The Spiritual Experience That Stumps Science
Near Death Experiences Bring New Hope to Life
Have you ever had a Near Death Experience (NDE)? If not, maybe you haven’t heard or paid much attention to the term and don’t know what it means. As you probably guessed, it’s pretty much self-explanatory. In a word, it’s literally the experience of being nearly dead.
But it’s a misnomer in some cases. The experiences of people who are clinically dead for a brief time before being revived are also considered NDEs. So they are in — not near — death. They’ve arrived, but don’t stay long.
In any case, what’s fascinating is the ways in which people experience NDEs…and how profoundly those people change.
Description of Near Death Experience
Kenneth Ring describes it well. He was a psychology professor and researcher at the University of Connecticut in 1988 when this New York Times interview was published. Here is an excerpt:
It involves a pattern of feelings and images and sensations which include a sense of the most profound peace and well-being that is possible to imagine. It’s a sense of being separate from the physical body and sometimes being able to see it as though a spectator off to one side or from up above.
