Life after death: man ‘knew everything’ in near death experience

Giving his name as just Ray, he claims to have transcended time when he was clinically dead for just a few minutes. Ray died due to complications during an operation on his back. During this

time, he says he followed a bright light which lead him to an unearthly realm. Writing for the website Near Death Experience Research Foundation, Ray writes: “Once I focused past the light,

I understood everything. “I felt the overwhelming feeling of everyone that has ever existed was focusing all of their love at me all at once. “There is no start or ending and there is no

time in between. You can be anywhere or everywhere all at once. “There is no hate or judgement. There is no pain. “Everyone we ever knew here on Earth is there. We are all equal there.”

However, Ray says that he was sent back to his body by a higher power. He said: “When I came back, it was with help. I didn't want to come back, but it was not my time.” During his

experience, Ray says “there is no time there”, yet adding that he was fully conscious. He wrote: “Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or lost all meaning. I was

everywhere and nowhere during the experience. Time is not linear there.” However, doctors and medical professionals say that experiences such as these are not necessarily proof of an

afterlife. Dr Sam Parnia, director of critical care and resuscitation research at NYU Langone School of Medicine in New York City, told a recent Oz Talk: “People describe a sensation of a

bright, warm, welcoming light that draws people towards it. “They describe a sensation of experiencing their deceased relatives, almost as if they have come to welcome them. “They often say

that they didn’t want to come back in many cases, it is so comfortable and it is like a magnet that draws them that they don’t want to come back. “A lot of people describe a sensation of

separating from themselves and watching doctors and nurses working on them.” Dr Parnia says there are scientific explanations for the reaction, and says seeing people is not evidence of the

afterlife, but more likely the brain just scanning itself as a survival technique. He said thanks to modern technology and science “death does not have to be limited to philosophy and

religion, but it can be explored through science”. Dr Parnia added: “They can hear things and record all conversations that are going on around them.”