The Near Death Experience

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Dr. Warren Bell, a respected Canadian Physician and well-known spokesperson, recently spoke at the University of Victoria about:

Is there scientific proof of Near Death Experience or Out of Body Experiences?

The second category of evidence is related to near-death (NDE) or out of body experiences (OOBE), he says.

“Research on NDEs in particular has undergone quite an explosion with what are called prospective studies being carried out in Holland and Britain,” he says. “In prospective studies you decide what you’re going to look for before you carry out the study and you stick to the rules.”

Bell says these studies are generally considered to produce stronger evidence than retrospective ones that derive results from looking back at evidence that has already been collected.

“Within the scientific community skeptics have advanced the notion that all these phenomena are induced by metabolic or biochemical anomalies,” he says.

“But a careful reading of the literature makes it clear, in my opinion, that NDE evidence is too consistent and too unusual to be explained away by such simplistic approaches.”

Bell notes there are other sources of data, including one lengthy cross-cultural study of death-bed visions, which showed consistent patterns of behaviour and reported experiences that strongly suggest a very particular communication between the dying and those loved ones who had previously died.

“The net conclusion from the data I have seen is that consciousness and our physical selves separate not only before death but obviously at the time of death as well.”