Category: out-of-body experience

‘Free of Fear, Pain’: Engineer Recalls Leaving Her Body, Floating in Bliss, Learning Life’s Meaning on Returning

December 23, 2022
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The following near-death-experience account by former Epoch Times journalist Dana Betlevy tells of how she discovered her life’s meaning after dying, floating to a blissful ethereal dimension, then returning to her body upon being resuscitated. She struggled to tell her story within her materialist milieu growing up in Eastern Europe. In my childhood and adolescence, I had…

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Female Student Recalls Leaving Body After Doctors Fail to Save Her Life—But Returns, Wakes Up in Morgue

December 4, 2022
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A computer programming student was undergoing surgery in Costa Rica, when she died, experienced the afterlife, then returned to her body—in the morgue. Graciela H. shares her story on the Near Death Experience Research Foundation website. This story has not been independently verified. During Surgery I saw doctors working fast on me. … They were…

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3 Cases of Out-Of-Body Experiences Where People Saw Impossible Sights Later Verified by the Living

October 26, 2022
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Some people who have had close brushes with death report leaving their physical bodies, sometimes floating around and observing scenes in their vicinity — or even places further away. On occasion, what they describe afterward can be verified; researchers of near-death experiences (NDEs), who have attempted to verify or dismiss this, have tried to determine…

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A Physicist’s Explanation of Why the Soul May Exist

May 4, 2022
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Henry P. Stapp is a theoretical physicist at the University of California–Berkeley who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. He does not seek to prove that the soul exists, but he does say that the existence of the soul fits within the laws of physics. It is not true to say…

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How Common Are Near-Death Experiences? NDEs by the Numbers

May 3, 2022
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Near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by an estimated 200,000 Americans a year, and studies around the world suggest NDEs are a common human experience. They have been recorded in the folklore of many cultures, and reported by people from diverse backgrounds and in widely varying circumstances. Whatever the explanations behind them, NDEs have a significant…

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The Neuroscience of Near-Death Experiences

April 29, 2022
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—When people report having profound out-of-body experiences during close brushes with death, skeptics often attribute it to physiological and psychological factors. Robert Mays, who has studied near-death experiences (NDEs) for some 30 years, looked at some of these factors during a talk at the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) 2014 Conference in Newport…

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The Profound Near-Death Experience of a Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor

April 29, 2022
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Tienke Klein’s health remained poor after she was released from a Nazi concentration camp. After a long recovery from the trauma she’d endured, she finally reached the point of not needing to visit her doctor regularly. Then she was hit by a car while bicycling. The experience would release her from the prison camp she’d…

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