Near-Death Experiences and Deathbed Visions: Research Insights

quantum physics... I also saw where evolution leads, what its final goal is. I realized that this great scheme includes not only me, but everything and everyone, every human being, every soul, every animal, every cell, the earth and every other planet, the universe, the cosmos, the Light. Everything is connected and all things are one. "I understand!" I thought, happy. "There I am. It's all so simple. So obvious. It all makes sense..." No, I was not allowed to bring back the knowledge itself. I don't know why... Perhaps we are not supposed to have such universal knowledge here and now, in our physical form. Perhaps we are here to learn. Perhaps there is another reason. It should be noted that many of these people remained in a coma for more than 5 minutes. Some even considered clinically dead from a neurological point of view for days have reported conversations of the attending physician to relatives regarding their condition and precautions to be taken. DBV Another phenomenon not as well known in the media but equally interesting are ELEs or End of Life Experiences, particularly DBVs - DeathBed Visions. These visions generally involve the vision of one or more people on their deathbed. But they can also be much more complex. • On this subject in the XIV and XV centuries a book called Ars Moriendi was dedicated, which in addition to describing these visions deals with the psychological state of the dying person and their crisis during the agonizing state. • This is very interesting for us because as we said all the unresolved issues during life: attachment, doubt, ignorance, unpreparedness for death, at the moment of death suddenly manifest themselves to the dying person, translating into a struggle that can also modify the destiny and future of the dying person after death. Professor Haraldsson in the '60s and '70s collected thousands of accounts of deathbed visions from a population of tens of thousands of people. His research showed that about 50% of cases experienced deathbed visions. More recent studies conducted on nurses in hospices and hospitals revealed that in 5 years, 84% of nurses directly witnessed between 1 and 50 deathbed visions, 8% between 50 and 100, and 8% of nurses witnessed no phenomena in the last 5 years. 3 EXPERIENCES OF TOMMASO PALAMIDESSI Finally, there are also - although very rare - cases of shared near-death experiences, such as the case reported by Dr. Melvin Morse, professor at the University of Washington, regarding Karl Skala, a well-known Austrian poet, who had the opportunity in his youth during a war action in the trenches to find himself out of body with his just-deceased companion above the battlefield. A similar case happened to Tommaso Palamidessi at 31 years old on the occasion of his father's death. Here is an excerpt from his diary: Christian Book of the Dead p.127 "Carlo Palamidessi, my father, lay dead arranged in the funeral chamber, on the evening of January 28, 1946. Several friends were present, and since I felt disposed to out-of-body experience, I lay down on an armchair. Shortly after I felt the usual symptoms of exteriorization, and I left my body in the presence of dad's corpse. He was at a certain height from his body, still tenuously connected to it by a weakly luminous gray-violet cord. It looked like silk, cotton candy, silkworm thread. All around there was a glacial, whitish landscape with gray trees as if petrified. Then I saw my father go away slowly like a balloon with a roughly human shape. In the head I noticed a yellow-white brightness, like a small flame, and in the rest of the ghost there was much gray with longitudinal pink streaks. He was rising towards a mountain, always slowly. I called him, I urged him not to sleep, to look at the Light of the Lord. I waited in vain for a change in luminosity, a change in color of his aura. He had already entered unconsciousness and could not perceive me. I insisted, and it seemed to me to see more intense luminosity in the head. Then I lost him in the mist of that mysterious world that hungrily swallows the departed." This happened in Turin, in via San Francesco da Paola 10, 3rd floor, when the author was 31 years old. These episodes have been narrated with some reticence, and we do not pretend that they are believed. According to our practice we can guarantee that they are true, because they are part of a whole long series of experiences also made under the control of other experimenters. Believing, not believing, reasoning about it does no good. The man of science wants to touch with his own hands, see with his eyes, measure, catalog. Well, forget the cases we have told you, and try to train yourself without getting tired, nor demoralized by the first failures. Insist until you succeed, and when you succeed, you will know if we have told the truth. From these few pages one can see the practical and experimental approach of the subject who for the next 35 years of his life devoted himself to the study of the states and condition of the post-mortem which he definitively synthesized in this writing entitled "The Christian Book of the Dead". 4 CHRISTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD This book is very interesting because it describes the result of a thirty-year study on death, made by an individual who from childhood has had certain propensities for parapsychological phenomena and superior clairvoyance phenomena and who therefore has had more phenomena of this type and therefore more opportunities for investigation. But not only, Tommaso Palamidessi also wanted to synthesize his results in the form of a breviary so that it could be of help to the dying person. • Indeed, according to Tommaso Palamidessi's experience...