How can anything new be said about near-death experiences? Well, when a leading psychic medium with years of experience is the interviewer and the author has made some stunning breakthroughs, you can expect to hear things that are VERY new, and that’s what happens this week on Dreamland when our own resident medium and proven psychic Marla Frees interviews Christophor Coppes about his new book, Messages from the Light.

We are all afraid of death. But do we need to be? As Marla explores these remarkable stories with Christophor Coppes, a new vision of our spiritual needs and spiritual journey emerges.
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At 18 hospital emergency rooms here and in the UK, researchers have put pictures on the ceilings to test whether patients who are brought back to life after cardiac arrest can remember seeing the them during an NDE–an out-of-body experience. (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). In the Wall Street Journal, Melinda Beck quotes critical care physician Sam Parnia as saying, "We’ve added these images as objective markers." People who experience NDEs remember leaving their bodies and watching themselves from above.read more

All in the blood? – There is some interesting science to be found out there: It turns out that near-death experiences (NDEs) are reported by between 11 and 23% of people who come close to death (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show). Could they be caused by carbon dioxide in the blood?

PhysOrg.com reports that researchers in Slovenia studied over 50 cases of heart attacks in 3 major hospitals. 42 of the patients were men with the average age of 53. 11 of them had NDEs, but there was no common link between them when it came to age, sex, education, religious belief, fear of death, time of recovery or the drugs that were given to them.
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UK and US researchers are about to undertake a huge, 3-year study on near-death experiences (NDEs) in patients who have experienced cardiac arrest.

Doctors will study 1,500 of these survivors to see if they had the typical NDE, with the tunnel of light, floating above themselves and seeing doctors and nurses trying to save them, seeing friends and relatives, etc. As part of the test, the doctors are placing images on high shelves in resuscitation areas of their hospitals, where they can only be seen from above.
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