Dr. Sam Parnia, head researcher of the University of Southampton project, was quoted in the UK newspaper The Telegraph as noting, "What people experience during this period of cardiac arrest provides a unique window of understanding into what we are all likely to experience during the dying process."

These NDE accounts seem to indicate a pathway from our daily reality to another dimension or another kind of reality.

If we assume for a moment that this might be true, would it not then be possible for people living in that other dimension to return on occasion, in some way or for some reason to this plane of existence?

After all, the very nature of the NDE is that these people do return. Because they are medically resuscitated, or for some other reason, they do not stay in the other dimension. They return.

And often, they are fundamentally changed in their viewpoints and perceptions.

What about people who do continue on the path and are not resuscitated? Many believe that they (we) go somewhere else. Whether it is called Heaven, the afterlife or any number of names, there certainly have been millions of human beings who have made this journey.

In the Baylor University survey, more than half of adults polled say that a guardian angel has protected them at some time in their lives.

One in five of those respondents identified themselves as not being religious.

Why do so many people have this belief? Wishful thinking? A psychological security blanket? Or, is it something more?

If it is true that they (we) do go to another dimension of reality, what kinds of activities are undertaken there? Are the daily lives of family members and friends back on Earth simply forgotten and left behind? Or, are missions and projects undertaken that have some important meaning?

Why do angels or those who have passed on, if they exist, seem to conduct such activities in clandestine or covert ways, as is often reported?

Do these discreet activities and missions reflect what we sometimes call encounters with, interventions of or protection by guardian angels. Is this what people reported in the Baylor research poll?

CONSCIOUSNESS BEYOND DEATH

The NDE study at Southampton University, led by Dr. Parnia, is called the AWARE study, referring to "AWAreness during REsuscitation."

Parnia has done previous research on patient consciousness while experiencing clinical death.

The research will be conducted in the UK and the United States and will involve 25 hospitals. Researchers will look at 1,500 patients who had heart attacks that resulted in cessation of heartbeat and brain activity.

Parnia was quoted in The Telegraph newspaper as saying, "If you can demonstrate that consciousness continues after the brain switches off, it allows for the possibility that the consciousness is a separate entity."

The Telegraph article also quoted Parnia as explaining, "Contrary to popular perception, death is not a specific moment. It is a process that begins when the heart stops beating, the lungs stop working and the brain ceases functioning - a medical condition termed cardiac arrest, which from a biological viewpoint is synonymous with clinical death."

According to Parnia, "During a cardiac arrest, all three criteria of death are present. There then follows a period of time, which may last from a few seconds to an hour or more, in which emergency medical efforts may succeed in restarting the heart and reversing the dying process."

Some recent scientific studies reportedly have found that 10 percent to 20 percent of people experiencing clinical death also claim to have had consciousness and vivid, very interesting experiences during the period between death and resuscitation.

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