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For many Near-Death Experience experiencers, an NDE permanently and dramatically alters personal attitudes, beliefs, and values. We studied their self-reported answers regarding impact on life and changes of opinion (concerning meaning of life, death, altruism, religion, and spirituality) following the NDE. Moreover, this retrospective investigation compared the answers of experiencers who lived NDEs after a non-life-threatening event (i.e., “NDE-like” experience) or after a pathological coma (i.e., “real NDE”). 106 NDE experiencers (i.e., Greyson NDE scale total score 7 or more out of 32) were invited to answer a questionnaire on demographic and clinical data and subjective changes with Likert scales, whose +3 and -3 anchors were positive changes and negative changes, respectively. 71 experiencers (67%) responded to the structured questionnaire. 61 (86%) of them reported a positive effect on their life (rating over 0,median+3). The large majority of participants declared that NDE leads to positive changes in meaning of life (79%; rating over 0,median+3), death acceptance (89%; rating over 0,median+3), altruism (80%; rating over 0,median+3), religion (38%; rating over 0,median+1), and spirituality (66%; rating over 0,median+3). Percentages did not significantly differ between “NDE-like” (n=14) and “real NDE” (n=57) groups. Our findings showed that, for the majority of experiencers, NDE has a positive impact on life and their self-reported changes meet the definition of spiritual transformation (Schwartz, 2000). Lastly, it appears that self-reported opinions of “real NDE” group are similar to those of “NDE-like” group.

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The Self Does Not Die: 104 Cases of Verified Paranormal Phenomena from Near-Death Experiences -- Rudolf Smit, 2016 IANDS Conference

Claims of paranormal phenomena/experiences during Near-Death Experiences are not just purely subjective. There are cases of NDE in which a third party (partner, relative, friend or medical professional) directly confirms these claims, rather than only through the near-death experiencers (NDErs) themselves. Skeptics have tried to debunk such strong cases but they have failed.

This presentation introduces the new English translation, The Self Does Not Die, of the earlier Dutch book which is a compilation, now of 104 such cases of verified paranormal phenomena during NDEs. The book is a new publication of IANDS.

The Self Does Not Die: www.amazon.com/dp/0997560800/

There are many different NDEs. Not one is equal to another. Yet, there are a limited number of wonderful common themes in NDEs that can be of great help to heal NDErs and non-NDErs. These common themes when adopted by a sufficient number of people (a critical mass) can even heal the world. However, some people who study NDEs (including those who have had an NDE themselves) tend to create their own theory of how the visible and invisible world is constructed. And in doing so they sometimes go much further than the limited number of common NDE themes justify. This carries the danger of creating a new sort of religion, which will significantly reduce the value that NDEs could have for everyone and the world.

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