Evidence to Support and Oppose Near Death Experiences
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- Created on: 12-05-15 18:26
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- Evidence to Support and Oppose NDEs
- Support
- Those who experience have a clear recollection. Dr Fenwick's research showed only 14% had received any form of drug
- The NDE is life-changing. After they believe the most important thing is love. Become more interested in spiritual rather than material
- Dr Atwater says that ' no matter what the nature of the experience, it alters some lives'
- Those who have a pleasant NDE no longer fear death. E.g Ronald Regan became Christian after seeing awful things in his hell experience
- Children declared clinically dead can give accounts of NDEs without understanding what they're describing
- Yet Children report similar experiences to those of adults
- Dr Melvin Morse's research of NDEs with Children has led him to accept they are genuine
- Yet Children report similar experiences to those of adults
- People witness events while clinically dead that they later describe eg. blind people describing objects eg. Pam Reynolds
- NDEs occur in all parts of the world and affect people regardless of race, creed, sex or age. Evidence throughout history
- Opposition
- The exact point at which the individual dies is not known and the last sense lost is hearing.
- The experience is described as an NDE because the individual was not dead, therefore the experience has nothing to contribute to what happens after death
- NDEs = result of hypoxia. Dying brain creates a feeling of Euphoria
- Dr Persinger (cognitive neuroscience) = no more than brain responding to external stimuli
- Stimulating the temporal lobes can induce similar feelings to a NDE
- American jet fighter pilots have had similar NDEs when spun at high levels of acceleration, They lose consciousness and feel feelings of euphoria
- Dr Susan Blackmore - 'Dying brain' theory. When the brain dies=lack of oxygen to central vision= impression of bright light
- The vision narrows and the sense of going down a tunnel is created. Brain then begins to create images
- Freudians = regard NDEs as hallucinatory wishful thinking to overcome fear of death. Appear real to those who experience them
- Support
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