July 19, 2018
Volume 48 - No. 29
By Pete Peterson
Death is still a mystery, but an analysis of those who report NearDeath Experiences provides a greater understanding of what happens when life ends. Scientific research into thousands of NDEs has led to new attitudes about the dying process. Near-DeathExperiences are not a new phenomenon. The oldest recorded medical record of one was in 1740, the date of an account published in a book purchased by anthropologist Dr. Phillipe Charlier. He paid $1 for the ancient tome at an antique shop, not The The Paper Paper -- 760.747.7119 760.747.7119
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expecting to create medical history. Dr. Charlier’s book described a medical patient who fell unconscious, then reported seeing a pure bright light that was interpreted as being Heaven. The patient, attracted by a sense of well-being, wished to approach the light, but an unidentified voice cautioned him to go no further or he’d not be able to return to his former life. A Classical Description
This is a classical description of a Near-Death Experience, as recorded in thousands of reports. In Anita
Moorjani’s case, she received healing as well. Diagnosed with lymphoma in 2002, Anita fell into a coma February 2, 2006. She weighed just 85 pounds at the time. As she told the Today Show in 2016, the effect of her coma was as if, “I hovered above my body, with 360-degree peripheral vision of the whole area around me. Not just in the room where I was, but other areas as well.” She describes a reunion with her deceased father and being mesmerized by a beautiful light. “I wanted to get closer to the light, but father told me to stay where I was, or I
would not be able to return home.” Anita hesitated in following these directions because, “Of the beauty of my surroundings – the light, the fact that all pain had left my body, that all my fears had been erased. For the first time ever, I felt unconditional love.” Reluctantly, Anita returned, and authored a top-selling book, Dying to Be Me. In it she writes, “Within 4 days my tumors had shrunk 70 per cent. Within a month, my cancer was completely gone.” Skeptics at the time said her writing
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