Similarities in Reports of Afterlife Experience

• The self continues to exist
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• Existence of other selves and communication with them

• Experience of a pervasive and intense love, well-being, happiness, lack of fear, and extremely vivid visual experience
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• Nonjudgmental review of one's life
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• They are told they "must go back" or "their time has not yet come" or they are "not ready"...then experiencing returning to bodily existence
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• Some choose to come back, or are told they must do so
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• Positive changes in the person after return to this life (e.g., more loving, less fear).

"There is undeniable scientific evidence today for the afterlife."―Sir William Ostler, M.D.

"Energy is neither created nor destroyed."―First Law of Thermodynamics

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Frequently Asked Questions 1

FAQ 2

FAQ 3

Existence of Hell?

What Students Say about the Afterlife

"Visions of a New Science of Consciousness"

 International Survivalist Society Articles

Bibliography of Non-Internet Books

Do Afterlife Reports Qualify As Fairly Scientific Evidence?

A big problem for afterlife researchers is to find so-called 'hard' scientific evidence.

Yes.

• The reports have been made by persons of all ages, and who are generally unknown to one another
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• Most reports are randomly accumulated, e.g., on websites, hospital records
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• Often an afterlife experience follows a random event such as an accident
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• The large number of reports is of statistical benefit
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• Children's reports have added value because they are naïve in a scientific sense
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• There are many reports made by hospital patients who had observed surgical operations on themselves while unconscious on the operating table, these reports being later verified by hospital staff, family members, et al.

"Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations."―Boris Sidis, Ph.D., M.D.

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    Children's Reports 1

"What is particularly fascinating about these experiences is their great similarity to the NDEs experienced by grown adults, but often without the associated sociological and religious conditioning that adults often possess. In children too young to have absorbed our adult views and ideas of death, we hear first hand accounts of out of body travel, telepathic communication, and encounters with dead friends and relatives."  Dr. Melvin Morse

    Children's Reports 2

    Report from An Afterlife Explorer

    Skeptic's Argument 1

     Skeptic's Argument 2

    Swedenborg Glossary by Leon James  "Swedenborg tried to bring spirituality into science. He contributes to the psychology of the mind."  *This course does not advocate Swedenborg's or any other philosophy.

    Exercise: Write a short reply to the skeptics.