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near-death.com). Maybe that "light" was his conscience? Meanwhile, another person who claims to have had a NDE recalls that in 1970 he was a 24-year-old "with serious psycho-emotional problems." Right there at the opening of his narrative any reader with an investigative tendency would wonder how believable someone is going to be who had psycho-emotional issues at 24.
But he goes on, saying the room "was flooded with light from overhead" and he was engaged in a "new dimension of psychic communion" with a hippie couple who had given him the LSD. He went into a "trance" and was "truly" born again, "without even the need of Jesus." If this sounds like a person was on an acid trip, he certainly was. Why would a Web site use the example of a drug-induced hallucination as an example of a supposedly legitimate NDE?
Meanwhile an article in the Skeptical Inquirer (Dieguez, 2009) refers to a study known as AWARE ("AWAreness during Resuscitation") that purports to use "the latest technologies" in order to study the brain and consciousness during cardiac arrest. The study is being conducted by Dr. Sam Parnia (University of Southampton), who states that around 15,000 patients will be included in this research; of those, 1,500 are expected to live through the cardiac arrest and "about 150 might report some kind of memories...
This is mentioned because it is something to watch over the next few years. But how valid will the results be? Most would agree that this is very subjective and will depend on the veracity of those cardiac patients who did or did not see something during their life crisis. It really all boils down to what people think they see, and by the time someone asks them to recount what they saw, they only have sketchy memories in many cases. And the mystery continues.
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Works Cited
Crislip, Mark. "Near Death Experiences and the Medical Literature." Skeptic 14.2
(2008): 14-16.
Dieguez, Sebastian. "NDE Experiment." Skeptical Inquirer 33.5 (2009): 44-49.
Evans, John M. "Near-Death Experiences." The Lancet Vol. 359 (2002): 2116.
Near Death (2007). "LSD Near-Death Experiences." Retrieved Dec. 6, 2009, from http://www.near-death.com/experiences/Isd01.html.
Skeptic's Dictionary. "Near-Death Experience (NDE)." Retrieved Dec. 7, 2009, from http://www.skepdic.comr/nde.html.
Spirit and Sky. "Death: NDE -- Near-Death-Experience." Retrieved Dec. 6, 2009, from http://www.spiritandsky.com/.
Wikipedia. "Near Death Experience." Retrieved Dec. 6, 2009, from http://en.wiki;edia.org/wiki/Near_death_experience.
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