There are a lot of cases when in a state of coma or clinical death people see the so-called other world, and also come into contact with their deceased loved ones.
Recently, these phenomena are increasingly becoming the object of interest of scientists.
There is a contact
Recently, Dr. Camilla Wortman from Duke University took up research on this phenomenon. Wortman and her colleagues found that about 60% of people are able to sense the presence of their deceased spouse, parents or children, and 40% believe that they managed to make contact with the deceased.
According to researchers, such contacts can serve as a kind of psychotherapy in the event of the loss of someone close. Meanwhile, it is not customary in society to take them seriously. “Grieving relatives, despite the emotional relief that contact with the dead brings them, are afraid to discuss this kind of experience with anyone, because they are confident that they will be considered abnormal,” says Wortman. “Therefore, due to a lack of information, society does not believe in otherworldly communications.”
Near Death Experience
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In 2010, the American Anthropology Association published a report by Dr. Bruce Grayson of the University of Virginia, entitled "Visions of Dead People Without Knowing Their Death." It is about people who saw images of their loved ones at the time of their death.
In his research, Grayson cites dozens of cases from various sources. So, in the book "Notes of the Society of the Paranormal" (1899) is the story of the Englishwoman Mrs. Hicks. On her deathbed, this woman remembered her son Eddie, who was living in Australia at the time. “Poor Eddie, he looks very sick, he fell,” she said. She repeated this phrase until her death. Subsequently, it turned out that Mrs. Hicks's son died on the same day: he rode a horse with a high temperature and fell. His death happened at the very moment when he appeared to his mother in a vision …
A similar case is described by the famous paranormal researcher Ian Stevenson in his book "Inconvenient Facts About Supernatural Perception" (1959). While dying, an elderly American woman suddenly said: "Oh, Will, are you here?" Her only relative, Will, lived in England. Then the woman's family learned that he had passed away two days before.
One elderly patient in a state of clinical death saw her deceased father, and behind him - a bright light. The woman wanted to go there, but her father told her that "it is not time yet." Then she tried to run around her father, as she did when she was still a little girl, but he picked her up in his arms and explained that while she still could not walk towards the light …
The book On Children and Death by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (1983) tells the story of a woman who is in a road accident and is about to die. She asked a stranger who happened to be nearby to tell her mother, who lives on an Indian reservation, that she was all right. “I am very happy because I am already next to my dad,” added the Indian. It later turned out that her father had died of a heart attack just an hour before the accident.
Another case cited by Melvin Morse and Paul Perry in Closer to the Light: Lessons from the Near Death Experience of Children (1990). A 7-year-old boy was sick with leukemia and was dying. Delirious, he announced that he was in heaven, where he met a former school friend of his mother, who told him that he died in a car accident. The boy's mother was very surprised, since she never mentioned this man in front of her son. Later, she found out that her former lover had died on the day the child had a vision …
The following episode is described in Brad and Sherri Hansen Steiger's book Children of the Light: The Surprising Truth About NDEs in Children (1995). 9-year-old Eddie Kumo suffered from a fever. One day, he woke up at three o'clock in the morning, with a fever, and told his parents and doctor K. M. Dale, who recorded this story, that he had seen dead relatives, among whom was his older 19-year-old sister Teresa. The latter was at that time in college, and everything seemed to be all right with her … However, on the same day, the news came that Teresa had died in a car accident. It happened at about midnight, that is, a few hours before Eddie's vision …
Eyewitness accounts
One of the proofs that consciousness can leave the body and "wander", can serve as the stories of patients. For example, in 1991, 35-year-old Pamela Reynolds underwent brain surgery. During the operation, she could observe her body from the sidelines and heard the doctors' conversation, the content of which she could then repeat. Meanwhile, her brain was practically dead at that time.
The 57-year-old social worker from Britain was also able to describe in detail everything that happened in the operating room when his brain was turned off. “The activity of consciousness lasted all three minutes, when the heart was no longer beating - although the brain usually shuts down 20-30 seconds after the arrest of this organ, - says researcher Sam Parnia. “The patient heard two beeps from the device, which gave them at intervals of three minutes, thanks to which we determined the duration of the near-death experience.”
But the most amazing story happened to Maria, a migrant from Latin America, who left her ward in a state of clinical death. One of the objects she saw outside the room was a tennis shoe, forgotten on the staircase. Waking up, Maria told the doctors about this. One of the nurses went to the place she indicated and actually found a tennis shoe there!
Most likely, when a person dies, he can "visit" his loved ones in the astral body. And perhaps the latter remains to live after death, from time to time appearing to people …