Glimpses of "the other side" are merely conditioning by years of religious indoctrination. The so-called "return from the dead experiences" have never been authenticated by any scientist that I know of." (Stringsinger) I respectfully disagree with every single word of this. PLenty of scientists and lay folk have had near-death experiences that changed them deeply and totally. Here's one example. But not all scientists are skeptics when it comes to explaining near-death phenomena, and researchers have debated such issues for years. Joyce Hawkes, a cell biologist with a PhD, had an accident that forever changed her life — and her view of science. She suffered a concussion from a falling window. "I think that part of me — that my spirit, my soul — left my body and went to another reality," she said. She was surprised at the experience. "It just was not part of the paradigm in which I lived as a scientist," Hawkes recalled. "Iit was a big surprise to me to have this sense of something different than the body — a consciousness different than the body — and to be in this wonderfully healing, peaceful, nurturing place." Hawkes now works as a spiritual healer. "I think what I learned was that there truly is no death, that there is a change in state from a physical form to a spirit form, and that there's nothing to fear about that passage," she said.
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