Light Eye
04-21-2006, 11:17 AM
Dear Friends,
http://iands.org/research/vanLommel/vanLommel.php
Be Well, Be Love.
David
About the Continuity of Our Consciousness Pim van Lommel,
Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Hospital Rijnstate, PO Box 9555, 6800 TA
Arnhem, The Netherlands.
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1. INTRODUCTION Some people who have survived a life-threatening crisis
report an extraordinary experience. Near-death experiences (NDE) occur with
increasing frequency because of improved survival rates resulting from modern
techniques of resuscitation. The content of NDE and the effects on patients seem
similar worldwide, across all cultures and times. The subjective nature and
absence of a frame of reference for this experience lead to individual,
cultural, and religious factors determining the vocabulary used to describe and
interpret the experience. NDE can be defined as the reported memory of the whole
of impressions during a special state of consciousness, including a number of
special elements such as out-of-body experience, pleasant feelings, seeing a
tunnel, a light, deceased relatives, or a life review. Many circumstances are
described during which NDE are reported, such as cardiac arrest (clinical
death), shock after loss of blood, traumatic brain injury or
intra-cerebral haemorrhage, near-drowning or asphyxia, but also in serious
diseases not immediately life-threatening. Similar experiences to near-death
ones can occur during the terminal phase of illness, and are called deathbed
visions. Furthermore, identical experiences, so-called ?fear-death? experiences,
are mainly reported after situations in which death seemed unavoidable like
serious traffic or mountaineering accidents. The NDE is transformational,
causing profound changes of life-insight and loss of the fear of death. An NDE
seems to be a relatively regularly occurring, and to many physicians an
inexplicable phenomenon and hence an ignored result of survival in a critical
medical situation.
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http://iands.org/research/vanLommel/vanLommel.php
Be Well, Be Love.
David
About the Continuity of Our Consciousness Pim van Lommel,
Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology, Hospital Rijnstate, PO Box 9555, 6800 TA
Arnhem, The Netherlands.
---------------------------------
1. INTRODUCTION Some people who have survived a life-threatening crisis
report an extraordinary experience. Near-death experiences (NDE) occur with
increasing frequency because of improved survival rates resulting from modern
techniques of resuscitation. The content of NDE and the effects on patients seem
similar worldwide, across all cultures and times. The subjective nature and
absence of a frame of reference for this experience lead to individual,
cultural, and religious factors determining the vocabulary used to describe and
interpret the experience. NDE can be defined as the reported memory of the whole
of impressions during a special state of consciousness, including a number of
special elements such as out-of-body experience, pleasant feelings, seeing a
tunnel, a light, deceased relatives, or a life review. Many circumstances are
described during which NDE are reported, such as cardiac arrest (clinical
death), shock after loss of blood, traumatic brain injury or
intra-cerebral haemorrhage, near-drowning or asphyxia, but also in serious
diseases not immediately life-threatening. Similar experiences to near-death
ones can occur during the terminal phase of illness, and are called deathbed
visions. Furthermore, identical experiences, so-called ?fear-death? experiences,
are mainly reported after situations in which death seemed unavoidable like
serious traffic or mountaineering accidents. The NDE is transformational,
causing profound changes of life-insight and loss of the fear of death. An NDE
seems to be a relatively regularly occurring, and to many physicians an
inexplicable phenomenon and hence an ignored result of survival in a critical
medical situation.
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