169. Near Death Experiences 2

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And welcome back to the Infinite
Rabbit Hole.

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I'm your host Jeremy.
And today we're going to go

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ahead and wrap up our coverage
on near death experiences.

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We're going to start off with
Doctor Grayson's last point and

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then we're going to go ahead and
jump into some of other people's

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research and then we're going to
jump into some of the science

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and maybe a topic here and there
as well before we get started.

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And then I don't want to take
too long.

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Go ahead and rate US five stars
if you would, please.

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Without further ado, travelers,
let's go ahead and jump right

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into this.
No waiting here today.

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We'll see you on the other side.
And DES are life changing.

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The last piece of evidence for
the belief that there is an

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afterlife comes from not
something that happens during

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the experience, but rather what
happens afterwards.

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Many people who experience an
NDE no longer fear death, have a

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greater appreciation for life,
and often times begin to seek

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out ways that they can help
others who fear this transition

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or are suffering from something
that has them knocking on

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death's door.
Many even claim to have been

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either permanently or
temporarily given gifts of

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supernatural psychic type that
puts them more balance with

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those that are around them.
Although there are many who come

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out of an NDE with a new
positive look on life, there are

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plenty that come out and have a
very negative outcome from the

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experience.
Typically, this does not come

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from the experience itself,
rather it comes from the time

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after the experience.
Many people will mention their

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experience to their healthcare
professional who was active in

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their events or to their general
health practitioner.

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This is usually the point in
which the experience becomes

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negative as they are made to
believe that the visions were

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induced by drugs or lack of
oxygen.

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Sometimes the negative events
don't happen with a doctor, but

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rather happen when they discuss
their experience with a family

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member or friend.
Many have reported being

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ridiculed over the admittance of
an NDE, with the other person

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claiming that they are looking
for attention, were on drugs, or

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were just generally lying.
This of course would present a

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negative experience to anyone
and would push someone into the

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shadows of life more than they
ever were.

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Now the experience not only
makes them ashamed of being

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accused of lying, but they also
now don't feel safe enough to

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actually discuss this experience
with anyone, even in a

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productive manner.
While doing my research and

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reading book after after book
after book about Ndes, one topic

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kept coming up and that was the
fact that many people who come

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forward once about their
experience will never come

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forward again if the first time
is a negative reaction.

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I have found statistics that
claim 15 to 20% of those that

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suffer an event that nearly or
actually does kill them report

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having an NDE.
But there are many who believe

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that this number could be much
higher.

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But those who have had the
experience will not come forward

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due to fear of a negative
experience from those that they

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trust with their information.
But those that do come forward

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with their story do end up
having a new positive look on

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aspects of their lives and their
attitudes.

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There also seems to be a
phenomenon with those that do

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nearly die but don't report an
NDE or even claim that there was

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no way that they experienced an
NDE in which the person who

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nearly died or was pronounced
dead at some point changes their

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life habits, attitude and their
personality in some way.

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Could this mean that they did
have an experience and will

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mention it at some point?
Or maybe that they had an

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experience, they do not remember
it.

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Or maybe there is something more
to the aspect of death and

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effects that it has on a human's
life.

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One day we may find out, but
we'll cover that in another

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episode.
According to a study by PMH

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Atwater in Jeffrey Long's book
Evidence of the Afterlife,

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Atwater claims to have found
that it takes the average Nder

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about seven years to fully
understand, mentally recover and

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integrate back into their normal
lives after an NDE.

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But no matter the study, it
seems that a common conclusion

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is that the experiencer tends to
come out with a new look on

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life, which most typically comes
out positive.

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With such changes as quote more
self-confidence, stronger sense

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of spirituality, they reduce
interest in material gainer

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status and a greater
appreciation of life, says Long.

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Other studies have also found
that these positive outcomes

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also come with such changes as a
belief in the sacredness in

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life, a sense of a godly
presence and understanding of

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meaning and life's purpose and
awareness of the needs of

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others, increased value of love
and peace, a decreased fear of

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death, an increased belief in
the afterlife and a goal to live

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a more fulfilling life.
The other detailed One of the

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most commonly reported
descriptions from a near death

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experience come from the process
of death itself, that being the

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famous white light that appears
to you, and just prior to that

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is the third person view or out
of body experience that you have

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of your dying body.
Numerous reports claim to have

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one or the other experience, and
in most cases in which the white

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light is discussed, the third
person view is also present.

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Among some of the other common
details that are described are

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that the experiencers still sees
themselves as a physical being,

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with a few others reporting that
they were more of a light or

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essence.
Experiencers often come across a

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guide of some sorts, which is
commonly described as a loved

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one who has previously passed on
or someone who gives off the

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feeling of being the one who can
best be described as God.

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But no matter who this guide
ends up being, there seems to

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regularly be a period of re
establishment into the afterlife

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that this guide helps you
through as you remember who you

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really are.
This brings to attention one of

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the most famous cases of Ndes
ever, that being the case of

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neurosurgeon Even Alexander in
2000, 1008, when he was

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medically induced into a coma
while fighting a bacterial

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infection in his brain known as
meningitis.

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While in the coma, his situation
grew worse as pus began

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surrounding his brain and was
given a very slim chance of

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survival.
But on day 6 the coma, he

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surprised everyone and opened
his eyes.

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At first he had symptoms of
confusion and amnesia as well as

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having difficulty controlling
various parts of his body, but a

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few days later everything began
to return to normal.

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It was then that he began
talking about his out of body

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experience he had while
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He described an incredible
peaceful feeling, a light that

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brought him out of his body,
watching people pray over his

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body in the most shocking detail
of a young female that acted as

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a guide for him while away from
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He was completely unaware of who
she was and did his best to

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explain her features, but nobody
knew who he could possibly be

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talking about.
Well, a few months after the

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coma, Dr. Alexander, who was
adopted at birth, found his

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biological parent and that is
where he found out that he had a

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biological sister who passed
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One looked at a picture of her
and he knew exactly who his

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mystery guide in the afterlife
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More on this case in a future
episode of The Infinite Rabbit

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Hole.
In Doctor Grayson's book after,

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Grayson points out a detail that
he saw fluently in his research

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subjects and to ease the
workings of the mind while

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experiencing one of these events
seem to work at a much higher

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and perfect efficiency while
thinking, speaking not verbally

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and the processing of
information quote.

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What I found is that many of
them did report that their

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thoughts become much faster,
clearer, and more logical than

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usual.
This not only affects the mind,

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but seems to also affect the
senses of hearing and vision in

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many cases as well.
Many experiencers detail

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incredible colors or lights that
they cannot explain with human

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words, ones that they have never
seen or could even conceptualize

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from their earthly perspective.
The same goes for the sense of

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hearing, as many specifically
detail the ability to hear every

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single detail of the area in
which their near death

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experience took place.
In Grayson's book titled After,

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he quotes a man by the name of
Greg Gnome who drowned after

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going over a waterfall.
Suddenly I could hear and see as

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never before.
The sound of the waterfall was

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just so crisp and clear that it
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Another important detail that
was outlined by Grayson is a

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seemingly different perception
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He highlights in many different
accounts which describe a lack

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of time or time that was moving
much slower in the physical

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world.
Experiencers have regularly

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described how their events it
felt like hours, days, months or

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even years, but in reality only
a few seconds or minutes had

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passed in the physical world.
And the last commonly described

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detail is the environment of the
afterlife.

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To be clear, there are typically
two different categories of

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environments commonly described,
one of which is in the setting

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of the cosmos where you are
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In some cases this is amongst
stars, planets, black holes,

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quasars and nebulas, and in
other cases this is simply just

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a void lacking any color
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The second category of
environment is more earthbound

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or human experience, which comes
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a long hallway with many rooms
attached for processing, or a

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beautiful garden with many
experiencers reporting both.

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A modern look at an ancient
mystery In Jason Hewlett and

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Peter Wren's book Dying Light,
an investigation into near death

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experiences, Hewlett discusses a
more modern technique to the

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research going on into the
phenomenon of near death

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experiences.
Through this chapter of the

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book, he dives into
conversations with Andrea Soto

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of Western University's Brain
and Mind Institute in which they

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discuss the usage of test mining
and AI technologies to help

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extract information from 158
different written accounts of

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near death experiencers.
This process began by asking

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experiencers to write down
whatever they remember from

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their experience in an essay
format without any limitations.

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The purpose of this was to
remove the limitations of

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multiple choice answers and
attempt to rid the possibility

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of creating a false memory in
the person who is being

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surveyed.
The very first thing they did

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with the information compiled by
158 different accounts was to

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look for repeated words and what
their frequency was.

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While using AI technologies,
they found that there were some

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30 different descriptive words
that were used on regularity

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like light, tunnel, body and
death.

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The word light was discovered to
appear in 106 accounts of the

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158 or 67% tunnel showed up 55
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So Do then goes on to describe
what exactly they did, with the

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information paraphrased by
Hewlett as quote.

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If words like light and tunnel
are present in all the

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documented cases, there is
substantially no distance

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between them.
Says so Do.

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If words like light and tunnel
are present in all the

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documented cases, there is
substantially no distance

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between them.
If a word is present in one

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account but not in any other,
there is a great distance

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between them.
By taking this step they were

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then able to discover that
positive toned words show up

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much more frequently like sea
and light, and when compared to

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negative tone words like death
and fear.

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After this step they looked at
the specific position of these

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terms and whether or not they
were used to describe the

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general experience or just a
small portion of it, or possibly

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even the time before or after
the experience took place.

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This then showed that the vast
majority of the actual near

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death with experiences that were
recorded were viewed as a

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positive experience by the
person who experienced them.

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They were also able to discover
that most accounts describe

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certain details, such as a light
or tunnel, and some even

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described a tunnel of light
science.

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In the 1950s, neurosurgeon
Wilder Penfield of the McGill

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University's Montreal
Neurological Institute became

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the most well known name in the
studies involving the mapping of

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the brain and what areas are
responsible for what action.

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His studies were based around
patients who suffered from

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seizures that were not made
better with medication.

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According to the website
clevelandclinic.org, a seizure

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is a medical condition where you
have a temporary unstable surge

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of electrical activity in your
brain.

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When that happens, the affected
brain cells uncontrollably fire

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signals to others around them,
which overload the areas of the

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brain.
In the 1950s, the answer to this

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was to find the area of the
brain that was causing the

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seizures and remove it.
Penfield's process for finding

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the culprit section of the brain
was to apply small shocks of

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electricity to various parts of
the patient's brain in order to

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force the condition causing the
patient to seize was to apply

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small shocks of electricity to
various parts of the patient's

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brain in order to force the
conditions causing the patient

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to cease.
Side note, this does not hurt by

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the way, because the brain does
not have any pain receptors.

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So through these trials he found
that by applying a small dose of

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electricity to different areas
of the brain, he could make

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people smell things, swallow as
if they were eating food, say

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random phrases, claim that they
felt like they were spinning or

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standing up even when they were
laying on their backs.

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He went to run tests on various
areas of the brain on 1132

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different patients, with only
two claiming to experience

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anything resembling a symptom of
an out of body experience.

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One of which, according to
Doctor Grayson, occurred when

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Penfield removed the electrical
current from the patient's

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brain, which caused the patient
to then claim that it felt like

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he was leaving his body, and
another patient claimed to feel

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as if they were halfway there
and halfway somewhere else.

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But other than these two cases,
there is nothing in Penfield's

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reports that point to anything
resembling an out of body

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experience.
A popular skeptical argument

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against Ndes, or more
specifically the out of body

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experience and the life review,
come from the idea that the

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brain may be firing off one last
finale of electrical pulses in

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the areas of the brain that
stimulate memories and other

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feelings or actions.
This is easily put to test due

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to the fact that the EE GS show
that brain activity reduces

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after about 6 seconds after the
heart stops and all signs of

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brain activity are completely
gone after another 10 to 20

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seconds without ever having a
spike from the input of

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electrical data.
Therefore, there is no increase

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of electrical activity that is
responsible for this phenomena.

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One last thing I would like to
touch on one last thing before I

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end this presentation.
In Doctor Bruce Grayson's book

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after he touches on a concept
that was considered for

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apparently many centuries that
he loosely refers to as the

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filter model.
The filter model hypothesizes

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that the brain is a filter and
without it our consciousness or

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mind is unfiltered.
The filter exists to reduce the

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amount of input data that our
senses can perceive so that we

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do not become overstimulated.
Rather, it controls the contents

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and the amount of said contents
in order to allow for only the

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information and knowledge that
is necessary for survival.

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Grayson quotes the Greek
philosopher Hippocrates from

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over 2000 years ago stating the
brain is the most powerful organ

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of the human body, for when it
is healthy it is an interpreter

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to US of the phenomenon that
gives U.S. intelligence to

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conscious.
The brain is the messenger.

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Wherefore I assert that the
brain is the interpreter of

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consciousness.
He uses this quote as a way to

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prove that the belief that the
brain and the mind have been

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considered to be two different
entities for a very long time,

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although there was a time
between then and now that this

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was not the case.
This way of thinking seems to be

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making AU turn, though, with
many neurologists and other

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doctors or scientists referenced
in Grayson's book being of the

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belief that the mind and the
brain are independent of each

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other.
Almost immediately after his

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quote from Hippocrates, he
quotes an English philosopher

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from the early 1900s name Aldous
Huxley as saying quote.

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The function of the brain and
nervous system is to protect us

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from being overwhelmed and
confused by his mass of largely

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useless and irrelevant
knowledge, by shutting out most

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of what we should otherwise
perceive or remember at any

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moment, and leaving only that
very small and special selection

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which is likely to be
practically used.

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As far as we are animals, our
business is at all costs to

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survive.
To make biological survival

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possible, many at large has to
be funneled through the reducing

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valve of the brain and nervous
system which comes out.

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On the other end is a measly
trickle of the kind of

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consciousness which will help us
stay alive on the surface of

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this particular planet.
Yet again, this quote highlights

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the belief that the brain acts
as a filter for our survival.

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And when you think of the many
things that can go medically

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wrong with the brain, all of
which will alter our ability to

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perceive or use the information
that is given to us, this filter

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model that Grayson refers to
starts to make sense.

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Now, this part is only my own
theories based on how I

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interpret the information
outlined by Grayson and the

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others that I researched after
learning of this hypothesis.

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I am not a neurologist, nor do I
claim to have any specialty in

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any critical field that
qualifies me to make these

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assumptions, so please do not
take it as fact or as if it were

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coming from anyone else's mind
other than my own.

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But in order to make this whole
thing make sense and to show why

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I brought this up in the first
place in order to make it all

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connect for me, I see it as
possibly a flow of stages of

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existence.
First, we are born.

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Our physical bodies enter this
world with a brain that is

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completely blocking out all
knowledge and experiences that

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we will slowly get later as our
lives go on.

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Our minds are a blank slate and
our brain is a tool that we use

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to filter specific information
to gradually give us everything

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we need to survive and only that
information.

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This, as Grayson points out, is
our brain's way of ensuring our

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overall safety by controlling
the inputs of information to our

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minds.
This will make more sense soon.

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As we grow, our brain learns
that there is more and more

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information that is required for
survival and slowly filters less

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and less until we get to our
peak knowledge and experience

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near death and old age.
Those that experience an NDE

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have their minds separated from
their physical bodies which

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removes the filter that is the
brain.

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This would explain the reports
of new colors, sounds, feelings,

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the flow of infinite knowledge,
the peacefulness, the ability to

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move around without the
constraints of a physical body,

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and the feeling that this
experience is the true reality

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as compared to the one where the
brain filters everything.

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Then as those come back from
their NDE, they find it hard to

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be able to explain in words what
it was that they experienced

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since their brain is once again
acting as a filter of our

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knowledge and we no longer have
the tools to express what we

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experienced.
The very loose comparison I can

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make to what I am trying to say
is to think of our lives as

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humans on earth as the necessary
process of the birth of a mind.

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Sort of like that of a
Caterpillar and a cocoon.

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To become a butterfly, our minds
do need this physical form.

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Why that is, I don't know yet,
and it seems important due to

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our overall obsession of
survival in the brain acting as

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a filter against extra voices or
bombardment of information

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entering our minds that would
undoubtedly distract us to the

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point of possible insanity,
ultimately removing us from the

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goal of survival.
Those that experience Ndes

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commonly claim that they are
told to return to their physical

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body to finish something or to
gather information about

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something unknown.
This would make sense that the

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process of going through a
physical state is important.

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Finally, as our bodies begin to
decay and the filter of our

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brain begins to close up, we
enter the waning hours of our

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physical lives, and as we die,
our minds are released into the

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afterlife, fulfilled in the
goals of our physical selves.

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The cocoon breaks open.
And we spread our wings for the

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first time, ready for all the
information and experiences that

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are waiting for us in our next
reality.

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Well, that's it travellers.
That is my coverage of the Near

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Death experience.
Again, like I said in the

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introduction, if you have had an
experience with an NDE, please

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let us know.
We'd love to have you on the

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show.
I I would love to talk about

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your experience.
I, I find this stuff absolutely

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incredible and mind blowing.
Like I said, this has changed my

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life, or at least the view on my
life.

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And I'm, I'm really excited to,
to dive into it even more.

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I would be pretty surprised if
you guys didn't get another

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episode of Ndes somewhere down
the line.

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I just feel like there's more to
this topic.

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I do have a couple more books I
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So yeah, of course.
You know, I think it's natural

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