\u201c7 Wonders of the Mormon World\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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From Dr. Penny Sartori\u2019s book, The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences<\/em>, an account that she gathered as part of her research:<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty years ago I was galloping a racehorse on my own on top of a mountain when he lost his footing, the bridle snapped and we went headlong into the ground, with a ton of racehorse doing 30 miles an hour rolling over me. \u00a0I woke up some two hours later with rain gently falling, looking down on myself. \u00a0My crash helmet was smashed and someone told me that I would be all right but that I needed to get up as it wasn\u2019t time for me to go as I was still needed by my daughter. \u00a0I had a feeling that I was \u2018halfway to heaven\u2019, watching from above with a voice talking to me.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cI watched from this hovering position as my body raised itself and started to walk off the mountain and down a steep stoney forestry track (some two miles). \u00a0When I reached the forestry car park a man came to my body and helped me into his car and drove towards the main road. \u00a0I was now hovering above the car as it approached my friend, who stopped the car; they transferred my body into her car and she drove me to the hospital, her husband ran up the mountain to recover the horse. \u00a0I was examined by a doctor in the hospital but I was actually above the bed watching. \u00a0They x-rayed my head and told my friend to take me home, this she refused to do. \u00a0I was hovering over her, telling her to get another doctor. \u00a0Another doctor arrived and I was wheeled into a small theatre and they undertook a thoracotomy on my collapsed lungs. \u00a0As I drew my first breath I went back into my body and felt pain for the first time, some three and a half hours after the accident.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe next day my consultant also diagnosed a crushed left leg as well as my fractured ribs, severe concussion, etc. \u00a0She was enthralled with my story as it should have been impossible for me to even stand up, never mind walk \u2014 she likened my injuries to someone who had had a tractor roll over them. \u00a0It was a life-changing experience.\u201d \u00a0(pages 6-7)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are many, many such accounts, some much more dramatic and spectacular than this. \u00a0If even one of them is literally true, that would seem to me to constitute a fatal blow to the common naturalistic or materialistic assumption that the mind is reducible to the physical brain.<\/p>\n
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