Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences Hot

This book is a distillation of many years of research into Near Death Experiences (NDE) by one of the most thorough and innovative researchers in this arena. Long's Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) and website (www.nderf.org ) are the primary tools he has used to collect the largest database of NDE data in the world. In addition to
his own work, he cites the research of other serious scientists working on NDEs.

The book has an Introduction, 11 chapters and a Conclusion, along with eleven pages of research citations at the end. It is readable and well written.

Long's research centers around a one hundred question survey and the complex analysis of the data people enter on the website. Long uses in-depth statistical analysis of the data, including sophisticated filters to ferret out false entries. What he has discovered through this common and well-accepted scientific method of research is nothing short of amazing. He
has discovered scientific evidence of life after death.

While I am sure that will scandalize many of a scientific bent, he develops his methodology in a meticulous and thorough manner, cross-checking results with other researchers to increase clarity and understanding. He acknowledges skeptics and systematically dispatches their objections in a balanced and thoughtful way.

He divides the evidence up into nine categories of proof:

Lucid Death

Out Of Body

Blind Sight

Impossibly Conscious

Perfect Playback

Family Reunion

From The Mouths Of Babes

Worldwide Consistency

Changed Lives



He devotes a chapter to each topic, giving details of the statistical results as well as including narratives from the people answering the survey. He then explains how the incredible similarity and detail, even from people of different ages, cultures, and languages from around the world, describes a situation which provides overwhelming evidence that our consciousness is independent of the physical body and survives the death of that body.

For any but the most pathological skeptic, the evidence is conclusive. If you add in all the historical, anthropological, and spiritual studies which have reached the same conclusion, it would be all but impossible to deny the conclusion. This squares well with other interesting research, like that mentioned in Talbot's "Holographic Universe," regarding people with Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD, now called Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID), who can show radical alterations in their physical body (eye color changes, tumors and scars coming and going, vanishing medical problems like diabetes, etc.) simply by a change in personality. The "mind" or personality is definitely not a result of the physical body, but more primary and controls the physical manifestation.

A good, fairly quick read, and one well worth your time.