Surviving Death on Netflix, and elsewhere

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 I become clerk for the Quaker Fellowship for Afterlife Studies last September, and many of the things which the fellowship is interested in are encapsulated in a new series on Netflix: Surviving Death.

The series covers near-death experiences, mediumship, signs from the dead, end of life experiences, and reincarnation.  The series doesn't cover the subjects in depth, but gives enough detail to intrigue the casual viewer into wanting to know more. There is a trailer for Surviving Death on youtube here.

It astonishes me that everyone isn't as curious as I am about the way things work.  I don't know if our culture's taboo on death extends to not wanting to know about the afterlife, or if the huge number of horror stories and stories about ghosts and haunting have made people afraid to think about it, but there seems to be a division in society between those who are curious and those who do not wish to be bothered by anything resembling evidence that life extends after death.

For those like me, who have experienced a separation of consciousness and body, it is obvious that life after death is a reality. I am amazed that even people who are interested and open to the possibilities are not aware of the huge amount of material on youtube and elsewhere on the internet which offers more information.  So I thought that in addition to giving the Netflix series a plug for those who haven't seen it, I would post some links to other sources of information. This is a few links for near-death experiences, which is the subject of the first episode of the Netflix series.  I will post subsequent ones for the other subjects dealt with in the programme.

Near-death experiences

There are many many channels on youtube exploring these experiences. One of the best known is the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) channel, which is a non-profit organisation for experiencers and those interested in these experiences.  Many of the famous examples of near-death events have been interviewed or have spoken on the channel. You can find IANDS channel page on youtube here, and if you click on the VIDEOS heading across the page, you will be able to browse their many videos, Anita Moorjani and Eben Alexander among them.

I also like Hamish Miller's near-death experience, on Tim Walter's channel; you may also like to see Hamish talking about his life before and after that near-death experience.

I love these three interviews with Natalie Sudman on Bob Olson's Afterlife tv channel, talking about her book The Application of Impossible Things, written after she was blown up by a bomb in Iraq: here's the first, the "blink" environment; here's the second, the "rest and life review" environment; and here's the third: the "healing environment". Someone who talks about regretting coming back is Peter Pangore, interviewed here by Shaman Oaks.

If you want to look into research about near-death experiences, you can listen to Pim Van Lommel talking about his research