A spontaneous and direct After-Death Communication (ADC) occurs when a person unexpectedly perceives a deceased person. These contacts, which appear to be initiated by the deceased, are perceived through the senses of sight, hearing, touch, or smell. Often, the experient simply senses the presence of the deceased. ADCs occur while awake, asleep or falling asleep (in a hypnagogic state of...
Since the publication of Raymond Moody’s popular book ‘Life after Life’ in 1975, a good deal of academic research [1] has been conducted into the nature and effects of the near-death experience (NDE), a characteristic type of experience that has been reported by many individuals who have been for a time in a state close to that of death, but survived to tell of their experience, often involving...
The near-death experience (NDE) is a challenging and even disturbing phenomenon: it calls into question the assumptions of a materialistic science and medicine which insists that mind is a by-product of brain function and that it cannot, therefore, conceivably survive the disintegration of the brain; it also impinges on the ecclesiastical territory of the afterlife — or at least of its...