In 1975, Raymond Moody introduced the world to the near-death experience (NDE). Since then, there has been considerable focus and research on the subject, although there are still many questions to be answered.

Jeff Long, M.D., founder of the Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF), has collected over 5,000 NDE accounts from all over the world. He teamed with Marjorie Woollacott, Ph.D, to further our understanding of the long-term impact of NDE-related changes. Long defines an NDE as a “lucid, organized experience during a life-threatening event so severe that there was unconsciousness or clinically apparent death.”

This current research is the largest study to date into the impact of NDEs.[1] Their study compared the pre-event and post-event responses of 42 people who had life-threatening experiences (LTEs) without having an NDE. Members of the LTE group were either unconscious or clinically dead, as indicated by the absence of a heartbeat during their life-threatening event. There were also 834 people included who had experienced an NDE. Long found that........

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