NDE Cases & Research Studies Interview with Dr. Jeffery Long on March 8th 2007 (Audio Content)
There is a startling similarity across countries and cultures of what people report during NDEs, which can include being greeted by deceased relatives and friends, traveling through a tunnel, and undergoing a life review. Even NDErs who have been blind from birth report seeing similar things, he said.
About 5% of NDEs involve hellish encounters, Long noted. In a few cases he's collected, people have reported interactions with beings on other planets. He shared the report of Roger C. who described speaking telepathically, and conveying images to members of an advanced civilization on a distant planet. The beings, dressed in strange uniforms that molded to their skin, expressed surprise when he told them that humans eat foods that had been alive. "We knew there were primitive civilizations but not as bad as that!," they commented.
Prof. Kevin Nelson and a research team at the Univ. of Kentucky have just announced the results of a survey, which draws connections between near-death experiences, out-of-body incidents and sleep paralysis. Some people's brains may actually be predisposed to these kinds of experiences, which seem to be associated with the brain's arousal system, they found. For more, view this press release.