NDE Text Resources Thread

[Laird]

Gregory Shushan now has an account on Medium. His latest post was from November, which covers a few specific examples of NDE reports:

https://gregory-shushan.medium.com

Good find. I've added it to our wiki page Blogs about psi and the paranormal.

Not sure if this has been brought up, but in 2018 IANDS published Foundations of Near-Death Research: A Conceptual and Phenomenological Map. It includes some essays on NDEs and the history of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. 

Hadn't seen it posted anywhere yet. PSI Encyclopedia published a really knock out of the park article on paranormal features of NDEs, using a bunch of stuff from The Self Does Not Die.

www.tinyurl.com/yhpuq6zz

Pretty crazy when you can see them all on a page together. Can also understand why Rivas doesn't think so highly of super psi explanations.

Pretty crazy when you can see them all on a page together. Can also understand why Rivas doesn't think so highly of super psi explanations.

Some of the cases do seem like some sort of psi to me. At any rate during an NDE a person does have the ability to acquire knowledge, such as what someone else is thinking, or what is taking place at a distance. The first of those, perceiving someone else's thought would fit the term psi I think. The question regarding things happening at a distance is perhaps a question of whether we consider someone left their body and travelled to the other location in order to observe what was taking place. In my opinion, having evaluated the evidence, I think the person - or their soul (or choose any word you prefer) really does make that journey. There are factors such as the viewpoint, not just gathering information, but viewing it from a specific position, that's one. Another is that sometimes there is some sort of perception of 'something' by someone else, a witness. The latter is less common, since it is dependent not just on the capabilities of the NDE experiencer, but of the other living person involved, who may, even if temporarily, have some sort of ability to see beyond the physical.

But if the term super-psi is used in order to argue against survival, then no, I don't agree with that. It just seems too convoluted, like the contortions of someone trying to avoid having to admit they were wrong about something. If we ever watch that scenario unfold, from an outsiders perspective it can often take on a certain comedy value.

This isn't an NDE, maybe I'll move it to the right place later

William P Experience 5/5/2021
https://www.oberf.org/william_p_prayer.pdf

 One second, two seconds, three seconds passed, but there was no impact! No sound of ripping, shrieking metal! No agony of burning flesh! What? Was I dead? No, I was not dead, but I suddenly realized that I had no fear. I was at peace. This is really difficult to explain. I opened my eyes to see that I was still sitting in the pilots seat of the small aircraft, which was now on the ground, and hurtling down the runway at over 100 mph!! But-who-what-how? My mind was electrified with a thousand thoughts, one of which, “I never felt the aircraft touchdown upon the runway!!”
One of the most dramatic demonstrations of the power of prayer

Maybe one for @Stan Woolley and @Brian

Maybe one for @Stan Woolley and @Brian

I just don’t know, really nothing more I can say.

This isn't an NDE, maybe I'll move it to the right place later

William P Experience 5/5/2021
https://www.oberf.org/william_p_prayer.pdf

Maybe one for @Stan Woolley and @Brian

I like it when people mention me.     I don't know the full context of this event but I often find myself still hanging on to the vestiges of Christian fundamentalism and thinking that something can't have been God because the person made no claims to be Christian.  Then I have to force myself to remember that God cares about everybody.  Anyway, that's an aside - I don't know yet whether this person identifies as Christian or otherwise but I will have a good read of this.  It sounds really interesting.

I just don’t know, really nothing more I can say.

I was trying to construct a mental map of the described route of the aircraft, and its last known position/orientation before the next known location and orientation. I didn't do a very good job. Incidentally, I tried to find the airfield in question. The best I could find was a reference which stated "Boardman Air Park was evidently closed at some point between 1970-72" which just fits the timescale (1971). The area is now apparently houses. Just south of that area is some woodland, labelled (I'm not making this up!) Hitchcock Woods. To the north is hwy 224, running east-west. Lake Erie is to the north.

I like it when people mention me.     I don't know the full context of this event but I often find myself still hanging on to the vestiges of Christian fundamentalism and thinking that something can't have been God because the person made no claims to be Christian.  Then I have to force myself to remember that God cares about everybody.  Anyway, that's an aside - I don't know yet whether this person identifies as Christian or otherwise but I will have a good read of this.  It sounds really interesting.

I definitely found it interesting. As you will notice, the writer does quote a verse from John which suggests at least a Christian context.

This isn't an NDE, maybe I'll move it to the right place later

William P Experience 5/5/2021
https://www.oberf.org/william_p_prayer.pdf

Maybe one for @Stan Woolley and @Brian

That was an amazing read!  One minute he's upside down and out of control with his eyes closed and the next, he is the right way up on the runway without any knowledge of what happened in between!  No wonder all he felt like doing was praising God.