Evidence of the Afterlife audiobook

I actually experienced a near death event. 2 years ago I suffered a brain annuerysm as I was driving my 2 golden retriever grand-dogs home from day care. I was able to see the emergency crew working on me from above. It is something I will never forget and will be forever grateful for. I also saw both my parents and my aunt, all 3 had been gone for some time. my mom actually spoke to me, as did God, telling me it was not my time yet and I needed to get back to my life and was reassured everything would be alright. None of this was frightening, I felt only comfort and peace. I also wanted to stay where I was, i felt so safe and secure, and my family looked so beautiful and so happy. I view this as a gift from God and even though I have some disabilities from the event, I will be forever thankful and I look forward to when It really is my time to leave this life.

Jeffrey Long is a very, very bright and amazing doctor. He goes into territory that few can and reports on a subject that our medical pros can't touch because its out of our understanding. Having had a NDE I will fully state that there is no doubt something more. I was dead for 24 minutes following a car accident on a secluded road with no one to help. I saw my body in the wreck and was fully aware of the events taking place. I even checked the time on the clock radio. I was taken through a tunnel to be greeted by other spirits. One claimed to be my brother, but my brother was alive. He was a miscarriage my mom had before me and didn't tell any of us. The other side is not like religions speak of per say. It is pure love. But no bearded man on a throne. I did not see God, but I felt him. He is the universe , everything. I learned a lot, about creation and mans purpose. Evolution of man is not how we came to be. We were created to iearn and love. But god will not interfere for we have free will. I did not see Jesus. I did not ask. If he was god in human form, I can believe it. I was told to go back to my body and do more work. My life review was not suitable. My body was covered and the ER docs had pronounced me dead. They worked on me for awhile but had given up. I popped back in and scared a nurse into screaming fits. These are not anticdotial. If you are a skeptic, then you will see soon enough. It wasn't a light show of a dying brain either. I was dead. Not dying.

A very updated book on hundreds of documented cases of NDEs.How can any one continue to doubt the existence of life after death when so many cases, across culture, age, religion...say the same thing?Doubters should try to read other books on the same topics. All these experiencers of NDEs are not expressing their opinions on the subject, they are recounting what they experienced. These experiences are not derived from polls, they are vivid recollections.To explain this by brain circuitry being alive and neutrons firing up does not explain why millions of NDERs experience the same "dream" with more or less the 9 characteristics described in the book.Besides, the evidence of life after death is overwhelming when one takes into account other studies, reports, experiences of past life regression under hypnosis. People regressed in their past lives is already a proof of the phenomenon, specially when facts or things they count are sometimes proven, but when they are regressed after their death in their previous lives (and before being reincarnated), they say the same things as all these NDERs.Other (empirical) evidences of past life are derived from the numerous case studies of children remembering their past lives all over the world. Read Dr Ian Stevenson and so many other books. Any one with an open mind can find enough studies and books in different fields to reach the conclusion that life after death is empirically proven. One day our level of science will be developed enough to prove beyond reasonable doubt every one. In the mean time, as Galileo once said "yet it moves".

I suffered from an intense fear of death, lived every day as a brooding nihilist, unable to console the chaos in my head.I thought life was meaningless, an overplayed joke where no one laughs and everyone suffers the same lesson over and over again like we're trapped in a memory rhyme of some monomania. It didn't help that I had seen my father die. It didn't help that I was diagnosed with adult ADHD or that I genetically inherited Bipolar from my mother. I have thought about death as much as anyone who's lost someone close. I have thought about death as much as anyone who finds solace in dreaming themselves dead. I know where it hurts. I know where you come from.I decided I could wallow like I always have or I could face this gift called living and educate myself. Reading this book showed me that there is still so much to discover, so much to invent. We as humans, we're wired for meaning. I am convinced there is a consciousness that exists apart from the body and the brain. That consciousness is a heightened you, a plural you engaged with others like you, coming together in this cosmic dance. We're lucky to be here and I'm so glad I get to experience this with you no matter how far away we seem, this is but a dream within a dream.Back to the review: the book is profoundly helpful in building up a scientific repertoire on a topic considered taboo or highly irrational: The Afterlife™, otherwise known as wishful thinking for the masses. There are accounts of people who have been pronounced clinically dead and have come back to life with a near-death-experience to tell. It's crazy how much and how cross-culturally the majority of NDE's share the same set of variables, overlapping as if to say there is a system in place that comes to fruition once life ceases.Overall, this book has helped cull my fear of dying and has been instrumental in shaping a world view worth pursuing. To love your neighbour as yourself.For more shared NDE's, visit the author's website: https://www.nderf.org/

In 1998 Dr. Jeffrey Long came up with the idea of using a carefully structured online questionnaire to form the basis of a serious scientific study of Near Death Experiences. Dr. Long founded the Near Death Experience Research Foundation along with its website, NDERF.org. Over the succeeding twelve years, more than 1300 NDE'rs took hours of their time to fill out the questionnaire, and Dr. Long wound up with a gold mine of first-hand information on the Near Death Experience, all of it up on NDERF website.Now Dr. Long has turned his years of research into a book that reaches the staggering conclusion that NDE's are medically inexplicable. It is absolutely impossible for people who are unconscious or clinically dead to have visionary Near Death Experiences at a time when their totally inactive brains have no capability for processing any kind of information. I found it especially striking that those who experience near-death while under general anesthesia or during cardiac arrest experience a higher state of awareness and alertness than they ordinarily had in their everyday lives. I found this to be true in my own Near Death Experience in 1998. The memories I have of my NDE, which happened to me fourteen years ago, are still vivid and absolutely clear in my mind. Dr. Long says that the elements of the Near Death Experience generally are consistent and logical in the way they unfold. This is something I experienced in my NDE. There was an orderly unfolding of events that gave it the weight of actual experience. Something that I don't think the researchers have gotten is the three-dimensionality of the NDE. My experience was not like watching a movie playing up on a screen. Nor was it a fuzzy, ethereal, floaty state. The things, the places, and the people I saw in my life reviews (I had several) all had weight to them. The memories that came up all had a three-dimensional reality, and the colors were all incredibly brilliant. That amazing Light had substance and intelligence and awareness to it. And size! As I said to myself at the time, "Everything up here is so bloody big!"Dr. Long's nine lines of evidence were a revelation to me. I had read about all of these, but this was the first time I had ever seen them all put together like this. As Dr. Long says, "Any one of these nine lines of evidence individually is significant evidence for the reality of near-death experiences and the afterlife. " The combination of all nine lines form a convincing case for the existence of an afterlife.I was somewhat disappointed to find that Dr. Long says very little about the intensive learning experiences many NDE'rs have. The most famous example of this is Tom Sawyer, a manual laborer who worked with heavy equipment. After Tom's NDE, he developed a serious interest in physics, which led him to enroll in college level physics courses. This is only one of many reports from Experiencers who report that they have felt themselves to be literally immersed in information. I wonder how this relates to the idea that physicists have, that our universe is fundamentally made up of bits and bytes of information. Maybe it's not just our universe. Maybe the whole of creation, in all its many levels, is made up of infinite amounts of fascinating information. As one who has a background in education, this opens up whole new worlds of study. Are there ways in which we can begin to systematically tap into this information without having to nearly die to access it? This is an exciting look at Near Death because it opens up so many avenues for more research and exploration regarding this most important phenomenon -- Life after death.

I picked this up in preparation for an upcoming presentation Dr. Long will be giving in April which I plan to attend. This book is a summary of the author's findings after years of research in the field of near death experiences.The book was really quite good for a number of reasons. First, the material is presented in a very accessible way which cannot always be said for books presenting research data. It had a good sampling of narrative accounts from people who had near death experiences. I also thought that the author did a good job of presenting his proofs for why the afterlife exists. He seems to be balanced in his presentation without tipping his hand on what his religious beliefs actually are. I have two minor issues with the book. First, at times it felt a bit like a commercial for his website. This is forgivable since it is through that site that the research takes place, however it could have done with a softer touch. Lastly - through no fault of the author - I was uncomfortable with some of the testimony given by those who had experienced near death. There were many who affirmed Theism but there were a couple pantheistic accounts and other conflicting stories. If these experiences are true you would expect to see more agreement on the important issue of God. Of course, there may be issues of perception, integrity and understanding so again I find this justifiable without throwing out the results. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the topic, it is really a quick and enjoyable read. It may be good for those facing terminal illness or the family members of the same. At the very least it will give comfort and make some important questions obvious.

Awesome! Evidence Of The Afterlife through examination of Near-Death Experiences makes good since. There seems to be no other logical answer to the unexplained knowledge that is gained by taking a peak on the other side of life and death as we know it.Quick read and well done.

It started off not peeking my interest as I hoped, but then progressively got better. I think this book is worth looking into for skeptics and those interested in seeing the facts behind NDE phenomenon.

Definitely an interesting topic and Jeffrey Long presents some surprisingly compelling evidence. Full disclosure, I have always felt that if there is an afterlife, no one on this planet knows anything about it and it is likely we could not understand or comprehend it if we did. Long presents a large number of near-death experience testimonies that have a range of different interpretations and imagery of what entry into an afterlife is like, using 9 evidence-based "proofs" to support it. It convinced me that it may be possible to have a glimpse of the afterlife, although it is clear from his evidence no one can agree on what it is really like with any specificity.From what I know about the author, he has been a career-long researcher of near-death experiences and what they could mean concerning the existence of an afterlife. He is advocating a position that is fantastic but is credible. The evidence is well-documented. Like a good scientist, his conclusion is limited to what the evidence proves, nothing more. When he does present his opinion he is upfront about it.As far as weaknesses, it felt like he presented some straw man arguments of the skeptics. Even I could see the weakness of their points before he addressed them with his own response. That is generally not compelling. It may be that skeptics do not spend much time refuting him as they dismiss his work out of hand and do not put any effort into their opposition papers. I don't know.I was also taken aback by his references to people developing psychic abilities after a near-death experience. Not that its impossible, only that he cites it without mentioning that there is no scientific acceptance or explanation for psychic abilities. In one story he mentions a person claimed to have some basic telekinetic abilities for a short period after his near-death experience. To mention that and move on without acknowledging the extraordinary nature of the claim was a little troublesome.In the end, I appreciated his commitment to presenting evidence and trying to make scientific claims in a way that was easily accessible to laypersons. He does not make fantastic claims about the nature of the afterlife, only that he thinks the evidence proves it is likely to exist. The testimonies all have their own unique take but he does not really adopt any of them as the "real" one. There are religious implications, of course, but by not sticking his neck out and making unsupported claims about the nature of the afterlife, this book largely succeeds in staying secular.Did he convince me? Yes. I am not a religious man but do accept that consciousness and the physical realm may be distinct and separate. That allows for the existence of an afterlife. Whether it is Heaven or whatever, I have no idea. I do not think Long does either. Although, he does personally conclude it seems to be a wonderful place, or Heaven-like.Worth reading, I highly recommend it. Even if you don't buy into his scientific claim, it is still worth reading.

This was a great introduction to the phenomenon of Near Death Experiences (NDEs). The author spends the book arguing for the existence of the afterlife based upon his research on NDEs and his online NDERF survey where people submit their NDE stories to his website. Admittedly, I am leery about the NDERF survey because it is online rather than something done in person soon after an NDE has taken place. To my mind, I don't see how he can authenticate the stories posted on there really. He said very very few on there are hoaxes but how would he know? It seems too easy to game the system by writing and submitting stories that fit the common elements of the NDE narrative. Maybe, the author can deal with this criticism but seeing that he didn't in the book, I am approaching the author warily. Healthy skepticism is a good rule of thumb, I think, when it comes to this topic in general. The book is divided into nine “proofs” for the existence of the afterlife. Some are stronger than others. Lucid death, out of body experience, blind sight, NDEs in under-5 children and family reunions are the most powerful in my opinion. Do I think NDEs prove that an afterlife exists? For me, I think the evidence is clear that NDEs are real experiences that point to a dualist view of the body and mind. I am hesitant to say that the afterlife is just as depicted in the commonalities between NDEs because by definition all the people came back. What it is like when you stay I think is something unknowable at least without divine revelation (to get theological). I question the supposed worldwide consistency of NDEs just from my own reading of the literature from the past. Some very rudimentary elements are basic in NDEs throughout time but the details differ enough that I don’t think we can conclude much about the afterlife from them, assuming of course that the NDEr is really going to the afterlife rather than something else happening instead. What do I mean by “something else?” I am not talking about hallucinations per se but more of spiritual “visions” which may or may not be accurate. (Again, there is no way to really know unless one is there permanently.) I’m fairly new to this subject and want to get a better grasp of it. I’ll read the one star reviews and see what the total skeptics say as I don’t want to be totally credulous while at the same time I don’t want to close my eyes to the clear evidence of NDEs by those that experience them.

Fascinating subject. My mom has been wanting me to read this book for years and I finally did. I really enjoyed reading of the many experiences and this reinforced my own personal beliefs about the existence of an afterlife. A few of the chapters towards the end of the book focused a little too heavily on the various statistical tests performed on the NDE data and got to be boring (and that's coming from a stats person).The passage that resonated with me more than any other is this quote from a NDEer: "I realized that I understood everything with a great clarity and superlucidity I had never experienced before. I discovered that I had personally chosen to take on a physical body and have the life experiences I was having." Wow, that struck me as so on-par with my own religious beliefs. The author frequently encourages the reader to explore the NDERF website. I perused it a bit after reading and frankly I was disappointed. The design of the web page does not seem to reflect that of a research institution - it has more of a funeral home or spiritual vibe to it. The website does not appear professional. Unfortunately in my mind that causes the organization to lose a lot of credibility. (Website credibility not accounted for in my 4-star rating but I felt it was worth noting.)

While at university, I befriended a student who’d recently had a Near Death Experience. A car hit him while he was walking down a country road. We remained friends and I’ve been able to see the long-term effect an NDE can have on someone’s life. Knowing someone who had an NDE does not of course prove the phenomenon true. Sceptics will always reply on it as being either anecdotal, hallucinatory or both. However, I do believe in it and I follow the growing body physics that supports it. In his book, Dr Long takes the reader through many incidents of NDE. He does this in a very readable way and adds authority by speaking on the subject from the point of view of a senior member of the medical profession. Although not advancing the subject, the book is an excellent beginning for someone new to the subject. In fact, this book must be among the best places to start.Near Death Experience left the realms of parapsychology and entered mainstream medicine some years ago now. I have no doubt that Dr Long played a significant role in that move given the duration of his involvement in the subject.My first reaction was to give the book four stars, but then changed my mind. It’s worth five.

The author of this book, Jeffrey Long, is a doctor. He's seen quite a few people survive what we know as clinical death and come back with tales of what they experienced when they were, in fact, incapable of experiencing anything.The author took a methodical approach to investigating the commonalities of the Near Death Experiences he documents. The book doesn't try to explain the experiences by pigeonholing them into any particular belief system (and if it had, I'd have stopped reading). Bascially, what the book does is distill numerous NDEs down to their common elements. There is the journey, which is often characterized as the tunnel or the light, the meeting with deceased relatives or 'spirit beings,' and in the case of the NDE experiencers the decision to return to the world of the living.Along the way, though, you'll be presented with some fascinating stories and thought-provoking insights into the phenomena by a person in a unique position to gather so many cases together. I recommend this book to anyone interested in a straightforward clinical exploration of the NDE experience.