God and the Afterlife: Latest Findings from the Largest NDE Study Ever Reported | Jeffrey Long

Jeffrey Long, M.D. has scientifically studied over 4000 near-death experiences (NDEs). Dr. Long reviews this prior research and presents his current groundbreaking investigation of the content of NDEs that address humankind’s “Big Questions” which include: Does God exist? Is there an afterlife? What is the meaning and purpose of earthly life? NDEs have extraordinarily consistent information that address the Big Questions. Insights into the Big Questions from NDEs does not seem explainable by preexisting cultural or religious beliefs. This is the largest scientific investigation of sequentially shared experiences addressing the Big Questions ever reported.

Bio: Jeffrey Long, M.D. is a radiation oncology physician practicing in Houma, Louisiana. Dr. Long has investigated over 4000 near-death experiences (NDEs), which is by far the largest number of NDEs ever scientifically studied. The results of his previous research were published in the New York Times bestselling book Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences. Dr. Long’s latest NDE research is presented in his most recent book God and the Afterlife: The Groundbreaking New Evidence for God and Near-Death Experience. Millions of people have seen Dr. Long discuss his re- search on shows including the NBC Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor, The Dr. Oz Show, National Geographic television, History Channel, and on television broadcasts around the world.

Recorded at the Society for Scientific Exploration conference at Yale University, 2017

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About 40 years ago, I was involved in a bad car accident. My car hit a tree at 45 mph at impact. The car was totaled and so was I.
My stearing column disconnected from my car and my abilty to stear was gone as I started to vear into the oncomming lane. I panicked as I turned the stearing wheel with no reaction from the car. My heart skipped a beat as I began to panic. There was a large tree on the side of the road and I was headed right for it. I KNEW this was it for me as I locked up the brakes and began to skid heading right for the tree. Time slowed down and I began to plead with God to not let me die. There must have been a few seconds between noticing the tree and impact, but in that time, every significant moment of my young life played out befoe my eyes. Sitting on a rock with my father when I was six, walking in a field with my mother and talking with her, sitting with my grandmother on her farm in her garden, playing with my sister, and many other moments. I began pleading with God to not take me so young. I asked Him "What will my father think, Im don't have a job". "What will my mother think, as I don't yet have a family". What will my grandmother think, as I'm not going to college. There was a question for each of my family members as what they would think once I was gone. - All in the fraction of a few seconds. THEN came the impact. I was thrown into the windsheild as my head went through and my leg caught on the dashboard tossing me back into the seat instead of launcing out through the front windsheild. Then everything went black. That's when God answered all of my questions I had asked moments before. He answered me, not in words though. The only way I can describe it is a loving calm way of complete understanding without being spoken to. He told me I would be given another chance and would do what I was meant to do and everything was going to be alright. When I regained consciousness, a friend from school was standing above me at my car door shaking me and crying his eyes out, he thought I was dead. He had noticed my car and stopped and found me laying in the seat covered in blood. He rushed me to the hospital where I received hundreds of stitches to my legs, arms and face. As the surgeon was stitching me up the police arrived and were quite upset as they entered the emergency room. An officer asked me if my car was the one involved in the accident. I confirmed it was indeed my car and he seemed to get angry as he said he'd spent the last half hour searching the area for my body. He came over to me and layed a ticket on my chest and the surgeon grabbed the ticket and forced the officer back out of his operating room and told him he could do his job when the Dr was finished with his. The Dr was in the hall for a few seconds and when he returned he said to me, "I saw a picture of your car son, I want you to know we don't usually see cars that look like that and are still able to save someone from a wreck like that. You must have had someone watching over you tonight" as he pointed upward to God. I began to cry, and told him about my conversation with my creator. He stopped stitching me and his voice began to quiver as he held back tears and tryed to remain professional. He told me I would be surprised to know all the miracles he'd seen in his days in the ER. I told him I felt like I was one of those miracles and am forever changed knowing my creator loved me so much.

You see, up until that day I'd always been a scientific type mindset and needed proof for verification if something was real or not. That day, God gave me the proof I would need to confirm my faith, and I feel lucky and blessed to have had that happen to me. I have the proof most don't, that there is a creator, whatever you may call Him by, He is real and He does love you. Find your faith whatever you do, seek fellowship, seek Him in prayer, whatever it takes. Don't be forced to find Him in the way I did, because you may not have another chance to keep on living once you find out. Accept Him into your heart and watch how your life changes. For those of you who can't find your way to Him now, rest assured He will find his way to you, upon your death. Be sure that you accept Him and go with Him when the time comes.

May God bless you and show Himself to you in your younger years so you may live a blessed life with Him in it.
Those of you who read this comment, there's a reason you were led to this information, take advantage of it and learn from my experience that there is a God, and He's a loving Creator.

[RamonaRayTodosSantosBCS]

Yep- first experience was age 12. Left my body floated out up to roof put hand through roof! Scared the crap out of me! Zoom back into body. I knew something “bad” had happened to me. Second time a doctor and two nurses witnessed what happened to me. Third was as close as I possibly can say that I was to entering the “tunnel of light “. I’m a nurse, I’m not a wako, I don’t drink, do drugs. Why doesn’t anyone ever believe us?

[MsSweetswing]

Had my own 💕💕💕 Love is EVERYTHING ... I was not allowed to stay,

[taskforceripper]

When my grandmother passed away just minutes before she died she looked at me and said, baby the world has everything wrong, death is not what we think she said it was a beautiful thing, she told me not to believe in all the religious beliefs, your here to live out your destiny and learn and when you move from this world you will learn your true purpose. She said there is no hell she never ever said anything like that in all her years of living, she was a hard core bible thumper, and use to talk about hell to us a children, I just found it strange she would say that minutes before her passing, but for days she would look in a corner naming all the people that were waiting, for her the nurse said she would be talking like someone was really there, she was laughing and talking, to someone for 2 days prior, but on her death day, just mins before she told me she was going home where she knew everyone, after 20 mins she looked at us and said it’s time for me to go and for us not to worry, and she would be keeping a eye one everyone from afar, and that she would see us all someday. Then she smiled and just that quick she was gone exactly 24 hours later I was laying in the bed and heard her call my name twice, and no one was home but me, I had a overwhelming feeling that I was being watched, so I truly know we do live on I believe that hell is here on earth, my grandmother wasn’t scared at all to die it was like she was overjoyed to go. And while my family was cleaning out her house I found a piece of paper that said all we have to do is love nothing else matters not even the deeds we do they mean nothing. I thought this was strange but that stays with me. To this day I don’t believe there is nothing when we leave hear, and I am finding out religion means nothing that’s why there so many different one’s, they all want to be right my life has changed a lot since grandma’s death. I welcome the honor to move on when it’s my time

[newdawnrising]

NDE is real. Skepticism is to be expected but the real issue is with the skeptic.

[freddyferrillo]

I had an outer body experience in 2003. It scared the shit out of me. I didn't die. I wasn't hurt or injured in any way. And i wasn't high or drunk at the time. But me, and about 5/6 other friends of mine were just sitting in the living room. There's a couch and a recliner and a few dinner seats. I was on the couch engaging in conversation with everyone else. All of a sudden I felt my soul/ conscience come squeezing out of the top of my head. Like my whole body squeezed through a 2 liter coke bottle nozzle/spout. I felt like I got compressed and was forced out of the top of my head through a little hole about the size of a quarter! Freaky feeling but it didn't hurt at all. Next thing you know I floated to the other side of the room looking at myself and my friends talking and bullshitting. It was so strange. For a few seconds I didn't realise what happened. Then it hit me! I'm not in my body? That's me over there still talking and laughing and joking around? How? I'm over here looking at myself and others. But I couldn't see, or physically feel, my outer- body self. And i heard nothing. But I could see me and my friends mouths moving and making facial expressions as if we are talking to each other! But I heard nothing! Silence. Well I got scared! I didn't wanna stay in that state. This lasted about 30 seconds I'm guessing. Judging by how many sentences we each translated back and forth to each other. From what I vividly saw, we each spoke about 3 short sentences back and forth to one another. So I'm guessing that could only take about a minute right? After that, I had this really strong feeling that I wanted to go back into myself. I did not like looking at me and my buddies from this other realm or whatever it was. I didn't understand it. So it freaked me out. I thought to myself, how? How can this be? I want back into reality! Now! And as soon as my conscience thought that; I flew very fast back into my body. Like light-speed mind you! And i felt that compressed feeling again; but only going back into my body. That was even stranger. Because all sound came back so suddenly! And the feeling of that like it should hurt but it didn't? But it did feel very weird and spiritual. Not a regular everyday feeling that humans would or should feel!!
I never want that to happen again people. Because I didn't die! This was not a NDE! My physical body was not hurt or sick or dead. I was alive and happy and well. And i saw myself laughing and kidding around with my friends from another realm. I wanted back into my body. Because who knows where I could've floated off to? Because I was still alive. Why would my conscience leave my body?

When I told my friends they just blew it off, and said we didnt notice that you were gone. But that's because I wasn't gone. I never left the couch or the convetsation. But my conscience/soul must have. I know this because I saw myself sitting on that couch talking to others. So my conscience had to have been in two places at once. But only one conscience was within my physical body and the other wasn't. It wasn't in any body at all. For what I'm guessing to be about a minute.
This happened! It wasn't a dream or an acid trip. It wasn't hallucination or anything like that. It was an Outer-body-experience. I can't explain it any better.

[furios]

Seeing atheist and blind people really support the claims and evidence. Praise god.

[kathryncarter]

The report on the blind people is totally mindblowing!

[manofaith]

I believe everyone who died and came back had a near death experience but the majority once they reenter the lower consciousness/limited reality, they don't remember the experience. I believe this is why most don't report having a near death experience. The brain is a filter which veils the super heightened reality beyond, therefore most people are not able to hold onto that awareness once they depart from the higher realm of reality and return to the lower realm of existence. I think it's similar to some people who have vivid dreams and remember their dreams in detail, others including myself rarely remember the details of my dreams and for that matter sometimes don't remember any part of my dream although I do vaguely remember having a dream about something.

[MysticMaverick]

God seems to be more loving and accepting than we can ever imagine. He loves all His children and wants to usher them into an eternity of bliss, they are given the chance to accept Him at death.

Religion has imposed its own ideas and humanity onto God, but from NDEs it shows that He is not the wrathful and vengeful God that religion claims. He is loving and accepting.

[danielclements]

Thanks for doing what you do Jeffrey,  you have brought a lot of awareness to the subject .

[anasmith]

I love watching testimonies about ndes and pre-birth memories. ❤❤❤

[pmarreck]

My take on skeptics who think this is all easily explained away as altered brain states similar to a drug (despite many cases of zero brain activity in the periods where these NDE's are reported) is this:
Just because you don't have a good explanation for something, doesn't mean you have to accept a dumb one just because it better conforms to your existing understanding of the world.

[PondKingWaterGardensMN]

It makes me wonder what kind of world we'd have if it was understood that or consciousness was separate and what was waiting for us after our in body experience was best described as peace & love ❤️

[bkrharold]

For me the most astonishing thing about the information from NDE study is our direct connection to each other and to the source. I use the word source rather than G-d, because it comes with so much cultural and religious baggage, and we really have no clue about the nature of the source. Our normal daily experience gives us no clue about these connections. The idea that we all have a direct connection with the source is really profound in its ramifications. As a student of science and cosmology I am aware of the vastness of the Universe and the perfection of nature. The idea we could all be connected with the creator of all this unimaginable magnificence is truly humbling and a great responsibility.

[jeremywvarietyofviewpoints]

This is a worthwhile area to study. If there is life after death that is the most significant fact.

[JimHabash]

I cannot think of a classier guy than Dr. Jeffrey Long. A consummate professional, who takes his work and this topic, very seriously.

[beginnereasy]

You'll have an nde if you practice daily meditation or prayer more than an hour at a time. They're extremely extremely visceral experiences and they touch and satisfy extremely deep parts of you. Rather than being seen as optional these should be seen as necessary for groundedness.

[curtbrackenrich]

I was riveted in my seat, this was a fascinating presentation and the scientific (even dry) tone of his talk actually helped bring home how well documented it really is. If this talk had been given by a preacher yelling and sweating, he would not have had the impact the Dr Long just did. A big thanks to Dr Jeffery Long for his work on NDE's.

[nihilistic]

What about the ones where they have negative feelings, experience deep darkness, encounter evil beings who attack and hurt them in horrible ways?