“I don’t have any idea whether there’s life after death or not. Raymond Moody does when he had this to say: Using the strict demands of science, we can only conclude as Dr. Whether or not there will ever be scientific evidence for the survival of consciousness may depend upon science itself and how such phenomenon as NDEs can be quantified. And although the available veridical NDE evidence does not constitute scientific proof of consciousness surviving bodily death, it does qualify as very powerful circumstantial and anecdotal evidence, the kind of evidence that is upheld every day in courts of law all around the country. In light of such veridical evidence, other NDE theories fall by the wayside because they cannot account for these veridical details. This veridical evidence suggests the possibility that consciousness can exist away from the body. In Life After Life, Moody documents a number of veridical near-death experiences which will be described here. Visit the NDE and Out-Of-Body research conclusions to read a large collection of veridical NDEs.īesides his ground-breaking book, Life After Life (1975), Raymond Moody is the author of the excellent NDE books, Reflections (1985), The Light Beyond (1989), Reunions (1994), Coming Back (1995), The Last Laugh (1999), Life After Loss (2002), Paranormal (2013), and Making Sense of Nonsense (2020). It would provide very compelling evidence that NDEs are experiences outside of the physical body. If the events witnessed by the experiencer at the distant location can be verified to have occurred, then veridical perception would be said to have taken place. Often, near-death experiencers report witnessing events that happen at some distant location away from their body, such as another room of the hospital. Veridical NDEs occur when the experiencer acquires verifiable information which they could not have obtained by any normal means. One way is to discover this is to examine those NDEs which are “veridical” (verifiable). This is the first step in determining whether consciousness can survive bodily death. Veridical Perception in Near-Death ExperiencesĪt this point in near-death studies, researchers are particularly interested in studying those NDEs that may provide an answer to the question of whether the mind can function outside the physical body. However, good scientific evidence for survival can be found in other realms of research such as psychic studies, quantum physics, consciousness studies, and remote viewing – not to mention the mountain of circumstantial evidence.
Just the very nature of the phrase “near-death” suggests that it is not true death – where nobody comes back.
This is because no matter how you define “ death,” the only kind of definition that satisfies the skeptics is “irreversible” death. The question to ask is, “Are near-death experiences a phenomenon of a person’s consciousness being outside of their body?” And if this can be proven true, then the next question is, “Can consciousness survive bodily death?” This last question likely cannot be proven true to the satisfaction of the skeptics using near-death research alone. But the question is not, “Are near-death experiences real?” Even skeptics now concede that it is a real phenomenon. Near-death experiences were first shown to be reproducible during studies involving the subjection of fighter pilots to extreme gravitational forces in a giant centrifuge. Using the scientific method, near-death experiences have been proven to be a real scientific phenomenon because they are reproducible. The scientific method requires all phenomena to be reproducible, provide veridical details (i.e., details which cannot be explained away, which are found to be true), and undergo rigorous tests to rule out all the known alternative explanations, for a theory to be proven as scientific fact.
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