Near-death experience
Published Jan 25, 2021 12:16 am
IF SYMPTOMS PERSIST
Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr.
“Adios, queridosseres, morir es descansar.” — (Farewell to all I love; to die is to rest) Jose Rizal (1861 – 1896), Filipino nationalist and polymath Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell) (1892)
In 1892, at around the time that Jose Rizal was imagining his death in Mi Ultimo Adios, someone already had his, came back to life and spoke about it. Albert von St Gallen Heim (1849-1937), a geologist and mountain climber, gave his paper “Remarks on Fatal Falls” to the Swiss Alpine Club. He recounted for the first time what we now call a “near-death experience” or NDE. He lost his footing, fell to his “death,” but was revived. He was supposed to be dead but he could recall details of his rescue: “Then my brother and three friends could sufficiently recover from their shock so as to accomplish the fairly difficult descent to me.” He writes: “Then I saw my whole past life take place in many images, as though on a stage at some distance from me. I saw myself as the chief character in the performance. Everything was transfigured as though by a heavenly light and everything was beautiful without grief, without anxiety, and without pain.” This deep sense of peace is commonly described too. Dr John Hagan III, an ophthalmologist and author of “The Science of Near-Death Experiences (2017)” states that NDE is “a medical syndrome affecting as many as 20% of people who are resuscitated after almost dying in a medial or surgical setting.”
Definition. Dr. Bruce Greyson, a psychiatrist, wrote in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1997) that “when some people come close to death, they go through a profound experience in which they believe they leave their bodies and enter some other realm or dimension, transcending the boundaries of the ego and the ordinary confines of time and space.”
Stages. In 1975, Dr Raymond Moody identified nine stages of NDE reported by patients who flatlined, though not experienced by all and not in the same order. Kenneth Long, PhD, a professor emeritus in psychology, uncovered the pattern of near-death experiences in these steps(2013):
Dr. Jose Pujalte, Jr.
“Adios, queridosseres, morir es descansar.” — (Farewell to all I love; to die is to rest) Jose Rizal (1861 – 1896), Filipino nationalist and polymath Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell) (1892)
In 1892, at around the time that Jose Rizal was imagining his death in Mi Ultimo Adios, someone already had his, came back to life and spoke about it. Albert von St Gallen Heim (1849-1937), a geologist and mountain climber, gave his paper “Remarks on Fatal Falls” to the Swiss Alpine Club. He recounted for the first time what we now call a “near-death experience” or NDE. He lost his footing, fell to his “death,” but was revived. He was supposed to be dead but he could recall details of his rescue: “Then my brother and three friends could sufficiently recover from their shock so as to accomplish the fairly difficult descent to me.” He writes: “Then I saw my whole past life take place in many images, as though on a stage at some distance from me. I saw myself as the chief character in the performance. Everything was transfigured as though by a heavenly light and everything was beautiful without grief, without anxiety, and without pain.” This deep sense of peace is commonly described too. Dr John Hagan III, an ophthalmologist and author of “The Science of Near-Death Experiences (2017)” states that NDE is “a medical syndrome affecting as many as 20% of people who are resuscitated after almost dying in a medial or surgical setting.”
Definition. Dr. Bruce Greyson, a psychiatrist, wrote in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1997) that “when some people come close to death, they go through a profound experience in which they believe they leave their bodies and enter some other realm or dimension, transcending the boundaries of the ego and the ordinary confines of time and space.”
Stages. In 1975, Dr Raymond Moody identified nine stages of NDE reported by patients who flatlined, though not experienced by all and not in the same order. Kenneth Long, PhD, a professor emeritus in psychology, uncovered the pattern of near-death experiences in these steps(2013):
- Body separation.
- Entering the darkness.
- Seeing the light.
- Entering the light and return.