| rdfs:comment | - A near-death experience is an experience reported by someone who has been clinically brain-dead or who has nearly died. Common reports in near-death experiences involve feeling out of one's body seeing events around themselves, and the seeing of bright lights and experiences of feeling like one is floating. Some have interpreted such experiences as evidence for an afterlife while skeptics and many scientists have dismissed the experiences as hallucinations. . However, the evidence for this claim is not sufficient because the brain cannot hallucinate while it is clinically dead. Most people (and many other scientists) generally accept this as evidence of an afterlife. However, many Christians suspect that NDEs may be the result of demonic influences.
- Moody first categorized approximately a dozen attendant phenomena of the NDE. These included one or more of any of the following: An out of body experience, or OBE, in which the experiencer perceived him or herself exiting the body and observing conversations, people, and scenes immediately in the area or moved to others to observe conversations they could not have been aware of even had they been conscious in body. An auditory effect such as chimes or a rushing wind prior to a removal from the first scene. A distantly perceived approaching extremely intense bright light.
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| abstract | - A near-death experience is an experience reported by someone who has been clinically brain-dead or who has nearly died. Common reports in near-death experiences involve feeling out of one's body seeing events around themselves, and the seeing of bright lights and experiences of feeling like one is floating. Some have interpreted such experiences as evidence for an afterlife while skeptics and many scientists have dismissed the experiences as hallucinations. . However, the evidence for this claim is not sufficient because the brain cannot hallucinate while it is clinically dead. Most people (and many other scientists) generally accept this as evidence of an afterlife. However, many Christians suspect that NDEs may be the result of demonic influences.
- Moody first categorized approximately a dozen attendant phenomena of the NDE. These included one or more of any of the following: An out of body experience, or OBE, in which the experiencer perceived him or herself exiting the body and observing conversations, people, and scenes immediately in the area or moved to others to observe conversations they could not have been aware of even had they been conscious in body. An auditory effect such as chimes or a rushing wind prior to a removal from the first scene. A tunnel experience, in which the experiencer perceived passing through a tunnel, of which descriptions vary somewhat widely. A distantly perceived approaching extremely intense bright light. A being or beings in the light, often identified as a deceased relative or a religious figure such as Jesus. A life review, in which part or all of a person's life from pre-birth to the recent decease is witnessed in extremely vivid yet rapid detail (sometimes described as seconds or a few minutes), entirely forgotten life details may appear, and the cascading effects of even trivial life decisions, positive and negative, may be seen spilling outward from person to person to person. A decision point, sometimes taking a symbolic form such as a line or river to be crossed, indicating a choice to remain or to return to the body. Often this is bypassed entirely when a person is simply told it is not their time to die and they must return, or they are persuaded to by descriptions of a yet-unfulfilled life mission, the memory of which is sometimes removed from them by the time of their return. A frequently unpleasant reassociation with the body, described by one author as like moving from blissful freedom to putting on a cold, heavy boot full of wet mud. Increased psi abilities for a period following the return such as precognition. Radical changes of character, typically toward the nonjudgmental and peaceful that the psychiatric faculty has described as practically evidentiary by themselves, and in some cases marked enough to even lead to divorce.
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