I read with great interest over a year ago an article by Anne Marie Tobin for the Canadian Press regarding “The Human Consciousness Project “ and its attempt to bring organizational long term planning to the study of near death experiences or commonly known as NDE’s.
Great I thought, we no longer have to rely on our Tarot cards, palmistry, mediums and folks for past life regression. This project boasts to once and for all come to a scientifically documented and supported study of what life after death holds for all of us. It has been launched and reported by Dr.Sam Parnia as “The world’s largest study investigating what happens when we die?”
I clipped this column and stuck it on my office bulletin board with the hope that if it remained in close proximity I would remember to periodically follow it’s progression during its estimated three to five year life span and be there to enjoy the news in its ultimate outcome.
With this study, patients in specific hospitals who report a near death experience will have had an opportunity to view during this NDE a simple drawing of images on paper situated on high shelves that would only be visible from the ceiling in the hospital rooms where they were revived in?
If a high percentage of them come back and report seeing the pictures, then it means it must have been real and they left their bodies and were above ceiling height. . If they do not then it means they were just imagining leaving their bodies.
The program hopes to attain outcomes with scientifically supported data and findings in a controlled setting for the ultimate verification or dispensation of the phenomenon of NDE’S or near death Experiences.
According to a Gallup Poll in the U.S. alone over 8 million people have reported and claimed to have had a near-death and often life-changing experience.
The Near Death Experience Research Foundation
According to this organization, after someone experiences an NDE they often have common and closely related elements within their experience that bring them to a common understanding. This is often of the shared view that our current physical life is just a short chapter in the book of our souls’ journey with many chapters of lives of purpose, experience and understanding from the past and into the future.
Science
Skeptics, of course, dismiss these accounts. They believe that the experience associated with near death is simply a biological reaction. They argue that the physiological strain upon our bodies during death provokes the brain to shut down to a very basic level of consciousness, resembling a dream-like state, but at a higher degree of intensity so to better cope with the physical distress.
Meanwhile, those who have experienced near death experiences whole-heartedly believe in the authenticity of their experience. After all, how is it that they are able to describe in full detail what was happening to them unless they were truly out of their body at the time?
Here is the link to “The Human Consciousness Project” http://www.horizonresearch.org/main_joinus.php take a look, mark it as a favourite and we will all have the scoop before others on this fascinating study.
Place your comments on your view of “Life after Death” what do you think is awaiting us?
Blessings to All, Celeste