Spirit Talk & The Professional Medium Issue 4 | Page 6

cardiac arrest, actually has an NDE
at all. Many wake up remembering
nothing, or inky blackness. Or
they’re too sick to tell anyone.
There’s also something known
as Intensive Care Unit Psychosis,
where people whose brains have
been inactive due to being in a
coma, have full on hallucinations,
which may cause them to wonder if
anything they experienced is real.

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of our search for the afterlife,
with meticulous research by
doctors and scientists, giving
any findings way more voracity
than any on things like UFOs or
paranormal phenomena.
Maybe the toughest thing to
overcome is why everybody does
not see the same things and why
not everybody who experiences
the same kind of trauma, such as a

Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks –
describes visions which sceptic
Michael Shermer relies on to
discount Eben Alexander’s
NDE. Shermer thinks that Sacks
description of a grand mal
migraine attack sounds like Eben
Alexander’s trip to Heaven. Sacks
migraine description describes “It
expanded, becoming an enormous
arc stretching from the ground
to the sky, with sharp, glittering,
zigzagging borders and brilliant
blue and orange colours.” Yep, as
a grand mal migraine sufferer I can
confirm I’ve seen similar... jagged,
vision blurring, swirling lights.
Eben Alexander states he was
“in a place of clouds. Big, puffy,
pink-white ones that showed up
sharply against the deep blueblack sky. Higher than the clouds
– immeasurably higher – flocks of
transparent, shimmering beings
arced across the sky, leaving long,
streamer like lines behind them.”

Well, let me tell you that
description matches no migraine
I’ve ever had. Anyone who’d ever
suffered one can tell you there’s
nothing in your vision that’s
fluffy or anything that could be
interpreted as beings.
Like everything in the spiritual world,
you’ll either know that the afterlife
is real, or you’ll finally be convinced
when your brain dies and you find
your consciousness living on.
Or not, but I’m sure you’ll be
pleasantly surprised. There are
several websites where you can
read and make up your own mind,
and one where you can submit
your own if you’ve had one.
The Near Death Experience
Research Foundation
has
up to the minute stories, although
they are all first-hand accounts
and don’t have any corroborating
evidence. But the fact that they
all have subtle differences and
messages actually makes it all the
more believable.
I guess most Spirit Talk readers
have an acceptance of the afterlife
anyway, and the evidence from
NDEers is that you get the journey
you imagine. The scenery, the
people, the comfortable touchstones
of your belief system are all there
waiting for you. I’m in no hurry to
take my journey, but it’s great to
know it’s there!

DON’T BE SHY

yours in short form, just to show that so many of
us have momentarily left our conscious selves for a
peek into the ethereal yonder and each and every
time it seems to be so we can be reassured of the
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