NDE Text Resources Thread

Reply to Greyson et al's criticism of Borjigin's rat study:

Experimental evidence lays a foundation for a rational understanding of near-death experiences

https://thinkingdeeper.files.wordpress.c...eyson2.pdf

Nice to see you again Max but not as nice to see your continued enthusiasm for the data from Borjigin's rats I read the article you posted (thinking deeper) and saw that Borjigin is sticking to her guns even after certain logical flaws in her reasoning have been pointed out. However this fact is more important and overrides everything else. 

Rats posses a brain stem (apparently) not too dissimilar to ours. In cardiac arrest the brainstem stops functioning within 10-20 seconds in humans so presumably this applies to rats. Without a brain stem functioning there cannot be any experience, consciousness or reflex. So, the point is, whatever that "surge" represents (probably calcium release) it cannot have anything to do with a conscious experience or a reflex relevant to NDE.  One doesn't need to have a PHD to see this, it's just common sense.

I just posted Borjigin's response to Moody's letter, because Moody's letter had been posted a little earlier in this resource thread. If you want to start a new discussion thread on whether there is continued activity in the brain beyond 20 seconds feel free, I can dredge up all my old references to papers to show that there is activity in the brain - for several minutes - in energy starved brain's.

You can't show that, Max. It simply is not based on the facts. Are you referring to this anomaly ? It's been withdrawn.

http://blog.journals.cambridge.org/2017/...ac-arrest/

Here are a few relevant articles from the Netherlands: http://txtxs.nl/artikel.asp?artid=758

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Recently published article by Belgian researchers:
Temporality of Features in Near-Death Experience Narratives

The SPR has a review by Nemo C. Mörck of Leslie Kean's book, "Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife":
https://www.spr.ac.uk/book-review/surviv...eslie-kean

The BBC has been featuring this story prominently.

A local boy is being called a miracle after suffering severe brain trauma from a dune buggy accident. His family says he "came back to life" after they signed the paperwork to donate his organs.
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A day before doctors were set to pull the plug, Trenton started showing small signs of cognition. He believes he was in heaven while he was gone.

"I was in an open field walking straight,” said Trenton. "There's no other explanation but God. There's no other way. Even doctors said it."

http://www.fox10tv.com/story/38118879/mi...his-organs

Interview With Kenneth Ring by Tricia Barker.

https://triciabarkernde.com/2018/07/26/i...neth-ring/

Brief snippet:

(TB) What mystifies you the most about NDEs?

(KR) What still astounds me is the evidence from NDE research that people not only have life reviews but sometimes life previews.  That is, in some cases, and I describe of number of such instances in my book, Heading Toward Omega, NDErs get glimpses of events that are to occur in their lives after their NDE, such as seeing the person they are going to marry – and these events then do indeed take place.  It’s as if there is already a kind of trajectory of one’s life, and for a moment outside of time “during” an NDE, one can get flashes of what’s to come.

Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here are the details of "Crossing Over and Coming Home", a book by Liz Dale published last year. It's a collection of accounts of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender NDEs. If I understand correctly, she is now conducting a survey with a view to writing another book:
https://www.near-death.com/experiences/g...-ndes.html

Judging by the Amazon blurb for the first book, sexual preference isn't much of an issue in NDEs. In other words, no indication of gays and lesbians being dragged off to spend eternity running across burning sands while fire rains down on them from the sky.