About The Near Death Experience (NDE)

 

For many persons the mere mention of death, is in bad taste, arousing as it does the uncertainty that most of us experience when we look death in the eye. Thanks to the advances of medical science, there are a growing number of persons for whom death means something entirely different. These are those who have experienced death, and returned with memories of what it was like to die. For the vast majority of these people their experience of death has been an overwhelmingly positive, transformative experience that has irrevocably changed their lives.

The NDE phenomenon was first identified in the mid 1970s by Raymond Moody MD, who first collected the stories of those who had been resuscitated from death's door. In the years that have followed, literally thousands of persons who have experienced an NDE have been interviewed world wide. The experience has been found to be stable across cultures, with a person's spiritual belief impacting upon the interpretation of the experience, but not its actual content, or form. Research indicates that between 30 -50 % of all persons who are physically close to death, will report an NDE, if approached in an open minded, and accepting manner.

Certainly, irrespective of one's opinion on the cause, or basis for the NDE, that they exist is as undeniable as the transformative effect that they have had on countless thousands of lives.