Diane Corcoran featured in Guideposts article

    "[Corcoran] met a young man in the [surgery] recovery area whose arm had been blown off. Drawn to speak to the young soldier, she asked him how he was doing. 'You'll never believe me,' he replied. Urged on, he said that he when he was hit, he felt himself being lifted into the air. He looked down and could see bodies strewn about and he just knew which ones would make it and which ones were going to die. He then felt himself 'going to another place.' With tears rolling down his cheeks, he described this place as 'beautiful' and 'wonderful.' But, he was told, he would have to go back, at which point he woke up in his body. 'It was real, it wasn't a dream, it happened to me,' he insisted."

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Dr Oz Program Asks - NDEs Are They Real?

Videos from the recent Dr. Oz program on the topic of near-death experiences are available online. The links to each of the five separate segments are listed below. Especially appealing is segment number five featuring physician Dr. Mary Neal telling the riveting narrative of her NDE from drowning and how the subsequent aftereffects changed her views on life and her practice of medicine.  The program also features an interview with Dr. Sam Parnia (Part 4) and his work with the AWARE project.

Dr. Oz Investigates NDEs - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

Dr. Oz Interviews Dr. Mary Neal (Part 5).

IANDS Conference featured in The Epoch Times

The recent IANDS Conference held in Durham, NC has been featured in a front-page article in The Epoch Times. Reporter Stephanie Lam highlights the conference through the words of the three keynote speakers, Bruce Greyson, Eben Alexander and Raymond Moody. In recounting his NDE in 2008, Dr. Alexander asked "How does a dying brain end up getting far, far more powerful and able to handle these tremendous loads of information instantaneously and put it altogether?" Dr. Greyson believes that researchers have just scratched the surface of the NDE but in the future we will learn more about the causes of NDE. According to Dr. Moody, with evidence from shared death experiences "there has now been a genuine—and I would underline 'genuine'—solid step toward rational comprehension of the afterlife." Part 2: NDE aftereffects. Part 3: Are NDEs hallucinations? Part 4: A theory of consciousness based on NDEs. Part 5: A neurosurgeon's perspective.

An important veridical near-death experience

In a recent video interview, pioneer cardiac surgeon Dr. Lloyd Rudy tells the story of a patient who came back to life after being declared dead, and what he told him. After emergency heart surgery, the patient could not be resuscitated and the doctors turned off the bypass equipment. For at least 20 minutes the patient had no heart beat or blood pressure. However, the patient's heart slowly started up on its own and the patient was revived. He reported an NDE with remarkable veridical (real and verified) perceptions of the persons present and unusual details of the operating room, during the time he had no heart beat or blood pressure. Several NDE researchers are looking into this case.

Dr. Rudy recounts a second story of a patient whose bleeding during surgery miraculously stopped when a "presence" was felt in the room.

ABC's "Nightline Primetime" explores NDEs

ABC's “Primetime Nightline: Beyond Belief” covered the topic of near-death experiences on August 3. ABC’s Bob Woodruff shares his own NDE, as well as the experience of others: what people see, feel and hear when they describe crossing over from this world to the next before returning back. Woodruff talks candidly about what he remembers in the minutes after a vehicle he was traveling in while in Iraq during 2006 hit an improvised explosive device. Woodruff saw his body floating beneath him. In the program, he speaks with others who report the same type of out of body experience, as well as theologians, preachers, researchers and physicians who try to explain it. The stories include those of Don Piper, Mary Jo Rapini and Jake Finkbonner. Includes commentaries by researchers Jeffrey Long, Andrew Newberg, Caroline Myss and Sam Parnia. The full episode is now available here.