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consciousness that occurs for people who have NDEs: the realization that "the true value of existence is the connectedness that you have going with every other living thing."
26 Another frequent feature of NDEs is an out-of-body experience (OBE) wherein the NDEr has verifiable visual perceptions and knowledge of events that are highly similar to the remote-viewing episodes that we have described in this book. Researcher Michael Sabom, in his book Recollections of Death, provides impressive evidence of NDErs, resuscitated in hospitals, who were able to describe events they could not possibly have seen or known by ordinary sense perception, given the positions of their bodies and their physical condition.27 Other psychic experiences reported to have occurred during the unconscious state of NDErs, and which are more difficult to study and verify, include precognition of future events, the comprehension of foreign languages never previously understood by the NDEr, and clear visual perception by nearsighted individuals during a remote-viewing experience.28 |
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Dr. Ring is interested in the meaning of the near-death experience, just as we are interested in what the existence of remote viewing can tell us about the nature of reality, mind, and who we really are. He has postulated that the NDE may be an indication of our potential for expanded awareness. Remote-viewing research is providing additional evidence of our extended abilities. A near-death experience is too high a price to pay for psychic development, but it is nonetheless exciting that so many people are having these kinds of experiences. |
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With this book, we hope to inspire others to reach outside the restrictions of our previously held assumptions, and experience our greater potential of mind. In doing so, we can enable each other to expand our mutual trust, imagination, creativity, and love. We can help each other to express more fully the true dimensions of our being. George Leonard and Michael Murphy, two of the founding figures of the human potential movement, have written a book entitled The Life We Are Given, in which they outline a long-term program of consistent practice for realizing our fuller potentials of body, mind, heart, and soul.29 We believe as they do, that "Most of us realize just a fraction of our human potential. We live only part of the life |
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