After Death: The Science Behind the Movie

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Is there life after death? Can science shed any light on this age-old question? And is the mind simply the workings of the brain, or is it something else? On this episode of ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid chats with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncology physician and one of the scientists featured in the new Angel Studios feature film After Death. As founder of the Near-Death Experience Research Foundation, Dr. Long has investigated over 4,000 near-death experiences (NDEs), the largest number of near-death cases ever assembled and studied. The results of his research are published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences. In this interview, Dr. Long explains the hallmarks of a near-death experience and the common themes found in most near-death accounts. He also shares nine lines of evidence that support the scientific case for afterlife consciousness. And he explains why skepticism is a healthy part of science, while ideological rigidity can inhibit the scientific pursuit of truth.

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0:00.0	Near-death experience, a typical detailed one would start out with an out-of-body experience.
0:08.3	Consciousness typically rises over the body, and from that vantage point they can see in here ongoing
0:14.0	earthly events including efforts of others frantically trying to bring them
0:17.8	back to life. Is there life after death? Can signs shed any light on this age-old question?
0:25.0	And is the mind simply the workings of the brain or is it something else?
0:30.0	Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host Andrew McDermott. And today my guest is Dr Jeffrey
0:35.8	Long, a radiation oncology physician practicing in Kentucky. Over 25 years ago he founded
0:42.0	the Near Death Experience Research Foundation.
0:45.0	Dr Long has investigated over 4,000 near death experiences, or NDEs as they're called,
0:51.0	which is by far the largest number ever scientifically studied.
0:55.2	The results of his previous research were published in the New York Times best-selling book,
0:59.4	Evidence of the Afterlife, The Science of Near-death experiences.
1:03.0	Dr Long is one of the scientists appearing in a new documentary feature film called After
1:07.7	Death, which explores what happens after we die based on real near-death and conveyed by scientists authors and survivors.
1:16.4	Dr. Long, welcome to the podcast.
1:18.6	Thank you.
1:19.6	It's a pleasure to be here.
1:20.6	Well, you've been researching near death experiences since 1984 when you first saw the term in a medical journal.
1:27.0	Can you tell us how you got interested in studying NDEs?
1:30.0	Sure. All those years ago I was in the medical library looking for an article in a bound medical journal that related to cancer.
1:41.0	And quite by accident, I found an article that had the term near-death experience in it, which I never heard of before.
1:47.0	So puzzled I stopped and read the article and was immediately fascinated.
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