscitated in the car by a paramedic & then in the ambulance by a doctor at the scene. I was given just 2 hours to live as told by my police inspector that night, my team manager as I was a police officer then in London, but hit in my own car on a day off from work. In a coma for 2 weeks, 4 weeks in intensive care, 3 months in hospital. I have quite a run of memories of the moments after collision and before waking from the coma. With the help of a skilled regression hypnotherapist, I also remember looking down at where the cars came to rest after impact. Today, I'm almost reduced to tears when I relive that moment and more so the incredible experiences of a place I was in before I woke up after being brain dead, physically almost dead and with almost no hint today that ever happened, my scull has been rebuilt, my remaining brain has adapted and I am left pondering the reality of what I touched when I watch well presented cases of such research.

[@jasonthomas2252]

Loved every minute!!!!.......I had a NDE when I was 19 I'm now 43, ever since I no Longer fear Death cause I know that there is somewhere Much Better then where we are now.

[@nitinkumar29]

I think it only valid if person has natural death. If unnatural, the spirit will wander the earth plane in confusion wondering if is he really dead or keep worrying if he know his is dead but have unfinished business that they would to finish or worry of husband or children.

[@rf-bh3fh]

Anyone who has had a NDE understands this. We are not physical creatures having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a physical experience. My question is how many times has our spirits been reincarnated? But even more why does this happen and how do we go back and stay in the spiritual world. I want to go back and stay. I think when we wash the inside of our cup we can stay.

[@honesty1234]

Have you ever asked yourself how you know that?

[@selihter]

My dad died. I'm really looking forward to asking him a trillion questions 😭

[@SLJR16]

There are way too many examples of people who died and then saw their body, other people in the room, people in other rooms, objects on the roof of the building, family members they didn’t know existed, and people they didn’t know died for it to just be a coincidence. People can scream DMT all they want, but that doesn’t explain how a person knows what is going on in the room or in other rooms when they are dead. There appears to be some sort of life after death, but I’m not sure how it works. I don’t know if it’s similar to religious texts where all the good people go to one place and bad people go to another, but something seems to happen when we die. And these experiences are all the ones we know about. There may be some who had similar experiences, but just don’t remember when they woke up. I also find it creepy that there have been experiences where people find out about dead relatives when they die. I heard this story where a kid had a NDE and while he was dead, he experienced what he felt was heaven and saw his sister there. She said something about him having to go back. The parents didn’t know what to think and when they went to call her, they found out she did indeed die. Again, that can’t just be a coincidence or chance that he just happened to dream that. This isn’t even a wishful thinking post or me hoping for some kind of afterlife. I’m looking at documented cases where things don’t add up and seem to point to their being one. I’ve always found it interesting how so many people like to shoot these things down and try to say there is no God or chance of an afterlife. It’s one thing to be skeptical, but it’s another to completely dismiss something just because you can’t see it or don’t want to believe in it. This isn’t even a religious post either. I just think that when there are countless experiences like these, there has to be some truth to it. Call me an idiot all you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that there are things in this world we don’t understand and may never understand.

[@alicemorton9145]

I always treat the deceased with great respect. I talk to them while preparing for the mortuary & always open the window to release the soul. My colleagues do the same. You just never know🤤

[@poppierosepoppiestoys6127]

I died in the ambulance and was resuscitated by the ambulance officer, whilst that was going on I rose above my body. I watch the whole thing. It was a life changing experience. I didn't move past being in the ambulance, but I wish I got to see family member that had past but time will come one day.

[@DeborahGregHayes]

Yes there is life after death. I had a NDE a couple of months ago and it's like so many others have described. A more intense reality, a perfect calm, no body.....mind and sight, but you don't miss your body.....we all are souls and we all have bodies so we can function on Earth. Live a good life, be kind to one another....and believe those of us who tell you, don't be afraid to die....it is wonderful and it is PERFECT!

[@dr.venkateswararaokorasiga2452]

Indian "Bhagavat Geeta" by Lord Krishna says about soul neither be created nor be destroyed. Only it takes different shapes of biological life.

[@patridomino9036]

Congratulations to these people of science for examining other realities despite the stubborn resistance of so many rigidly ego-driven scientists who have circled their wagons in defense of their "we know everything and reject all we cannot control" attitudes.

[@Vlasko60]

+patri domino And where can I find that quote from any scientist?

[@ianp3112]

patri domino this is complete horseshit, just like your ignorant statement. Get off your ass and educate yourself! Cheers

[@rajwarnakulasuriya5935]

patri domino... Unfortunately, the west (mainly the British) screwed up all the ancient civilised societies their traditions, cultures and their countries when they invaded those countries and introduce a system that would benefit only them. The ancient knowledge was not allowed to practice and the western systems were introduced saying that those were the civilised systems and ruled those natives suppressing them with armies pointing the canons and guns at them, and change the mindset of those by brain washing them, restricting education other than for those who change their religion to Christians and after few generations the natives accepted the new culture, education system, behaviour etc and after 200 years they have now forgotten their own ancient education system and find that there is no use for that. What the people of this world do not realise is this system has created more slaves (modern slavery system) where by giving a certificate high school, or a degree or PHD, etc and get them to work for the so call Democratic system, whether they call themselves doctors or engineers or plumber, taxi driver etc. All what the Ancient people were doing was to develop their mind, through meditation attaining various conscious levels, knowing that the existence is suffering and there is a path to end suffering. This was happening mainly in India and it spread to Asian sub continent, part of Persia, and to the South East Asian countries around 250 BC. Greeks learnt the knowledge in 400 BC but they did not understand it fully hence it ended up as a philosophy, this knowledge was mainly based on Buddha Dharma, Greeks learnt almost everything from India , Thaksila and Nalanda was the oldest Universities in the world 680BC ( read if you can ) and Greeks set up their first academy ( only a college) in 365 BC (somewhere there). The west change the course of history and shown the world that it was the Greeks who gave the knowledge to the world, but the truth little by little surfacing. The modern day scientists are still struggling to find how the consciousness arise and it’s mechanism from existence to existence and they still don't have a clue, they think they know it all.

[@sheiladevine3004]

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[@Soytu19]

To be honest i have better things to think about than this idealistic, dreamy useless bullshit. And you should too.

[@vahneb7260]

This is so ironic. When I was a little girl I used to tell stories about my other family. I said I died as a child and I was hit by a truck. The unnatural part is I had super high anxiety when I was too young to understand death. My fear of dying was so bad that my mother wanted to take me to a doctor. I had screaming fits and I wouldn't tell her why I was so afraid. As I aged and forgot about these stories my fear of death subsided.

[@josephquinto5812]

That's scary...

[@pauladowning5592]

I have been working off and on with Dr Greyson regarding the several NDE's I have had. This is serious research. I am so glad he is studying this phenomenon because it is so very important! There truly is Life after Life!

[@pureenergy5051]

Paula I had a NDE as a child where energy beings listened to me. I felt them and heard them through my whole childhood and when I was learning super fast healing. Over the years I tried several counselors and hypnotists with no success. I wanted to write a book and become more successful with healing, but not finding a match has left me writing on youtubes only. I have found out after reading quantum physics that nothing is solid. This means we are images constantly being created. This is serious research that everybody needs to know. Barbara Brennan, a physicist, wrote the book "Hands of Light". She trained herself to see people as holograms. In this book are many pictures of what we look like out of these bodies. I think that it is really weird how people can have NDEs and still not know this book.

[@philknight7954]

It's called resurrection. Dead means dead. No in between. ...DEAD....DEATH... NOTHING.

[@ladymargot777]

I don't have time to even watch this video, I just know that there is life after death, positively. I have passed on (and revived) many times due to my health problems and have been to the spirit world each time. I already know if there is life after death. There is, period. There is a God also.

[@emersidehack4037]

Dr. J. Kim Penberthy; Hearing you speak of the similarities between NDE and meditation. Is so true. I did a lot of years in prison where I took part in a ten year meditation unit where my life took on a life changing experience. I did not get religious but did have a spiritual change. I must say that self forgiveness only comes from recognizing true change in one's life. And death is only getting to the next level, as in a video game. 😊 Treasure yourself.

[@Tonithenightowl]

For what it's worth... a friend of mine had an NDE after a car accident where she died on the operating table for 5 mins. During that time she rose above her body ( didn't realize at first it was her body, only that it was a bloody mess) and traveled to the waiting room through the surgery walls and down the hallway. She comes from a big family. Her parents and siblings were in the room along with some cousins. One cousin was bemoaning about having to go to work before learning if his cousin was going to make it through the surgery. She then traveled through the ceilings of the floors of the hospital till she was outside of it. The rest is a typical NDE story ... going past the planets, entering a tunnel, see a deity she took as Jesus etc. she was asked if she wanted to stay and she said YES !!! Then she thought of her parents and asked... may I go back only to let my parents know I'm OK. With that she woke up 3 days later in the hospital. All of this is nothing new except for one thing. How did she know about who was in the waiting room , how they were seated and what her cousin said about leaving for work? Logically, I figured her parents must have been talking about it during her 3 days of being unconscious. We know people are able to hear in a coma even if they can't react. However, her parents didn't talk about it...so it startled them when she was so accurate about the details. Her pastor came to visit and she told him about her experience. He said it had to be the drugs she was given. She insisted it was real. It didn't match with his religious beliefs so how could it be true? When she refused to take his view he said STOP talking about this or you'll end up in a psyche ward. She stopped talking about it but never forgot it. It's been over 40 yrs and not one iota of that experience is forgotten or details changed. She said it was MORE REAL than this reality and I believed her then and now.

[@WhirledPeace]

Tonithenightowl I believe you..and I believe her.❤️

[@patricebanio8224]

I do not!

[@atmathoughts2871]

Tonithenightowl beautiful story, thanks for sharing

[@dondressel4802]

My wife who had an NDE had said she went through a tunnel and saw a beautiful place and saw a beautiful being described as Jesus She told him she had not yet said goodbye to our children yet She was suffering from a very aggressive cancer She said goodbye to our kids who were very young at the time The next morning she passed away So I do believe you

[@bettyhouk8727]

Tonithenightowl I had a NDE, I didn’t die( I was given for some unknown reason a glimpse of one of the facets of passing into the next dimension) and like your friend I remember that experience in full detail and even some parts I didn’t notice at the time. I won’t go in to the details of that happening except to say the “ love” she felt was a love even more loving then a mother can give her baby even though she thinks she is, there isn’t any words at least I can’t express the beauty and intenseness of that pure love ! It is a love that surrounds you and fills your soul with a harmonious vibration and your very essence is part of that power .And it is a power of love , I haven’t any other word or words to define or describe the phenomenon ! If she hasn’t said any thing about it ask her what she felt emotionally . I am 81 years old and this incident happened about 30 or 40 years ago to me as in a dream . You never forget ! 💕🦋🌈👵🏻🐶🐱❤️🖖👽

[@OrangeIsNotARace]

Would love to go to a conference where the guy who was told he had to finish in six minutes, had three hours to tell us about his research. Best ever.

[@pureenergy5051]

I had a NDE but I don't remember leaving my body. I remember a raging, grieving parent that made me run and hide and cry all the time. She believed in death and racism and enemies and God. I did not believe in death, racism or enemies. I heard and felt invisible beings around a lot of the time. I know these beings listened to me because they responded to my fears with comforting voices. I told others about these beings and I was bullied for it. I did not believe in death and I was bullied for it. I became super anti social because of this. And still, today, this society bullies others constantly if they know death is a lie, including me. I know that i am eternal, but there is no space on forms for the word "eternal" as age. My race I list as energy. It is not only that invisible beings became my family when I was a child, but I have read around 200 books on the subject over the years. When I found quantum physics I was stunned that there is no wave/particle duality after all. Yet many people still teach this. What is called solidity is actually waves that bunch up into frequencies. That is it. Waves saturated within waves, all spinning from points of light called consciousness. Waves of energy/consciousness don't just exist out of no where. There as to be a center, a singularity and that is a point of light, an awareness. "The Quantum World" is a book written by the physicist Ford. In my words, he wrote: 'magically bursting forth are quarks spinning billions of times a second as 3 points of light, forming what are called protons and neutrons.' That is 6 points of light for each hydrogen atom plus 1 point of light for the electron. 7 points of light spinning billions of times a second as a hydrogen atom. There are 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms spinning as a "human body". But the "human body" spins also as carbon and oxygen atoms which spin as many more points of light. What am I to do with this? Nobody I know anywhere considers this real. How can we believe we are solid, and yet still spinning light? In the book "Hands of Light" written by the NASA physicist Barbara Brennan is the word "hologram". In my words, she has written that people are holograms existing/pulsating as 12 frequency bands all at the same time. That makes people multidimensional holographic eternal energy/light/love beings. Right now. This means that we are never dead. Around 10 of these frequency bands leave a body at what is called "death". The other 2 frequency bands where energy has bunched up so tightly into frequencies, stay to be buried. I have found huge numbers in several books that describe these super fast pulsations that are people. In the book "The Hidden Messages in Water" by Emoto I found the number 570 trillion times a second that describes how fast "humans" pulsate. In the book "The Quantum World" quarks spin billions of times a second as light. In Seth books channeled by Jane Roberts I find the word "millions" that describes how fast "people" as light forms are refreshed. That sounds like a hologram to me. All of this sounds like constant creation to me. So, is there life after death? My opinion from experiences and reading is that there is no death anywhere at anytime. What is called the Unified Field or God or consciousness is always pulsating as a huge number of frequency bands/realities/dimensions. And we as holographic "people" are constantly connected/refreshed/saturated within this/these dimensions. This is God's consciousness that we breathe, eat, walk with, sit down with, think with. God is the short word for everything pulsating everywhere all the time. WOW. I channeled these invisible beings as a child. I know this because I was really smart and people hated me. Nobody appreciated it. Now days, unless a person can know something that is not evident, then these invisible beings are called a sham. When I was praying/wishing the best for others in my 20's earth time, I made myself known for the times I hugged people and their pains disappeared. I felt energy flow in and out of me. I felt these invisible beings fly though me, walk in to me, and lie next to me. I learned to heal myself really fast just by changing my thoughts, since thoughts are imagery and imagery is the holographic body itself. Are we magic? YES. Would you know where to start spinning quarks into protons and neutrons?

[@kelly6739]

well either way we are all going to find out.

[@Scathingly]

Not really if there is no life after death. However, if there should be life after death, I'm not so sure we'll be all that happy about it--particularly some religious types who have and continue to wreak havoc on the world causing much pain--might just be many Christians are in for a rude awakening--or maybe the Muslims--or the Atheists--although some of the latter who exercised their willingness to engage in critical thinking and to do no harm to their fellow man might just be the overall winners. Stay tuned--like we have a choice.

[@regalm29]

so true!!

[@davewilliams5102]

Thanks for a great comment!

[@stevenfenster1798]

You know that is only half true. If the philosophical naturalists are right (which I think is absurd) then there will be no consciousness post mortum. However, only someone paralyzed in their thinking to a self-imposed intellectually puerile worldview would hold this position, despite their hubris.

[@miahleissa9599]

I feel so happy to hear this panel discuss this topic. :) Thanks so much for posting the video! These things NEED to become common-knowledge and asap. I want to hear of more testing! :) People need to know what they ARE.;)

[@universalspiritualenlighte2510]

It is not death. A message from the other side as a collective whole: "Not time, space or distance can keep us apart. Souls NEVER separate, only the flesh is gone."

[@faithhope4480]

This is awesome! Not only are all those ideas and thoughts incredibly interesting, BUT this group is researching it all... i wish i was on their team. How exciting and totally fascinating it is to investigate this. Thank you for sharing.

[@hosseinghanbari7802]

I am so glad to have clicked on this video to watch. I am so relaxed NOW. I have been concerned about the topic in hand ever since I have known myself.

[@Deledition]

There are people who have out of body experiences without what you call "near death experiences". They can describe the same event; of leaving their bodies and seeing the room around them. They travel up, and go through a tunnel surrounded by being of unearthly origin. So beautiful!!! At the end of the tunnel is the brightest and the most peaceful light. They can go through this light and see a place similar to what other people have described. They even see family members that passed or have never met. People who have been there don't want to come back, a great force causing them to return. I think people who experience these things should be studied. You don’t have to die or be near death to experience this. People who have had this king of experience should be included in this type of research

[@KinguCooky]

Corect. I happen to have these experiences fairly regularly. Just reading your comment here might just have inspired me somewhat to reconsider contributing to research. I have no idea how many people there are, like myself, that experience OBE's almost every time they have a short sleep during the day but it would be *very* interesting to find out; this seems to be the only time I can anticipate, or perhaps, induce these experiences consistently. I think the most important thing to note about these experiences, is the ever-present feeling of freedom. Not only that, but a sense of emergency, a suspicion of a dissipating opportunity close by that is demanding I seek it out. It is also true that the majority of my vivid OBE's involve ascending (superhero-like) through the ceiling and roof of my house and upward into the sky, all the while being aware of myself in the bed and the house below me as I travel away. When considering these themes and emotions, it befalls me that I am torn with my desire to 'go' and pursue this opportunity of enlightened recreation, or remain what I am, or where I am. The period of indecision is truly overwhelming emotionally, but more interestingly, the moment of choice usually wakes me up before I can achieve this believable and tangible reward - I must strive to go to the light most times, I feel. If it is not lights that entice me it can be a mental destination or mission that is not fully understood or yet revealed. Fascinating and frustrating in equal measure.

[@paris3331]

I agree. Most people are interested in this type of research. What happens after death. Please research this.

[@mycount64]

Deledition Out of body experience that people "see" things... if they have no body, they have no eyes so, how do they "see" things. Your claim makes no sense.

[@eclipse5393]

Using NDE as evidence for an afterlife is no different than using dreams as evidence for afterlife. NDE is still something that happens when you are ALIVE.

[@jerrylong381]

Hello, You may find a book by Robert Monroe very interesting. The title is "Journeys Out of the Body".

[@jsychu]

I have read Dr Stevenson's book in the last century when I was training in PLT. This video is interesting with 50 years of research data. Thank you for posting this!

[@anapriscilarodriguez8051]

Thank you for sharing this. Amazing video! I lost my dad 16months ago and I have been since then doing a lot of research on the after life. I am absolutely agnostic although raised Protestant in a Catholic country, I have concluded by what I have heard from different sources and philosophies, that there is definitely something after we passed. We don't know anything for a fact (-as a good agnostic) but I am very pleased to know that science is asking the same questions... and it gives me peace of mind to believe that my dad "maybe" didn't just go into thin air and into the nothing.

[@Neurosoul22.0]

Adore that a presentation of such a title on the subject infatuating me for years and about which I hope to study was held on my 23rd birthday.

[@Bringiton513]

I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to post this video. I believe that having done so is very similar to having done a labour of love for your fellow human beings. Thank you very much.

[@juliad.6372]

Paul Vella .. Throghout my life spoke with many doctors about this and basicaly they see many cases. people,s dreams etc..also unexolained miracles, cures when someone recovers unexoectedly..and they just have no answers..but explain what can be explained..then all say : we just don,t know But these are mostly about unexoected recoveries,." miracless " Myself just stay in my bible based faith...

[@honeybadgerwrld1825]

Paul Jean Vella did they say there is an afterlife

[@kenrik2105]

We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. Each of us is an aspect of the One Infinite Creator, on a long journey covering many lifetimes back to Source. Everything and everybody is connected.

[@CallumMcPherson]

Alan Watts' speeches are amazing! The "Conversations with God" books, by Neale Donald Walsch, are another great resource for this kind of philosophy.

[@danieljohnson7241]

Ken Rik, this is not a personal attack on you. However, what evidence do you have to back up this claim?

[@pouyah5288]

Alan Watts doesn't believe in us having a separate consciousness though.

[@pouyah5288]

Daniel Johnson, I just give my 2 cents here; don't look for evidence for that. this is something that you need to explore and find in yourself. in eastern philosophy which is basically pantheism, it's believed that such awareness can not be achieved with rationalism, that last step can only be taken through love, you'd have to spend lots of time meditating, on very deep levels of meditation you will literally find yourself falling into yourself. those with the experience of meditation know what it feels. that sudden feeling of being cut from this reality, as if you don't feel your physical sensories anymore, that's where you can find your answer.

[@faithrada]

pouya haghani I would suggest that Watts Knew .. first hand.. that we all share the One Same Consciousness.

[@twt-1475]

Thanks to the courage, hard work, and tenacity of the team at the University of Virginia, mainstream sciences begin to acknowledge what many in their inner souls know to be the truth. The truth will free many souls who are misled by "service-to-self" people and organizations whose vested interests in power and authority are to hide or to ignore this truth.

[@kreyvegas1]

This research is extremely important in the quest to understand our real role in existence. On the other hand, it has a great potential to end all violence among human beings.-

[@krystalpotter3304]

I had a dream about my daughter who accidentally committed suicide. I asked her where she was, expecting her to say heaven or something. She said she was “ on the Emerald Isle at the top of the continent. “ I’ve wondered since then if she had reincarnated in Ireland.

[@pntdblack]

"What a caterpillar calls death a wise man calls a butterfly"

[@jblvandegiessen3605]

Thanks for this video.

[@bryanj.l.7670]

I am a big fan of this research and this school! Thank you for being so brave and unbiased in your work. I am currently going to school at a California University, but I went to soccer camp at UVA and have always been a big fan, much to my father's chagrin (he's a huge Tech fan). Wow this is just absolutely fascinating and left me speechless. Makes me want to do post grad work there, even though I'm in a totally unrelated field. Just to know that this University is doing this kind of work makes me proud.

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

That life is eternal is an absolute reality and something that we have known for thousands of years. Finally, science is beginning to catch up to what great masters have known and taught for a very, very long time.

[@rf-bh3fh]

Pedro I wish you well. What you say is so true and know this. I hope you get this message. Might I humbly ask you to read The Gospel of Thomas. Father loves you.

[@SLAMBANGO]

Nope!

[@muddywitch9016]

When my best friends son was 3 he spoke about how he died on a car crash. It W's a red car and it went into a tree. When the ambulance came he went up in the air towards a bright light. Very interesting the way this boy spoke about it as such a young child.

[@jonathanbrown3771]

The book 'Life before Life' by Jim B. Tucker is a great read

[@Biggus_Diggus1]

We are ;energy that is as old as the infinite Universe. Energy never ceases to exist. We have always been and will always be. There are different planes of existence, whether you call them dimensions, planes, other Universes is irrelevant. We were birthed into this world, when we leave this world by the means of death we will be birthed into the next realm(plane of existence). I do not like to use the word death. The word death is often thought of as final and limiting. Anyways, I have rambled enough for now. I hope these explanations brings comfort to the distressed whom fear the uncertainty of the transitions into the next life.

[@diogenes5654]

Fascinating! One way and another I've been focusing on determining the existence of consciousness after physical death this year. My son, now 41, told me about his past life when he was 3. He said he was a man who was hurt by someone, he was in a gutter, taken by ambulance, given IV, and then he said, he was my little boy. He said all this as he watched cartoons while drinking chocolate milk. He never mentioned it again.

[@iamhudsdent2759]

That your consciousness continues after your body dies is pretty much a proven fact. Tens of thousands of testimonies, and a good number reveal that the temporarily "deceased" was able to describe specific events that took place in the operating room and in waiting rooms, when they should have had no brain function. It's not a debate anymore, except among those who have not studied the evidence, or who are ideologically committed to absolute materialism. More importantly, we need not fear leaving this world-beauty, peace and profound love await us.

[@Faylasuf57]

Can you show me some of your info you just spoke about ? I'm interested. I believe 100% theirs life after death. The fact that we even exist proves it like we have a purpose. You should search amid goswami PhD theoretical physics he talks about it in great detail

[@nicholasbeaufrand4752]

Iam, Your brain continues to work for a while after your heart has stopped beating. So although you're clinically dead, the brain hasn't lost all power yet. But you better bring that persons heart back quickly or they won't be able to describe anything...

[@CaptainLongSmock]

Iam Hudsdent nobody knows that’s the beauty of life,there is as much chance zero happens as there is an afterlife occurring.I think our egos think we are more important than we actually are.But one thing is for sure we will all find out

[@molley5175]

Hudsdent I like how you think . well said

[@wilbertone3]

Nicholas Beaufrand The fact that your brain has not lost all function still doesn't explain how they knew certain things such as specific operation equipment being used during the procedure, viewing different angles of themselves and the surgeons, and descriptions of medical doctors present that were not present before going under anaesthetic.

[@aryakeepsafe4142]

My friend died of a heamorrage . Her soul left her body . When she was revived she told us everything . She remembers floating up to the ceiling and looking at the patterns on it then she saw the medics working on her body below. This suggests to me that we have soul . That was obviously her soul that floated up . She didnt go through a tunnel of light because she wasnt dead long enough . But her soul or life force did leave her body .

[@TheRudydog1]

Compelling and comforting research at UVA and other locations concerning what happens when death occurs. My mother and father passed...I felt nothing . My inlaws died...Nothing. Realitives died..Again nothing. Good friends..Simply nothing. My dear wife died recently...Nothing at all. I have never experienced anything spiritual when any of these people passed including my dear wife. Why do some have these experiences and others not? I am envious of those who do. At this point I remain an Realist. It is what it is but I don't know what it is.

[@GD-lj7mm]

James Leininger was the first story I ever heard that made me think that this could be real. I get chills every time I hear his story!

[@FreemTutler]

We Westerners wear ties and speak 4-syllable words with perfect grammar to describe what a yogi in India or a monk in Tibet say with their warm, radiant presence.

[@alcosmic]

tailor your message to your audience, or be ignored

[@krystalpotter3304]

The reason I’m on the fence with all of this is because I am a temporal lobe epileptic and all of these things can happen during a seizure. Isn’t it possible the temporal lobe might glitch upon death and the experience drawn out by the microtubules of the brain which function for several minutes after brain death ?

[@SKULLDUSTPRESS]

I had a friend visit me in some form of dreaming (vibrant place) on the night he died, giving me a message to pass on. This was before I knew he had passed, and since then I have had many paranormal experiences.

[@JediShamanJedShlackman]

This is a very important topic that influences just about everything in our lives. Having done spiritual energy healing work and regression hypnotherapy for many years as well as working with a variety of intuitives and mediums, the concept that our consciousness is eternal and transcends the physical realm is something that became irrefutable for me. When I first became interested in these subjects many years ago I would find all the books I could on reincarnation, NDEs, OOBEs, and other topics relating to consciousness and metaphysics. Coming from an academic background it helped to find accomplished researchers writing about these subjects and bringing some scholarly perspectives to the topics. It is good to have academic researchers collecting evidence in the field of parapsychology to help those who are caught in a materialist science worldview to begin taking the subject of consciousness and spirituality more seriously.

[@BigRed4231]

The common argument against near death experiences is that the mind just imagines these experiences. This is not a solid argument at all. Our way of experiencing the world is always through our subjective experience - we can not "step out" of ourselves and experience the world as a "thing in it self". So, basically we cannot scientificaly say that waking life is more real than a dream. In both states our brain acts as a middle man that translates our experience. All we have to go on to determine the "reality" of some experience is how real it actually felt, cause we do not have any scientific (and will never have either) way of saying that a dream is less real than waking life, this is cause we do not have access to the thing in itself - our experience is always translated by the mind.

[@LPCLASSICAL]

Some facts about little James and his family that are not cited in this account above: 1. James parents would take him to a local aircraft museum from a very young age where there is a Corsair airplane on display. I imagine that like other museums there would be audio visuals - videos of planes being shot down, taking off from carriers etc. 2. After James started having these bad dreams his parents contacted the author of a book on past lives. This researcher helped and assisted the parents with Jame's accounts. 3. The parents made a lot of money out of a best selling book they wrote about their son. 4. James started drawing pictures and signing them James 3 around the time of his 3rd birthday. In addition - it seems odd that James would insist on citing the Corsair as the plane that was shot down (ie the plane he had seen at the air museum) when Huston was shot down in another model of plane. If a dead pilots spirit really was somehow reliving his experience through James he would surely cite the plane he was shot down in - rather than a plane he had previously flown. As for the other details - we only have the parents word for what James said and we dont know how much he was led on. At any rate the parents have done very well financially out of this.

[@Lisa-pb3qp]

It's refreshing and enlightening in which these professional academias have approached and studied such controversial topics as NDEs and reincarnation.

[@god9513]

+Lisa . Are you serious ... ?

[@faithrada]

Close Enigma... "We" are "God" .. dreaming the dream of "NOT God"... for the sake of this Play of Consciousness. "God" / Infinite Consciousness IS the ONLY ONE here... playing all these roles... much like any other dream the mind concocts for "US".

[@god9513]

+Enigmas Of The Universe "Are you serious ... ?" was obviously directed towards "+Lisa". However, reading the shit you just effervesced, it would be reasonable to ask the same of you.

[@Lisa-pb3qp]

God You know I am....serious that is. My question is why comment on a subject that you obviously have so much disdain for?

[@god9513]

+Lisa "why comment on a subject that you obviously have so much disdain for?" .... you answered your own question, Lisa ... obviously ...

[@sunnysim3583]

Why doesn't this have more subscribers/views...? I do wish more people would take an interest in this subject. Thank you for this video.

[@01Mary02]

People are too busy trying to keep up with the Kardashians or taking selfies to see how many "aren't you awesome" comments on Facebook, to be bothered listening to scientific studies on the biggest question in mankind's history.

[@davidlodge8123]

Mary Lol, too true. Having a strictly materialistic worldview allows most people to sustain that level of existence. To start questioning it threatens the very foundations of their life.

[@faithrada]

Mary Perhaps even more than that... Some are simply not ready, not 'spiritually' mature enough, to be able to hold a curiosity about higher realms and states of Consciousness. As the ancient saying goes.... When the student is ready The Master appears... conversely... if the student is not YET ready "The Master" remains hidden from one's view.

[@istoppedthecar]

+Floder Hlod. Yes, in much the same way that belief in the supernatural enables those who have never come to terms with the idea of their own non-existence to sustain their comfortable level of reality-denial. To lose the belief that the universe owes them an eternal purpose would threaten the very foundation of their sanity.

[@ThothBob]

the issue of life after death is a largely settled question, at least for people who inform their thinking with real science, think honestly and logically, and keep their emotional hopes and needs out of it. there's just no possible mechanism that can allow for a person's mind, personality, or memories to persist after bodily death - and no, hand-wavy 'maybe ifs' don't count; you cannot base an argument on ignorance (in terms of a 'lack of knowledge'), and we DO know, fairly categorically and for good reasons, that life after death is not possible, at least not if the world works as it seems to work. on top of that, there's no real logical reason or necessity for 'life after death'. sure, there are emotional reasons, but last i checked, the world doesn't operate according to our personal wishes, hopes, or desires. is it possible that our scientific knowledge about the world is wrong? it's possible, perhaps, but it's very, very unlikely. the computer or smartphone you're reading this on pretty much demonstrates that, and for us to be THAT wrong, we'd have to toss out all we know about the world - and how we know it - including what we know that makes this conversation even possible.

[@kbeetles]

To those people who are completely closed to the idea that we do not understand death and consciousness: why are you tormenting yourself watching something like this?

[@TheManChise]

Amazing video.. Think about this all the time..It's nice to know I don't end..

[@joannepiasecka8449]

When I was a young child, I was sleeping soundly in my bed!! I had a life like dream!!! I dreamed that I saw my mother open the kitchen door and continue to the bottom of the stairs, leading up to our bedroom!! I watched her walk up the stairs, with our two dogs right behind her!! I could see what she was wearing!! I could hear her!! Every detail!! As she entered my room!! I woke up, and sat on my knees!! She said time to get up!!! I said yep mum I no!!! I told her I watched you comeing!!!!!!

[@joannepiasecka8449]

I believe other family members had similar experiences in that room to!!! Only the children!!!!

[@alicemorton9145]

I have watched a man scream literally terrified hitting the air as he died. Before this he said he was going to die and that he was freaking out😨

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

Thanks for sharing!

[@sngscratcher]

Yes, the data cannot be ignored!

[@faithrada]

Open-minded Skeptic Might I dare suggest that some minds are programmed not to question such things... until they are ready to deal with the answers. It seems to me that the more curious one is... the more 'ready they are to have their Awareness expanded. We start easy... by allowing our Awareness / Consciousness to expand beyond our so called 'physical bodies'.. as with validated OBEs. Much later (typically), comes the *ultimate* expansion of Awareness..where the non-local / non-physical mind is Transcended..and our True and Constant SELF is Realized. This entire journey often starts with a simple and basic OBE... or some validated clairvoyant event, but it rarely stops there. That's just the 'Heads up' part. ; )

[@ThothBob]

does that include evidence on the other side of the argument? or can THAT stuff be safely ignored? "minds wide shut" - indeed.

[@ThothBob]

if this was aimed at me, my apologies; it wasn't immediately obvious from some of the wording, though, if you were in agreement w/me. but...it happens. :)

[@Admiralhall2000]

Open-minded Skeptic Coincidences can be ignored

[@squamish4244]

But it is anyway. Most people have no idea these kinds of findings exist, as the taboo is still so strong.

[@tinagodfrey4767]

I am pleased to see more and more online on this subject. I don't think a NDE is always necessary to experience a past life. The book Journey of Souls by Michael Newton's shows years of case studies using hypnosis. Re laxing the mind is enough to see into that realm. To add something on the comment about people having negative experiences when seeing the other realm remember you are dealing with death the scariest experience of all to some. Thank you for sharing I will keep looking back on your channel for more. Peace

[@OnTheREDPILL]

I discovered how to personally achieve the out-of-body state several months ago it has changed the way I think about everything. As a skeptical person myself and a real fan of science I also accept that there may be other forms of reality and science that we cannot yet understand. I have successfully done it again after two months of learning how but its not as easy as those videos show it to be. Just takes practice. I do wonder why hollywood's ideas stem so much on things like this yet there isn't this giant movement to teach the population about this.

[@effectsme]

very interesting subject

[@dreamsofturtles1828]

Id like to share an experience i had that i think illustrates how close minded people can be. An old farmer i met told me how he would find water for people needing wells drilled using a dowsing stick. He had just come back from finding water for a new shopping center. Im pretty skeptical and i guess he could see that. He said "You dont believe me". And i thought, well, i believe that YOU believe it. So he got annoyed and said he would show me. He took a stick that was like a wishbone shape and holding it walked over a patch of land that he said had an old well under the ground. The point of the stick bent downwards. This proved nothing. Then he said "Now u come over and hold the stick". So i did and he very lightly put his hand around my wrists and we walked forward over the same patch of ground. Well, the point of the stick began to bend down. "Hold on to it! Dont let it point down!" he said, laughing. But i couldnt hold it- using all my strength i couldnt stop it. The skin was literally coming off the palms of my hands as the point of the stick pulled straight down to the ground. I said this is really incredible ! - i even wanted to call a newspaper reporter . "Naw, they wont believe you, dont bother" the old farmer said. The next week my father came to visit and i convinced him to try it, even though he said it was complete nonsense. Well, the same thing happened. Hes pretty strong but he could not keep the stick from pointing down. I could hear the force of the wood twisting in his hands. At that point he dropped the stick and without a word walked away from us up the hill. Finally, he came back down and i saw his face ws white, he was really shaken up. He absolutely refused to speak about it, not then or ever after. His view of reality got shaken and he couldnt handle it. So then i went to a geology professor i knew and told HIM. "Thats not possible" he said. I said "Well, just come up to the farm and try it ". Then he went into a long explaination about water tables and how there are sheets of water under the ground & you cant tell one piece of water from another- and to think a piece of WOOD could know is ridiculous. Finally i said "Look, i dont know much about how water moves underground, i just know what i experienced walking over a buried well. You literally cant hold the the stick up- its that powerful. Just come up and see for yourself". But he dismissed it as nonsense. So much for open minded science. The old farmer was right, no one believed him except the local builders who called on him when they couldnt find a good drilling place- just as they had done for decades.

[@honesty1234]

Dismiss superstition.

[@edgarpoe6966]

People have been doing that for centuries. It's the old way of finding water. It definitely does work but not everyone can do it though.

[@world-of-susan.]

That is called dowsing. It is an ancient practice.

[@LadyizeLadyize]

Did you ever dig a well on this spot? When we moved to a different house when I was a teenager, it had enough property for a cow and some horses and a huge garden. My father, whom I had never heard him mention this trick of finding water, took a stick and did what you did. He and my brother then dug the well which supplied us with all the water we needed. I was in awe of my father from then on. None of the rest of the family tried using the wishbone-shaped stick to see if it worked for us. Thank you for bringing back a happy memory.

[@maribrunnsteiner9621]

Hmmm i learned that when i was in grade 3 as taught to us by our great teacher. And as i grew up we dug for a water source guided by a stick indeed we found a good water source and the well still existed til today. I mean it is easier to believe than not to ...

[@mhar5045]

My wife had an episode of complete respiratory failure while on the way to hospital in an ambulance. While on the way to the hospital following the ambulance she visited me and told me that she knew now that we are all Christ and that now she knows this. It had already been my belief and not hers. I just knew that this meant I had lost her but much to my surprise when I was able to see her she had survived. She has no memory of this incident but I am absolutely sure that she communicated this message to me and that she had a near death experience even though she didn’t remember it.

[@jeffaxman799]

What about the numerous documented cases of people hovering over their body and/or once revived recounting activities in the room for which they were essential not conscious to process?

[@ellell597]

I'd say over 1,000 dreams over my life time where I am kicking my legs and levitating/flying over my neighborhood and I'm screaming out to people down below "Look at me I can fly, it's so easy!" these dreams I forget when waking and then remember them later in the day.. Waking up for me on most days is like a crude feeling like waking up in a suit of mud

[@faraway4055]

We in the west are slowly becoming more spirituality aware and I'm pleased to see that scientists and academics are collating irrefutable evidence of eternal life which sooner or later cannot be ignored by main stream media. It's always made sense to me that we have chosen to come to earth for a physical experience and not the other way round. We can do our bit by posting this video in main stream KZbin media to help with the Wests ascension.

[@faithrada]

far away Agreed. Also good to see more and more coming to see that 'religion' does not OWN "God " / Infinite Consciousness .

[@glynemartin]

+far away _"We in the west are slowly becoming more spirituality aware and I'm pleased to see that scientists and academics are collating irrefutable evidence of eternal _*_life_*_ which sooner or later cannot be ignored by mainstream media."_ I would counter "eternal EXISTENCE" , since existence is more fundamental than life...

[@faithrada]

I look at it this way... Good Science Seeks Truth, while pure Spirituality IS Truth.. so they actually get along quite well. It is dogmatic religions which are problematic since they are far more interested in supporting their own self serving views rather than truly understanding "God" / Infinite Consciousness and knowing how this world really works. It is not unusual at all for people who have had NDEs to drop religion and become spiritual... now realizing that "God" is FAR greater than religion teaches.

[@robbiesmile3]

Well said.

[@j.jwhitty5861]

Although I don't believe in life after death, since personally I think we are just smart Chimps. Anyhow; I once was driving in a thick fog almost 'whiteout' conditions at 5mph with full beams on and following the Yellow line trying to keep the car on the road, when what I can only describe as a 'translucent silhouette' in the fog of an old lady crossed in front of the car. I would not have believed my own eyes except my passenger also saw it. So I do believe after someone dies in some instances they can leave something equivalent to a photo negative image behind.

[@jaferguson49]

Very good. Intelligent and insightful. I wholeheartedly believe that there is some type of consciousness that moves on, outside the physical bodies. I think we do it all the time during 'dream states'. A 'separation' of our 'consciousness' outside our own physical bodies.

[@Dawn-fx1ql]

When I was young, I had a song run around my head. If I was alone, I would sing it. I didn't know what it was but it always made me feel good. In my teens, I grew interested in the eastern countries and foods. Discovered I loved curries. Then in my 20s, I heard a song to Kali. I still don't know what the words mean but that was the song. Since then, I realized why I hate weddings (I died at one) and several other things that I seem to "know" already. I was brought up Episcopal. Do I believe in reincarnation? Yes. There is life. Only our perception limits us.

[@davidthompson7605]

Even if there was such a thing as reincarnation, what would the mechanism be to preserve memories and experiences between two disconnected brains? In other words, we might all be the same "person" but would have no idea because our minds are limited to the memories and experiences that exist in our own brains which are physically disconnected from all other brains. We would never know.

[@robertzwemmer9915]

Thanks for this, these are great developments. Especially Kim Penberthy's words .. about the necessity to research how this state of consciousness can be attained WITH INTENTIONALITY, refers directly to the teachings of awakened people like J. Krishnamurti, Osho, and at present Eckhart Tolle, Prem Rawat, Jaggi Vasudev etc. JUST FAR OUT !! :)

[@oOKitty86Oo]

Fantastic! Thank you so much. Subscribed.

[@falconelly]

Though i would add that fifty years of television has more parallels to this than meets the eye. When the musician David Bowie constructed his final work 'Black Star' and the stage and theater production 'Lazarus' this subject matter as within much of his former work alludes strongly to the themes proposed. I do not usually promote other peoples work but in this instance for those interested in the phenomena and a slightly different take on the associative/dissociate subjectivity really worth a look.

[@deborahakana3028]

I don’t need a panel to determine life after death😳. Call me crazy but I have had many varied “visits” of those who have passed along with some beautiful visual signs. I sense the veil is thinning between our world and the afterlife.

[@donaldjmccann]

I suffer from sleep apnea. I use a CPAP machine every night to make sure I keep breathing. Sometimes the pressure applied by the machine is not sufficient to prevent my airway from collapsing, and I have an apnea event. When I have been deprived of air for and unknown amount of time, my dreams become extraordinarily vivid. Eventually I wake with a vivid memory of my dream. This has happened to me dozens of times over the last 12 years. I believe that the afterlife remembrance corresponds to exactly the same phenomenon. I think this should be an area of study; I think the brain goes into panic mode and starts to hallucinate in the same way that someone who is having a NDE does. Very vivid but just a dream.

[@BashoStrikes]

Well, if there is life after death I hope y’all have a good memory, cause if you don’t remember this life when you get there, just like you don’t remember the one that was before this, the perceived result is still the same - nothing.

[@GonG108]

thumb up and shared :))) keep on the good work :)

[@injoylife100]

It is time for us to let go to the broader reality we are part of. I do past life (actually parallel life regressions with folks). Once you experience it, you can never deny the expanse of who we are, and you will have new eyes to live by. Awake!!!!!!

[@knowledgetv5085]

I am from nepal believe me I am always excited about this things,... hope in future science will able to find out the mystery beyond life.... I want to be part of this research 😍😍 but I Don't know the way here in nepal people are still 100 years backward hope in next life when I will reincarnate at USA 😉😉 and be the part of such valuable research.... good job all

[@KogaBrigaXTC]

Finally, an youtube video got rid of all of my doubts in an afterlife.

[@chesseburgerbuddha6303]

"We (sometimes) accept that we are small and insignificant, whereas within us is a Universe far greater than we can imagine." Saidina Ali. If you are blind while living, you will be blind when you in death, hence, live consciously as much as possible, your consciousness is what keeps you alive. I am not my body, nor am I this mind, these are my tools and instruments for my very existence on this plane, I have to learn to awaken to this realization and not take someone else's words for it. To live with full consciousness is to die with full consciousness otherwise we are merely sleep walking from one state of unconsciousness into another and wondering if...there is or there is not, life after death. In essence I feel the saying, 'Know thyself" or in getting to know who you truly are is the key to answering the question.

[@opencurtin]

How can blind people from birth who’ve had NDE say that they could see for the first time in Their lives when they had died and could describe things as if they had seen when the returned?

[@johnsonlarry7426]

I still remember my birth in 1950 and further back to my time in the Navy in WWII where I was killed by a huge bullet running on a white sandy beach in the Phillipines of all places ! I knew this when I was 2 or 3 years old and tried telling people but they laughed at me ! I have a birth mark from where I was shot in the side from the bullet that killed me ! I have always known that was my bullet scar,. Even when I was a toddler I knew and tried telling everyone that my name was Tony ! My name is not Tony in this life though ! I have fantastic dreams and I bet I could tell some great stories about past lives if I were hypnotized ! I remember painting pictures and eating the fruit I was supposed to be painting a still life from because I was hungry and it was 1933 in an art class ! The instructor went batty on me for doing that and he was a nutcase anyway I thought at the time !

[@ritabonita3602]

Cool as heck ArubaJamaica123@ gmail

[@WhirledPeace]

Johnson Larry wow..I wish I had that kind of recollection! Amazing

[@jkane5808]

When we brought our child home after being born , only 4 days later when he was sleeping on a nightly occurrence he would be smiling and actually laughing at times during his sleep . A child at this age has no concept of anything comical regardless if adults try to make them laugh , hearing and eyesight has still not developed, letter know the concept of laughter . I have 5 boys and this happened with 3 of them .

[@BettinaHackel]

I remember conversations my husband Alex and I had about these issues in Florida, sitting in our favorite chairs at a small table where we used to pile up books we read and thought about at the time. Alex and I found, we both possibly had "memories" about the last time we died, vivid scenes that since our early childhood stuck in our minds. My "movie" shows a small child who drowned in a lake. A boy wearing short pants with suspenders, softly swinging on a sandy ground. I watched this boy, from above and I knew it was me. At the same time I saw shiny, bubbling water above me, saw agitated people standing at the lake shore, and a man jumping in, probably to get me out. In my early childhood years I simply believed this was a memory from a family trip to a lake, where I dropped in at age 2 or 3, and my uncle got me out. Later I asked Mom about this accident and learned, this never happened. And I started to realize, I actually was a girl now, not a boy, and the folks at the lakeshore looked rather vintage. And I mused, this vision might be the reason why I so hated to jump and dive into water, as I was supposed to at school! - Alex told me his story that sounded like a Western movie drama. His conclusion was: "There is no such thing as death!" As much as Alex loved life, he didn't fear death. - Now, this amazing video reminds me to finally continue to read: Michael Gross, "Irreducible mind"!

[@dist321]

This is very interesting. Could you, please, send us the DOIs of the papers? I'm interested in reading them. Thank you!

[@dist321]

Great! Thank you!

[@Veronicastar77]

This is awesome!

[@machetedonttweet1343]

This started out as an interesting antadotacial review of NDE / reincarnation phenomena . After Dr. Pembirthy's intermission , I looked up UVA DOPS , and basically they appear to be real life Venkman , Stantz , Spengler's . Being fully aware of the phenomena , I expected to be updated on current research and hypothesis . As of yet this 2017 lecture hasn't bought up the conclusions of the 2013 study from the University of Michigan detailing electrical surges in dying brains , or how Ketamine can induce the exact experiences , nor did they touch on , as of yet (i'm 40 mins in} the data gathered by NASA researchers that show that subjects that pass out due to high G training have classic NDE's at the same rate that cardiac arrest patients report . This will do wonders to reinforce spiritual world views but little to educate even a casual researcher such as myself . Thanks anyway DOPS .

[@jamarkinard1090]

Must be,don't let them take control before it's to late.🙏

[@grazziamarch8029]

As for my part, I suppose I know who I was. And She shows a very similar personality as regards my own. Did the things I myself did, at the very same age. Things that cannot be understood as of the age.

[@RobbieDunn]

As child I had memories of a previous existence i would say to my mother "I don't like this place mammy I want to go back". My mother would be horrified she gave me all the love any mother could The baby before me had died I often wondered was I sent as a replacement I have had many spiritual experiences in my life and I am not religious at all I have also had any amazing life I do believe there is another dimension or dimensions I always felt I was only passing through and was here for a reason Robbie Dunn

[@danielday1306]

this is a true story...when i was going to college in 1980 (pardon my failure to use caps, i have degenerative disk disease and i am having a headache at the moment) one of my neighbors was a nurse at the local hospital. he told me that the week before a patient arrived in the er via ambulance after being in a terrible automobile accident. the patient was unconcious upon arrival and in very critical condition. while dr.s were working on the patient the patient suddenly died and after about 5 minutes of trying to revive him a heartbeat returned and the patient was moved to surgery, intensive care, etc.my friend went to visit him a few days later and the patient remarked that my friend was wearing a ring that he did have on the evening the patient was brought to the er. the patient had an obe and described many things that had ocurred in the er very accurately.

[@vijaykumargupta4586]

fascinating account of Life after death

[@mevans4715]

From a statistical standpoint, how do you limit the skew in data that you gather due to lack of random sample in those data?