Real Life with Jennifer Till
Apr 2011 Audio
4/23/11 Real Life with Jennifer Till: Near Death Experience [42:25m]: Download (81)Tomorrow, hundreds of millions of Christians worldwide will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus; an act of death returning to life that is a touchstone of faith and belief. There is a smaller, but still sizeable group, for whom death and life has a different, but no less profound connection. According to an informal survey conducted several years ago, 4-5% of all Americans have had a near death experience, or NDE. That’s approximately 15 million people in this country, a number that certainly warrants serious investigation, research and conversation; something with which both of my guests this morning agree, although both approach it from their own unique and personal perspective. And both share the absolute conviction that such experience is, at its core, all about changes in one’s state of consciousness.
I am joined this morning, in the studio by PMH Atwater, researcher, spiritualist, author, public speaker, prayer chaplain and visionary, who, as the title of one of her books says “died three times in 1977”. According to her biography on Wikipedia she “is a pioneer in subjects like near-death experiences, the aftereffects of spiritual experiences, transformations of consciousness, reality shifts and future memory.”
And joining us by phone is Dr. Eben Alexander, an academic neurosurgeon for the last 25 years, including 15 years at Harvard Medical School, and currently serving at UVA. In 2008 he was overcome by bacterial meningitis, rendered comatose on a ventilator in the ICU, a state in which he persisted for the next seven days. In his words he says. “My story offers a critical key to the understanding of spirituality. The human part of my brain, the neocortex, died for a week. In the midst of that, I had an extraordinary experience that could not have occurred in my brain, given our current understanding of neuroscience.”
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