The Near-Death Experience Part 1

Astonishing Legends

Scott Philbrook

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 9.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 144 minutes

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The question that every one of us has at least wondered about at some point in our lives, is not if UFOs and aliens exist, or where's Bigfoot, or even if ghosts are real (although that question is connected) but a question about the biggest mystery of all: "What happens to us after we die?" You may not care about the other unknowns, but death comes for us all, and whether or not there's an afterlife, we'll all know in due time. It's the grandest question there is, because it may lead to all other answers. Any evidence of an afterlife may seem beyond our view to most of us; however, there seems to be a great abundance of credible accounts from people who may have seen a glimpse of what awaits us on the Other Side. These people have either been in a state of "Clinical Death" or some unusual physical circumstance and upon recovering, claim to have experienced something known as a Near-Death Experience, or, an "NDE." Tonight, we sit down with our good friend, screenwriter Richard Hatem, who has studied the subject extensively, to discuss the fascinating and distinctive characteristics of the phenomenon. In Part One of our two-part series, we first look at the researchers, definitions and a few case studies of the NDE. Before you think you can dismiss these numerous anecdotes as coming only from a particular type of attention seeker, consider that these testimonies come from the believer, the agnostic and the atheistic alike, from people of all faiths and walks of life, with stories of striking similarity from every culture, and going back to when people first started dying. These Experiencers were all profoundly affected, their lives changed, and the commonalities of their experiences would suggest that this ultimate truth doesn't care what you believe, and indeed a reality beyond the one we know does exist.

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0:00.0	Did you know choosing the train can take up to 500 cars off the road? Just one train at a time.
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0:18.0	One train journey at a time can help create a greener future.
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0:29.0	last greener.
0:30.0	Estonishing legends would like to thank Robin Hood, Simply Safe, Squarespace, The Great
0:34.0	Courses Plus and our contributors at Patreon for making tonight's show possible.
0:38.0	That astonishing legends, we cover everything. Ghosts, ghouls, UFOs, cryptids, historical mysteries,
0:46.0	and even the Old West. But around the holidays, we always try to find topics that are seasonal.
0:53.0	This year, we thought we'd wrap 2018 with a two-part series on what is commonly known as The
0:59.0	Near Death Experience. Unlike most of our topics that involve some minute part of humanity
1:06.0	having a personal experience of some kind, the near death experience is more common than
1:13.0	what one might think. Millions of people have reported them going back to the dawn of humanity.
1:18.0	Some celebrities have even written books and songs about them. Television star Larry
1:23.0	Hegman from I Dream of Genie and the long-running nighttime soap Dallas had an NDE that he wrote
1:30.0	about extensively. The last song George Michael released before his death in 2016 was entitled
1:38.0	White Light and was about a near death experience he had in the Throes of Numogia in 2011.
1:44.0	What does it mean to experience death and then return to tell the tale?
1:49.0	Everyone that has done that will tell you that it changed their lives and their understanding
1:55.0	of death forever. Like every unapprovable personal experience, can those of us that haven't
2:02.0	been through an NDE ever understand what it really feels like?
2:07.0	Ernest Hemingway went through a near death experience during World War I that he actually wrote
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