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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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Altered States

The power of the experience often is life-altering. Fear of death vanishes. Love of life blossoms. Spirituality strengthens.

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Lee Graves
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The Near-Death Experience: Diagnosis and Treatment of a Common Medical Syndrome

Imagine a medical syndrome affecting as many as 20% of people who are resuscitated after almost dying in a medical or surgical setting. Realize that this means that as many as 8 million to 20 million Americans have experienced the syndrome.

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John C. Hagan
2018
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What We Can Learn from Jung’s Near-Death Experience

After suffering a major heart attack in Switzerland in 1944, Carl Jung–the pioneering psychologist and philosopher who thought and wrote so much about death–had a near-death experience himself.

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David Langness
2015
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The Meaning of Death

To find out what is death there must be no distance between death and you who are living with your troubles and all the rest of it; you must understand the significance of death and live with it while you are fairly alert, not completely dead, not quite dead yet.

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Jiddhu Krishnamurti
1956
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The Ties That Bind: A Shared Near-Death Experience

Most of us are struggling to survive on earth and don’t have time to think about life after death. As it happens, there is much information about this subject, and some progress in the field is notable.

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Michael Grosso
2020
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Are ‘Near-Death Experiences’ Real?

They cannot prove the existence of heaven or hell, but they can give us hope.

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John Martin Fischer
2020
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What Can Encounters with Death Teach Us About Life?

Whatever their cause, near death and shared death experiences change us.

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Seth J. Gillihan
2019
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Anita Moorjani Shares Her Near Death Experience: Rediscovering Life at Heaven’s Door.

The main purpose of sharing my near death experience and personal story is so that others do not have to go through what I went through.

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Anita Moorjani
2014
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Only a Flashlight: How Do You See Reality?

Although I try to share my near-death experience, there are no words that can come close to describing its depth and the amount of knowledge that came flooding through.

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Anita Moorjani
2013
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What If Heaven Is Here and Now?: Which of Our Cultural Myths Are Holding Us Back

Having already faced death, I now know that spending a lifetime of always playing it safe —for example, by choosing the safest career, by pleasing people, worrying about what everyone else thinks of me, meeting everyone else’s expectations except my own, being what everyone else wanted me to be,...

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Anita Moorjani
2016
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Cognitive Psychology