Scientists, including medical doctors, are meeting in France
for the first international conference about near-death
experiences. The conference will also contain delegates who
have themselves had a near-death experience.
One of the scientists and medical people who will be
attending is intensive care doctor Jean-Jacques Charbonnier,
who has interviewed patients who have had NDEs. He
says, "People who were brain-dead could see what was going
on in a waiting room, or around them, in precise detail. We
are not talking about an hallucination here because it was
quite real." Once he felt an unconscious communication
coming from one of his patients, in which he was being told
to look in the patient's wallet. When it did, he found a note
asking to be removed from life support if he was ever in such
a condition.
Conference head Sonia Barkallah says, "These are people who
have come close to death, whether through an accident or
during an operation, and who have brought back from their
unconscious state accounts that are quite out of the
ordinary. They are floating above their bodies, they can hear
what the doctors are saying about them, they feel
themselves getting sucked into a dark tunnel with a bright
but not blinding light at the end of it. At the end of the
tunnel they often meet 'light beings' or dead relatives who tell
them it is not their time." She organized the conference
because "I noticed that doctors were very interested in the
subject, but that they conducted their research in secret,
afraid of being considered quacks. The aim of this
international day is not to prove that there is life after death,
it is to show what this can teach us on a human and
scientific level."
A 1982 US survey found that 8 million people here have had
an NDE. Despite this fact, NDEs are a topic that is avoided by
mainstream U.S. media, so you won't read about this in your
papers or hear about it on the news, but we will try to keep
you posted on developments as we learn about them.
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