The great majority of people who experience a near-death experience change. It’s interesting, we’ve asked very direct survey questions about that, so we have some quantified data. You have found that near-death experiences dramatically change peoples lives-why do you think that is? And I think it helps explain why people have very similar experiences, yet no two are identical. I think it’s coming from a wisdom outside of ourselves. I think that helps explain why some people have these experiences and some don’t. And for the first time out of thousands of instances that I’ve ever seen, she asked God directly: “Why me? Why was I so blessed to have this experience happen to me?” God’s response was very revealing: “Love falls on everyone equally this is what you needed to live your life.” She firmly believed that she had encountered God in an unearthly realm during her near-death experience. I think the Rosetta Stone of understanding came for me many years ago when someone shared a near-death experience that was an incredibly blissful and positive experience. And why, despite the fact that there are very strong, consistent patterns, no two experiences are alike. There are accounts of many mystical experiences and encounters “beyond the veil”-why did you decide to focus on near-death experiences? And why do you believe that only about 10 percent of people who become clinically dead experience one?įor decades, researchers, myself included, would scratch our heads and wonder why some people have near-death experiences and why some people don’t. A Q&A on Near Death Experiences with Jeffrey Long, M.D. (What’s most incredible are the NDE’s of young children, who have never been exposed to the concept, as well as NDE’s of those who were born blind, yet have vision for the first time on the other side.) Below, we asked him some more questions. He has written several books, including New York Times bestsellers- Evidence of the Afterlife is a great place to start for an overview of his findings-which establish undeniable themes that hold regardless of religious background, language, age, or cultural background. Long launched his site,, with a detailed survey in order to create as much scientific structure as possible-and he employs translators across the globe to help collate the NDE’s into a cohesive understanding of what might happen after we die, and the statistical prevalence of certain features appearing (life review, encountering spiritual beings, being stopped at a boundary, etc.). While throughout his career, he’s worked with patients who are grappling with the potential of end of life, his interest in the reality of NDE’s was stoked by a study he read in a medical journal, followed by a friend’s recounting of their own experience-which seemed more real to this friend than life itself. Since 1998, Jeffrey Long, M.D., a radiation oncologist in Louisiana, has been collecting and documenting near-death experiences-across cultures, languages, and countries.
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