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1. What I lean about near death experience that most surprised me is hearing and looking over all the stories of people gone through when they went over to the other side. I notice that it all sounds similar with each other when entering this near death experience.
2. When growing up I use to watch a lot of scary movies/ TV shows that involved near death experiences. Like the movie The Sixtieth Sense and The Ghost Whisper because i'm always curious what life is like after death, if there is more towards the story of where you go when you die.
3. The research I found most interesting is the young boy who experience heaven after going under serious surgery. . After personally watching movie Heaven is for Real you get better understanding of what Colton was going through and how he was adapting to his changes in talking to spirits and people around him.
4. What i most likely i'm going to remember from this research will be that Colton was young boy when this happen to him and him telling his story matter of factly, Colton said he was pleased that people were finding the story inspirational. "people are getting blessed, and they're going to have healing from their hurts" he said. "i'm happy for that".
5. After completing all the course content, I believe that paternity belief is the most harmful. Because I feel as people today in are generation we are always looking for answer for the unknown. And even if we don't know the unknown we make false assumptions of reasons why this/that happens. Causing people to really think there view points of life in negative or positive way. That's why I think the unexplained is least harmful barbecue there's no answer towards, it's what ever we think as human beings it can possible be where there no harm in using are imagination into thinking what it can be.
6. If I could pass on my knowledge to family member or friend, i think the most important thins to pass on is when looking over story or article critical thinking is most important. Because this helps you break down the idea and get a better understanding. This gives you the ability to evaluate, compare, analyze, critique and synthesize your information.

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This article talks about Dr. Eben Alexander III had dismiss near death revelations of God and Heaven as explainable by the hard wiring of human brain. He was, after all, neurosurgeon with sophisticated medical training. But then in 2008 Dr. Alexander contracted bacterial meningitis. The deadly infection soaked his brain and sent him into a deep coma. Week later he wakes up reborn on what he see's of the world and his experiences.
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The connections to this article is that during Dr. Alexander near death experience he was revealed to bright light to compassionate world beyond are as old as time and by now seem trite. After his experience people expect patternicity that you come out telling people what you gone through. In this case since of seeing this light and feeling sense of another world. If there is "Proof of Heaven" (ideology).

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Still, he said, he has a trump card: Having trained at Duke University and taught and practiced as a surgeon at Harvard, he knows brain science as well as anyone. And science, he said, cannot explain his experience.

"During my coma my brain wasn't working improperly," he writes in his book. "It wasn't working at all."

Simon & Schuster, which released the book on Oct. 23, is betting that it can appeal to very different but potentially lucrative audiences: those interested in neuroscience and those interested in mystical experiences. Already Dr. Alexander has been a guest on "The Dr. Oz Show" and is scheduled to appear as the sole guest of an hourlong special with Oprah Winfrey on Sunday.

"This book covers topics that are of interest to a lot of people: consciousness, near death, and heaven," said Priscilla Painton, the executive editor at Simon & Schuster, who acquired the book.

The company took the unusual step of releasing the book in hardcover, paperback and e-book format, so it could simultaneously sell to a wider range of readers - at Walmarts and grocery stores as well as independent bookstores and online. It rose instantly to No. 1 on The New York Times's paperback best-seller list and is there again for next week.

Ms. Painton would not elaborate on what type of audience the book had attracted so far, but she did say she expected it to continue to be a big seller. The publisher has printed nearly one million copies, combined hardcover and paperback, to be snapped up at airports and as stocking stuffers at big retailers like Target. Another 78,000 digital copes have been sold.

In a recent interview at the Algonquin Hotel lobby in Manhattan, however, Dr. Alexander made it clear that he was less interested in appealing to religious "believers," even though they had been a core audience for similar books.

He rejected the idea that readers of his book would be the same as those who bought "Heaven Is for Real," a 2010 mega best-seller about a preacher's son who sat on Jesus' lap during a near-death experience.

"It is totally different," he insisted. "Those who believed in heaven when they read the book were not happy. They didn't like the title. They say, 'This is not scientific proof.' "

In fact, he said, "Proof of Heaven" was not his idea for a title. He preferred "An N of One," a reference to medical trials in which there is only a single patient.

Wearing a yellow bow tie, Dr. Alexander talked about his career and his years at Harvard, sounding every bit the part of a doctor one might trust to drill open skulls and manipulate their contents.

He left Harvard in 2001, he said, because he was tired of "medical politics." In 2006 he moved to Lynchburg, Va., where he did research on less invasive forms of brain surgery through focused X-rays and digital scanners. Then the meningitis felled him.

After recovering, he originally planned to write a scientific paper that would explain his intensely vivid recollections. But after consulting the existing literature and talking extensively to other colleagues in the field he decided no scientific explanation existed.

"My entire neocortex - the outer surface of the brain, the part that makes us human - was entirely shut down, inoperative," he said.

He hesitated nevertheless. It took him two years, he said, to even use the word God in discussing his experience. But then he felt an obligation to all those dealing with near-death experience, and particularly to his fellow doctors. He felt compelled to let them know.

So far he has spoken at the Lynchburg hospital, where he was treated, and said he has been invited to address a group of neurosurgeons at Stanford.

But these invitations, he acknowledged, do not mean that his theory is gaining ground among doctors. In private conversations, he said, very few of his colleagues offered counterarguments. Some agreed with his conclusion that science could not explain what he saw, but none of them were willing to be named in his book.

Other former colleagues reached for comment were not convinced. Dr. Martin Samuels, chairman of the neurology department at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a Harvard teaching affiliate, remembered Dr. Alexander as a competent neurosurgeon. But he said: "There is no way to know, in fact, that his neocortex was shut down. It sounds scientific, but it is an interpretation made after the fact."

"My own experience," Dr. Samuels added, "is that we all live in virtual reality, and the brain is the final arbiter. The fact that he is a neurosurgeon is no more relevant than if he was a plumber."

Dr. Alexander shrugs off such analysis. He still hopes to tour "major medical centers and hospices and nursing homes," he said, to relate his experience in distinctly medical environments.

His messages to those who deal with dying is one of relief. "Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body," he said. "It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't."

Correction: November 28, 2012

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Dr. Eben Alexander's Tells of Near Death in 'Proof of Heaven'

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Still, he said, he has a trump card: Having trained at Duke University and taught and practiced as a surgeon at Harvard, he knows brain science as well as anyone. And science, he said, cannot explain his experience. "During my coma my brain wasn't working improperly," he writes in his book.

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The Sixth Sense is a 1999 supernatural horror film at its time. The film tells the story of Cole Sear, a boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and Malcolm Crowe, a child psychologist who tries to help him with his needs.
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Since Cole has the gift to talk to spirit beings who are dead relatives and/or friends that helping him guide him through the journey. There is emotional connections along through the film where Cole goes through circumstances of talking to the spirits and understanding there pain.

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Amy Call's talks about her amazing near death experience talking bout the detail and struggles that she was undergoing during her experience of going into the near death experience.
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This video has a lot connections to bright/light tunnel on she felt like she was pulled out from her body and towards the light/portal in some way. Then to go about her mental aspects how she was describing everything she was going under through a sense of peace and comprehensive knowledge of the universe. But in doing this to her it felt like and out of body experience where she left her body and was able to look at world as a whole. Through this she described that she felt rush went through her of her life to where she is now (life review). Under going her near death experience she was able to communicate with spirit beings around her telepathically through her mind. After hearing Amy's near death experience red flag that I feel was implemented was proof by verbosity. Since Amy talks a lot about evidence and information that she has gone through that possibly her audience feels that this much of information must be true. A belief that i have is that ideology was involved that Amy believed after her experience she needed to go to church to get understanding what she felt. Another belief that I feel was needed i the unexplained Amy try's to confronted with the unexplained experience but she try's to explain it herself in what she saw.

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Present! -  Amy Call's Near-Death Experience

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The hospital waiting room, Raymond Moody talks about hearing stories of out of body experiences. How a patient was able to travel to the waiting room and over hear her brother-in-law, talking to an business associate and when she came back to her body she was able to refer everything they were talking about.
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This article connects to out of body experience of course where the patient was able to travel outside from outsider her body and see the events going on around her. This story it self sounds like it has agenticity where as this waiting room is be know people who have out of body experience come to see there love ones. Also of course there's that emotional connection with our love ones in this cause it was the patients brother in law.

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These near death experience stories have been deemed credible by peer-reviewed journals.

Frequently during near death experiences, some transphysical component leaves the body, but does not go immediately to an other-worldly domain. Instead, it remains in the resuscitation room or somewhat near the body.

Some of these reports have highly unusual or unique characteristics which are not part of ordinary resuscitation or hospital procedures. As such, the details of these near death experience stories can be verified by hospital staff and others who were present at the time. When the claims of a NDE have been verified, the account is deemed "veridical".

Virtually every peer-reviewed study reports multiple instances of such veridical data. Here are some veridical near death experiences reported in these studies.

4 Real Life Near Death Experience Stories

Finding Dentures

In the Pim van Lommel study, one man who had been in a deep coma later told a nurse that he recognized her and saw where she had placed his dentures during resuscitation efforts - he even described the cart where she placed them. They were there, precisely as he described it.

Shoe on the Ledge

Melvin Morse and Kim Clark reported a woman who had knowledge of a shoe on a window ledge outside the hospital. The shoe was nowhere near the place she had been resuscitated, but was next to a third-floor office. Though the shoe could have been seen from a window after the woman's resuscitation, she had described it with such detail that it must have been viewed up close. She noted that the shoe had a worn little toe, and the shoelace was tucked beneath the heel.

The psychologist who interviewed the woman (Kim Clark) had to crawl along the ledge outside to verify the claim. The shoe was indeed there precisely as the patient had described it.

Clark concluded that:

"The only way she [the patient] could have had such a perspective was if she had been floating right outside and at very close range to the tennis shoe. I retrieved the shoe and brought it back to Maria; it was very concrete evidence for me."

Hospital Waiting Room

Raymond Moody also reports similar stories of veridical out-of-body experiences, including those who travel through walls to the waiting room where they see their relatives and friends.

One patient reported seeing her young daughter wearing mismatched plaids, which was highly unusual.

Another woman overheard her brother-in-law talking to a business associate in the hospital waiting room in a very derogatory manner, and was able to report this back to him later.

Plaid Shoelaces and Flapping Arms

Dr. Bruce Greyson (Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia) reported one woman's accurate description of the plaid shoelaces on a nurse participating in her resuscitation.

Another patient from Dr. Greyson's study accurately described of his cardiac surgeon ''flapping his arms as if trying to fly'' during his open-heart surgery.

Conclusion

What do these stories tell us about the human person and the afterlife? Click the link for more.

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The 4 Most Credible Near Death Experience Stories [of All Time!]

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These near death experience stories have been deemed credible by peer-reviewed journals. Frequently during near death experiences, some transphysical component leaves the body, but does not go immediately to an other-worldly domain. Instead, it remains in the resuscitation room or somewhat near the body.

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This image shows a man just gone through a dramatic surgery. That he almost felt like he lost his life and pasted right through his eyes.
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This image connects to life review where as this man who has gone through the surgery. Has a review of the person's entire life may occur in video like format or some kind of visionary playback.

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This article talks about amazing story about a four year old boy name Colton Burpo who has experienced heaven during an emergency surgery. After the emergency he is able to communicate with God. Colton speaks about his experiences in heaven, and Todd his father is faced with the dilemma of determining the legitimacy of his son's experience.
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This article connects to spirit beings and mental aspects having Colton being able to have communication with spirit beings. Also being able to have a mental attitudes described include a sense of peace, and/or comprehensive of universe. This article shows a lot of ideology of set of beliefs and decisions within the religion. Also gives emotional connections making us want us to believe what Colton says to be true since he is able to talk to our past love ones. Unexplained is will never really know what Colton went through and how he is able to communicate with our live ones.

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"We all are perhaps desperate to know what is on the other side of the veil after we die," Mr. Baugher said, adding that his initial skepticism about the Burpo family's story was short-lived. "This was a very down-to-earth, conservative, quote-unquote normal Midwestern family. We became fully convinced that this story was valid. And also that it was a great story that would just take off."

The book was an instant hit in Barnes & Noble outlets and was near the top of the best-seller list on its bn.com. The chain's religion buyer was an early advocate for the book, ordering copies for every store, said Patricia Bostelman, the vice president for marketing at Barnes & Noble.

"When you buy the religion subject, you are presented with many stories about heaven, personal experiences about near-death and the afterlife," Ms. Bostelman said, noting that several other books with "heaven" in the title have sold well recently. "But what was unusual about this book was that it was the story of a little boy. It deactivated some of the cynicism that can go along with adults capitalizing on their experiences."

Todd Burpo wrote the book with Lynn Vincent, who collaborated with Sarah Palin on "Going Rogue." Mr. Burpo, the pastor of Crossroads Wesleyan Church in Imperial, a farming community in southwest Nebraska, said in an interview that he had shouldered some criticism over it.

"People say we just did this to make money, and it's not the truth," Mr. Burpo said, referring to anonymous online comments about the book. "We were expecting nothing. We were just hoping the publisher would break even." (He said he planned to give away much of the royalty income and spend some of it on home improvements.)

At first, he and his wife, Sonja, were not sure if they could believe their son's story, which came out slowly, months and years after his sudden illness and operation in 2003. The details persuaded them, Mr. Burpo said. Colton told his parents that he had met his younger sister in heaven, describing her as a dark-haired girl who resembled his older sister, Cassie. When the Burpos questioned him, he asked his mother, "You had a baby die in your tummy, didn't you?" While his wife had suffered a miscarriage years before, Mr. Burpo said, they had not told Colton about it. "There's just no way he could have known," Mr. Burpo said.

And the Burpos said that Colton painstakingly described images that he said he saw in heaven - like the bloody wounds on Jesus' palms - that he had not been shown before.

Eventually the Burpos decided to tell their story beyond their town. Mr. Burpo, in his Sunday sermons, had already introduced some anecdotes to his congregation. Through a pastor friend, they met Joel Kneedler, an agent with Alive Communications, a Christian literary agency in Colorado Springs. Mr. Kneedler sold the book to Thomas Nelson, a publisher known for Christian titles like "40 Days With Jesus" by Sarah Young. The advance was in the low five figures.

The book's list price is $16.99, but that is discounted to $9.34 on amazon.com.

At the outlets of Barbara's Bookstore, an independent chain mostly in the Chicago area, the book is No. 1 on the store's nonfiction best-seller list. Interest in it began to perk up around mid-February, said Greg Sato, a store manager.

"Of the nonfiction books lately that seems to be the one that people are asking about the most," Mr. Sato said. "I have pegged it in the same vein as 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' or 'The Shack.' Like an Oprah book, but a little more religious or spiritual."

Colton, who appears as a blond, round-faced little boy on the cover of the book, now plays the piano and trumpet, is fascinated by Greek mythology, listens to Christian rock and loves Nebraska football.

Telling his story matter-of-factly, Colton said he was pleased that people were finding the story inspirational.

"People are getting blessed, and they're going to have healing from their hurts," he said. "I'm happy for that."

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'Heaven Is for Real,' Boy's Tale, Is Publishing Phenomenon

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"We all are perhaps desperate to know what is on the other side of the veil after we die," Mr. Baugher said, adding that his initial skepticism about the Burpo family's story was short-lived. "This was a very down-to-earth, conservative, quote-unquote normal Midwestern family. We became fully convinced that this story was valid.

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This video is from another very famous movie called the Lion King in the Lion King Simba lost his father due to accident and now that Simba is grow up he doesn't know yet if he's ready to be the king that they need. In this scene he see's his father spirit within clouds communicating with his son.
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This video connects to spirit beings are visions of dead relatives and/or friends who are guiding you on your journey.   In this case Simba's father communicating to him on help guide to the circle of life. Causing Simba to have an emotional connection that his father is really there talking to him.

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The Lion King - Simba's Encouter With His Father's Spirit

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This image shows a hand going towards the bright/white light, well darkness slowly surrounds them. This indicates that death is near.
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This image connects to bright light/ tunnel sometimes shown at the end of a tunnel or pathway. Ideological support believes this our way into the after of going to better place/heaven. For this unexplained why this happens but some people have this emotional connection that its our love ones in calling us to come back home.

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This video is shown from a very famous movie called Doctor Strange know in Marvel comics. At this point in the movie Strange is being trained to use outer mind and body to use against combat.

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This video connects to idea of out of body experiences (OBEs). This is the feeling as though you have left your body and are floating in this case Strange. Making him watch the events going on around his body. These (OBEs) may begin at the body then travel to distant location/ realm. Which in this case is what the movie manged to do creating Red Herring that when entering this other realm your enter another version of earth that people can not see.

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DOCTOR STRANGE Movie Clip - Heal The Body (2016) Benedict Cumberbatch Marvel Movie HD

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