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What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About the Brain

By Christof Koch — 2020

A close brush can leave a lasting mental legacy—and may tell us about how the mind functions under extreme conditions.

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`Killed' by Lightning, Saved by `Light'

Dannion Brinkley had just told his friend he had to get off the phone - his mother had always warned him about using a telephone during an electrical storm. The next thing he knew, a lightning bolt surged into his body through the phone, fused his shoes to the floor and threw him into the air.

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Karen Boren
1994
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‘Afterlife’ feels ‘even more real than real,’ researcher says

You’re about to go to “heaven” and live to tell about it. And your story will become the subject of scientific research.

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Ben Brumfield
2013
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Beyond Death: The Science of the Afterlife

This question is more than a mind-bender. For thousands of years, certain people have claimed to have actually visited the place that, Saint Paul promised, “no eye has seen … and no human mind has conceived,” and their stories very often follow the same narrative arc.

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Lisa Miller
2014
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What Do Near-Death Experiences Mean, and Why Do They Fascinate Us?

When Gregg Nome was 24 years old, he slipped into the churn beneath a waterfall and began to drown, his body pummeled against the sandy riverbed. What he saw there surprised him.

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Alex Moshakis
2021
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Near-Death Experiences and DMT

A neurological explanation of NDEs remains elusive.

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Steve Taylor
2018
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Does DMT Model the Near-Death Experience?

Despite parallels, there are profound differences between DMT and NDEs.

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Scott A. McGreal
2018
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Potent Psychedelic Drug DMT Makes the Brain Think It Is Dying, Study Finds

Research shows hallucinogen found in traditional medicine ayahuasca produces similar feelings to those felt by people during near-death experiences.

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Josh Gabbatiss
2018
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You Don’t Become Less by Dying: The Evidence

I’ve given radio shows about my afterlife research from Sydney to Toronto, and from London to LA. Here are some of the more interesting questions that interviewers ask me.

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Stafford Betty
2017
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Stories of God’s Love Common Among Those Who Almost Die, Says Doctor Who Studies Them

Among the thousands of people who chose to share their near-death experiences with the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, the report is often the same: They come back with a profound understanding of God’s love.

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Jeffrey Long
2016
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Near Death Experiences Are Actually True Life Experiences

If the near death experiences being shared by many are really to believed, they are actually true life experiences, because what they are describing is our true life in eternity.

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Bruce Davis
2014
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