In 1991, Pam Reynolds had a serious hospital operation.She had an out of body experience followed, while clinically dead, by a near death experience.Pam has said that she felt herself leave her body and hover above it.Then, she remembers floating out of the operating room and traveling down a tunnel. She saw deceased relatives and friends.She experienced 'a brilliant, wonderfully warm and loving light'.She felt that 'her soul was part of God and that everything in existence was created from the light'. Pam's deceased uncle then led her back to her body
On 21 April 2012, at Salon, there is an article by MARIO BEAUREGARD on Near Death and out-of-body experiences, adapted from the new book "Brain Wars", from Harper One.
Near death, explained - Neuroscience - Salon.com
Mario Beauregard is associate research professor at the Departments of Psychology and Radiology and the Neuroscience Research Center at the University of Montreal.
According to the article in Salon:
1. Surveys conducted in the United States and Germany suggest that approximately 4.2 percent of the population have reported a Near Death Experience.
2. During these experiences, 'people retain consciousness, perception, lucid thinking, memory, emotions, and their sense of personal identity'.
'Thinking is vivid; hearing is sharp; and vision can extend to 360 degrees'.
Without physical bodies, people are able to move through walls and doors and project themselves wherever they want.
They frequently report the ability to read people's thoughts.
3. Research in the United States, European and Australia has shown that most people are deeply and positively transformed by the experience.
One woman says, "I was completely altered after the accident. I was another person, according to those who lived near me. I was happy, laughing, appreciated little things, joked, smiled a lot, became friends with everyone … so completely different than I was before!"
4. During the last few decades, some self-reports of Near Death Experiences have been independently corroborated by witnesses.
Maria's case was documented by her critical care social worker, Kimberly Clark.
Maria told Clark that during her near death experience she found herself outside the hospital and spotted a tennis shoe on the ledge of the north side of the third floor of the building.
Clark went to the location described by Maria - and found the tennis shoe.
5. Studies conducted in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States have revealed that approximately 15 percent of cardiac arrest survivors do report some recollection from the time when they were clinically dead.
These studies indicate that consciousness, perceptions, thoughts, and feelings can be experienced during a period when the brain shows no measurable activity.
6. In 1994, researchers Kenneth Ring and Sharon Cooper researched cases of Near Death Experience and Out Of Body Experience in the blind.
The blind were able to see, while out of their bodies.
7. British psychologist Susan Blackmore has put forward the 'dying brain' hypothesis: that a lack of oxygen (or anoxia) during the dying process might induce odd experiences.
But, as pointed out by researcher Sam Parnia, some individuals have reported out of body experiences when they had not been ill and so would have had normal levels of oxygen in their brains.
Medical observations indicate that patients with low oxygen levels do not report seeing a light, a tunnel, or any other such features.
8. "After physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality that normally is not accessible to our senses and awareness."
Mario Beauregard is associate research professor at the Departments of Psychology and Radiology and the Neuroscience Research Center at the University of Montreal. He is the coauthor of "The Spiritual Brain" and more than one hundred publications in neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry.MORE MARIO BEAUREGARD.
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