(2017-10-22, 11:33 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: The speculation about the "Aware II" study is that maybe Parnia will announce within six months that he has had a couple of "hits" in his OBE verification experiment with an LCD screen above the hospital bed. My personal view is that this is very unlikely. Apropos of this I thought one of the comments posted to the linked blog article is interesting. I have often thought along these lines, though I have not had an NDE:
(posted by "shachar"):
"I haven’t experienced NDE myself but served in the army with a great guy who died and came back (he had an allergy to iodine so he luckily died at the hospital during a medical procedure). He had a very long and detailed experience that he shared with close friends. I sent him a message recently, notified him about the AWARE study, thought that will be interesting to hear what he thought. He quite fast said that he will be “very surprised” if this research will provide real proofs. I of course asked him why and he explained that “the system” is based on a separation between the two realities (here and up there) so the system won’t let it leack out and will block the evidence because the principle of separation between the two world must be kept. He said it was hard to explain but they cannot let that happen. I told him that if so why would he remember everything, and he said he isn’t sure why he personally came back with the memory and the system might failed to delete his experience. According to his view the AWARE study results aren’t important and aren’t relevant to our lives here. We should simply live them and choose every moment to do the right thing and do no harm without expecting to earn a carrot or afraid to get punished if we do wrong."
Yes, I saw the speculation but I can't find it now. That NDE report is from Ben Williams' blog comments section (Aware of Aware). I also don't think he will have any hits yet, he won't have anywhere near the volume of cardiac arrests to catch one...unless he's been very lucky. And he doesn't seem to be lucky at all.
ADDDED : The link to the speculation was on Ben's blog posted by Eduardo. https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/10.../23246008/
"Parnia is in the midst of working on a follow-up study, called AWARE II, with a public announcement likely in the next six months."
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Here is another emergency room physician (which you've probably seen) who has seen more than 2000 patients die and is in complete agreement with Parnia.
Skip the first bit, it's a little tedious but at 5.55 he gets to the point.
http://www.tedxtuhh.de/from-life-to-deat...-and-back/
Thomas Fleischmann has been an emergency physician since 1982. Since 2005 he has worked as the director of emergency medicine units in Germany and Switzerland. As well as being a fellow of the British College of Emergency Medicine and the European Society for Emergency Medicine, Dr Fleischmann holds a Master of Health Business Administration. In addition to frequently holding speeches about emergency medicine topics, he is also the editor of two textbooks on emergency medicine and has written many academic papers on the topic.