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AWARE study & two others receive Templeton grants

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Immortality ProjectThree studies relating to NDEs have been award grants in the Immortality Project, including the AWARE study directed by Sam Parnia of Stony Brook University, according to a University of California Riverside report. The size of the individual grants was not disclosed but they average $240,000.

Sam Parnia, MDThe AWARE study grant will be used to "examine the nature of human consciousness and mental processes during cardiac arrest and their relationship with brain resuscitation".

Another study by Ann Taves and Tamsin German of UC Santa Barbara will include a "quasi-experimental field study" of IANDS to examine the role that NDE accounts and experiences play in shaping and reinforcing the potency of afterlife beliefs in the NDE movement. In the third study related to NDEs, Shahar Arzy of Hadassah Hebrew University will examine the life-review experience reported in many near-death experiences, including its prevalence and relationship to life events.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 May 2013 19:53 )

Important changes to IANDS' web site and social media

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New!We've made a number of important changes to our web site and social media:

Last Updated ( Sunday, 05 May 2013 00:02 )

2013 Conference Featured Speakers!

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2013 IANDS Conference

August 29 - September 1 at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, VA

EbenAlexander-sm2Eben Alexander, MD - neurosurgeon and near-death experiencer, author of Proof of Heaven

anitamoorjani-sm2 Anita Moorjani - near-death experiencer and cancer survivor, author of Dying to Be Me

maryneal-sm2Mary Neal, MD - orthopedic surgeon and near-death experiencer, author of To Heaven and Back

Last Updated ( Sunday, 12 May 2013 18:40 )
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Interview with Diane Corcoran on Combat NDE Project

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Diane Corcoran InterviewJeff Garton of Veteran Empowerment Training recently interviewed IANDS President Diane Corcoran about her Combat NDE Project, reviewing her military career as a nurse and her work on near-death experiences (NDEs) and with IANDS.

Dr. Corcoran launched the Combat NDE Project to develop education materials and videos to reach out to veterans in military or VA facilities—to get the word out to veterans about NDEs to help them understand their own NDE and the aftereffects they may be experiencing.

The Veteran Empowerment Training is a job and career readiness training for veterans.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 May 2013 22:17 )

Study finds NDE memories are not of imagined events

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steven_laureys2Skeptics have long proposed that NDEs are dream-like memories of events that never happened or are altered memories of real events which are partly or fully imagined. A recently published study from the University of Liège in Belgium compared the memories of NDEs with memories of others who were in coma without an NDE. They found that memories of NDEs are significantly different from coma patients without an NDE. In particular they have significantly more characteristics, like visual details, memory clarity, self-referential information (being involved in the event) and emotional content.

The researchers propose that NDEs can't be considered as imagined events. which have significantly fewer characteristics. NDE events are really perceived but since the events did not occur in reality and likely result from physiological conditions (e.g., neurological dysfunction), the events are actually hallucinatory (see also ULg video). This conclusion is based on assumptions that are inconsistent with other evidence from NDEs. Other interpretations are possible.
Last Updated ( Sunday, 14 April 2013 14:41 )
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