Dr. Jeffrey Long
Appearances
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I've been doing this for over 25 years. We've studied over 4,000 near-death experiences. Near-death experiences are, in a word, real. I mean, how can one not be fascinated about wondering what happens after we die? Yes, their consciousness separates from the body, typically going above their physical body. Often at the end of that tunnel, they may have a beautiful, mystical, unearthly light.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And they can go on typically to have very typical, often detailed near-death experiences after that out-of-body experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. First of all, what they observe in all of these out-of-body experiences, and obviously we have like thousands now of these observations, they're generally what you would expect through physical. I mean, it's analogous to it. Again, you can't possibly be physical when your consciousness is over your physical body. But what they're seeing, it doesn't seem to be distorted.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
There seems to be vividly accurate down to finest details. And we've had people report, you know, serial numbers on equipment. We've had people report, you know, that there was on the top of the fan in the operating room a label that they could not possibly have known about.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So, you know, all of these things are basically what they are, the reality of physical earthly life just being seen through non-physical awareness and that out-of-body experience. So that's it. You almost never have things like what you see in the afterlife where beings may be translucent or transparent or predominantly light.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You just don't see that described in observing earthly out-of-body experience events. And then secondly, to get on to your second part of your question there, has anyone ever drawn that? God, I wish we should, you know, I'd love to have asked our near-death experiencers to draw this. We have very, very few people that actually do draw some of what they saw. Okay, here's one vivid example of that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
There was an extremely young child about age two or something, right around, even barely two, who had a life-threatening event and had a near-death experience. And then after that, she would tell her mother basically about her near... Actually, she didn't say it, but she became verbal about a year later and then started immediately telling her mother about
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
about her near-death experience and some of the experiences there. So part of that was she was in heaven. And well, what was in heaven? And don't forget, it's an extremely young child. Well, there was a cookie there. And the child drew a picture of the cookie. And here was a huge cookie. And there was all sorts of little circles around it. She said, those are lights.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
She had no way of knowing that that's not part of her earthly life. This was literally what was being a part of her near-death experience in a way that she could not have possibly imagined. So we actually have a copy of that picture of the cookie in heaven from a pre-verbal person who was able to communicate that only after it became verbal. But other researchers have collected some of these.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That would make an absolutely fascinating additional study of near-death experience. I'd love to have a book about published of people drawing pictures. I certainly have seen that, and it's analogous to what we've been talking here. You have to draw the picture analogous to what we know here on Earth, and yet it's not of this Earth and non-physical in any way.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And yet it's one more way that I think near-death experiencers have the potential to convey the absolutely amazing unearthly experiences they've had to help us, the rest of us, in some way understand a little bit better.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Again, we're picking out a 51. I almost feel like we're diminishing the others, but I'm going to do this. So this was in a non-Western country, and I don't remember the specific one, but that was in the group. This person had his heart stopped while he was going down a street, cardiac arrest.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So, boom, he went down, consciousness up, that out-of-body experience, and he was able to see his body down there and people rushing up to him and, you know, what do you do when someone's down and unconscious? You're trying to get some help and, you know, they were all, you know, concerned, obviously anxious where to. So,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
He went and did that, and this is one of these people that had their out-of-body experience where their consciousness left the area of their physical body and traveled a considerable distance. So interestingly, his awareness traveled to the building, and it was up some stories, where his wife was working. And he was looking through the window at his wife working on a computer.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And he was able to see that his wife was looking up housing in this far distant city from where they lived in. And he's like, of course, he had no idea what was going on. So he went on to have a very detailed near-death experience, fortunately recovered. And when he recovered... and was talking about it with his wife, he said, okay, here's what I saw.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I was looking at your computer, and here you are looking at housing in this city far from us. And we've never, you know, what was going on? We never talked about that. And what happened is his wife had just very recently got a job offer for a job in that far city, and she was not willing to discuss it with her husband, because you want to
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
create concern, but she was literally thinking about it through exploring housing in that city that she'd been offered a job in. And that was the first time her husband became aware of what was going on with that. Absolutely impossible for him to have known that had his consciousness not been physically there looking into that window.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It is, yeah. It's a part of my life. I mean, these absolutely extraordinary, this is extraordinary to you and any viewer, but gosh, my wife Jody and I, this is literally just a part, you know, every week we read more near-death experiences, and this is literally, in fact, I would be fascinated if I saw a near-death experience that seemed unreal or hallucinatory.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They're so rare, something that breaks the pattern. But I mean, this is just a vivid, ongoing part of our life, and it's just part of the amazing experience striking consistency of near-death experiences all around the world. Yeah, yeah. It's a great hobby, if you want to call it that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
on there yeah but you know that's another great question we're talking about being in that unearthly heavenly realms when they see these buildings they're analogous to what we know in our earthly life except they're far more magnificent larger far more beautiful and so they're they are analogous and yet in very important ways different the other important thing to know about this
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, I really appreciate those kind words. It's been a huge labor of love. But I've really enjoyed it. I'm honored and privileged to have this path in my life where so many people have the confidence in what we're doing to share some of their deepest, most profound accounts of what happened to them in their life and then have the opportunity to share that in the world.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And very important point there. I mean, if people had, you know, reading, if you read, you can go to my website, nderf.org, stands for the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation. But I would challenge your viewers. I'll bet if you go there and on the top tab you see experiences go down to exceptional experiences. We call it exceptional archives.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I will bet if you read even 10 near-death experiences in that list, or especially 20 or 30, it could literally change your life. You're going to see over and over not only what we talked about here,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But these deeper messages, the profound importance of love, that connection we all have, that unity and that profound reassurance that we are far more than our physical earthly life, that each and every one of us are going to have an afterlife, a wonderful afterlife. And that is an incredibly profoundly positive message for each and every person.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, that's a really good point. I hadn't even thought of that, but you're right. I think reincarnation is yet another vivid line of thinking for about how important the earth is. I mean, it's been the habitat for our prior earthly existences, very important existences. We, as in our current earthly life, had lessons, insights that are very important to our eternal soul selves.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
and all the more important to maintain earth not as you say not to trash it out but to keep it as healthy and vibrant as possible and full of life so that people in the future can have future earthly carnations and uh you know go on i mean just reincarnations and just regular earthly life so that they can have the best opportunity possible to have all the
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. First of all, a little bit of history. It's estimated about 100 billion people of humans have ever existed on earth. So, you know, it's, it's, there's a lot of us in the past that have the potential to reincarnate a lot of prior lives that are offering potential. So, Certainly populations go up, go down, especially for people that recall multiple prior earthly lives.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
unearthly heavenly realm that so many near-death experiencers describe is it's not a geographically separate physical environment it is a very much non-physical environment in other words movement is non-physical communication is essentially always telepathic i mean instantaneous communication of what they're thinking, context, seemingly without any possibility of misunderstanding.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's one of those things I just don't, well, I've thought about it. That doesn't mean I understand it. I'm very aware that it's a reality, but I think it's one of those mysteries that I don't understand, again, how it works.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
you know how they could do did all 100 billion people have you know prior lives or did they have prior existences on other planets before they be you know human beings existed on earth so it's just one of these fascinating mysteries and is really what makes near-death experience research exciting there's just so much that we don't know and yet what we do learn what we do finally ultimately
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
uh, figure out from near death experience is all converging on that understanding about, you know, very important things, uh, importance of earthly life, significance, how it all fits together.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And it's just all, you know, ultimately every step of the way, these, these lessons that we've learned, including from reincarnation, um, profoundly positive insights, even if we don't understand them and we're, and we don't have to understand them all now. I think It's that mystery, don't you think, Matt? It's that mystery, that wonder that just keeps you searching.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It keeps you open to other possibilities. It keeps you exploring. It keeps you, you know, basically being open to discoveries and pushing forward that knowledge, not only for our own, but knowledge we can share with all of humanity in a very important way.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, I think you're right. And I think that's absolutely true because it's been such an amazing interview here. So I think that's really important. I think any viewer here can listen to this and enjoy. come away. I mean, it's a lot of information. I really realize that. And it's somewhat challenging if it kind of is different from what beliefs your viewers might have had. But it's in.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's exactly what we were just saying. Keep open-minded. Keep that investigative spirit. Keep that awareness and acceptance and openness to mystery. Keep exploring. Learn in your own life. And if you're interested in near-death experience, heck, There's a lot of good material out there. You know, obviously this podcast is going to be a sentinel event for being a positive source of material.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But the more you learn about near-death experiences, I can essentially assure you, the more positively, profoundly, positively life-changing that you will find it. Love it. Yeah.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, I appreciate that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
A huge thanks. I love, you know, we've talked about this. I love this Egyptian stoneware. It's exactly that kind of wonder and the mystery of, oh, there's beautiful. Thank you.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And she's the webmaster, so we really appreciate this. It's a vivid reminder of sort of that tying together the ancient mystery and what we have to learn with our continued search.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
to learn about it and and looking forward to knowing more in the future and oh this is great yep we have but wait there's more there's more we have oh i love this oh this is the world's greatest uh it's fantastic yeah this is this is the matt bell limitless yeah that's the cup and i really appreciate that that will be at my bedside and it's it's an excellent source of ice water yep where we have.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So thank you much. I really appreciate it. And a huge thanks also for this absolutely, literally sentinel, fantastic interview that we've shared today.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So it's literally a very non-physical environment, very different from what we know during our earthly everyday lives. And that's what the buildings and the colors and landscapes are all about in a near-death experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I really appreciate that. And for the viewers, if you find this to be very meaningful and significant and informative, please feel that you can share this with other people and share the significantly, powerfully positive messages shared here today with anybody that you'd like. Love it. Love it.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That's absolutely true, Matt, and we've got a lot of evidence to back that up. I mean, how can one not be fascinated about wondering what happens after we die? Near-death experiences seem to provide some very significant, detailed information. We've got a lot to talk about as we develop what you're already aware of as a remarkably positive message of hope.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, absolutely. When they're in these unearthly heavenly realms, it's not like they see buildings and say, oh, I knew that building. That's familiar from my prior earthly life. I mean, these are completely different. Ditto for the landscapes. I mean, they're not anything where they say, oh, this is familiar. No, these are completely unknown to them from their prior earthly life experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, again, they have that overwhelming beauty, that overwhelming... sort of fascination that they have there. I mean, they are often just go over word after word after word describing how wonderful this environment is, how beautiful it is, how much they feel connected to this. So it's very different from anything that you would describe in your earthly everyday life. And they don't really...
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
when near-death experiences describe that, they almost never use phrases like, well, this is analogous to what this is similar to. I mean, this is just a completely different realm of existence, if you will. And, you know, light and energy is probably a good way to conceptualize it. But this is so different from anything that we have on earthly life. I mean, even after studying over 4,000
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
near-death experience is about all I can say is what it's not. It's not physical, earthly. It's non-physical. It's something where movement can be extremely rapid. Vision can be much different than earthly vision. In fact, often people having a near-death experience describe 360-degree vision.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They're suddenly and simultaneously visualizing and processing visual information in their near-death experience, front, back, right, left, up, down. Technically, the proper word would be spherical vision. So again, they're having senses, overwhelming emotions of love and peace beyond anything they knew on earth. They may have those kind of
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
hyperactive senses, something that they, again, didn't know from their earthly life. But it's really, it's kind of, you have to think about this. We're so used to our earthly life. This is just a radically different environment when they're in these unearthly realms.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, spherical vision is uncommon. You're probably talking about under 10% of people that have a near-death experience, so it's not common. And actually, when they have that out-of-body experience, typically at that point in time, they're not visualizing unearthly realms.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
If they're above their physical body, they're aware of and processing, hearing, seeing what's going on in ongoing earthly events. It's often if they pass through the tunnel at the other end, they may be in that unearthly realm or they may be suddenly... passed over into that unearthly realm. And then that's where a number of people have spherical vision.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And by the way, while I'm thinking about it, interestingly, I interviewed a lady named Vicki, born totally blind to her vision was unknown and unknowable. So she had a bad car accident. And I know what your viewers are thinking. Nope, she wasn't driving. She had an inebriated patron at a bar she was singing at. She was a very gifted singer.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And unfortunately, he was trying to get her home and had a bad car wreck. First time Vicki had vision, she was in that out-of-body experience over her body, and she didn't even know what it was because vision was unknown.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So it was only after she correlated the feel of a ring her father had given her and her long hair that she'd previously known only by touch, suddenly realized that was her down there. Vicki had that spherical vision, and in fact, when I interviewed her,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I tried to tell her how the rest of us in our earthly life have these so-called pie-shaped visual fields because of the location of our eyes in our head. And Vicki literally laughed at me. She said that that can't be. Its vision is spherical.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That was the only thing she knew in her life, and it made no sense to her at all that those of us that live our earthly lives could have our vision so limited in a way that we know throughout our entire life.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. In general, people may have that out-of-body experience and then a common next element is the tunnel. So they may see an entrance to their tunnel in their ongoing earthly physical observations down there and they see something that looks very different. A tunnel, they may say they feel drawn toward that tunnel and that's how they actually enter that tunnel.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But these unearthly, beautifully detailed heavenly realms typically involve a departure from observations of ongoing earthly events. I mean, this is a completely different realm there. And I mean, they're in it. But we're in this beautiful unearthly realms. Again, common descriptors, beautiful landscapes. There may be fields, there may be trees, there may be, again,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
flowers with beautiful colors, music, other beings, either beings that they've known that have deceased from their prior earthly life. These are loving reunions, too, by the way. Or they often will say these are beings that feel familiar, but they just are not aware of them from their prior life. Interestingly, in these unearthly realms, while that sounds incredibly exotic and
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, I'm a radiation oncology physician, which is the use of radiation to treat cancer. I'm practicing full time in Kentucky. So that's my one full-time job. My other, if you will, full-time job is, as you said, my passion. And that's my study of near-death experiences. I've been doing this for over 25 years. I love it.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
and very different from anything we know in our earthly life. Remarkably, people having a near-death experience often say, this feels like my real home. This is where I belong. This is, I'm back home. I've returned. And so you have that remarkable sense. And all this, while this is going on, again, overwhelmingly positive emotions. I mean, think about that. Here they were
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
a split moment ago in a life-threatening event, often recovering from what may end their life, and here they are feeling no pain at all, beautiful unearthly emotions off the scale of anything they know, an accelerated consciousness, communication, as we said, telepathic, nothing they've ever known on earth.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So that's a pretty good summary of what was most commonly described in these unearthly heavenly realms.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
For the great majority, the tunnel seems to be above their point of consciousness, less commonly sort of around the level of their consciousness, like the consciousness over their body, and then sort of horizontally, if you will, there's a tunnel entrance. Or they may just simply lose all awareness of ongoing earthly events in terms of seeing or hearing it, and then boom, they're in a tunnel.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And that's actually probably the most common scenario is they're they may have that out-of-body experience, and then boom. When they're in the tunnel, I mean, they're like in a tunnel, so you can't really look around and see earthly events. Now, the tunnel's variably described.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Movement is typically very rapid through the tunnel, and interestingly, even for people that have had claustrophobia, it's essentially never described as claustrophobic.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
The tunnel can either be just a nondescript, if you will, seemingly unformed tunnel, or there can be, some people have described as they pass through the tunnel, being aware, this is uncommon, but they may see other, seeming like other beings outside of the tunnel or get a sense that there's a different, that unearthly environment outside of the tunnel. Very uncommon.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
By far the most common scenario, passing through the tunnel and then that unearthly, mystical, beautiful light at the end of the tunnel is the most common trip through the tunnel.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. As far as the, we'll back up a little bit, that out-of-body experience we've talked about where you're actually seeing ongoing earthly events, that's actually only about 45%. The other 55%, boom, they're in that tunnel or they're in that unearthly realm. So I want to emphasize that. So as far as people that actually provide a description of the tunnel, that's probably around 20%.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So for many people, they either have that out-of-body experience and then boom, their experience ends, or they may be going through a tunnel and the experience ends, or for the more detailed near-death experiences, they're in that beautiful unearthly realm.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It has absolutely been life-changing to me as I've learned about near-death experiences and some of the important insights and messages for literally all of humanity, which we'll get into.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, that's an interesting hypothesis, and it reminds me that what we don't know about near-death experiences exceeds what we do know. So I'm always delighted to hear new hypotheses because that's how we learn. That's how we're open-minded about investigating near-death experiences. Now, as far as tunnels going downward, that's rare. It's quite rare. Generally, they don't.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They're more horizontal or upward. As far as passing through the tunnel toward the sun as we know it in our solar system, probably not. That's not corroborated by a lot of near-death experiencers. They don't emerge from the tunnel and see a sun or any kind of star. When they emerge from that tunnel, they're in that unearthly, non-physical realm.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And so it's not like there's a particular sun that is the predominant part of their visual awareness.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, and I mean, I think you're going down, you're passing down the right direction because... They're definitely non-physical when they're in tunnels. So there's, I mean, they're definitely not seeing their, generally not seeing their physical body. They're generally moving. They may describe it at enormously high speeds. So there's something going on at that point in time.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, by definition, as the name implies, you're near death. In other words, you're so physically compromised that you're unconscious or even clinically dead with an absent heartbeat. So that's how near death you are. But it also involves the term experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It seems to be, and I like your hypothesis in the sense that it's a transition. So I think that would be... very consistent with what we see in near-death experiences, that the tunnel is, if you will, a transition between what they were observing or knew in their physical life and they're passing on to something beyond that. And as far as the connection of light or certainly non-physicality,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, I think that's all certainly what near-death experiences describe. I mean, there's no way they could be physical when they're moving through a tunnel at a high rate of speed.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
and you know i want to just to take that and run you know i don't want to lump all near-death experiences in one single category and say this is what they all do so there's going to be different there's no there's no two near-death experiences that are identical so for having raised that possibility i'll definitely be more open-minded to that and gosh hey matt i'll get back with you if we find an experience or two where
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They seem to come through that, and it seems to be some kind of relevance to a son or something like that. Because again, their near-death experiences, while we're talking about their similarities, they certainly also have some differences and characteristics resulting in no two near-death experiences. And I'll use the abbreviation NDEs. No two NDEs are identical. Right, right.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now, in these unearthly realms, if they're encountering other beings, Typically, they'll going to be, I mean, they can be above them or far more commonly sort of at their same level. They're on, you know, ground or they're basically situated on a level area, relative level area. But the beings will typically approach, they can be variably described, they can be anywhere from
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So at this time when you shouldn't have any conscious remembrance because you're unconscious from physical compromise, you do have that experience. And that's the experience part of a near death experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
amorphous light beings and yet they feel they have that that personality that intelligence and that they can communicate more likely they may be anthropomorphic and yet often described as while they have like head and a body they they look very different from what we know in earthly life i mean they may be tell me anthropomorphic what does that mean oh that means human-like
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
yeah so they would they would look they can be described as like humans but they're different because their their body shape is different but their wearing is different and they have that sense of light about them so and again don't forget in this unearthly realm they're non-physical so these are our beings that are not like what would be anything we could even
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a lot of us even conceive of on earth. But when these beings approach them, they usually have a strong sense of love. There's often described a loving connection. They feel the love of this other being. And, you know, interestingly, there can be some dialogue, there can be some, a lot of back and forth. And so these beings are nothing like ghosts or anything scary.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, there's a very positive parts of the near death experience where they're, interacting and maybe sharing information. They may ask these beings questions, you know, what's going on? So they seem to be a very important role.
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They often instill some sense of peace, love, acceptance, and just helps make the whole near-death experience be like the great, great majority of very positive experiences.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, as far as deceit, we're probably up around 20% to 25% of the time they'll encounter some deceased loved ones. So it's at, again, most don't. But there's also an equivalent percentage, maybe even a little bit more than 20%, 25% will encounter these people beings that are obviously present spiritual beings, if you will, in the unearthly realm.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And actually, they can even encounter or be aware of these spiritual beings even when they're in that out-of-body state earlier. So that can start even early in a near-death experience at that point in time, too.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, in studying over 4,000 near-death experiences, I simply can't find any correlation or anything that would seem to be a trigger as to why you would encounter deceased loved ones or why you would exclusively or why you would encounter exclusively people that are spiritual beings but not known from the prior earthly life. You're getting into one of the great mysteries of near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I co-authored a scholarly book chapter where we looked at 25 prior years of near-death experience research and the conclusion of this chapter for me and my co-investigators was we really remarkably couldn't find any demographic variable that really predicted who would have a near-death experience when they nearly die
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
which, by the way, is only about 10% to 20% of people will have a near-death experience and nearly die. 80% to 90% won't. So we couldn't really find any demographic variable from any prior research that would predict who would have a near-death experience when they had a close brush with death or what the content would be in any way.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, the near-death experience, you have to be unconscious or clinically dead. Certainly, you know, so physically compromised that you're, I mean, unconscious. So there shouldn't be any conscious remembrance, but that's when the conscious remembrance described like we're sharing here would be a near-death experience. Yeah. That would be it.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now, again, near-death experiences can occur while you're physically unconscious or clinically dead. But yes, a number of patients have reported near-death experiences while they're in the hospital, while they're being very carefully medically monitored. And it's very clear that their heart stops and that monitoring can include not only measures of heart activity.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But yeah, incredibly with research and then subsequently to the publication of that book that had that chapter, we really can't find any good correlation with a person's demographic and where they lived, what they believed, male, female, age. None of that seems to correlate with the kind of who they encounter during their near-death experience, when they encounter it.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So it's one of the great mysteries of near-death experiences. It's a good example of what we don't know about these near-death experiences is greater than what we do now. I feel like I'm sort of a pioneer even after 25. 100% you are. Yeah. And so I think that's what makes it so exciting. I love that mystery.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I love that fascinating bit by bit as we start to learn more and more about what near-death experiences are. And every step along that journey of discovery is actually just sort of like opens up my eyes even further and And I'm even more respectful and amazed with near-death experiences as I go through this journey of research, even knowing far more now than I did when I started 25 years ago.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You bring a really good point there, and that's absolutely true. From the very dawn of my starting my research 25 years ago, I was interested in the truth, the reality of near-death experiences. I was literally, when I started... a blank slate. I just said let the evidence speak for itself and that I will learn and I will understand that and share with the world.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But I don't go into this with any particular agenda. I try to, well I don't try, I think I've been quite successful in maintaining that scientific rigor. I'm a physician. I make my decisions about how to treat patients with cancer based on the evidence, on the reasoning from that evidence, because that's how I can best save lives. Same thing with the near-death experience research.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We let the evidence speak for itself. We let the reasoning from that evidence guide my understandings and what I share about near-death experiences. And then above and beyond that, One of the glories about this type of research is its amazing ability to be transparent. Over 4,000 near-death experiences published on the website.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, anybody, and by the way, it's now published in over 30 different languages, parts of that website. So anybody, pretty much anybody on the planet can go read these amazing near-death experiences themselves. The exact word-for-word experience shared by the people that actually had them. You can see for yourself exactly what I'm talking about here.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
By the way, Matt, once your heart stops, which is a common precipitating event in a near-death experience, the moment your heart stops, well, immediately blood stops flowing to the brain. And then 10 to 20 seconds after blood stops going to the brain, the EEG or electroencephalogram, that's a measure of brain cortical outside activity, goes absolutely flat.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, there's all that evidence times thousands of near-death experience accounts.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
encountering deceased loved ones, and by the way, that's part of the research that validates the reality of near-death experiences. When they encounter these people, especially in the unearthly realm, 96% of the time in my study and corroborated by another major study, 96% of the time these people are deceased.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
These are not people that they're encountering that were alive, that they knew in their life, that they were familiar with. I mean, these are people they... that died during their earthly life prior to their near-death experience. I assumed it was 100%, but 96%. Yeah, it's 96%. It's a real mystery to me about where that 4% comes from.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But unlike dreams or hallucinations where the great, great majority of beings you encounter are people alive at the time of that altered consciousness. That's not true at all with near-death experiences. But anyway, the fascinating thing is that when they encounter these beings that they knew in their earthly life that are deceased...
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Even if the earthly relationship was strained or there was a problem, these are essentially always joyous reunions. And amazingly, even if the person who had died prior to their near-death experience, if they died of, say, a very chronically disfiguring accident or illness, they essentially always are picture-perfect health in the near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We have a small series of people that encountered deceased loved ones who had amputations. They'd lost an arm or a leg. In every single one of these encounters in my small series, they have all four of their limbs. So these are people that are all literally whole.
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actually leaves the vicinity of their physical body and observes things, say, city blocks away, even over a mile away, the vision can be much different than earthly vision. In fact, often people having a near-death experience describe 360-degree vision. People having a near-death experience often say, this feels like my real home.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Interestingly, too, if they died at a very advanced age, they may appear years or even decades younger in the near-death experience than at the time of their death. And again, essentially always picture perfect health. And interestingly, if the being they encounter died in, say, early infancy, they may appear as a child many years older than the time of the death of that beloved infant.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So one of the real fascinations about... And yet they're immediately recognized. They immediately know... Who they are, almost never do you hear a near-death experiencer say, well, wait, who are you? What are you from? Recognition against part of that accelerated consciousness thing, boom, it's instantaneous. They know that's the person.
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They immediately can start dialoguing with that person as they might have during their earthly life.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, essentially always, again, non-physical. I mean, here we are talking. I have my vocal cords move. It creates a sound, comes out of my mouth, goes into your ears, resonates nerves and goes, and that's how you process. That's physical. That's how we all communicate. Not so at all during near-death experiences in that unearthly, heavenly realm.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
At that time, it should be absolutely impossible to have any conscious experience because your brain is measurably flatlined. And yet people do, literally by the hundreds, report near-death experiences after their heart stops after cardiac arrest.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Communication is, and telepathic is the best word, but it really doesn't convey the depth of communication. Communication is extremely rapid. It can be large volumes of information instantaneously shared. And they often say, well, it's not just that, it's the whole context, the emotion around it, the sense, the deeper understanding.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's that conveyance of everything that is related to that instantaneous and without any possibility of misunderstanding. I don't even think I can recall any near-death experiences in those communication in the unearthly realm where there seemed to be ambiguity or misunderstanding.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Again, it's completely different from what we have here on earth where tragically there can be that misunderstanding or misinterpretation of what other people are saying. I mean, gloriously in the afterlife, that's all past and communication is beautifully shared instantaneously and completely.
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When they're unfamiliar beings, it's not like in earthly life where we meet a stranger. I mean, typically, immediately, there seems to be that connection, that interaction, that sense of loving presence is often described. And so it's really immediately a bond, if you will. And so right off the bat, there can be a lot of sharing, can be a lot of communication.
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It can just be sometimes if there's no communication, it's just like a loving presence. And that's very reassuring to the person that has a near-death experience. a variety of different scenarios, but they're all, you know, they all seem to be a part of a positive near-death experience when they interact with them.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And interestingly, too, while we're on the topic, it's not unusual for a near-death experiencer to say this being or beings they encountered is so familiar. It seems like we knew them. I know them, but I just can't recall that from my prior earthly life.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So again, that raises exactly what you just said there is this, you know, remembrance of reincarnation is just some type of life they shared previously. So that's another really fascinating thing. And I think that would probably explain some of these interactions of unknown yet familiar beings that are described.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Absolutely. And I think you just raise a real... That's why I love these talks, because every time I hear, you know, talk with people, it's like I take a little, you know, gem of insight back with me. But you're absolutely right. It's not a matter of prior physical earthly lives. I mean, these are familiar beings. They could be familiar from those...
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prior existence and probably are in that unearthly heavenly realm. I mean, they may have had enormous amount of shared time interaction in that unearthly heavenly realm. And they're familiar. They just can't quite put their finger on it. But yeah, I'm pretty sure that would be very consistent with what I'm seeing in so many of these accounts. I think it's
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You can't be narrow-minded and say it was only prior earthly lives or only prior heavenly realm lives. It could be anything or everything or both.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Any descriptions of that? Sure. There have been a number of near-death experiences where they describe awareness of what they know are deceased humans that are being greeted by these spiritual beings, if you will. Sometimes there can be lights all sort of converging on this area where they're being greeted.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
There may be a descriptor of like a line of deceased people standing there, and they're sort of moving forward. So there are several different scenarios where the...
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
seems to be that they're imparting to the near-death experiencer, hey, this seems to be the endpoint of people that in their earthly life, they're going to be greeted, they're going to be aware, and they're going to be welcomed, certainly very strongly welcomed. I haven't really seen that with animals, like animals being deceased.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
If deceased animals are encountered, these are the beloved deceased pets of the near-death experiencer. And just like the deceased beloved people they knew on earth, boom, there they are. And again, these are joyous reunions. there can be a great deal of interaction with that deceased beloved pet.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Again, just like deceased loved ones essentially always picture perfect health no matter what the circumstances of death of that pet.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. That's probably down no more than several percent. But again, out of 4,000 near-death experiences, we have scores. And I mean, hey, you name it. Dogs, cats, birds, horses, just the whole variety of, if it's been a beloved pet,
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that seems to have the possibility to appear in that heavenly realm as a joyous reunion, and reunion between the two of them is really a very touching, very beautiful part of near-death experiences.
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When you have that episode of unconsciousness, or especially if it's clinical death where your heart stops beating, your body is not going to be able to physiologically recover after a certain period of time. That can range from seven to 10 minutes in most situations of heart stoppage. For these rare events of what we call cold water drowning, people have been reported
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Great point, Matt. No question about that. It's not like this afterlife seems to be limited in terms of number of spiritual beings that are there to greet. I mean, there just seems to be, I mean, we're really, when you're in this unearthly heavenly realm, again, it's hard to conceptualize it as being non-physical, time generally non-existent.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But above and beyond that, it's literally an intersection of a realm that is eternal and infinite. And so those kind of limitations are, you know, gosh, how are you going to meet two people that die every second? One thing I'm confident of, not a problem in the afterlife. They've got that figured out. And it seems to be the destiny of all of us that we're going to have those
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
you know, joyous reunions and then introduction in a very positive way into our, that you could say our real home, that being the afterlife.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, we, and that's a very good point. We keep using the term heaven, but heaven means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. So when I use the word heaven, I'm talking about, I sort of synonymously say unearthly heavenly realms and that's to convey the fact that this is unrelated to sort of any cultural pre-existing belief on earth.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, this is very, very much defined by a huge number of near-death experiences as being that unearthly, beautiful, you know, non-physical, timeless, eternal, infinite realm that near-death experiencers describe with such remarkable consistency.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
yeah that's interesting the there is some commonalities now that you bring that up the the commonalities is that they are almost always loving presences in other words people feel sort of loved compassionate they don't feel judged there's essentially never a near-death experience as a sense of external judgment and that's true from these beings there and that's even when the beings are present when they're in these life reviews or they're seeing part of their or even all of their prior life so
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
The beings tend to be there, you know, if you will, for the near-death experiencer to help them feel love, to help them feel sort of engaged in their experience here. And there can be communication. There can be often the near-death experiencer may ask questions, may want to know, you know, ask questions, even some questions.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
to be able to be resuscitated after even over 30 minutes. So it's somewhat variable on the circumstances that the heart stops.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
personal questions about their life or even some of the deeper, more fundamental questions. And we do see that periodically these beings seem to impart some understanding, some addressing of the questions that they have there. So they seem to have different roles for different near-death experiencers, but those are some of the commonalities.
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And they tend to be described often as very beautiful beings. In other words, We're back to that old beauty beyond anything they knew on earth. And there they are in that presence again, a very positive, reassuring presence for the near-death experiencer who's just starting out in an experience that they never had in their earthly life.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Literally everything you just said there, they have been described as. So they can be anything and everything. They can be sort of amorphous, unformed, if you will, and just light and yet have that loving presence. Or they can look basically like humans do. And yet they often are described as they may be translucent.
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have a radiant light about them that is something that simply they're not familiar with on earth. But generally that sense in the presence of these spiritual beings of peace, of love, is one of the most common descriptors. And along with this very positive communication.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Okay. Another great question, Matt. That is absolutely true. We have a series of people where there may be an amorphous, unformed being, light presence, and they may at times literally ask them, in what form would you like for me to appear? And so it's the near-death experiencer that chooses what form they would like for them to be in.
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Last a little bit longer. And children tend to bounce back from that kind of cold water drowning more than adults.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So again, that helps drive home the point that this is an unearthly, non-physical realm, and it's not like their appearance is fixed. And that's an important point. I think in this unearthly, non-physical realm, I think there's probably an infinite number of possibilities of how they could appear.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And it's driven home by the point of actually asking the near-death experiencer, what form would you like for me to take? And again, also driving home the point that these are very loving interactions designed, if you will, for the peace and acceptance and literally a loving outreach from the other side to the person having a near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But you're not talking... Your point's very valid. I mean, you're not talking about hours that you can have an absent heartbeat and be able to recover physiologically. So that's the time. During that time is when people have their near-death experiences. But you've studied... How many of these cases? In over 25 years I've been investigating this, we've studied over 4,000 near-death experiences.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
sure when they're interacting with spiritual beings there may be some questions they may say you know often they may start out very basic is the you know am i dead and the response may be well you know you are yes you are here uh they may ask is this the afterlife and then the response again is yes so the the near-death experiencer you know especially early on may sort of ask those core questions about you know what's going on here why am i here
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you know, is this here? And then they may, sometimes they'll ask to see a deceased loved one. Sometimes they may be asked to see God. So these are all things that they may interact with and that the beings may, if you will, be an intermediary in conveying that knowledge or understanding and that sense of love and that sense of basically peace to the near-death experiencer.
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You know, when I started my research, I was absolutely hoping I could find that. And over and over again, when people would get information, it's not something that they could, if it was critical information, sort of the information unknown on Earth that could be of relevance to Earth, they can't really bring it back. And this brings back another thing that many near-death experiencers describe,
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when they're interacting with spiritual beings or just simply in that heavenly realm it's not at all unusual that they encounter what we call universal knowledge they describe it as being aware of how everything works i mean art science literature understandings and far beyond anything that they could have understood on earth and so they all
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are aware and I'm kind of surprised when they keep saying wow it was so simple well it's not simple to us because we don't understand that but especially when I started my research I was hoping they'd bring back some nugget of wisdom that could directly impact in terms of you know technology or gosh I'm a doctor you know help us take care of cancer patients but
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Over and over, you know, times, vast numbers, they would come back and not be able to retain that knowledge. And finally, one near-death experiencer educated me and said that they couldn't retain that knowledge, that universal knowledge they had in the afterlife, because it's like trying to fit an ocean of knowledge in that teacup of the human brain.
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It just simply isn't anything that we can retain.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. An awareness or actual encounter with God is fairly rare when they're having that out-of-body experience and observing ongoing earthly events. Virtually all the time, and this is about 15% of near-death experiencers, an actual description of an encounter or awareness of God is in these heavenly realms.
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I want to emphasize right off the bat that God is the most common word near-death experiencers use, but it's a word of convenience. Many near-death experiencers say that being, what we call God, that's an earthly word. And what I encountered is far beyond earthly language. Earthly language is limiting and is really difficult to use in describing that unlimited, eternal, infinite being.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And yet we have to have some descriptor, and so that's the most common word. but over and over people say this is far beyond any conceptualization or knowing of God on earth, this overwhelming being and the near-death experience of overwhelming love, knowledge, creative force, something far beyond anything we could even conceptualize on earth.
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We actually have them posted on our research website, nderf.org. It's the largest volume of near-death experiences available for scientific study that have ever been investigated. So it's very exciting to have that huge data set that we can learn more about near-death experiences than was ever possible before.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, appearance, highly variable. Again, sort of like other spiritual beings, it can be probably the number one descriptor is light. Again, a beautiful, unearthly, beyond any prior earthly awareness, light. The light would have a personality, a powerful sense of love. Probably the number two descriptor is that sense of overwhelming love.
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People will say that this being, this God, loves them for who they are, everything that they are, and all that they are and ever could be. And that's a profoundly deep love, again, far beyond anything that is even conceivable here on earth. And so they also can describe God as being overwhelmingly knowledgeable. They're aware that we talked about universal knowledge.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, that seems to be part of this overwhelmingly loving being, this being of God. Essentially, never do I hear, in fact, never, I can recall, does God seem to be judgmental? I mean, they're simply overwhelmingly accepting. Just acceptance, pure acceptance.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, pure acceptance and pure love beyond anything they ever knew on earth, which is both surprising and profoundly reassuring to near-death experiencers that have had this earthly belief that they might be negatively judged or be in trouble. We're just not seeing that anywhere, which, by the way, is...
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
you know, again, yet another line of evidence for near-death experiences being different from what pre-existing earthly beliefs would have led them to expect in an experience like this. But God may be present when they have that life review, or they see part or all of their prior life. There can be some, again, some dialogue with God, some interactions, and they become aware of God's, you know,
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been described as a creator, being described as that overwhelmingly loving being, and when there's other spiritual beings around. I mean, we talk about the other non-God spiritual beings being loving and knowledgeable, but essentially every time in a near-death experience, when they encounter God, they know this is just orders of magnitude beyond the other spiritual beings they encountered.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, this is not a separate spiritual being there. This is one that is extraordinarily more in every positive way possible during the near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And then above and beyond that, in the websites that we collect, when people share them, we have like over 80 different questions. So heroically, all these people have filled out a very detailed survey. So it's not only the large number of people of near-death experiences we study, but it's that very detailed responses to those innumerable, it seems, survey questions.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yes. First of all, people that are closer to death tend to be more likely to have near-death experiences and deep near-death experiences, interestingly enough, which is, you know, again, a physical brain function or the cause of near-death experiences that go in the opposite way. So the closer you are to death, more likely to have a near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Encountering God is typically in the more detailed near-death experiences. As you've said, if you have that out-of-body experience, consciousness over your body, you may start to have those feelings of peace and you feel like whatever physical problems were going on in the body you're not feeling anymore.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, that's a near-death experience, a brief near-death experience, but that's not evolved enough that you're going to experience God. So these are generally the more detailed ones. They may go through that tunnel. They may suddenly find themselves in that heavenly realm. And that's where they're far more likely to be aware of.
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And when I say be aware, they may know that there's a God, they may sense God, they may sense that there's that presence, but not actually have that direct awareness in the sense of sensory awareness analogous to what we know on earth. So there's
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either going to be that awareness or for the others you know that very direct interaction awareness in the sense of analogous to earth vision very much that strong sense of love of acceptance of peace those are all parts of the spectrum of encountering god in a near-death experience
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Absolutely. And again, not surprisingly, for you're talking about an infinite and eternal God, This is a God of infinite and eternal possibilities. So with that understanding, not surprisingly, God can appear in any form that, I guess, God wants. I mean, God is obviously an ultra-conscious being.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Essentially, never do you have near-death experiencers being asked by God, what form do you want me to appear? That seems to be a decision by God. And again, over and over, you get the sense that God is trying to...
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
interact lovingly with i mean god is the as far as as a being love is the one of the most common descriptors of it a love beyond earth overwhelming beyond anything imaginable on earth so not surprisingly i think god is trying to a trying god is is
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in a form that would be most loving for that particular near-death experience or at that point in the near-death experiencer's journey in their experience they're having. So it seems to be just part of that, if you will, validation of just how accepted, how loved they are and literally the reality of God, which...
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near-death experiencers, when they recover from that close brush with death, they're far more likely as a group to believe in God than if people that didn't have a near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, you know, again, one thing you can say about near-death experiences, you really can't ever say always or never, because there's always going to be some exceptions. So yeah, we have had some people that have been interacted with God,
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So that's allowed us to learn about near-death experiences at a depth that we've never been able to learn before.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
and have had some very asocial lives or you know made some very bad earthly decisions and in these rare relatively rare near-death experiences god may be described as they are aware god is angry god is unhappy with how they've lived their life but note that's very different from god judging them from god forming a judgment about them as a soul and the near-death experience that you are in in trouble you're you know jeopardized but there are times where god seems to be
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literally angry. God has emotions in near-death experiences. So, you know, love, but, you know, love far beyond the emotion of love, that sort of acceptance and everything. And, you know, interestingly, if you go up to the, and people often will describe, they feel that mystical unity or connection with God or with other aspects of the near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And that's tough for people to wrap their head around a little bit until you do what I did, go to the dictionary and read the definition of love. And one of the first things that comes out is it's a connection. Well, this is a connection orders of magnitude more in the near-death experience than was ever conceivable here.
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So they do feel that connection, and they actually more often use the stronger word unity, that they feel a part of connected or one, part of a manifestation of that overwhelming love beyond anything we could have known on earth.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. Um, I would be reluctant to say it's a negative reaction of God because God overwhelmingly is described as pure love. I think God in displaying the emotion of anger is helping the person having the near-death experience realize just how antisocial, how even self-destructive their behavior has been. I think ultimately that this is a conveyance of God in that particular situation.
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very loving way to help the near-death experiencer live the rest of their life right in a way that they're moving forward from those things that and they know this i mean these are self-destructive uh antisocial sometimes horribly behaviors and this is just i mean it's like maybe for some near-death experiencers they need if you will a
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And so as a result of that, this would be part of an overwhelmingly intelligent, overwhelmingly loving God to help them to understand that there are these issues that they need to deal with for the rest of their life and help give them the best direction down the path to turn their life around. And it works.
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And again, to emphasize, this isn't a matter of where they're feeling judged or where they feel that they're in some kind of eternal jeopardy. You essentially never see that, well you never do, I don't, with near-death experiences and counting God. The focus is always going to be that which literally defines God and that being of love.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And interestingly, it's not because God tells them, you shall change your life. You need to do this behavior differently. This is simply a matter of God, as you would expect from an eternally infinite loving being, simply having an emotion about what the near-death experiencer recognizes as antisocial behavior. And so this just has to get that spiritual kick in the pants.
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It helps them to understand that, to perhaps confront their own behaviors in a way that they wouldn't have been able to do before, and allows them the opportunity to move forward with the rest of their earthly life, being far more loving than they possibly could have ever been without that encounter.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Great question. We have a very detailed process. When we get a near-death experience, certainly as a physician, I can medically see if the circumstances they describe medically add up, if it makes sense. And that's one way you can reject them. Another way you do that is we, like about 95% of the people that share with us, allow it to be posted on the web.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
out of the 600 what percentage have had a um like that what what percentage have seen that anger uh from god extremely small percentage and again i want to emphasize that while no two near-death experiences are the same you know and you can never almost never say always or never happens in a near-death experience i emphasize it's very very unusual it's rare that god displays that emotion of anger but you do get the sense that that god being that infinitely encompassing thing
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feels, loves, is aware. I think God hurts when we hurt. I think God hurts when near-death experiencers are in pain. I mean, it's really, literally, God has got that connection so much to us that I think God rejoices when we rejoice, suffers when we suffer. You really get that sense in near-death experiences that God is really
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that much a part of us and and really interested in aware of and then it's just simply a manifestation of love god in near-death experience is not that separate person up on a cloud with a beard uh casting down judgments or thoughts i mean god is literally a part of enveloped with the near-death experiencer and and literally compassionate
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uh beyond anything we could possibly know on earth i mean love again is an earthly word we're talking about love that is beyond any kind of earthly life experience of any of us any of us watching this talk here i mean this is how deeply god cares about us and i think that's and over over and over near-death experiencers bring back that awareness i mean that god really loves us but beyond anything we could possibly know or even understand and that's a
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
really incredibly, I mean, we were talking about all of us going to an afterlife, and there's God with that profound sense of love or care about each and every one of us. Wow, that's one of the most positive, powerful messages of near-death experience that I have.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, that's so tough because when you're talking about the infant, this is part of the whole mystery of near-death experiences in general. I mean, this is an intersection with the infinite, the eternal, and here we are, very limited beings in a physical earthly life, and you really can't
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expect any of us to understand or grasp deeply that concept of being infinite, of being eternal, of being, you know, we use words that are descriptors that we're familiar with, and yet it's something beyond English language. I mean, how do you really grasp that? So I think while we can't know the details or in-depth the specifics about God or what the afterlife's all about,
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So there's literally tens of thousands of people reading each of these posted near-death experiences on the website. And if there's anything that doesn't add up, we generally hear from someone and say, hey, this isn't wrong. It doesn't add up. It just doesn't make sense. But above and beyond that, it's sort of what real is consistently observed.
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I think we can understand very importantly some qualitative understandings that we see so literally in thousands of near-death experiences. I think the important take-home message is we are, each and every one of us, loved beyond anything that we could possibly know. Our earthly life is obviously profoundly meaningful and significant. There is an afterlife, a very
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wonderful afterlife that is the destiny for all of us. And thank goodness, there is an overwhelming, powerful, loving God that is in the afterlife, which we'll all be a part of when we ultimately end our earthly life.
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Yeah, really and truly. And it's tough, too, because it's just, here we are trying to... And I've struggled with this. I mean, it has been difficult for me in the 25 years I've been studying with near-death experiences. so aware of those ongoing, varied, detailed, amazing descriptions of what's eternal, you know, what's infinite, and it's, you know, I'm one that likes to know about this.
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And yet, at the end of the day, after having thought about this for literally for decades now, you know, I have to accept that there's things we can't know on Earth. There's things that we can understand because of our physical, earthly limitation. But what I can understand is that there is that infinite, there is that eternal, and perhaps that's the most important message.
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And that we all are going to be a part of that at some point in time when we end our earthly life. And gosh, I would suggest, Matt, that's among the most powerfully positive message for all of humanity that's even conceivable.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
First of all, it's rare in near-death experience. There's only going to be about a percent or two of near-death experiences that describe that. So I've been interested in that topic, and here's my understanding so far, which I admit is a work in progress. But of the Several dozen near-death experiences I've looked at. First of all, about half of the time there's an awareness of hell.
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God is the most common word near-death experiencers use, but it's a word of convenience. The substantial majority don't want to leave that heavenly realm. They do not want to return to their earthly life. So here they are observing their own resuscitation while under general anesthesia in the operating room. And this is where it gets just dang interesting.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They seem to be in these heavenly realms, often moving rapidly with other spiritual beings. And they're aware of hell as a segregated area in nature.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, it's apart from Earth, obviously, but it seems to be, you know, in an environment where the beings, and they can sense often, or will describe, sense that there's evil there, there's evil beings there, but they seem to be in a realm that is separate from the rest of the heavenly realms, where all the other spiritual beings are.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So we know the pattern of near-death experiences and things. You know, we know what to look for, and as a result of that, we're quite confident the overwhelming majority of people that go to all that effort are being honest. Of course, when we post them on the website, they're anonymous.
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So when someone says in a near-death experience there can't possibly be hell in that heavenly realm, they're correct, right? because it's a very segregated, separate realm that is apart from heaven, and yet it's real. So for the other half of people that have described this, they're actually impacted by that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They are aware or encounter these unearthly or heavenly realms, and they can be truly, as you can imagine, demonic, frightening, sights, sounds, feelings. And first of all, when they're in that realm, a number of near-death experiencers call out to God, to Jesus, to just in general, please remove me from this realm. And the substantial majority will ultimately be removed from that realm.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And they'll understand that perhaps for whatever reason, for the rest of their earthly life, or maybe it's that spiritual kick in the pants,
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
they needed to be aware of that and that seems to be it the other concept that i've had as i do this is when you see these these evil demonic beings in that that segregated walled off almost conceptualized area of hell it's not like they were thrust there involuntarily like they were sentenced by to have an eternal existence there it seems to be just dip them in and
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
No, actually, but actually there's a silver lining to that very ugliest part of what souls can be, and that is it seems to validate free will. It seems to be a choice not only here on earth, but in the afterlife. It seems that these demonic beings made certainly...
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almost certainly not one but a whole series of very bad choices to be evil to try to uh be uh you know to be dark souls to be uh inappropriately you know part unloving literally in a realm which is ruled by love and so interestingly In these hellish realms where you have these demonic beings, paradoxically, that is to them their heaven because they're round beings like them.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They've made that choice. They want to be there because it was the choices, the free will choices they made showing that free will exists in the afterlife, even to the point that they are allowed to make choices. horrible, horrible choices where they all end up there. There's their heaven because they're in that realm of beings like them. They share their values. That's where they've chosen to be.
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And that seems to be the best way I understand hell in near-death experiences.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
There's absolutely no incentive for someone to take the substantial amount of time to answer all those questions and falsify a near-death experience because they're not going to be recognized individually. We don't pay anyone. There's no real incentive for anybody to do that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, absolutely, and that's some of the strongest evidence for the reality of free will in the afterlife that you can come up with. I mean, what a profoundly incredible loving God to allow people to have free will such that... They could even make a whole, what apparently are a whole series of moving closer and closer to the demonic, closer and closer to that vile and evil existence.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And God just, you know, probably with, as we said, incredible sadness, allows that soul to choose through free will what it wants to do and then ultimately ends up being by choice in that hellish realm. And again, I would emphasize this is a work in progress. That's my best understanding as to how hell could exist today.
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in a realm of overwhelming, essentially universal love, peace, and a realm of God. So that's my best understanding that I have at this point about what the big picture is there.
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And I would say that's still a work in progress. I'll continue to study it. And we've Um, you know, if we, uh, stay tuned for future podcasts, if I have any new insights, we'll be sharing that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Okay. Well, I have great news. If you choose to be overwhelmingly loving and everything... By the way, in the unearthly heavenly realms, people will often say they're known for who they are, everything they are, and people are all aware of that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So you can see if you have evil, demonic intent, you can see how awkward that would be to be in a realm of overwhelmingly love and known that other beings would be aware of you. You can just imagine how awkward that would be and how they could make those bad choices to end up in hellish realm.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And then finally, the near-death experiences we have in our study population match really to a T what other investigators are finding with the near-death experiences in their investigations. There's literally dozens of near-death experience investigators and actually over 200, well over 200 scholarly
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But to get directly to your question, when people describe that segregated hellish realm, it seems to be, thank goodness, an extremely small relative to infant. I mean, you could imagine how...
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Personally, I can't imagine how you could be in a realm of overwhelming peace, love, beauty, and embraced with and a part of that overwhelming love and that God, and then make these just literally crazy, insane, evil choices to go with. I just can't understand that. Yet free will exists, and apparently some souls do. So my best impression is it is an overwhelmingly, exceedingly small...
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realm of hell. And I would further say that, again, believing and understanding that free will exists as part of a manifestation of that infinite and eternal love, which I believe is all of our destinies, I firmly believe that these people that are in hell, if they were to give up their evil ways, if they were to acknowledge that they want to return to the light, if you will,
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I mean, they're going to be known and it'll be aware for the rest of their eternal existence about that incredibly serious of bad decisions they make. But I think that's their choice because I think that's the realm of love. That's a realm of free will.
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be a part of acceptance. Absolutely, it would be forgiveness. So I think there's always that ability for us to choose, you know, to choose and choose what I think is the overwhelmingly obvious thing to go to the light, to go to the love, to go to that eternal beauty.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, absolutely. Huh. You know, we have people that have had strained relationships, that have had some very, what we consider in earthly terms to be very negative during their earthly life. When they appear as a deceased being in a near-death experience, they're essentially always mammothly loving and understanding.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
papers, articles on near-death experience have been published in some of the world's leading medical and scientific journals. So we have a lot of different steps that we can go through to help make sure that the near-death experiences shared with us are, in a word, real.
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And just to sort of clarify this a little bit, here on earth when we form these negative opinions about, you know, narcissistic, I like to term it. Yeah, it's a judgment. I think when you have that eternal knowing and a near-death experience, it's not a matter of seeing them at the end point where they're a narcissistic, difficult, antisocial being.
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When you have that eternal, infinite knowledge about that person, it's like, oh, wait a minute. You were born as a child. You had a horrific upbringing. You had all the pressures in your earthly life. You had narcissistic thoughts. anti-social parents, that was all you could learn.
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And so I think with complete knowledge, it becomes a lot easier to understand how they developed to be anti-social in their earthly life. And there's far more compassion, awareness, understanding. I mean, you know, there but for the grace of God go I kind of thing.
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And I think it helps for people to not judge them based on the end result of this horrific upbringing and experiences of their earthly life, but for them to say that was how that all happened.
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And so I think that's part of why in the afterlife there's that overwhelming loving, forgiveness, acceptance, because we're known for who we are, everything we are, and all those very sad, difficult experiences in life that may have impacted us in different ways because of our human frailties to go down the direction of being difficult, unloving people here in our earthly life.
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But in the afterlife, we all understand that. I think it's fairly easy to understand, you know, who we really are, our eternal soul self. And we're embraced in a part of that afterlife in a very loving way.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Okay. Yeah. Two separate questions there. As far as God, that seems to be cross-cultural. In other words, God is, you know, again, that's a human word, but God, as far as being overwhelmingly loving, compassionate and accepting the creating force, et cetera, that seems to be cross-cultural.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
God is God, whatever our prior belief system, wherever on earth we were when we had our near-death experience, that seems to be the endpoint of understanding God. As far as religious beings, it's a common perception that Christians will see Jesus and people in other non-Christian faiths will see religious beings in their own particular religion. First of all, Christians do see Jesus.
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We're talking about maybe 5% to 7% of near-death experiences see that. When Jesus is encountered, it's rare that the near-death experiencer is unsure of who it is, has to ask. I mean, there instantly seems to be that awareness as with other deceased loved ones or being. Jesus in near-death experiences is rare. very vividly aware of the near-death experiencer of being a very extraordinary being.
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I mean, sure, you have all these other spiritual beings where they feel that sense of love and peace, but often Jesus is described as being far more than any of that. So Jesus in near-death experience is an absolute exceptional being. And as with God in near-death experiences, Jesus is that overwhelmingly loving, accepting person
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The most common descriptor of Jesus is just basically that overwhelming loving presence, accepting presence. People are often surprised, startled even, that they're not judged or that they have a dialogue about what they've done wrong in their earthly life. They're just simply there and Jesus is very profoundly loving.
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Now, even though I've studied non-Western near-death experiences and actually have the largest research study on that that has been reported in the world, religious beings are far less commonly reported in non-Western near-death experiences. And I actually did a scholarly study of Muslim near-death experiences in Iran with an Iranian near-death experience researcher.
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And I asked him, what's up with this? Why are people not describing Muhammad as often as they would Jesus? And his response was very interesting. He said, in the culture of Islam, it would be very much frowned upon if you brought up that you encountered Muhammad. That would be culturally very...
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
considered you know you wouldn't you wouldn't describe that so number one they they probably don't encounter religious beings you know particularly in uh from per the the assessment of this iranian near-death experience researcher i've worked with uh so they probably aren't encountering muhammad as much and probably secondly even if they do i think they'd be a lot more reluctant to share that because of cultural concerns about that type of encounter so
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that, and yet people do describe, we've had some imams described by some experiences are just far less likely. I think we're back to, as we mentioned earlier, you've got these beings that can, you know, what form do you want me to take? And what would be the most loving way to have a creative near-death experience?
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And I think that would explain why you see Christians with that belief or that background. And of course, they're going to continue in that earthly life in a Western Christian environment predominantly, it makes sense that they would see Jesus.
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And you don't want to have somebody impeded in the rest of their earthly life by encountering beings that would be to the detriment of their living the rest of their earthly life, especially if they have to share it with other people. So again, I think it's just part of that loving co-creation of near-death experiences. It seems to be a consistent theme.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That's a key point. And that's part of that scholarly book chapter I co-authored, as I alluded to earlier. We were surprised when we reviewed prior near-death experience research that there was shockingly little correlation between prior cultural religious beliefs and what the content was. And that includes encountering religious beings.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, heck, we have atheists, and we ask specifically in our modern survey what their religious belief or lack of religious belief was at the time of their near-death experience. So we have a pretty good over 20 people that were atheists at the time of their near-death experience, and some of them describe encountering God.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Obviously, they generally don't remain atheists after they have that particular experience, but they can encounter God, they can encounter Jesus. So once again, surprisingly, it doesn't seem to be that religious belief or lack of religious belief that has a strong influence. I think it has perhaps a minor influence, but atheists can encounter God and Jesus.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It checked out. This really happened. So at this point in time, we rely on the honesty of people, their integrity in sharing a very detailed near-death experience. And don't forget, these are profoundly personal experiences. So people that have near-death experiences often consider them to be, if you will, sacred.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Christians often don't encounter God or Jesus, and it's just one of the major mysteries of near-death experiences. We just... You know, we just don't know exactly. We can't really predict with much, if any, accuracy just exactly what the specific content of a near-death experience will be.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's an anonymous survey. They have an array of options to pick of their religious belief or lack of religious belief at the time of the near-death experience. So I think, and we have about, it's about 5% of our near-death experiencers that shared, self-described themselves as atheist at the time of the near-death experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That's about proportional to the United States population of self-described atheists. So I would tend to say that's probably pretty accurate what they're conveying. I think they, and of course, again, they will most of the time choose a different, there'll be a different religious belief. But I would say that's probably when they self-describe themselves as atheists, that's the real thing.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, it's, um, the, the near death experiencers are not throwing darts. So let me explain that. Okay. We ask in our survey about their religious belief at the time they had their near-death experience. Then we ask about their religious belief at the time they shared their near-death experience, an average of about 15 years later.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And so we can, on average, I think for the majority, the religious affiliation they had, and we can like Christian, Protestant, Jewish. So we have a fairly finely tuned subset of possible religious beliefs.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So the majority of people, the religious belief they were at the time of their near-death experience is the same religious affiliation they select on the survey at the time they shared their near-death experience. So even though so many people have had these deep insights, profound spiritual understandings, changes, they seem to be able to incorporate that in a wide variety of religions.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So they're much less likely to embellish or diminish what they consider to be their biggest life event that they ever had.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So it seems like what they've learned seems to fit into essentially every, well, except for atheism, to some extent agnosticism, they pretty much find a match, a home in their religious belief they had to the time they shared their religious belief. And so that's reassuring that what they've learned seems to be something that a wide variety of religious beliefs can encompass.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So that's interesting there, too. And then I think you raised another question about... Remind me again about that. That was about... There was another point there.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, okay. Well, that's good. Now, of the minority that have a change in religious affiliation, we've had sort of two different versions of the survey. The first version was over 1,000 near-death experiencers, and so we asked them in that version of the survey, before we fine-tuned the specific religious affiliation,
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
we asked them about their religious affiliation being liberal, moderate, or conservative fundamentalists. And so with this huge number of people responding to that, they're liberal, moderate, or conservative fundamentalists at the time of their near-death experience, and then at the time they shared their near-death experience,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But with all the other process that we have, very detailed process to help validate them, we're quite corroborated with near-death experiences both published in the scientific and medical literature and acquired by other folks that collect near-death experiences and then post them up. Between all of these validation steps, we're quite confident that what we're seeing is the real thing.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Percentage-wise, there's a very, very slight, literally only a few percent shift in the direction of being liberal. But because of such a vast data set, that is statistically significant. But again, the bigger message is people, you know, if they were liberal in their religious beliefs, the significant majority retain being liberal. If they were moderate, they were moderate.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
If they were conservative fundamentalist, they're going to go on to be conservative fundamentalist. So that's sort of one way to look at it. And then as far as, again, our modern survey, the specific religious affiliations they've chosen, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Hindu, that generally is, at least for the majority, is propagated over this.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now, of the minority that do change their religious affiliation, probably, if you will, a plurality of that subset will define themselves as spiritual but not religious. So there are certainly many near-death experiencers who say they can't go on with their pre-existing religious belief, and they tend to say religious simply can't capture
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
my understanding, my spiritual values, beliefs that I currently have. So they're more, again, a slight, and I want to emphasize it's a minority, a distinct minority will be more likely to, you know, instead of going to any conventional named religious affiliation, it's that spiritual, but not religious. We see that. But on the other hand,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, that's true of American society in the last 20 years anyway, I might add, is there tends to be more and more people self-describing as spiritual but not religious.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, before the near-death experience begins, I mean, shoot, these are people that are having a close brush with death. I mean, they can be You know, at times they're, you know, already unconscious. It may happen quickly. At times they may be, you know, physically dying. Physical dying is a painful process. I mean, you can't overlook that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
However, the moment that consciousness, and it's been called the soul, leaves the physical body, that moment, almost invariably in near-death experiences, they're not having any pain. They're not having that horrific fear. They may often describe like a detachment from the physical body. It's like, whoa, that's down there. That's not me. I am up here.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And above and beyond that, if somebody submits a falsified near-death experience, it really doesn't change what we know about near-death experiences as a whole.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
you know, feeling pain-free, feeling liberated. I mean, I could move, think, and get around in a way that I couldn't within the constraints of my physical body. So at the moment of death, at that moment of separation, that's essentially immediately all pain goes away. When they are aware of their consciousness leaving the body, that's kind of interesting too. It can be
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It can be head, chest or anywhere on the physical body or just seemingly all of the physical body. So that's all variably described if they're aware of sort of that point of their consciousness leaving. It isn't confined to just one anatomic area.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But I think the most important thing is, I mean, to have somebody literally dying, you know, in that kind of misery when they're unconscious at the time they have their experience. So for them to, you know, have that kind of misery and then have it progress to unconscious or clinical death, boom, once that time that consciousness soul separates from the physical body, all of that's over.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They feel it. They just don't feel that pain, misery. And they often... will go to some length to describe that. Wow, you know, here I was literally dying and unconscious from that life-threatening event, and boom, here I am free from all that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
If there's a person who falsifies it and shares some off-the-wall weird thing about the near-death experiences, and that's not corroborated by thousands of other near-death experiences, it's really not affecting our knowledge, our understanding of near-death experiences as a whole.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, that's a great point. No, I'm not aware of any near-death experiences where there seems to be some kind of a choice about when their consciousness will leave the physical body. It just seems to be, boom, it happens. And they don't really comment on that except... The point is it virtually never happens when they're conscious, even when they're physically miserable or in agony.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They've got to be unconscious physically, clinically, if you will, in their physical body or clinically dead. That's when their consciousness separates from the body.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I don't have a scholarly awareness of the literature on remote viewing, so I want to emphasize that right off the bat. But, you know, as you know, you're talking about consciousness voluntarily through intent, leaving the physical body, going to some place far distant from their body, making visual observations and then bringing back those. And there's been
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
a number of reports on that about how remarkably accurate that is so i think it's one of those things i wish there was a lot more scholarly study i mean here you are with a large number of reports a large number of people bringing back something that is strongly suggestive of consciousness apart from the body just like near-death experiences so i would put out a plea to have that studied more that needs to be a lot more research on that we need to learn about that because once again
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That is just another suggestive line of evidence that we're far more than our physical bodies and physical brain.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That would be, yeah. You know, I'm certainly, you know what, I wish there were two of me so I could sit here and study all that. But the analogy of consciousness apart from the body, from near-death experiences, especially consciousness far from the physical body. in near-death experiences and awareness and evidential observations in near-death experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, strikingly interesting to analogize that with remote viewing.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
A shared near-death experience are two or more people having a simultaneous life-threatening event to the point that they're unconscious or clinically dead. And boom, at that point in time, they are aware of each other. Generally, in my series, we're up to about 20 now, they're aware of each other. They can communicate with each other, but they're each having a near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Their consciousness is apart from their physical body. they can be aware of and talk about their physical body down there, even to the point of saying, wow, we're dead. There's awareness of that because their consciousness is up here and they're interacting. So in my series, like I say, it's always, it's two people interacting. I don't have three or more interacting.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
In these, what would be a good example that we haven't before, there was, well one example was one of the earliest shared near-death experiences I got was there was a very bad car accident and these were two teen boys and both of them were unconscious and literally close to death.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And there they were, they were sort of up above their bodies, saw the wreck down below, they were sort of like in a tree area.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
looking down there and that was where they made the comment wow we're dead and so there was awareness and interaction and some dialogue about you know well here we are up here you know what what's going on and after they shared for a while one of them ultimately moved on their consciousness left that interaction with the other person they went on and then it was sometime later the other one
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regained consciousness in the car and went on to survive. So as a result of that, they realized they had a shared death experience. Once you recover consciousness after a shared near-death experience, you pretty much know that the other person is irreversibly, permanently dead. The reason these are important for a couple reasons. Number one,
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We talked about the experience part of a near-death experience, and you're absolutely right. That's a very typical first step of a detailed near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
they're certainly very significant evidence for the reality of near-death experiences. I mean, here you are able to interact and know another person's permanently irreversibly dead, even when you were not told that in your physical earthly life. But in a very fascinating perspective, this is certainly a significant suggestive line of evidence that when we do permanent irreversible death,
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
that the near-death experience seems to be that initial consciousness step that we might all go through as part of near-death experience. In other words, there may be that out-of-body experience, there may be other spiritual beings around, there may be, if you will, that journey, travel through a tunnel, maybe not into some other realm,
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But remarkably, this seems to be suggestive that at the time we all die, that may be our initial pathway that all of us or at least most of us or many of us are going to go through as described in shared near-death experiences.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
is their consciousness separates from the body typically going above their physical body and from that vantage point they can see that accident or if their heart stopped they can often see the frantic efforts of people trying to bring them back to life so out of body experience a typical first thing element that happens in a near-death experience now while no two near-death experiences are the same they may go on to describe passing into or through a tunnel
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And I've kept my eye out for that. I would love to find, you know, my 20 that we have. These are very rare, obviously, experiences. I have yet to describe, except maybe for one. We had one where they were in a building that collapsed, and I believe there was some awareness of several other souls. But for the rest, basically, of the 20 we have, as far as detailed interactions or dialogue going,
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's only been one person who is going to return to earthly life and one person that will go on to permanent irreversible death. So that's the pattern of the 20 that I have. And maybe that's not surprising. I mean, it's kind of unusual to have two people boom, have a simultaneous life-threatening event.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, near-death experiences are only a 10 to 20 percent probability, I think, per life-threatening event. So that kind of, I guess you could wonder or speculate if that It's why they're so uncommon.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And then especially by the time you have three or more people, fortunately, mercifully, that's not real common to have three or more people, especially in the same geographic area, have a life-threatening event.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, we're pretty sure clinically they were dead in the first place. I mean, you know, unconscious is, I mean, here they are living their life They're struggling with a life-threatening event or they suddenly lose consciousness. So there's no doubt you go from... I mean, unconscious is clear. They're not aware of any bodily sensation. They're not thinking. They're not feeling anything anymore.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So even retrospectively, which these studies are, you can be pretty clear that they're unconscious or clinically dead. That's, you know, if you... have your heart stop, I mean, you need some pretty serious medical intervention. So that's typically very well documented. The emergency medical team comes. You're getting CPR. They may see their CPR being given with their out-of-body experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So we're pretty sure that they are really unconscious or clinically. It's not like they're even having fragments of memory. I mean, it's boom. It's a physical brain function, zero, and then they have a near-death experience, and all of a sudden it changes. And, you know, so why do 10 to 20 percent of people that nearly die have a near-death experience? 80 or 90 percent of people don't.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Gosh, I wish we knew that. You know, we're back to that scholarly book chapter we looked at. We were just dang curious about that. I mean, who wouldn't be? So here we are studying prior research, looking at demographics, looking at at anything that prior researchers had, and we just simply cannot predict who would have it and who wouldn't.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, here they're... Right now, this is where it gets interesting. Yeah.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
The only correlation that seemed to stick is of people that were closer to death, that had that cardiac arrest, that were really, you know, literally closer to permanent irreversible death. They were a little more likely to have a near-death experience, but it was not... It was some correlation, not a high correlation. So once again, we're back to that not fully understanding that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
However, I've puzzled on that. I guess my working hypothesis came directly from a near-death experiencer themselves. This near-death experiencer was having an overwhelmingly, as they usually are, blissful, positive experience in this heavenly realm. And they encountered God. And they were, as we've said, they can interact with God. And this near-death experiencer asked God directly, why me?
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Why was I chosen to have this remarkable experience? And God replied to this near-death experiencer, and I'll try to do this exactly verbatim, um, Everyone is special. Love falls on everyone equally. This is what you needed to live your earthly life. So as best I can tell, that's my working hypothesis, is that there seems to be some decision, some loving decision,
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
made from outside of our physical earthly individual consciousness as to why some people have near-death experiences and some don't. It seems to be especially critical for them in some way that we don't fully understand that it was especially important for them for living the rest of their earthly life. Lessons they needed to see, understandings they needed to have.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Often at the end of that tunnel, they may have a beautiful, mystical, unearthly light. Then they may pass into an unearthly, often called a heavenly realm, a realm of beauty. They're typically feeling overwhelming peace, an overwhelming sense of, they often describe love. Peace and love are among the two most common descriptive words people have to describe their near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well... I can, every shred of evidence we have from near-death experiences, NPC means a non-player character. That's correct. For like in computer games where you're not really a part of that. But every shred of, the good news is for everybody concerned about that, every shred of evidence is that every person here on earth has a soul, has that destiny of being eternal.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, so that's the good news on that. We are not, there's no shred of evidence out of thousands of near-death experiences that, Some of us are destined for a heavenly or blissful existence afterwards, and some of us aren't. So that's the good news about that. But circling back to another point you made, another hypothesis, yeah, what if they just don't forget? And that's fascinating.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That absolutely could be true. You know, what if we can induce that awareness, that understanding? Is there some mechanism that we can help people to understand near-death experiences that they forgot or were not allowed to remember. And that's part of the mystery of near-death experiences as part of what would, I would love it if we could find something like that.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So again, research marches on, stay tuned. And that is certainly a hypothesis.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Matt, that's a really important point, and there's been a lot of good research on people that attempted suicide and had a near-death experience.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And remarkably, for virtually everybody that attempted suicide and had a near-death experience, during their experience, they come away with the profound, deep understanding that their suicide was a mistake, that however difficult their earthly existence was, That it's important, it's meaningful, it's significant.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, their earthly life is, in reality, the tiniest slice of their eternal existence. And the near-death experiencers that got that way by having a suicide attempt, when they recover... they almost never attempt suicide again, which is unlike people that attempt suicide and don't have a near-death experience. Tragically, they're much more likely to attempt suicide again and again.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So that's, again, a profound, life-saving message from near-death experiences that our earthly life really is that important. Everybody has a difficult life, and some people have profoundly difficult lives. But that's another key spiritual message from near-death experiences,
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that suicide is never an answer and that we're all here for a reason and a purpose, however difficult, complex our life may be.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They can hear that message either from other spiritual beings they can become aware of through dialogue, that understanding. Again, not judgment typically. Interestingly, they're not judged for that suicide. They just become aware of the importance, the profound importance of love, that there really is an afterlife, that they're deeply loved.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They may see some of their prior, or all of their prior life in what we call a life review. They may encounter deceased loved ones, humans, or interestingly, pets have been described near-death experiences. And around this time, as their experience progresses, they may be in a realm of of beauty that is so great.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, some people commit suicide because they're not aware of just how loved they are. And they can, if you have a life review, you can realize that's where you see part or all of your prior life. they realized that their earthly life really is far more meaningful and significant.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And they had the ability to reach out lovingly to people in their life and create positive impacts in other people's lives that they just didn't have an insight with. So from several different ways, they can come back with that deep understanding that their suicide, well, they're not judged, but it was a big mistake.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, it's so sad that you had that in your son, especially that very first person experience with that, but entirely consistent with the wisdom of near-death experiences. Take hope. Life's important. And, you know, it's a journey to be lived no matter how difficult. And that's, that's yet another critical message, important message from near-death experiences.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I went into my study and near death experience thinking that reincarnation is ridiculous. No way, no how. I mean, that was, you know, somewhat the cultural belief I was raised with, you know, family that was considered to be impossible. So that was my foundation when I started my near death experience research. And Oh my gosh, have I seen,
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hundreds and hundreds of near-death experiences very directly talking about, often occurring during their life review. They may see their prior earthly life, but then boom, all of a sudden they're aware during their near-death experience very vividly of prior earthly lives, and often bringing back some very detailed awareness of that.
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There may be buildings, landscapes, and they may describe colors like in the flowers in this landscape that are beautiful beyond anything earthly possible. They may hear music that they recognize as being beyond anything possible on earth due to its beauty. And then at the end of the near-death experience, many of them are at a moment of decision where they are often other beings around them.
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And it's, you know, they may have been a male in their prior life, female. Generally, when these prior lives are They become aware of that during a near-death experience. They're just very mundane, everyday types of life, decades or even centuries ago, previously.
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So essentially never do we have anybody that has a reincarnation, prior life remembrance where they were Cleopatra or anything like that. I wouldn't believe that either. But these are just very much salt of the earth, mundane existences. So that's really completely changed my mind.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
As a physician and as a near-death experience researcher, I make my opinions based on evidence and reasoning, and there's a mountain of evidence for the reality of reincarnation. And I guess part of that, I had to conceptualize that by understanding that if you believe we live in a universe of infinite possibilities...
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If you really understand and accept that, well, reincarnation is just, you know, one of those infinite possibilities. So it certainly does, you know, certainly possible by that concept and certainly a reality based on a mountain of evidence. Just a real quick example. People would wonder, wow, what's that all like?
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We had a guy who had a near-death experience, saw there's prior earthly life, and boom, he remembered his past. reincarnated life back when he was living in a medieval walled-in city. And if you think these walled-in medieval cities were like Disney with towering castles and knights in white armor, no. This was the reality. What he was aware of
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walled-in cities were necessary to keep out marauding armors and bandits. So within those walled cities, you were confined. They were muddy, gross. It was diseased. There were sick people roaming. And it was a very ugly, brutal life. And he described that vividly during his reincarnation remembrance from that prior life.
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The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
you know, it kind of drives home the very poignant reality of how difficult prior lives were. So, you know, and that's just one example out of, you know, I could say literally over a hundred, hundreds of examples of people remembering either in detail or in more detail, prior life remembrances has led me to accept reincarnation based on literally a mountain of evidence.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Right. It would be hard for me to nail that down because in our most recent version of the survey, we ask a question that's sort of tangentially related to reincarnation. And we have just shoot responses to our most recent survey. We have way over 100 responses. people that are aware of or talk openly about awareness of reincarnation, how they now believe in that. So it's hundreds.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's more than just one or two hundred based on my recollection of the evidence. I mean, it's not rare at all for near-death experiences to have an awareness or new belief in based on their experience in the near-death experience that reincarnation is real.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
These, you know, only about 20% of Americans believe in reincarnation at this time.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So, you know, to have that, you know, these people would be, you know, presumably they're like the rest of the American population. So, yeah, the significant majority of these people either didn't have an opinion or disbelieved reincarnation, and boom, there it is by, you know, personal experience. Heck, that's the greatest teacher.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And there may be a dialogue. Most of the time when the near-death experience ends, boom, they end up back in that physical body trying to recover from that life-threatening event. But a minority of near-death experiencers may be asked to make a decision. Do you want to stay here in this beautiful, unearthly, heavenly realm?
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And so these people come to believe that just by understanding from personal belief. I mean, boom. Well, they come to know it as opposed to believe it. Exactly. And that is so different. I mean, you can hear people talk about reincarnation, but to actually know it, to experience, to know that they had prior lives... That is a much deeper understanding than just an awareness.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That is a deep, profound knowing.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, I mean, my recollection is the great majority of the time it's a life review. It starts out, it doesn't even have to start out with prior earthly life experiences. Although that's the most common pattern. Again, we're back to that, you can almost...
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
never say always or never in near-death experiences, but the great majority, it is indeed during that life review where they see part or all of their prior earthly life. And then, you know, as that plays out, then they become aware of one or even multiple prior earthly life existences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And that's generally the far more likely time, although my recollection is they can become aware of prior lives much less commonly during the near-death experience, but it's possible.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
okay okay so so typically it happens in in a life review with the the entity that we would refer to as god uh actually the majority of the time god's not present when they have a life review in general there's either no entity around or there may just be you know one or several they're more likely to just be spiritual entities um actually
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know, Jesus has been described as being around in a life review, not uncommonly. So it's generally those are the either no entities or one or several around there. And interestingly, you know, once again, they're aware of their prior earthly life. Again, there's that sense of non-judgment. There's that sense very vividly of being a completely different person.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And interestingly, though, even though they may be a different gender, they're in a different country, different environment and belief that they had at that point in time, they typically describe themselves as being themselves. In other words, they say, I was in a different life, but it was me. I am who I am. I sort of had that core personality that I have.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Or do you want to go back to everything you've known for your entire prior life, your earthly life?
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And yet there I was projecting that self in a different era and a different life.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah. Very uncommonly, or rarely, people are aware of a prior existence not of this earth. And that's just dang fascinating to me, as you can imagine. But they are aware of their existence, their conscious existence,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
in an unearthly realm and again these are very very uncommon i wish i had a lot more of these experiences to study but they're very clear that this was alien in in all the trimmings i mean this was different very different from earth in terms of you know literally everything environment other people around them appearance.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And that's fascinating that, again, certainly significant suggestive evidence that there really is life on other planets and we can see that in near-death experiences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, we're back to very rare again, but we've had some people rare and I can recall one in particular where they were aware of their prior life and they were sort of, they said they initially started conscious being
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
fish like in an ocean and they were aware of their evolution through more advanced conscious physical beings on earth and then progressed all the way up to their earthly life so that's you know again i don't want to put too much emphasis on an anecdotal report but that's just dang fascinating so again
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
one of those things, you know, it really gives you pause to reflect on just exactly how detailed these life reviews and reincarnation awarenesses can be.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We had a very fascinating person who was aware of their prior life around World War I Germany. And they were not a soldier, but they were living in a city and had a detailed awareness of what the city was like, streets, buildings, et cetera.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And this person actually traveled to Germany after their near-death experience and was literally aware of new street... I mean, the buildings were very different. Street names were very different. But he knew the layout from his prior life recollection of that area. And that's one of the more evidential prior life memories that we have going on.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And he was well aware of how important that was and took a lot of notes on that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
in between lives? Sure. And that's a great question because there does seem to be that existence in that afterlife heavenly realm in between lives. So that's something that seems to be a common theme in this. But I just don't have the data to really say, you know, here's an average, here's a range. You would be, as you would expect,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Obviously, you have to have died in this earthly life prior to, at least in Earth's timeline, beginning your next earthly life. So that's about all we have. And that can be at least a short interval of time, as best I can recall, or it can be a very, very long interval of earthly time. That's really about as far as I can say without actually crunching the data and looking at it carefully.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
First of all, a near-death experience is when they have prior life remembrance. Essentially, I do not recall any near-death experience saying they had a choice. In other words, I chose to go here. I had these options, and this is what I wanted to do. So they seem to be boom.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They happen without them consciously being aware of a decision or a choice to have that particular prior life or that particular time in the prior life. It's just boom, they're there without decision. you know, any seeming input or conscious awareness or decision on their part. Yeah.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Um, especially in the more detailed near death experiences and typically in this heavenly realm, um, near the end of the experience, and I know what to look for if they're coming up on, if they're walking down a path with spiritual beings, and they're coming up on a bridge, a creek that crosses a path, there's a chasm there, I know darn good and well what that means.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It means they're nearing the end of the near-death experience, and especially with other beings around them, that means they're going to be at a moment of decision. They almost never cross over that chasm, bridge, creek, or whatever the barrier is called near the path of the end of their near-death experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But when they are ultimately there, there's a couple different ways the near-death experience can end. The significant majority involve them just returning to their earthly life basically involuntarily. Boom, they're there. There may be some interaction. And then they're back in their earthly life fighting for their life and what nearly killed them.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now, there's a distinct minority of them that have a very fascinating discussion with these other spiritual beings. And those are the ones that are given a choice. In other words, they're very clear. What would you like to do? Would you like to return to your earthly life or would you like to stay here? And this is where it gets just dang interesting. I mean, here they're right now.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
This is where it gets interesting.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We've had some other interesting things we talk about, too. All right, I stand corrected. There's another interesting thing here. But, I mean, how awesome is this? They're given a choice about returning. And here is their prior earthly life. They've lived decades, typically, of earthly life.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Everyone they knew, everything they knew, their friends, family, loved one, was that prior existence, prior to their near-death experience. So one would think...
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
that if you had a choice about staying in that earthly, returning to that earthly physical life or staying in that heavenly realm, well, obviously you'd want to go back to what that familiarity, friends, family, loved ones, marriage, children, but that's not what is observed.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Out of many, many near-death experiences that have a choice, the substantial majority don't want to leave that heavenly physical or heavenly realm. They do not want to return to their earthly life. And the reason for that is they feel, again, that that heavenly realm is their real home. They feel connected there. They feel that overwhelming love, connection, peace, the other beings around them.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's probably 95% right, their consciousness is above their body. And they're actually seeing and often hearing those ongoing physical events. So it's typically high enough up that they can get a view of the area around their body. They may describe it often as in the corner of a room or often up near the ceiling.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Their consciousness is greatly accelerated, at least the great majority of them. So they really feel that that is where they want to stay. And certainly they're not having any of that misery, discomfort, or issues that are in their earthly physical body is causing them to nearly die.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So it's fascinating that the great majority make a very conscious discussion and will often argue with the spiritual beings there that, no, I don't want to return there. I mean, it can literally be a heated interaction if they're given a choice and the beings think they ought to go back to their earthly life.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So at that point in time, in this dialogue, the spiritual beings will often work with them. And one of the things I see, and we have a small series of this, for the spiritual beings to help entice the people having a near-death experience to choose to go back to the earthly life. We have a small series where they're shown what happens in the future if they stay in the heavenly realm.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And they see the misery, the sadness of the people they left behind on earth, how their life may be much more difficult. And we even have a small series where they're shown their funeral if they choose to stay in that heavenly realm. And that's just, I mean, man, I get chills sometimes seeing these types of near-death experiences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
For instance, here was one where near the front row he saw his funeral and there were like some couple two-year-olds laughing and giggling because they didn't know it was a funeral. They didn't know the sadness. They weren't aware of the permanent death. loss of this person who is a part of their life.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So once the near-death experiencers are shown that, are aware of the negative impact of people on the earth, or even get a sense of their own funeral, then they will ultimately make that decision to return to their earthly life. And by the way, that's tough, as you can imagine, for the spouses of these people to
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
If the near-death experiencer is honest and saying, look, here's what the experience was, and I didn't want to leave, I didn't want to come back to you, and I've known directly some people that had near-death experiences, that's tough for a spouse. It just takes a long time for the spouse to really get... just how profoundly gripping, loving, connected they felt on the afterlife.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And it would really take an enlightened spouse to really understand why the person who had the near-death experience wanted to stay in that heavenly realm. I mean, that's just how powerfully positive embracing that the heavenly realm is. And that's sort of a vivid, very poignant demonstration of just how powerful that experience is there.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
As far as their consciousness going level with their physical body, that's probably only about 5%. So by and large, these out-of-body experiences involve that consciousness over the body seeing ongoing earthly events. And remarkably... it's not just a matter of their consciousness being directly above or in the vicinity of their physical body.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We have literally scores of near-death experiences where that out-of-body experience, that conscious point of reference, actually leaves the vicinity of their physical body and observes things like you would say city blocks away, even over a mile away. And when they make those observations and then they so often come back and check out what was the accuracy, the validity of what they saw,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
We've had scores and scores of people share, you know, what we call entity encounters. You know, they're sometimes called ghosts. But, you know, the fact that both you and your wife saw exactly the same thing, and I'm sure shared in great detail about it was, and we've said earlier, what's real is consistently observed. Basic scientific principle, consistently observed. That was reality.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So that really happened. No doubt about that. You know, I think one thing I could speculate on is, you know, we're... There's a much bigger universe as broadly defined than we're aware of in our earthly ongoing existence. I mean, exactly like what you experienced. I mean, there's a lot of what we call non-ordinary and yet it's important types of things.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, I would speculate one possibility out of many possibilities could be
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
that there could be a intelligent, divine God, some conscious entity in the afterlife that said, Matt, you have the potential, you have the, you know, maybe you need a push in the direction of developing this interest by this type of personal experience, opening your awareness, your thinking about this, your consciousness,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
to make you open to exploring this in a way very few people have the potential to do. And that through your explorations and your sharing, exactly like these podcasts, you could have a very valuable, positive, loving, compassionate impact in this world that you might not have had, had you not had that experience. And that could be the product of a divine, loving consciousness. Yeah, I love that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
remarkably almost invariably what they saw close to their body or far from their physical body accurate down to the finest details i mean absolutely impossible for them to have that kind of information that kind of visual awareness unless their consciousness their point of reference really was actually above their body or even far from their physical body far outside of any possible physical sensory awareness yeah i want to go into maybe a couple of examples of of that i i
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Dr. Long says I did, you know, studied entities times, you know, huge numbers.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Matt, you're saving the best for last. Are you very deliberate, isn't it? And I expand on that a little bit. Just within the last week, several weeks, I've done some research that I have not yet shared with the world. And I thought this would be an outstanding opportunity to share.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So I think some really important insights from near-death experience that I've just, you know, one of them I pretty much finished the research on. The others were well underway. And yeah, this is exciting. So Let's start out with the fact that we've talked earlier about the fact that near-death experience is going to occur worldwide in a variety of different cultures, prior belief systems.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So we had just a few days ago where I live up in Kentucky, my work day was canceled. We had a snow day. So what do you do when you have a free day and it's snow and you can't go outside? Well, I did research. So that allowed me to crunch the data that I had from non-Western near-death experiences. Now let's define that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Non-Western, I and others define that as being countries that are not largely Judeo-Christian. I mean, these are like the Buddhists, the countries, Hindu-believing countries predominantly, Islam-believing countries. So these are countries that have radically different cultures than our typical Western type of countries, such as here in America.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now, the reason that's important to study these types of near-death experiences is that if anyone ever had any thinking that near-death experience is what occurs is due to pre-existing cultural or religious beliefs, this is the best way to investigate that possibility is through these very culturally different near-death experiences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So because we have such a huge volume of near-death experiences on our most recent version of the survey, we were able to identify 51 people that had non-Western near-death experiences. And we did it with all the usual care and criteria for near-death experiences. And as part of that, so here is the largest study of non-Western near-death experiences that have ever been reported.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And we'll do it right here and right now for you, Matt, because, well, heck, you asked. So here's what we found. What defines a near-death experience? There's a research criteria called the NDE scale, and that's a series of 16 questions that have been validated to help determine what's a near-death experience and not a near-death experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So we had, through my wife's heroics, Jodi's incredible actions, she was able to get volunteers to translate our survey into over 30 different languages. And that included a number of different languages that are predominant in non-Western countries. So we used exactly the same survey, exactly the same questions, exactly the same NDE scale questions.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So for the first time in history, we could compare a large number of non-Western near-death experiences with typical Western near-death experiences, comparing apples with apples filling out the same... version of the survey. So that's never been done, especially with that number of non-Western near-death experiences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So it is literally a few days old that I finally got all the data, crunched it, ran my chi-square analysis, and I was amazed. Matt, I found that these non-Western near-death experiences are strikingly similar to typical Western near-death experiences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Out of the 16 of these near-death experience scale questions that define a near-death experience, only one was statistically different between the two groups, between the non-Western and the Western near-death experiences. So again, everything that we've talked about here today that occurs during a near-death experience, out-of-body experience, tunnel, motions,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
visiting these beautiful unearthly realms, life reviews, everything. You see these in non-Western near-death experiences, and you see them in about the same proportion as Western near-death experiences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So once again, I am amazed in my near-death experience research that it doesn't seem to make any difference whether you're, say, a Muslim in Egypt or a Hindu in India or a Christian in the United States or someone with no particular religious belief. Anywhere on the world that you have a near-death experience, what happens, what occurs, is going to be strikingly similar.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
This study almost single-handedly refutes the skeptic concerns that the content, what happens in a near-death experience, is a consequence of pre-existing cultural or religious beliefs. No, not a trace of that in this. It's my honor and privilege to bring forward that leading-edge research, largest study of non-Western near-death experiences.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And your viewers are going to have, at this point, been the first to hear about it. I'm going to present this later at a national meeting, and we'll be writing that up for scholarly paper publication. But that's what it'll be.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, and when I go into these types of research, I mean, I'm always going to let the evidence lead me. I mean, you go into this and say, wow, I thought these were similar experiences around the world, but you don't really know for sure. I mean, it's my subjective impression.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But after you get all the experiences, do the research, and then crunch the numbers, look at the data, now I can say it definitively. They are strikingly similar worldwide. Actually, I had a pretty good idea that was happening because I published a scholarly paper with an Iranian near-death experience researcher I mentioned briefly earlier.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
In that paper, we had about 20 Iranian Muslim near-death experiences in our written conclusion. In that paper, again... the content of these Iranian Muslim near-death experiences strikingly similar to typical Western near-death experiences. But we weren't really comparing apples with apples with large groups of people completing the same survey and the same questions. We were able to do that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now we can, more definitively than we've ever been able to say before, anywhere on the planet you have a near-death experience, what happens, what occurs is going to be remarkably similar.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, it's really just, you know, yet another of many, many lines of evidence for the reality of near-death experience. And we can talk about that skeptics, you know, that believe that near-death experiences are a result of prior cultural or religious beliefs. That's one of, literally one of over 30 different skeptical explanations of near-death experience that have been proposed over decades.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now the reason there's so many of these skeptical explanations of near-death experience floating around is very simple. There's no one or several of these explanations skeptics have come up with that explains anything that happens during a near-death experience, let alone this large volume, the totality of the evidence, much of which we've discussed here today.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And so as a result of that, skeptics keep bringing, you know, the skeptics themselves can't agree on any one or several explanations as a group. That's why they have over 30 and keep coming up with a new one it seems every year or two. There's nothing that anybody in the skeptical arena has come up with that explains how near-death experiences could be due to physical brain function at all.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
That's it. Matt, that is a great point. Now I'm going to take it and run a little bit. One of the survey questions that we have asked people that had near-death experiences very directly. At the current time, what do you believe about the reality of your experience? Definitely real, probably real, probably not real, definitely not real.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Survey, 834 near-death experiencers responded to that, and about 94% stated their experience was definitely real. So you're right, I mean, just the arrogance of a skeptic to deny the overwhelming large number of people that overwhelmingly believe in the reality of their near-death experience, and then on top of that, When the skeptics provide explanations for near-death experience, that's crap.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, yeah, great question.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's technically hypotheses. In other words, they're saying this possibly might explain how it occurs. It's a hypothesis, not an explanation. And so how do you determine if the hypothesis holds water or not? Well, really easy. Does a hypothesis explain what's observed? Well, heck no. It doesn't explain anything we see in near-death experiences, let alone the totality.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
One of the most commonly observed things in a near-death experience is that time is radically different than earthly time. And it typically seems to be a dilation of time in the sense that in the near-death experience, particularly when they're in these unearthly heavenly realms,
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
It's just a vivid example, and you've run into this and I've run into that, about just how closed-minded to the point of just being downright weird some of these skeptics can be.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Yeah, and again, this happened so quick. But it was some question of the effect of like, it's one of the sort of the ND scale research questions, but it was, you know, either you didn't have this or I felt one and united with the world or one and united with the universe. And right off the bat, you know, And near-death experience, we talked about that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
They often come away with that awareness of the unity or oneness of all. So it's a very good question. But, geez, you can see how that might not translate. I mean, how, you know, one or unity or feeling at one. You know, I'm kind of suspicious that that is, you know, these non-English, non-Western countries, I mean, they certainly have a very different culture and they may conceptualize
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
awareness of being, you know, one or at unity with the world or universe, that might be a very difficult concept to accurately translate. So given that 15 out of 16 had no statistical difference, I'm pretty sure that that's just something that's just a difficult... concept to accurately translate. And that's probably what's going on here. Yeah. What else? What else was there?
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Well, I've been diligent lately. So again, here's another scoop for your viewing audience here is if non-Western near-death experiences weren't enough. Another thing, Matt, that I've been looking at is what I consider to be perhaps the the most, or at least among the most, evidential of near-death experience types of accounts. And these are ones that occur under general anesthesia.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now look, if you're under general anesthesia, under that blanket of sleep, and probably most people have experienced that, I mean, boom, you're conscious, you're absolutely, I mean, you're unkind. Gosh, we do general anesthesia because you're cutting on the body and you don't want them to have any feeling of pain or sensation or anything.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So general anesthesia in general is a complete blanket of sleep. You don't have any sensory awareness at all at the time you're under general anesthesia. However, there's a mercifully small percentage of people that have complications, either of the anesthesia or the surgery or the pre-existing accident or illness that led to the operation being necessary in the first place. So
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
What could be earthly time in terms of, I mean, don't forget they're unconscious or clinically dead, often minutes, less than an hour. And yet the near-death experience can have events that would literally stretch out over hours, even over a day, has been reported. So they're processing events, information, awareness around them that is far more...
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
There's a very small percentage of people whose heart stops. They have cardiac arrest during general anesthesia. Obviously, that's very carefully monitored. I mean, I've been there. I've been, you know, as a physician, I've been trained in the operating. I've been there. And they very carefully monitor heartbeat. So when you have your heart stop, you know that. And you know it immediately.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You know it vividly. So I have at this point a small series of near-death experiences where they were clearly, by my retrospective review, under general anesthesia at that time, and their heart stopped. And how do we know that? Because at the time their heart stopped, they had that out-of-body experience.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Boom, consciousness above their body, aware of them physically down on the operating room table, aware of the panic in the operating room at that unexpected moment, complication, their heart stopped and believe me, that causes a lot of panic and trouble.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
So here they are observing their own resuscitation while under general anesthesia in the operating room and then they go on to have what's typically a very detailed near-death experience. They may go through that tunnel, be in the unearthly realm.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
But in this small series that I have, they not only were under general anesthesia, they not only observed their own cardiac arrest, their heart stoppage, observed their own resuscitation, but then beyond that, they had the health care team come back and validate what they saw. at the time they were under general anesthesia, at the time their heart stopped.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
This is some of the most profoundly evidential near-death experience accounts imaginable. There's absolutely no other explanation for this, absolutely no way physical brain function could do this. The only rational explanation for these types of near-death experiences are exactly what the near-death experiencers themselves, what they experienced, what they believed.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
that there really was consciousness apart from the body when it should be, if you will, doubly impossible. Yeah, so what can a skeptic say to that? The only choice they have is to disbelieve the near-death experience. Heck, if you're a skeptic, I can put you in touch with these people and you can go off on that. They won't. It's really sad that people, especially when you have people...
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
People all around the world have encountered entities, ghosts, as you described, but people all around the world have described near-death experiences. To blow off that huge volume of data just because it doesn't fit into the skeptic's narrow-minded view of the world is really sad. And it's not scientific, I might add, too. A scientist starts out with observation.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
You observe what people describe, you observe the experiences they have, and then you develop hypotheses, which is exactly what I did, And then you look for the evidence that either supports or opposes the hypothesis. And then on that body volume of evidence, you make a determination as to what it really is. So that's why, you know, again, near-death experiences are, in a word, real.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Oh, yeah. I mean, they're all somewhat similar. I mean, just to pick one out of that small series I have, and I don't even remember. I mean, I'm looking over a lot of these experiences, but there's like... There's no question they're under general anesthesia. Why? Because this one had their abdomen open. They had some kind of abdominal surgery that they were doing.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And believe me, when you have your abdomen open, you're under general anesthesia and you're asleep. So this person had, this was an allergy, a severe allergy to some kind of medication that they received. And so as a result of that, their heart stopped, and boom. So there they were, and they were typically above their body, sort of at a side, and there they were observing their body being open.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
rapid than would be possible during their earthly everyday life. And in fact, to corroborate that, we ask a very key question in our survey, and that was, we asked them directly about how was your level of consciousness and alertness during your near-death experience compared to your earthly everyday life.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
Now, they often have, like, gowns, you know, covering the surgical area, so it's not as bad as it sounds, but, I mean, they're under jail in anesthesia. And what they describe is, you know, it's not like what you see on TV where crash carts mystically appear and there's a calm, active, professional crowd efforts at resuscitation. This is what really happens is panic.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
There can be unprofessional behavior. Unfortunately, it's usually the doctor who is an anesthesiologist that are very unhappy. Their patient's coding panic. You know, they can sense the emotions of people. They're frightened. and, you know, horrified even. And, you know, that's all vividly, that's what really happens when your heart stops and you're under general anesthesia.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, that's a huge deal. I mean, you not only have to resuscitate them, you've got the operative whole, you know, they're open, their body's open, and you have to deal with, you know, finishing it up. So, they were able to observe that and who was doing what and what they said.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And unfortunately, at least especially a long time ago, physicians would be very reluctant or often reluctant to tell people that they had a cardiac arrest. that their heart stopped during general anesthesia. I mean, they'd be afraid to tell them that, they'd be afraid to frighten them. But in modern times, they're much more, physicians feel obligated to disclose that.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
I mean, if you had your heart stopped during anesthesia, you need to know that, you need to follow up. You know, geez, you better check with, you could get an EKG, electrocardiogram, measure your heart electric, make sure there's no permanent damage, because that's a big deal. That's a huge physiological insult to have your heart stop, especially during general anesthesia.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And if it was an allergic reaction, you dang sure need to disclose that in the modern era to your patients so you don't get that particular drug again. So now in modern era, we're seeing more disclosure of that. And then as part of that disclosure...
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
the near-death experiencer will say, hey, look, here's what I saw, and can describe in detail, often to the embarrassment of the doctor, hey, whoops, yeah, that's embarrassing what they were cussing or whatever.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And so, you know, for them to bring back what would be considered an unexpected observation of, you know, panic, crash cart, not being there, issues, trouble trying to bring them back to life, I mean, that adds to the validity of the observations. And then the health care team says, always essentially astonished. How could you know that? Who told you? Well, you know, we know who told us.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
She saw it. He saw it. And so as a result of that, we have these literally validated, not only out-of-body observations, but later validated that this was real. This is when you had your near-death experience, and that's exactly the life-threatening event that happened. So again, some of the strongest observations
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
And about 75%, three-quarters, will say that their level of consciousness and alertness during their near-death experience was greater than that of their earthly everyday life, which is just amazing. I mean, think about it. Their unconscious are clinically dead, and yet their consciousness is accelerated even beyond what they've been aware of in their earthly life.
Matt Beall Limitless
The Deepest Dive into Near Death Experiences on the Net | #36 Dr. Jeffrey Long
a series of near-death experiences proving that they are absolutely real and cannot possibly be due to physical brain function. So I'm still gathering them. Again, I emphasize it's a work in progress, but we have enough of these reports lined up that it's clearly part of the pattern. This really happens during near-death experiences.