My exalted  friend Brother Crow of Amsterdam once observed that if you wanna say something really important on LJ, post in on Sunday Night. I guess everybody does their LJ stuff on their boss's time during the week.  Tsk, tsk.  As it happens, my inspiration often hits me on boring weekends, and I did this really, really neat four part piece on Near ( Read more... )

Continued from Part 3

Article from Skeptical Investigations
http://www.skepticalinvestigations.org/whoswho/vanLommel.htm

The Background
In his "Skeptic" column in Scientific American in March, 2003, Michael Shermer cited a research study published in The Lancet, a leading medical journal, by Pim van Lommel and colleagues. He asserted this study " ( Read more... )

NDEs OOBEs ARE NOT IMAX FOR THE DEAD - PART TWO

continued from Part 1

That said, we turn to some rather recent Work on flatliners who came back with a story to tell.

Here is an important paper by the lead researcher of the largest hospital-based NDE study about the implications of near-death experiences on theories of continuity of ( Read more... )

NDEs OOBEs ARE NOT IMAX FOR THE DEAD - PART ONE

The recent flurry started with this - spread hither and yon in the paranormal and even occultist media.  I was first notified on this piece if work by my good friend and fellow author Brad Steiger.

Experiments get close to 'out-of-body' experience

European scientists have come close to ( Read more... )