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Description Creators Details "There is currently more scientific evidence to the reality of near death experience NDE than there is for how to effectively treat certain forms of cancer," states radiation oncologist Dr.

Jeffrey Long is his groundbreaking new book Evidence of the Afterlife. In Dr. Long and his wife, Jody, began the Near Death Experience Research Foundation with the goal of creating a forum for near death "experiencers" to share their stories.

Grounded in first-hand evidence culled from over 1, verified NDE accounts, Evidence of the Afterlife presents the strongest argument yet for the underlying truth of those who have died and returned to share their tales.

Languages English. Why is availability limited? We actually, in addition to our near death experience website, we have a whole website devoted to after death communication. So we have literally hundreds of these types of experiences. And it is outstanding how frequent that is. We have many people who described these shared death experiences or if you will after death communication occurring at the time of the death, many of them are children.

Very often, you feel, like as described in near death experiences, a great sense of peace, that great sense of love. And then essentially always in after death communications is not frightening or startling. So even for children, these experiences are set up, so that they have those associated positive emotions so they almost are never frightening. So the parents have such a big role to play, too. LONG: Right.

That is such an excellent point. People that have these experiences almost invariably know that something real happened. All the websites, all the books that have come out, all the remarkable stories that have been told, have been a huge game changer. We know darn good well that they happened. And that has been enormously helpful in the public accepting these experiences.

There are big events happening here in France. Do you also see that in the US? How is that evolving around you? LONG: Yeah, very good question. I recently was invited to go up to Wisconsin here in the United States and talk at one of the largest hospitals in Milwaukee at their medical grounds, which is almost always reserved for items of medical information but they are talking about my book, evidence of the afterlife and near death experiences.

The auditorium which was huge was packed with people interested in the talk. There were people sitting in the aisles, I felt bad about that, but here it was like scores and scores and scores of doctors, as far as the eye can see. To my astonishment, the feedback and they actually sent me the feedback from my talk that they provided anonymously afterwards and it was overwhelmingly positive.

You bet. I suspect it will. Your mind can catch up later. LONG: When you talk to a near death experiencer, they may kind of be hesitant or somewhat tentative or they talk about the events that led up to them dying or their recovery. But oh, when they start talking about their experience, that near death experience, when it comes to that part of the story, they sit up straighter, their eyes get wider, they seem to have a lot more confidence. You see that very consistently with near death experiencers.

And we get it. LONG: No question about that. Good gosh. I love it. Oh my God, I love it. I know. Oh my goodness. The percentage of time that people encounter deceased relatives is extremely high.

The important thing is that any other experience of altered consciousness that we experience on earth, dreams, hallucinations, drug experiences, you name it; all of these other types of experiences of altered consciousness, a vastly higher percentage of people are going to be alive at the time of their experience.

So for people to so consistently encounter deceased relatives is very, very strong evidence that they are, indeed, in an unearthly realm and it certainly points to evidence of an afterlife.

Alex Tsakiris: Any thought on the striking similarity of content among very young people who have experienced a near-death experience, or the remarkable consistency of near-death experiences around the world?

A really interesting part of the study that I did was looking at children age 5 and under. These are children so young that to them, death is an abstraction. They certainly have far less cultural influence, both in terms of religion or anything else that could even potentially modify the near-death experience at that tender young age. And yet looking at these same 33 elements of near-death experience that I did in other parts of this study, I found absolutely no statistical difference in their percentage of occurrence in very young children as compared to older children and adults.

So no question about that. That almost single-handedly shoots down the skeptical argument that near-death experiences are due to pre-existing beliefs or cultural influences. In fact, that finding is actually corroborated with another major scholarly researcher who actually reviewed over 30 years of near-death experience research and came up with the same conclusion.

Children, including very young children, appear to have identical near-death experiences as adults. That seems to be a fact. Near-death experiencers are transformed in many ways by their experience, often for life.

I think Dr. Jeffrey Long: There have actually been two good prospective studies in which there were cardiac arrest survivors. Most, of course, did not have a near-death experience but a number did.

And these researchers followed the two groups longitudinally over a period of many, many years. In both studies, they found that there may be some life changes in people that had a cardiac arrest. In other words, survived a life-threatening event. But there were far more life changes typical of near-death experiencers described in other research among those that actually had a near-death experience. Woerlee agrees that the near-death experience itself can have such profound changes.

Jeffrey Long: People in general, all other hallucinatory events, dreams, all other temporary, transient, even pathological alterations of consciousness are essentially never going to result in that high a percentage of people experiencing them going on and have those types of profound life changes that we see in near-death experiencers.

And moreover, what you see in the life changes of near-death experiencers is markedly consistent. They no longer fear death. They value loving relationships more. The list goes on and on. I consistently observed, not only in the NDERF study but from scores of prior scholarly studies of this phenomenon over 30 years. We were chatting a little bit about it before the interview began.

I was there. And at some point, I just became convinced by the evidence. For me, that transformation came about through the cumulative effect of just looking at the data. I just kept looking at the data. It was really the data that convinced you. Therefore my understanding of near-death experience, I had exactly the same standards. So I really had to see evidence and had to see overwhelmingly strong evidence before I was going to be convinced.

Jeffrey Long: That was brought out with your interview with Dr. Woerlee where you would consistently bring up evidence that Dr. Woerlee simply would not address. The reason there are so many so-called explanations is that no one or several of these alternative explanations makes sense, even to the skeptics. You actually have a great case report on that right on Skeptiko. Note when we interviewed Kevin Nelson, who had his theory for near-death experience, that being REM intrusion, notice that not once did he mention how chest compressions might cause consciousness that leads to near-death experience resulting.

He just talked about REM intrusion. But notice that Dr. Woerlee never once mentioned anything about REM intrusion. He simply had his pet theory about chest compressions. So this is kind of an interesting thing. Alex Tsakiris: That is a very interesting point and you could even go one step further.

When we interviewed Dr. You talked there for a minute about skeptics. What is particularly fascinating to me about the NDE experience and the NDE research is that it generates an equally unexplainable ability to look past the data from people we normally associate with as being believers. Only to the part that supports what they already believe. Everybody accessing his website automatically started my interview with him playing. Sometimes you have to overlook the actual interview and realize that that obviously made a very great impression.

Almost uniformly, people who read the book and understand the evidence are getting that this is an important contribution to understanding the afterlife question. In fact, I was recently talking with Dr. Both of us are seeing just over the last few years, a real shift, a real openness, where people of all religious backgrounds to be a lot more open to the evidence of near-death experience than ever before.

Now atheists are still going to have a huge problem with it, but virtually everybody else seems to be very, very open. I certainly have. Not too long ago I interviewed Dr. Gary Habermass, who is a really, really nice guy, delightful guy, author of more than 30 books and has appeared on numerous movies and TV shows.