{"id":92154,"date":"2021-08-03T14:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=92154"},"modified":"2021-08-24T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T17:15:37","slug":"two-pillars-in-the-contemporary-study-of-near-death-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2021\/08\/two-pillars-in-the-contemporary-study-of-near-death-experiences.html","title":{"rendered":"Two pillars in the contemporary study of near-death experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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At the Universiteit Utrecht, where Pim van Lommel received his medical degree. (Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The School of Medicine at the University of Virginia, where Bruce Greyson is the Chester F. Carlson Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences\u00a0 (Wikimedia Commons public domain photograph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I would like to remind you that the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s dramatic film, Witnesses<\/em>, which is slowly ending its theatrical run, will actually be opening<\/em> in Heber, Utah, later this week.\u00a0 So, if you live in Heber or Midway or somewhere else in that vicinity and you haven\u2019t yet seen Witnesses<\/em> or you would like to see it again, this is a good chance for you.\u00a0 I understand now that it will be screened at the Ideal Theater.<\/a>\u00a0 If you know people in the area who, you think, might be interested in seeing the film, please call this to their attention.\u00a0 Opportunities to watch Witnesses<\/em> on a big screen are running out.<\/p>\n

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I failed to note it here when this article, by one of my grandparents\u2019 grandsons, went up in Meridian Magazine.<\/em>\u00a0 Please take a look:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMaking a Life Out of Near-Death Experiences\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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I append here four quotations from another relevant book:<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor those still stuck in the trap of scientific skepticism, I recommend the book Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century,<\/em> published in 2007. The evidence for out-of-body consciousness is well presented in this rigorous scientific analysis. Irreducible Mind<\/em> is a landmark opus from a highly reputable group, the Division of Perceptual Studies, based at the University of Virginia. The authors provide an exhaustive review of the relevant data, and the conclusion is inescapable: these phenomena are real, and we must try to understand their nature if we want to comprehend the reality of our existence.\u201d\u00a0 (Eben Alexander, <\/span>Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon\u2019s Journey into the Afterlif<\/em>e)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMy experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond the grave. More important, it continues under the gaze of a God who loves and cares about each one of us and about where the Universe itself and all the beings withing it are ultimately going.\u201d\u00a0 (Eben Alexander, <\/span>Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon\u2019s Journey into the Afterlife<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that we possess in the non physical worlds down into a more limited capacity for the duration of our mortal lives.\u201d\u00a0 (Eben Alexander, <\/span>Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon\u2019s Journey into the Afterlife<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn\u2019t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.\u201d\u00a0 (Eben Alexander, <\/span>Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon\u2019s Journey into the Afterlife<\/em>)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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These two items were posted today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:<\/p>\n

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Audio Roundtable: Come, Follow Me<\/em> Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 33 \u201cEstablish \u2026 a House of God\u201d <\/em>(D&C 88)<\/a><\/p>\n

Martin Tanner was the sole discussant in the Interpreter Radio Roundtable for Come, Follow Me<\/em>\u00a0Doctrine and Covenants Lesson 33,\u00a0\u201cEstablish \u2026 a House of God\u201d<\/em> on D&C 88.\u00a0 This roundtable was extracted from the 4 July 2021 broadcast of the Interpreter Radio Show (which fell, obviously, on American Independence Day, making Martin\u2019s willingness to come in to handle the show a very generous act).\u00a0 The complete show may be heard at https:\/\/interpreterfoundation.org\/interpreter-radio-show-july-4-2021\/<\/a>, and the Interpreter Radio Show can be heard each week on Sunday evenings from 7 to 9 PM (MDT), on K-TALK, AM 1640.\u00a0 Alternatively, if you\u2019re wanting to listen from beyond the Salt Lake Valley,\u00a0 you can do so live on the Internet at ktalkmedia.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From Jonn Claybaugh:\u00a0Come, Follow Me<\/em> \u2014 D&C Study and Teaching Helps: Lesson 33, August 9\u2013August 15: D&C 88 \u2014\u00a0\u201cEstablish \u2026 a House of God\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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I want to call your attention, yet again, to the annual FAIR conference, which opens on Wednesday and runs through Friday (though it will barely be sputtering, if even that, by its conclusion):<\/p>\n

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August 2021 FAIR Conference<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n