HOST: Welcome, noble viewers, to Science and Spirituality on Supreme
Master Television for the first in a three part series on near death
experiences or NDEs. For many years NDEs were not seriously examined or
openly discussed by the scientific community. Recently however, thanks
to a growing number of scientific studies and research efforts,
thousands of NDE accounts have been formally documented worldwide.
For
more than １０ years Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist from
Louisiana, USA, has been at the forefront of this movement and has
contributed immensely to the advancement of near death experience
research.
Dr. Long(m): A near-death experience may be defined as
two components—being near-death, and having an experience. The
near-death part means that the person is so physically compromised from
some accident or illness that they’re generally unconscious and may even
be clinically dead.
They’re so physically compromised that if
they don’t improve physically, they will suffer irreversible permanent
death. And yet at that time, when they’re unconscious and should have no
possibility of a remembered conscious event during that period, they do
have the experience part of a near-death experience.
HOST: Dr.
Long’s comprehensive collection of surveys and evidence of near death
experiences from across the globe is presented in a recently published
book he co-authored entitled, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of
Near-Death Experiences.
The non-profit Near Death Experience
Research Foundation was founded by Dr. Long and his wife in １９９８ and
serves as a platform for people from all walks of life to share their
personal NDE stories with the public by submitting them online at the
Foundation’s website.
A １００-item questionnaire is used to screen
all submissions to assure only those who have truly undergone a near
death experience have their story recorded by the Foundation. The
website contains the largest known database in the world of individual
NDE accounts. Let us now learn more about near death experiences from
Dr. Long.
For more details on Dr. Jeffrey Long, please visit
www.NDERF.orgDr. Long’s book Evidence of the Afterlife is available at
www.Amazon.com