Near Death Experiences often happen to people who have been
clinically dead or in other ways been close to death, whereby the term “Near Death.”
The term was first coined in 1975 when Dr. Raymond Moody
released his study of these experiences in his book Life After Life, and
with the explosion of interest in the subject today many books has been written
and a lot of studies has been done to investigate the phenomenon.
A Gallup poll has estimated that about 8 million Americans has had a near death experience and there is substantial scientific evidence to support that these experiences are neither hallucinations nor stories that people simply make up.
Since
Moody coined the term “near-death experience” in 1975 there has been a sharp
increase in interest in this topic. There are thousands of reports of
near-death experiences from all over the world and it is estimated that over 65
scientific studies have been done involving more than 2,500 people who have had near-death
experiences.
As close as we can get to an actual proof of life after
death, near death experiences share obvious parallels with both religion and
spirituality. Rene Jorgensen recently released a book
called The Light Behind God that investigates the parallels between
religion/spirituality and near death experiences.
