There Death Is it the end of everything or is there life beyond life? Men of all ages have asked themselves this question at least once in their lives. There is no definitive answer yet. And there probably never will be. Science has no certainty about what happens when our heart stops beating. In recent decades, however, some researchers have begun to study a phenomenon that occurs when one is close to death: the nope (near-death experience) near-death experiences.
These are phenomena described by people who have regained their vital signs after a period of coma or after being pronounced clinically dead. The American doctor and writer’s recent work is precious Raymond Moody who compiled studies on these experiences in the book “Life beyond life” published in 1975.
Since then many other physicians have devoted part of their time to the study of the Nde and have made interesting contributions. Among the most famous figures in this field, to name a few, stand out Pim van Lommel, Sam Parnia (who leads the Aware project, the largest study ever conducted involving 25 hospitals worldwide), Bruce Greyson and Italian Heinrich Faco (who we spoke to).
phases of the nde
Individuals who have experienced NDE after their vital functions have been restored report a genuine, intense, calming, and beautiful experience. There is one element that stands out: the narratives are linear and present common elements between them. And this despite the fact that people have different cultures and religious feelings.
There are several stages that characterize near-death experiences. It all begins when a person reaches the pinnacle of physical suffering. The subject has the perception of rise above your body and witness everything that happens around them.
At this point the dying enters a dark tunnel on the underside of which he sees a white dot. A dot that gradually gets bigger and incredibly bright. The LightHowever, it doesn’t bother the eye in any way. But it is wrong to speak of light. Because everyone says it is Creature with which a kind of dialogue begins. It radiates pure and boundless love, infinite compassion, boundless peace and an indescribable sense of well-being.
Then comes the “retell” of one’s life through the vision of fast-moving images that also contain forgotten and seemingly irrelevant episodes. The dying feels pain and shame when observing mistakes made throughout life. However, judgment never comes out of the light. Indeed, the essence continues to envelop the dying with a love, compassion and acceptance that knows no bounds.
Another element that characterizes almost all near-death experiences is the encounter with family members, relatives or friends who have already passed away. These welcome and soothe the dying. In most cases it is these beings who explain to the dying person that their time has not yet come and that they must go back. Finally there is awakening.
There are people who explain these phenomena scientifically by relating experiences to specifics temporary changes chemical, neurological and biological in nature flaring up in a dying body.
One wonders if such an intense experience, which can change a subject’s outlook on life, could really just be the result of a specific cerebral activity of a body nearing its end. So how can an Nde be explained?
The words of Professor Enrico Facco
To try to shed some light on near-death experiences, we interviewed the professor Heinrich FacoSpecialist in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Specialist in Neurology, Senior Scholar, Studium Patavinum – Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Padua, who establishes an important premise: “We have a high transformative power, which includes overcoming the fear of death and a positive personality evolution, including an increase in the spirituality of those who have experienced them consciousness it is often described as clearer than usual; there are also well-documented isolated cases of patients who have been able to witness what is happening in the recovery room during cardiac arrest being seen from above in an out-of-body experience. Some other rare cases reported in the literature during the experience contained information they were unaware of prior to cardiac arrest.”
Are near-death experiences sporadic phenomena or frequent occurrences?
NDEs are relatively common events that occur in critical condition with unconsciousness.
can you tell the percentage
In the different cases, the incidence varies between 5 and 18% in patients with cardiac arrest.
How can the Nde be designed?
They are subjective experiences intense and profound with a transcendent aspect that occur in critical states associated with unconsciousness (such as cardiac arrest, head and poly trauma, states of shock) and are characterized by the clear perception of being in a dimension different from the ordinary one of earthly life, having left the physical body and transcended the confines of one’s self and the space-time dimension of the ordinary physical world.
Could near-death experiences be forms of delirium, transient organic brain changes, or even anoxia?
The scientific interpretations proposed so far are natural Mechanist Reductionist and they hypothesized that they arose from the cerebral disturbance caused by the insult; however, only hypotheses remain without any confirmation, while some of them can be denied on the basis of other known facts that make them improbable.
How can the linearity of experience be taken into account?
Even after more than 20 years, they are coherent and well-remembered experiences; Some electroencephalographic studies of Nde recall have shown an association with episodic memory and not with memories of imaginary events.
Are there only common elements in the near-death experiences or also other subjective ones?
Nde are quite complex and include both individual elements Is common elements; The basic aspects of experience are universal and found in all cultures, and there are references to them in literature throughout the ages, from Homer to Plato, Dickens to the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
How do near-death experiences compare to dreaming?
The Dream it has a very different language, characterized by the superimposition of many different elements that make it difficult or impossible to understand immediately; the latter was the subject of a long interpretative work by Freud.
Why doesn’t everyone report having experienced an Nt?
For two main reasons: a) not everyone does them; b) Being experiences of a transcendent aspect and mystical tone, they are placed outside of what is conventionally accepted by human beings worldview (worldview) prevailing today and therefore a high risk that they will be misunderstood and whoever experienced them will be seen as a visionary or as a result of the brain injury as mentally ill.
For example, skeptics argue that the vision of light seen in a Nde is actually what is seen in the sickroom. It is possible?
It is just a hypothesis without any confirmation. The light seen in NTEs has very different properties than artificial light and is just a single element of a much richer and more complex experience. At best, it could be like this triggers of experience, which has a much broader nature and implications.
Are NDEs only positive or are there reports of negative experiences?
There are negative experiences albeit in a lower percentage of cases. Sometimes the negative part is an element of experiences that contain both negative and positive elements. In other cases, the positive NDE scenario is experienced but experienced negatively, or a situation that is intrinsically neutral (e.g., in a state of emptiness or darkness) but experienced as stressful. Experiences of stressful scenarios are reported much less frequently (one could describe them as “hellish”).
Who Has Negative Near-Death Experiences?
It is not yet clear whether and which elements can possibly promote negative experiences.