Adelaide Chapter

Near Death Experiences by Stephen White

July 11, 2019

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Date(s) - 11/07/2019 - 25/07/2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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“Near Death Experiences” by Stephen White

 

When: 7 pm, Thursday 11th July 2019

Where: Classroom 3 (ground floor), Tabor College, 181 Goodwood Road, Millswood. Carpark entry from Mitchell Street.

The French term “expérience de mort immente” (experience of imminent death) was proposed by French psychologist Victor Egger as a result of discussions in the 1890s among philosophers and psychologists concerning climbers’ stories of the panoramic life review during falls. In 1892 a series of subjective observations by workers falling from scaffolds, soldiers who suffered injuries, climbers who had fallen from heights or other individuals who had come close to death (near drownings, accidents) was reported by Albert Heim. This was also the first time the phenomenon was described as a clinical syndrome.

Professor Kenneth Ring (1980) subdivided Near Death Experiences (NDEs) into a five-stage continuum. The subdivisions were:

  1. Peace
  2. Body separation
  3. Entering darkness
  4. Seeing the light
  5. Entering the light

The following explanatory models have been proposed for NDEs

  1. Spiritual or Transcendental models
  2. Psychological explanations
  3. Physiological (organic) explanations

So what should we make of NDEs? Cardiac surgeons are objective observers of people who “die on the operating table”. They have to write clinical reports that are subject to review. Some of their patients come back to life after being pronounced dead. What do surgeons think about NDE? Are NDEs a preview into the afterlife? Stephen White will tell us what he has found.

Steve White

Steve White has had a career as a physicist in the defence industry in South Australia and is a Reasonable Faith Adelaide committee member.

 

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  1. Les says:

    I went through similar experiences