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Doctor Survives 5 Near-Death Experiences, Says World Is Coming to a ‘Spiritual Awakening’

On March 27, 1979, Yvonne Kason, a young medical doctor at the time finishing her residency, was on a medical air evacuation when the plane’s engines failed and sent Kason, a nurse, the patient, and the pilot down in a crash. Kason, in her split-second realization that she was going to die, thought “Oh, God! Help!”…


How Near-Death Experiences Led Pastor to Start Church for Skeptics

Hundreds of scholarly articles have been written on the subject of near-death experiences (NDEs), including in major peer-reviewed publications like The Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet, describing what God has tried to reveal to mankind about heaven through Jewish prophets and Jesus, says Pastor John Burke. Burke can rattle off a…


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

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…


Atheist Doctor Becomes a Believer After Near-Death Experiencer Encounter Leaves Him Wonderstruck

The following experience was shared by Joseph G., a police officer in Miami, Florida., on the Near Death Experience Research Foundation website: I went to the emergency room of the hospital because of a bad reaction to a tetanus shot. While in the emergency room, I was given two shots of penicillin. After the second…


Woman Nearly Dies From Cancer, Sees Scenes Outside Her Body, Returns—And is Miraculously Cured

On Feb. 2, 2006, Anita Moorjani lay in the intensive care unit of a hospital in her home city of Hong Kong. She was in a coma. Her eyes were swollen shut, and her breathing was labored. With open lesions dotting her skin, massively enlarged lymph nodes, and organs failing, her frail body had been…


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

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…


Surgeons Find Evidence of a Soul After Patient Describes Operating Room After Declared Dead for 20 Minutes

Dutch near-death-experience (NDE) researchers have compiled more than 70 cases of people who’ve purportedly left their bodies and observed scenes they could not have perceived with their physical senses. The details of what they saw—for example, actions performed by people in the hospital—could be verified, providing perhaps some of the strongest evidence for the mind’s…


Young Criminal Attempts Suicide, Leaves His Body, Enters ‘Hell’—And Is Shown the Errors of His Ways

When he was 19 years old, Jeffrey C. attempted suicide after finding out his girlfriend was cheating on him with his best friend. After he swallowed a lot of pills, his mother realized what had happened and called an ambulance. Jeffrey hadn’t been a model citizen, but his experience of nearly dying was pivotal in…


Nurse Leaves Body During Anaphylactic Attack, Meets God, Learns Purpose of Life — Returns to Share the Truth

What’s considered “good” and “bad” on Earth, it might surprise us to hear, is diametrically the opposite of how things work in the afterlife. Earthly comforts are not coveted in eternity. But hardships are gladly taken as joy. So says Penny Wittbrodt, 52, a retired nurse from Kentucky, who attests to having two distinct near-death…


Neuroscientists Aim to Explain Near-Death Experiences Without the Soul—But Fall Flat Every Time, And Here’s Why

Near-death experiences (NDEs) have been reported throughout the ages by those who’ve brushed close to the precipice of life—or thought they did—and returned to tell the tale. Though these experiences are not all identical, they have many distinctive hallmarks: seeing a tunnel of light; seeing loved ones who have passed away; feeling bliss or euphoria;…