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Evidence Of The Afterlife: The Science Of Near-Death Experiences (2010)

by Jeffrey Long(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0061452556 (ISBN13: 9780061452550)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

HarperOne

review 1: This book was about a scientific study that Dr. Jeffrey Long started in 1998 about near death experiences (NDEs) that had occurred to individuals to be "clinically dead" with no heartbeat and are not breathing also they could be so physically compromised they would die. The subject was incredibly interesting and actually gave me a different outlook on what will happen to me when I die. The most interesting part of the book where the individual NDE's are told from the actual person. These individual stories where few and far between. A major issue was how repetitive the facts written where. At one point I actually thought I had hit my Kindle on accident and it took it back to a previous place in the book. I found this such a difficult book to review. I enjoyed the subject a... morend what the author was trying to imply; I think it was just over simplified and over worded. For death begins with life's first breath, and life begins at touchof death. - John Oxenham
review 2: In 1998 Dr. Jeffrey Long came up with the idea of using a carefully structured online questionnaire to form the basis of a serious scientific study of Near Death Experiences. Dr. Long founded the Near Death Experience Research Foundation along with its website, NDERF.org. Over the succeeding twelve years, more than 1300 NDE'rs took hours of their time to fill out the questionnaire, and Dr. Long wound up with a gold mine of first-hand information on the Near Death Experience, all of it up on NDERF website.Now Dr. Long has turned his years of research into a book that reaches the staggering conclusion that NDE's are medically inexplicable. It is absolutely impossible for people who are unconscious or clinically dead to have visionary Near Death Experiences at a time when their totally inactive brains have no capability for processing any kind of information. I found it especially striking that those who experience near-death while under general anesthesia or during cardiac arrest experience a higher state of awareness and alertness than they ordinarily had in their everyday lives. I found this to be true in my own Near Death Experience in 1998. The memories I have of my NDE, which happened to me fourteen years ago, are still vivid and absolutely clear in my mind. Dr. Long says that the elements of the Near Death Experience generally are consistent and logical in the way they unfold. This is something I experienced in my NDE. There was an orderly unfolding of events that gave it the weight of actual experience. Something that I don't think the researchers have gotten is the three-dimensionality of the NDE. My experience was not like watching a movie playing up on a screen. Nor was it a fuzzy, ethereal, floaty state. The things, the places, and the people I saw in my life reviews (I had several) all had weight to them. The memories that came up all had a three-dimensional reality, and the colors were all incredibly brilliant. That amazing Light had substance and intelligence and awareness to it. And size! As I said to myself at the time, "Everything up here is so bloody big!"Dr. Long's nine lines of evidence were a revelation to me. I had read about all of these, but this was the first time I had ever seen them all put together like this. As Dr. Long says, "Any one of these nine lines of evidence individually is significant evidence for the reality of near-death experiences and the afterlife. " The combination of all nine lines form a convincing case for the existence of an afterlife.I was somewhat disappointed to find that Dr. Long says very little about the intensive learning experiences many NDE'rs have. The most famous example of this is Tom Sawyer, a manual laborer who worked with heavy equipment. After Tom's NDE, he developed a serious interest in physics, which led him to enroll in college level physics courses. This is only one of many reports from Experiencers who report that they have felt themselves to be literally immersed in information. I wonder how this relates to the idea that physicists have, that our universe is fundamentally made up of bits and bytes of information. Maybe it's not just our universe. Maybe the whole of creation, in all its many levels, is made up of infinite amounts of fascinating information. As one who has a background in education, this opens up whole new worlds of study. Are there ways in which we can begin to systematically tap into this information without having to nearly die to access it? This is an exciting look at Near Death because it opens up so many avenues for more research and exploration regarding this most important phenomenon -- Life after death. less

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